Botticelli - July 2021

IQs:
1. Is a 10-ft.-tall statue of you (on a high plinth, to prevent vandalism) eventually going to be unveiled in your hometown of Grantham, England?
2. Are you either 20th-century author with some biographical details in common profiled in a new documentary, [you] and [you]: An Intimate Conversation?
3. Spoooooooooooon!?

Correct, Correct, and Tyl Eulenspiegel (the last name translate’s to Owlglass, which is a poetic descriptor for the moon, don’tcha know).

1 DQ reserved.

Take 2 DQs
Not The Tick

1 was Margaret Thatcher; 2 was Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

2 DQs reserved.

DQ: From a science-fiction or fantasy genre show?

T

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American
  5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive”
  6. First appeared since 1950
  7. From film or TV
  8. Not from film
  9. First appeared before 1980
  10. Appeared on prime time television
  11. Live action
  12. First appeared before 1970
  13. Not human
  14. Not considered a beauty
  15. Not from a sitcom
  16. A main character in her appearance, but not a main character of the overall series.
  17. First appeared after 1960
  18. Not from a crime-related show (police, private eye, law courts,etc.)
  19. From a science-fiction or fantasy genre show

IQ: Were you Mr. Spock’s intended bride?

Not T’Pring

Hmm. What’s left. Star Trek only works for the time travel episodes. There’s Twilight Zone and Outer Limits. And Lost in Space. Any more?

The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea…

IQs:

  1. Did you scare a generation of little girls from owning dolls because of an episode of The Twilight Zone starring you?
  2. Did you voice Tony the Tiger?

Not Thurl “Mr. Grinch” Ravenscroft
But…yes…
My name is Talky Tina, and you’d better be nice to me!
from the Living Doll episode of The Twilight Zone

Congratulations, kitap

Thanks!

Our next letter is

O!

The noive!

Previous IQs:

Are you one of Marge Simpson’s sisters? - Yes, Selma Terwilliger
Were you one of the Great Eagles of Middle-earth? - Thorondor
Did Jeff Bridges get accidentally drawn into your world? - Yes, Tron

Good job, kitap! On to O…

IQs:

Were you Felix’s apartment mate?
Are you by far the most unpleasant denizen of Sesame Street?
Were you Col. Steve Austin’s boss?

Not Oscars Madison, the Grouch or Goldman.

Swept me! Oscar x3 indeed.

IQs:

Were you AKA Mithrandir and Tharkun?
Were you the nude organist on MPFC?
Were you a Russian nobleman of some literary repute?

IQs:

  1. Were you also known as Tippetarius?
  2. Did the title of the book you were introduced in refer to you as “the Unlucky”?
  3. Are you a humbug named Diggs?

IQs:

  1. Are you a famed wand maker?
  2. Were you Lord Protector until your death?
  3. Did you have a decades long spat with your younger sister, who was in the same business?

IQ1: Were you the primary songwriter and one of two vocalists for The Cars?
IQ2: Were you the other vocalist for The Cars, who sang their highest charting song Drive?
IQ3: Did you spill your seed onto the ground?

Not um. Oakheart, Naked Oakheart or Tsar Oakheart. I.e. 3 DQs

Take a DQ, not Oswald?, not The Great Oz? Take the appropriate DQs.

Not Ollivander, Oliver Cromwell or Olivia de Havilland. Or take a DQ.

One is Ocasek. Take a DQ for the other. And not Onan.