Botticelli - January 2020

Welcome, [vote] Personal [/vote] !

IQs:

  1. Did you voice Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales?
  2. Did Pres. Grant nominate you to be on the Supreme Court only for you to die a few days before the Senate could confirm it?
  3. Did you write the Bartimaeus Trilogy?

I’d like to point out that I did clarify what a fictional dramatic work was by saying “i.e., movie or TV”. Oh, well.

1 was Don Shirley; 2 was Socrates. Correct on Suharto.
DQs:

  1. first name begins with S?
  2. American?

A very warm personal welcome, Personal! Dunno, not Pete Sampras, and not Terry Sanford of South Carolina.

Dunno, not Edwin Stanton, and dunno.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. deceased
  4. first name begins with S
  5. American
  1. Steve Garvey
  2. Steffi Graf
  3. Correct (actually Mark Sanford, but we’re not picky right)

DQ

  1. Politician?
  2. Author?

#1 was Larry Storch. Correct on #2. #3 is Jonathan Stroud.

DQ: Died after 1949?

1 DQ reserved.

Just wait until next time!

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. deceased
  4. first name begins with S
  5. American
  6. involved in politics, but not remembered as a politician
  7. died after 1949

DQ: Died after 1999?

IQs:

  1. Were you a child actress who went on to become an ambassador?
  2. Did you compose the music for the musical The Caveman?
  3. Did you have a hit with Anticipation?

IQs:

  1. In one of the endings of a 1986 video game, do you appear without your power suit, revealing you to be female?
  2. Were you the first American woman in space?
  3. Did you have an appropriate name for playing a secretary in a certain long-running film series?

Not Shirley Temple, dunno, and not Carly Simon.

Not the SPARTAN, Sally Ride and… dunno.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. deceased
  4. first name begins with S
  5. American
  6. involved in politics, but not remembered as a politician
  7. died after 1949
  8. died before 1999

Correct, Paul Simon, and correct.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

IQs:

  1. Did you play a bailiff on Night Court?
  2. Were you an Australian war artist who painted women working in munitions factories?
  3. Were you a school teacher later elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly?

IQs:

  1. Are you considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time?
  2. Are you Leslie Charteris’s most famous character?
  3. Did you win the gold for Men’s Singles in ice skating in the first Winter Olympics?

Dunno x3

Not Smuhammad Ali, not Simone and dunno

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. deceased
  4. first name begins with S
  5. American
  6. involved in politics, but not remembered as a politician
  7. died after 1949
  8. died before 1999
  9. not known for the Arts

1 was Samus Aran; 3 was Samantha Bond, who played Moneypenny in the (James) Bond movies.

DQs:

  1. died before 1969?
  2. best known from science?
    IQs:
  3. Are you the She-Devil of the Hyrkanian Steppes?
  4. Were you ousted as president of FIFA due to scandal?
  5. Did you accept Marlon Brando’s Oscar?

Not Red Sonja, dunno, and not Sacheen Littlefeather.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. deceased
  4. first name begins with S
  5. American
  6. involved in politics, but not remembered as a politician
  7. died after 1949
  8. died before 1999
  9. not known for the Arts
  10. died after 1969
  11. not best known from science

IQs:

  1. Are you considered by many to be the greatest boxer of all time?
  2. Are you Leslie Charteris’s most famous character?
  3. Did you win the gold for Men’s Singles in ice skating in the first Winter Olympics?
    Not Smuhammad Ali, not Simone and dunno

#1 is Sugar Ray Robinson.
#2 is Simon Templar, the Saint.
#3 was Ulrich Salchow.

DQs:

  1. Known for business?
  2. Common first name?

1 DQ reserved.

  1. Did you play a bailiff on Night Court?

  2. Were you an Australian war artist who painted women working in munitions factories?

  3. Were you a school teacher later elected to the Pennsylvania General Assembly?
    Dunno x3

  4. Selma Diamond

  5. Sybil Craig

  6. Sarah A. Anderson

DQ:

  1. Born before 1901?
  2. Best known as an athlete?

One DQ reserved