Botticelli - July 2022

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81

Correct on 1 and 2. #3 is Rockin’ Robin.

DQ: Created before 1970?

82

DQ: from rock or pop song?

IQs:
1. Have you played an a cappella singer, a cat, and the girlfriend of a football hooligan?
2. Did you play the bongos, sketch a topless Marie Curie, and crack safes?
3. Did you get dismissed from Saturday Night Live as a result of saying (at the end of an episode-long storyline spoofing Dallas) “It’s the first time I’ve ever been shot in my life. I’d like to know who the fuck did it”?

83

Dunno x3, although some of those sound familiar.

R.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. it’s probably his first name that starts with R
  4. not from movies or TV
  5. character actually appears in-story, not someone only referenced or an alias
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. created after 1950
  8. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  9. created before 1990
  10. not the protagonist or otherwise sympathetic
  11. from a song
  12. created after 1970
  13. from a rock or pop song
84

1 was Rebel Wilson; 2 was Richard Feynman; 3 was Charles Rocket.

DQs:
1. from a 70s song?
2. villainous or otherwise non-sympathetic?

85

IQs:

  1. Are you the superhero daughter of the demon Trigon?
  2. Are you remembered for many dark paintings that were actually much, much brighter when you first created them?
  3. Did Weird Al sing about you in a parody of a Toni Basil song?
86

IQs:
1. Did you play Lisbeth Salander?
2. No, wait–did you play Lisbeth Salander?
3. Did you state that the first letter of your first name = the first letter of your first name?

87

Not Raven, Rembrandt or Ricky.

Not Naomi Rapace, not Rooney Mara and dunno.

R.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. it’s probably his first name that starts with R
  4. not from movies or TV
  5. character actually appears in-story, not someone only referenced or an alias
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. created after 1950
  8. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  9. created before 1990
  10. not the protagonist or otherwise sympathetic
  11. from a song
  12. created after 1970
  13. from a rock or pop song
  14. from a '70s song
  15. villainous or otherwise non-sympathetic
88

Close enough on Noomi Rapace; 2 was objectively correct; 3 was Ayn “A is A” Rand.

DQ: from a disco-pop song?

One DQ reserved.

89

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Did you cast James Taylor as God in a rock opera?
  2. Were you a stock car boy in a song by Jim Croce?
  3. In a very old song, “the moon shines tonight on pretty” you?
90

Dunno, dunno and not Rosemarie.

R.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. it’s probably his first name that starts with R
  4. not from movies or TV
  5. character actually appears in-story, not someone only referenced or an alias
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. created after 1950
  8. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  9. created before 1990
  10. not the protagonist or otherwise sympathetic
  11. from a song
  12. created after 1970
  13. from a rock or pop song
  14. from a '70s song
  15. villainous or otherwise non-sympathetic
  16. from a disco-pop song
91

IQ: Did you wear a diamond and saw Rita when you were escorted to your chair?

92

Not Rita, but Lola, and yes, I am

Rico

the bad guy from the 1978 Barry Manilow song (at 1:10 here): Copacabana (At the Copa) - YouTube

Good job, Prof. P.!

93

Thank you!

Next, I am…

94

DLR say’s that’s not showing up. So…

C!

95

FWIW, I could see it.

IQs:

Were you briefly PM in the original House of Cards?
Did you come close to becoming a Tory PM in First Among Equals?
Are you the monarch at the end of First Among Equals?

96

Congrats, Prof.!

Interesting–it’s not showing up in Firefox, though I do see it in Edge and Chrome.

IQs:
1. Did you say that everybody wanted to be you–even you wanted to be you?
2. Were you a doctor and the first criminal caught by radio?
3. Are you a composer known for your work in electronic music, like Switched-On Bach?

97

Take 3 DQs.

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Dr. Crispin (??).
#3. I am not Wendy/Walter Carlos.

98

1 was Cary Grant; 2 was Hawley Crippen; 3 is correct.

DQ: real?

(are we counting the answer for 2 as close enough?)

99

DQ:

  1. Real.

Yeah, Crispin/Crippen, I knew who you meant. I’m gonna say close enough.

100

IQs:
1. Does your name sound like “shrimp days” in Spanish?
2. Did you argue one side of the Scopes Monkey Trial?
3. In the 1978 movie you directed, do characters watch another movie you’d happen to direct a remake of four years later?