Botticelli - July 2015

IQ: Are you the best known sports mascot from San Diego?
not the Charger guy?
I had in mind the San Diego Chicken.

DQ: Are you a cartoon character?
IQs:

  1. Were you the sunglasses-wearing animal who touted a brand of cigarettes?
  2. Do you hype a breakfast cereal with two others?
  3. Does your product repeatedly tell you “Sorry”?

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by an American or Americans
  4. Known to be from TV or movies, but not primarily
  5. C is the initial of my last name
  6. Created since 1950
  7. Considered a “good guy”
  8. Did not first appear in a book or short story
  9. Did not first appear in comic books
  10. Not specifically associated with NYC
  11. Not a cop or detective
  12. Would be alive if real, in the sense that he has never been depicted as dead
  13. Not from a song
  14. Not associated with big-city life
  15. Created before 1980
  16. Not from a comic strip
  17. From advertising
  18. Cartoon character

not Mr. Clean

not Joe Camel, not Crackle, not Charlie the Tuna

DQ: Salesman for a food product?

IQ1: Did you and your sidekick Jeff advertise a fast-food chain?
IQ2: Are you a piratical character who advertises for a different fast-food chain?

IQs:

Are you a cartoon mariner who hawks a cereal?
Are you a cartoon vampire who hawks a cereal?

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by an American or Americans
  4. Known to be from TV or movies, but not primarily
  5. C is the initial of my last name
  6. Created since 1950
  7. Considered a “good guy”
  8. Did not first appear in a book or short story
  9. Did not first appear in comic books
  10. Not specifically associated with NYC
  11. Not a cop or detective
  12. Would be alive if real, in the sense that he has never been depicted as dead
  13. Not from a song
  14. Not associated with big-city life
  15. Created before 1980
  16. Not from a comic strip
  17. From advertising
  18. Cartoon character
  19. Associated with a food product, but not exactly as a salesman

take 2 DQs

not Cap’n Crunch, not Count Chocula

Dammit! Coulda sworn I had it…

I’ve updated the “Botticelli letters we’ve used so far” list: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

IQ:

Are you a very fast African land mammal who hawks a snack food?

Burger Chef.
Captain Crook (McD’s).

Yeah - I thought I had it with Mr Clean. :frowning: (I eliminated Cap’n Crunch a couple days ago.)

IQ: Were you finicky about your food?

Not the Cheetoh’s Cheetah, whatever his name is

not Morris the Cat

IQ: Is your picture on cans of Eagle Brand Condensed Milk?

not Elsie the Cow?