Botticelli, July 2023

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you a swindling, cheating thief of a slave who serves as the narrator in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
2. Was your last film The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu?
3. Did you play Dr. Jane Foster in a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies?

DQ
Not Peter Sellars
Not Natalie Portman

#1 was Pseudolus (played by Zero Mostel in the movie and on stage).
Correct on the others.

DQ: Known for TV?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

IQs:

Were you US Ambassador to France and died while swimming in a hotel pool?
Were you a prominent young actress on Dallas?
Were you a longtime US senator from Rhode Island?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Did you travel around the world in eighty days?
2. Are you the first marathoner?
3. Did you play a Russian assassin, the wife of King Robert Bruce, and Amy March?

Not Phileas Fogg
Not Philippedes
Take a DQ

Why is autocorrect suggesting “Pedophiles” for “Philippedes”?

Correct, correct (although it’s traditionally rendered “Pheidippides”), and Florence Pugh, who played Yelena Belova in Black Widow and Hawkeye, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh in The Outlaw King, and Amy March in Little Women.

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

1. Were you a Borogravian innkeeper’s daughter who disguised herself as a boy to join the army, and ended up sergeant of a platoon of similarly-gender-hiding soldiers?
2. Were you the creator of IQ1?
3. Were you an obnoxiously officious Head Boy (and butt of your sibling’s jokes) at Hogwarts?

[Buck_Godot]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Buck_Godot

1. Are you the host of Wait Wait Don’t tell me?
2. Were you friends with an invisible dragon in a movie?
3. Were you friends with a dragon in a folk song?

Not Paula Poundstone
Not Pete from Pete’s Dragon
Not Jackie Paper from Puff the Magic Dragon

1. She was a panelist, not the host but I’ll re-direct
   2-3 Correct

DQ

1. Are you the main host of “Wait Wait don’t tell me”, (not a panelist)
2. Did cooks have to skate across a skillet with pork rinds on their feet order to make you flap jacks.
3. Is the statistical distribution that describes the number of radioactive decay events in a given time named after you?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

P

1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with P
4. Known for the arts
5. Dead
6. American (immigrated to the US as a child)
7. Known for acting
8. Died after 1980
9. Not known from movies, although did appear in a few
10. Known for TV appearances

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you US Ambassador to France and died while swimming in a hotel pool?
Were you a prominent young actress on Dallas?
Were you a longtime US senator from Rhode Island?

DQ
Not Victoria Principal
DQ

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you a Borogravian innkeeper’s daughter who disguised herself as a boy to join the army, and ended up sergeant of a platoon of similarly-gender-hiding soldiers?
2. Were you the creator of IQ1?
3. Were you an obnoxiously officious Head Boy (and butt of your sibling’s jokes) at Hogwarts?

DQ - I know it’s Discworld, but don’t remember the name
Not Terry Pratchett
Not Percy Weasley

@Buck_Godot

1. Are you the main host of “Wait Wait don’t tell me”, (not a panelist)
2. Did cooks have to skate across a skillet with pork rinds on their feet order to make you flap jacks.
3. Is the statistical distribution that describes the number of radioactive decay events in a given time named after you?

DQ
Not Paul Bunyan
DQ

[Buck_Godot]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Buck_Godot

1. Are you the main host of “Wait Wait don’t tell me”, (not a panelist)
2. Did cooks have to skate across a skillet with pork rinds on their feet order to make you flap jacks.
3. Is the statistical distribution that describes the number of radioactive decay events in a given time named after you?

DQ
Not Paul Bunyan
DQ

1. Peter Sagal
2. Correct
3. Siméon Denis Poisson

DQ:
Known for scripted TV?

1DQ reserved

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Did you play the Master in The Curse of Fatal Death?
2. Did you direct The Master?
3. Are you William’s sister-in-law?

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

3 DQs

1 was Jonathan Pryce; 2 was Paul Thomas Anderson; 3 was Pippa Middleton.

DQs:
1. died after 2000?
2. played leading roles?

1 DQ reserved.

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

P

1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with P
4. Known for the arts
5. Dead
6. American (immigrated to the US as a child)
7. Known for acting
8. Died after 1980
9. Not known from movies, although did appear in a few
10. Known for TV appearances
11. Not known for scripted TV, although appearances were scripted
12. Died before 2000
13. Played leading roles

[kitap]

@kitap

Congrats!

1. Are you one of the daughters of the Rainbow in the Oz books?
2. Did you play Sam Winchester for 15 years?
3. Were you and your cousin Julian the main characters in the book Gone-Away Lake?

Polychrome, Jared Padalecki, Portia Blake.

DQs:

1. Known for comedy?
2. Caucasian?

I DQ reserved

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you a Borogravian innkeeper’s daughter who disguised herself as a boy to join the army, and ended up sergeant of a platoon of similarly-gender-hiding soldiers?
2. Were you the creator of IQ1?
3. Were you an obnoxiously officious Head Boy (and butt of your sibling’s jokes) at Hogwarts?

DQ - I know it’s Discworld, but don’t remember the name
Not Terry Pratchett
Not Percy Weasley

IQ1 was Polly Perks, from Monstrous Regiment.

DQs (one reserved, one from this round):

1. Known for commercials?
2. Born before 1945?

IQs:

1. Did you invent the cathode ray tube?

2. Were you a martyred Bishop of Smyrna, whose name was adopted as a username by a now-departed Doper with an interest in Episcopalian theology, hermeneutics, and church polity?

3. Did you receive a famous letter carried by and about your enslaved servant Onesimus?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are yoiu the current Secretary of Transporation?
2. Were you Raj’s sister on The Big Bang Theory?
3. Did you originate the “Here Comes The Judge” sketches that later appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:

1. Were you Goofy’s neighbor in Goof Troop?
2. 'Cause baby you’re a fiiiiiiirewooooork?
3. Were you born in Roman Britain, possibly Carlisle or Glannoventa in the county of Cumbria–though these days you’re much more associated with a different nearby isle altogether?

DQ: famous in the 1960s?

[Buck_Godot]

IQs

1. Did you play the Doctor who played the Recorder
2. Did you play the Doctor who had a car named Bessy
3. Did you play the Doctor who used celery as a boutonniere.

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

P

1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with P
4. Known for the arts
5. Dead
6. American (immigrated to the US as a child)
7. Known for acting
8. Died after 1980
9. Not known from movies, although did appear in a few
10. Known for TV appearances
11. Not known for scripted TV, although appearances were scripted
12. Died before 2000
13. Played leading roles
14. Known for comedy
15. Caucasian
16. Known for commercials
17. Born before 1945
18. Not famous in the 1960s

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Did you invent the cathode ray tube?
2. Were you a martyred Bishop of Smyrna, whose name was adopted as a username by a now-departed Doper with an interest in Episcopalian theology, hermeneutics, and church polity?
3. Did you receive a famous letter carried by and about your enslaved servant Onesimus?

Not Philo Farnsworth
DQ
Not Philemon

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are yoiu the current Secretary of Transporation?
2. Were you Raj’s sister on The Big Bang Theory?
3. Did you originate the “Here Comes The Judge” sketches that later appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In?

Not Pete Buttigeg
2 DQs

@De_La_Rue

1. Were you Goofy’s neighbor in Goof Troop?
2. 'Cause baby you’re a fiiiiiiirewooooork?
3. Were you born in Roman Britain, possibly Carlisle or Glannoventa in the county of Cumbria–though these days you’re much more associated with a different nearby isle altogether?

DQ
Not Katy Perry
DQ

@Buck_Godot

1. Did you play the Doctor who played the Recorder
2. Did you play the Doctor who had a car named Bessy
3. Did you play the Doctor who used celery as a boutonniere.

DQ
Not my first Doctor Jon Pertwee
DQ - The first guy after Tom Baker’s long run

That puts us quite a way over 20, so no more IQs please.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are yoiu the current Secretary of Transporation?
2. Were you Raj’s sister on The Big Bang Theory?
3. Did you originate the “Here Comes The Judge” sketches that later appeared on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In?

Not Pete Buttigeg
2 DQs

#1 is Correct.
#2 was Priya.
#3 was Pigmeat Markham.

2 DQs reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Oh!

FirstName LastName Question: Are you Clara “Where’s The Beef?” Peller?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

FirstName LastName Question: Are you Clara “Where’s The Beef?” Peller?

YES!! I am Clara Peller
famous for delivering the “where’s the beef?” catchphrase in mid-1980s Wendy’s commercials.

Clara Peller

Congratulations, Prof.!!

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Danke schoen!

I am

That is a G if anyone has trouble with the pic.