Botticelli - January 2015

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Were you the bassist for jazz fusion band Return to Forever?
IQ2: Did you direct scenes for a famous movie in which your actors thought they were doing a drama, but actually turned out to be a comedy?
IQ3: Do you play Caesar Flickerman in the Hunger Games movies?

Not… Stanley Clarke?

Take two DQs for the others

correct, Stanley Kubrick (for Dr. Strangelove), Stanley Tucci

DQ: Male?

holding a DQ

[astorian]

@SCAdian

I was wondering if it might be a western, but I’ve never seen that movie (not a big Mel Brooks fan) so I would never have guessed it.
IQ1: Were you originally Josip Dzhugashvili?
IQ2: Did they call you “Vinegar Joe”?
IQ3: Were you a senior auror who was a member of the Order of the Phoenix?

Not Joe Stalin or Kingsley Shacklebolt.

Take a DQ for #2

[astorian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Good one, astorian! I shoulda thought of Blazing Saddles.

On to S…

IQs:

After Dean Martin, are you the best-known person born in your hometown?
Was this hometown named after you, another S?
Did Lincoln appoint you to an important post in late 1864?

Not Edwin Stanton (I just saw this factoid somewhere else on the SDMB the other day)

Not Frederick von Steuben

Not SUpreme COurt Justice Salmon P. Chase

[astorian]

SUMMARY

1. Real person
2. Male

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Are you a French explorer who founded Quebec and mapped the Atlantic Coast and the Great Lakes?
IQ2: Were you elected the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836?
IQ3: Are you the poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

DQ: Alive?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you revise Stephanus’s Textus Receptus?
2. Did a game show urge people to steal your money?
3. Did you write the novel Quo Vadis?

[astorian]

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: Are you a French explorer who founded Quebec and mapped the Atlantic Coast and the Great Lakes?
IQ2: Were you elected the first president of the Republic of Texas in 1836?
IQ3: Are you the poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?

DQ: Alive?

Not Samuel de Champlain
Not Sam Houston
Not Samuel Taylor Colerige

[astorian]

SUMMARY

1. Real Person
2. Male
3. Still alive

[astorian]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you revise Stephanus’s Textus Receptus?
2. Did a game show urge people to steal your money?
3. Did you write the novel Quo Vadis?

Not Ben Stein

Take two DQs for the others

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@astorian

SUMMARY

1. Real Person
2. Male
3. Still alive

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you revise Stephanus’s Textus Receptus?
2. Did a game show urge people to steal your money?
3. Did you write the novel Quo Vadis?

@astorian

Not Ben Stein

Take two DQs for the others

#1 was Scrivener. Correct on Ben. #3 was Henrik Szienkiewicz.

DQs:

1. Last name starts with S?
2. American?

[astorian]

SUMMARY

1. Real Person
2. Male
3. Still alive
4. American
5. Last name starts with S

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you compelled to carry the cross for Jesus?
2. Were you the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution?
3. Did you compose Finlandia?

[SCAdian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you originally Josip Dzhugashvili?
IQ2: Did they call you “Vinegar Joe”?
IQ3: Were you a senior auror who was a member of the Order of the Phoenix?

@astorian

Not Joe Stalin or Kingsley Shacklebolt.

Take a DQ for #2

Correct.
Gen Joseph Stilwell.
Correct.
DQ: Known for the Arts, as usually defined by us?
IQ1: Were you a Green Bay quarterback in the '60s?
IQ2: Were you the cook on the schooner Hispaniola?
IQ3: Did you play a Grand Duchess, a prime minister, and an archer?

@astorian

Not Edwin Stanton (I just saw this factoid somewhere else on the SDMB the other day)

EH asked it during my last game.

[astorian]

SUMMARY

1. Real Person
2. Male
3. Still alive
4. American
5. Last name starts with S
6. Not involved in the arts

[astorian]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you compelled to carry the cross for Jesus?
2. Were you the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution?
3. Did you compose Finlandia?

Not Simon of Cyrene or Jean Sibelius.

Take a DQ for #2

[astorian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you a Green Bay quarterback in the '60s?
IQ2: Were you the cook on the schooner Hispaniola?
IQ3: Did you play a Grand Duchess, a prime minister, and an archer?

Not Bart Starr or Long John Silver.

For #3… not Meryl Streep? (I know she played Margaret Thatcher, but can’t remember the archer or the Duchess.)

[SCAdian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you a Green Bay quarterback in the '60s?
IQ2: Were you the cook on the schooner Hispaniola?
IQ3: Did you play a Grand Duchess, a prime minister, and an archer?

@astorian

Not Bart Starr or Long John Silver.

For #3… not Meryl Streep? (I know she played Margaret Thatcher, but can’t remember the archer or the Duchess.)

Correct.
Correct.
Peter Sellers played all three of those parts in The Mouse That Roared.
DQ: Known for political/military service?
IQ1: Were you the Young Pretender?
IQ2: Are you Ted’s wife and Hilary’s mother?
IQ3: Did you serve in the Confederate Army, the Union Army, and the Union Navy?

[astorian]

SUMMARY

1. Real Person
2. Male
3. Still alive
4. American
5. Last name starts with S
6. Not involved in the arts
7. Not involved in politics or military affairs

[astorian]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you the Young Pretender?
IQ2: Are you Ted’s wife and Hilary’s mother?
IQ3: Did you serve in the Confederate Army, the Union Army, and the Union Navy?

Not Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

Not Sally Forth

Take a DQ for #3

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you compelled to carry the cross for Jesus?
2. Were you the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia during the Velvet Revolution?
3. Did you compose Finlandia?

@astorian

Not Simon of Cyrene or Jean Sibelius.

Take a DQ for #2

Correct on Simon and Sibelius. #2 was Shirley Temple Black.

DQ: Known for Sports?