Botticelli - July 2015

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts

IQ1: Were you the emperor of Mesopotamia fro c. 2334 BC – 2279 BC?
IQ2: Does a Harry Potter character share your name, you being a Roman emperor who founded the last Roman dynasty before the Crisis of the Third Century?
IQ3: Did Prince Edward abdicate his throne to marry you?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead

Not Severus or Wallis Simpson

Take a DQ for #1

Previous IQs:

Did Elizabeth Taylor once give you voice? - Yes, Maggie Simpson.
Did you try to make money selling pretzels? - Marge Simpson.
Were you in a tontine with a future billionaire? - Grandpa Abe Simpson (with Mr. Burns).

DQs:

European?
Last name start with S?

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SecWar?
Were you Lincoln’s second SecWar?
Were you Lincoln’s first SecTreas?

IQs:

  1. Did you hang around with Morocco Mole?
  2. Was the Terminator looking for you?
  3. Were you an Irish comedian who wrote scripts for the biggest radio show on the 1950’s on the BBC?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”

Not Edwin Stanton or Salmon P. Chase

Take a DQ for the other SecWar

Not Secret Squirrel or Sarah Connor
Take a DQ for #3

Sargon

holding a DQ

IQ1: Are you the multiplatinum recording artist of* Soul Sessions* whose real name is Joscelyn Eve Stoke?
IQ2: Did you come into fame by singing “I Dreamed a Dream” on Britain’s Got Talent?
IQ3: Are you an English pop singer who enjoyed a revival in the 1990’s when your song Son of a Preacher Man was used in the Pulp Fiction soundtrack?

DQ: Known for music?

IQ1: Girl, do you make me lose my mind?
IQ2: Are you a blue-eyed girl with a ponytail, whom I will know if I see?
!Q3: Are you feeling lost just like me?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”
  8. Best known for contributions in music

Not Susan Boyle or Dusty Springfield
Take a DQ for #1

Not Sam (by Olivia Newton-John)

Take DQs for 1 and 2

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SecWar? - Simon Cameron, of whom it was said, “He probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove.”
Were you Lincoln’s second SecWar? - Yes, the redoubtable Edwin Stanton.
Were you Lincoln’s first SecTreas? - Yes, Salmon P. Chase.

DQ:

British?

IQs:

After Robert, were you the eldest Baratheon male?
Were you his daughter?
Were you a psychopathic AI played by Russell Crowe?

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”
  8. Best known for contributions in music
  9. Not British

Correct on Secret Squirrel and Sarah Connor.
The Irish comedian was Spike Milligan of the highly acclaimed Goon show!

DQ: Died before 1900?

Not Stannis Baratheon (miserable son of a b…)
Not Shireen Baratheon (how could he have done that to her???)
Take a DQ for #3

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”
  8. Best known for contributions in music
  9. Not British
  10. Died before 1900