Botticelli - July 2022

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
  15. Known for music
  16. Not known for pop/rock.
  17. Not Caucasian.
  18. Singer and bandleader
  19. Known for jazz/blues
  20. Associated with signature song

Hi, Winston! Come play with us!

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Hi-de-hi-di-hi-di-hi.

I defiately lurk for this game. I enjoy reading the IQs to see if i know them, but i can go days without visiting. It would be unfair to the game if I actually guessed the answer - I don’t want to take a chance away from someone else.

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Final DQ: also known for dancing?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
  15. Known for music
  16. Not known for pop/rock.
  17. Not Caucasian.
  18. Singer and bandleader
  19. Known for jazz/blues
  20. Associated with signature song
  21. Black
  22. Known for dancing as well
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I believe EH has one final DQ, otherwise I’ll ask.

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Take it - it’s yours.

And welcome, DWOB!

147

Please ask your final questions by Noon tomorrow, EDT.

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With a career ranging from Stormy Weather to The Blues Brothers, are you the one and only Hi-De-Ho Man, Mr. Cab Calloway?

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You know I am!

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=cab+calloway+hi+de+ho&view=detail&mid=E3B2C130407A330B3425E3B2C130407A330B3425&FORM=VIRE

Take it away, De La Rue!

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OK:

I am O.

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IQs:

  1. Did you create “The Yellow Kid”?
  2. Did you compose the opera The Tales of Hoffman?
  3. Were you a leading French symbolist painter who also did some fine still-lifes?
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1. Take a DQ.
2. I’m not Jacques Offenbach.
3. Take a DQ.

153

#1 was Richard Outcault, who also created Buster Brown.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Odilon Redon.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
154

IQs:

  1. Are you a recurring character in the novels of Dean Koontz?
  2. Did you often battle Mighty Mouse to music?
  3. Were you a cartoon character voiced by Mae Questel?
155

IQs:

Despite being a terrible human in just about every other way, did you at least not respect segregation laws in your hometown?
Did Stallone play you, the title character in a Mob comedy?
Did you say you had done some service to the state, and they knew it?

156

1. I am not Odd Thomas.
2. I am not Oil Can Harry. that took me a second.
3. I am not Olive Oyl.

Respectively:
I am not Lee Harvey Oswald.
I am not Oscar.
I am not Othello.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male

157

Swept me!

IQs:

Were you a Civil War general who had a college named after him?
Were you one of Drew Carey’s best friends in Cleveland?
Were you the villain in an early piece of ST:TOS fan fiction?

158

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Are you the late husband of Isis?
  2. Did Tom Lehrer write a song about you and your quite complex complex?
  3. Did you write Memoirs of an Amnesiac?
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Respectively:
I am not Oliver Howard.
I am not Oswald Lee Harvey.
Take a DQ.

1. I am not Osiris.
2. I am not Oedipus Rex.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male

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Correct, Correct, and Oscar Levant.

DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction?