Botticelli - January 2013

Valerie Bertinelli, formerly married to Eddie Van Halen and mother of replacement bassist Wolfgang Van Halen.

Johannes Brahms recorded a wax cylinder of part of one of the Hungarian Dances for Thomas Edison’s sound engineer in 1889.

DQ1: Have you also appeared on screen?

I’ll save my second one for now.

New IQs:
Would you “prefer not to”?
Are you a member of the Drones Club?
Do you live in a hut that has chicken legs?

Miss this?

Yes, Ben Cartwright.
Billie Joe McAllister, in the song “Ode to Billie Joe.”
Bullwinkle J Moose (whose best friend, of course, was Rocket J Squirrel).

DQ:

Were you a policeman, private detective or other crimefighter?

Reserving the second DQ…

IQs:

Did you, your brother and your father have a wild dolphin for a pet?
Did you play the divorced father of twins, an uncle, and a New England police chief?
Were you a foretopman aboard a Royal Navy ship?

The title character of the movie Bob Roberts.
Yes, Bob Newhart.
Connie Booth, who appeared on Fawlty Towers with her then-husband (I think they’ve since divorced) John Cleese.

DQs:

Created by an author who is still alive?
First appeared after 1950?

IQs:

Did you once give an umbrella as a sarcastic gift?
Did you appear in a movie that, in its original release, had an anachronism appear briefly in the background of a scene?
Did you and your brother once look at a toy truck in a government building?

I’m sure if I strained the old bean, I could come up with at least one of my mates who has a ‘B’ somewhere about him, but I’d say it’s a fair cop. I am Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, Bertie to my chums.

Well played, Chocky!

To wrap up the previous game

Bartleby the Scrivener, from Melville’s short story of the same name.
Baba Yaga of Russian folklore.

Let’s keep rolling through the alphabet. Next up:
C

IQ: Did my celebrity crush recently become engaged to your grandson?

IQ1: Is Springsteen leaning on you in the cover shot of Born to Run?
IQ2: Did the Dalai Lama predict that you would receive total consciousness on your deathbed?
IQ3: Were you the first casualty of the Boston Massacre?

IQs

IQ1: Are you a balding kid, who always wears a sweater with a zigzag pattern?

IQ2: Do you publish religious tracts?

IQ3: Do you usually hang out with Lenny?

No idea. Take a DQ

Not Clarence Clemons.
Take DQs for the other two.

Not Charlie Brown
Not Jack Chick
Not Carl from The Simpsons

Claiborn Pell’s grandson is engaged to Michelle Kwan

DQ: Politician?

Carl Spackler (of Caddyshack fame) and Crispus Attucks.

DQ: Are you real?
DQ: Are you male?

No, no, and no.

Summary:
C

  1. Not a politician
  2. Not real
  3. Female

IQ1: Did an erudite serial killer take a shine to you?
IQ2: Are you breaking my heart and shaking my confidence daily?
IQ3: Do you transform your enemies into animals?

Not Clarice Starling
Not Simon and Garfunkle’s Cecilia
Take a DQ for #3

Way to go, once again, ChockFull! From the previous round:

Bilbo Baggins, just before he disappeared from his eleventy-first birthday party, to a relative who was always losing umbrellas he’d been lent.
Frodo Baggins. In the theatrical release of LOTR, you could see a car in the distant background of the scene where he and Sam have reached the border of the Shire; it was digitally edited out in later releases.
Bobby Kennedy: http://www.orwelltoday.com/rfktruck.jpg

C, eh?

IQs:

Are you perhaps the unlikeliest fictional cartoon Vice President of the United States?
Were you the first VPOTUS to resign from office?
Were you a noted early aviator, born in Pittsburgh?

  1. Take a DQ
  2. Not John Calhoun, one of only 2 VPOTUS to resign (Agnew being #2)
  3. I’ll take a wild guess and say not Charles Lindbergh?

Circe of Greek mythology.

DQ: Did you first appear in a work of literature?

N, eh? D, eh?

Sorry, couldn’t resist. :slight_smile:

IQs:

IQ1: Are you Archie Andrews’ black pal?

IQ2: Are you the artist who recorded “Wonderin’ Where the Lions Are,” and “The Coldest Night of the Year”?

IQ3: Although it has been proven to be untrue, did rumours have you choking to death on a ham sandwich?

Yes

#2: Not Mama Cass Elliot. Take DQs for the other 2. I can picture the token black guy from Archie, but I can’t remember his name (or the name of the new token gay guy)

Summary:
C

  1. Not a politician
  2. Not real
  3. Female
  4. First appeared in a work of literature