Botticelli - January 2015

Not John Locke, Leif Ericsson or Louis Pasteur

“Hi, I’m Larry; this is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl.”
Correct.
T E Lawrence, aka Lawrence of Arabia. (Leakey was a palaeoanthropologist and died of a heart attack.)
DQ: German?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you a Swiss mathematician?
IQ2: Were you the Man of a Thousand Faces?
IQ3: Did your brother sing “I’m Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home”?

DQ: Known as a scientist?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. First name starts with L
  6. Died before 1950
  7. European
  8. Not involved in the arts
  9. Born before 1800
  10. Born after 1500
  11. Spoke a Germanic language
  12. Not known as a royal, military or political figure
  13. Not British
  14. Can’t say if he was a “good” guy, but is regarded as a great man and definitely not viewed as a villain
  15. Known for work in science
  16. Not born in Germany, but lived and worked for many years in Germany

YESSSSSS! I am LEONHARD EULER, Swiss-born mathematician, philosopher and physicist.

Congrats, SCAdian!

Wow! I know of Euler, but didn’t know his first name. Good job, SCAdian!

The name vaguely rings a bell. Congrats, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Were you one of the Lincoln conspirators who was hanged? - Yes, the bad Lewis Powell
Were you a Nixon appointee to SCOTUS? - Yes, the much better Lewis Powell
Did your best-known colleague get a promotion almost 200 years later? - Meriwether Lewis’s colleague William Clark was promoted to captain in the U.S. Army by President Clinton three days before leaving office.

http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/new/html/Wed_Jan_17_101131_2001.html

I wasn’t sure if he was born in the right period, but he was the only non-British, non-royal European ‘L’ I could think of. :slight_smile:
I am R.

IQ1) Were you the only “member” of Pink Floyd to make a profit on the 1982 ***The Wall ***tour?

IQ2) Is there an 8 foot bronze statue of you at New York City’s Port Authority bu terminal?

IQ3) Are you a former opthalmologist played by Vanessa Redgrave in a made-for TV movie?

IQs:

  1. Were you a very early Hanna-Barbara cat?
  2. Are you Dick Clark’s New Year’s Eve successor?
  3. Were you DC comics’ copycat attempt at Marvel’s the Vision?

Three DQs.

Three for you, too.
Well, we’re certainly off to a fine start here…

#1 was Ruff (of Ruff & Reddy).
#2 is Ryan Sechrist.
#3 was the Red Tornado.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with R?

Don’t believe I ever watched Ruff & Reddy - I was under the impression they were both dogs.
R

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with R

IQs:

  1. Are you aka Mr. Fantastic?
  2. Were you so evil that not only the Indians wouldn’t raise you, the wolves wouldn’t either?
  3. Are you a fashion doll from Willows, Wisconsin, whose parents are George and Margaret?

IQ1: Did you and your wife apply for refugee status in Canada because you thought the “Hollywood star whackers” were after you?
IQ2: Did you have a hit with “Short People” in 1977?
IQ3: Are you a MLB pitcher nicknamed “The Big Unit”?

IQs:

Did you pretend to call your famous dad in a TV commercial?
Were you that dad?
Were you that dad’s wife?

Not Reed Richards.
Not … Raven?
DQ.

Three DQs.

And three DQs for you, too. (Is that everybody now?)

Huh? How exactly could Red Tornado be a copy of the Vision? Did Gardner Fox use a time machine? :slight_smile:

Silver age Red Tornado appeared in JLA #64 (Aug 1968), months before silver age Vision premiered in Avengers #57 (Oct 1968).

(Golden age Vision appeared in Nov 1940, the same month that Ma Hunkel first appeared as the Red Tornado… but that was published by Timely rather than Marvel so that wouldn’t work for this question phrasing, and those characters are not particularly similar.)

Correct on Reed.
#2 was Evil Roy Slade (as portrayed by John Astin in a TV movie)
#3 is Barbie Millicent Roberts, better known as just “Barbie”.

DQs:

  1. Best known from a movie?
  2. Protagonist?

Oops! Fact-checking indicates that my memory was faulty. (I probably read the Avengers comic before I read the JLA one). The Red Tornado did indeed marginally precede the Vision. So, withdraw my 2nd DQ above, please.