Botticelli - January 2024

Previous IQs:

Did you develop the first Battlestar Galactica? - Yes, Glen Larson
Were you a British lord who had a fort in Pennsylvania named after him? - Lord Ligonier
Were you a homespun Vermonter who had two brothers with the same name? - Yes, Larry, Darryl and Darryl, from Newhart

DQ:

Considered a beauty?
White?
Won a top award in her field?

IQs:

Is a convention center named after you in Pittsburgh?
Were your dying words memorialized on a flag during the War of 1812?
Were you a hero of Little Round Too?

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!

Our celebrity was

Lillie Langtry

socialite, actress, stage producer, and objet d’ amour of Judge Roy Bean, the law west of the Pecos.

(Other two IQs were Dorothy Lamour and Lauren Hutton.)

Also, @Elendil_s_Heir , great theme IQs on the last post, but maybe subbing in “Did you break Joe Theismann’s leg?” for the convention center question so it could have a first, last, and middle name for the answers.

Prof.Pepperwinkle, you have the conn.

A lucky guess.

Onwards…

I am

C!

Lucy the australopithecine, correct, and Little Lulu

IQ1: Were you the father of the present Earl of Carrick?
IQ2: Did you lead the winning side at the Battle of Tours?
IQ3: Were you #2’s most famous grandson?

Congrats!

  1. Are you the author of the Parasol Protectorate books?
  2. Did you write, among other books, Things Fall Apart ?
  3. Did you write the Sir Henry Merrivale mystery books?

Great job, Prof. P.! And not a bad idea, SunUp.

Previous IQs:

Is a convention center named after you in Pittsburgh? - David L. Lawrence
Were your dying words memorialized on a flag during the War of 1812? - Capt. James “Don’t give up the ship!” Lawrence
Were you a hero of Little Round Too? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine

Lawrence x3!

On to C.

IQs:

Did you have arguably the silliest alternative name in all of Middle-earth?
Were you AKA Saruman?
Were you the only bearded Elf, as far as we know?

  1. I am not King Charles (??)
  2. I am not Charles Martel.
  3. I am not Charlemagne.
  1. I am not Gail Carriger. I read the Trilogy last year; such fun.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Celeborn. Got it this time.
  2. I am not Curunir (??)
  3. I forget. Take a DQ.

IQ1: Were you a Union general with rather famous rebel’s name?
IQ2: Were you famous as both a pediatrician and a poet?
IQ3: Were you the title character of a novella subtitled “The Optimist?”

#3. I am not Candide. Take 2 DQs.

correct x3!

Correct, Chinua Achebe, and John Dickson Carr under his Carter Dickson pseudonym.

Jefferson Columbus Davis, William Carlos Williams, and correct.

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male

Previous IQs:

Did you have arguably the silliest alternative name in all of Middle-earth? - Yes, Celeborn AKA Teleporno
Were you AKA Saruman? - Yes, Curunir (“Man of Skill”) was his Elvish name
Were you the only bearded Elf, as far as we know? - Cirdan the Shipwright

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Did you record letters for your spinster sister back home in Boston?
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals?
Did Van Dyck paint a portrait of you with three faces?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead

Take 3 DQs.

Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester on MASH, Charles Seymour MP, and King Charles I: Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) - Charles I (1600-1649)

Charles x3!

DQs:

Died since 1950?
American?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did you say, “I would rather be right than be President”?
Were you the young criminal mastermind behind “The Red-Headed League”?
Did Tommy Lee Jones play you in JFK?

Congrats, Professor P. I thought I might have had it with Janet Leigh.

IQs:

  1. Were you a bandleader who starred in a comic movie called Hi-De-Ho?

  2. Did a co-star call you an “ignorant slut” and attribute your ignorance to the inability to achieve orgasm?

  3. Were you an Irish monk who evangelized western Scotland, founded a hugely important monastery, and, according to legend, encountered the Loch Ness Monster?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Died since 1950
  5. American, but not a citizen of the U.S.A.
  6. Political/military