Botticelli, July 2023

[Buck_Godot]

DQ

1. Are you famous because, of course, no one can talk to someone like you unless that someone happens to be you?
2. Did Vampira and Bela Lugosi star in your most famous movie?
3. Were you sued by Vampira?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

IQ1: Are you the world’s greatest criminal mind, portrayed by Vincent Price?
IQ2: Did you recently begin your prison sentence for wire fraud related to a company you founded?
IQ3: Did you use a Speak&Spell to phone home?

Dunno, dunno and not ET.

Egghead, a villain created for the Adam West Batman series
Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy
Correct

Holding 2 DQs

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Did you offend your brother by picking him up from prison in a former police car, before going off on a mission from God?

2. Were you a tennis player subject to the racist story that you had a tail?

3. Are you a gloomy hero possessed of a sword that eats souls?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you win Olympic gold with your husband, and, after his sudden death, on your own?
2. Are you married to Portia de Rossi?
3. Did you play Elton John in Rocketman?

Not Ekaterina Witt, Ellen DeGeneres or Egon Whatshisname.

#1 was Ekaterina Gordeyeva.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Taron Egerton.

Holding 2 DQs.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

I do think SMV probably has this one.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Yeah, I wondered about an athlete, and when DLR asked if she were Australian, that name popped into my head. Curious to see if my hunch is right.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:
…
2. Were you a tennis player subject to the racist story that you had a tail?
…

Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

An Australian Aborigine woman and very talented tennis player, subjected to some particularly ugly racism back in the day: Evonne Goolagong Cawley - Wikipedia

Well done, SMV!

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Thank you! I kinda feel like I stole it from @De_La_Rue, since their DQ made me think of her. Sorry, DLR!

The answers to my other IQs, just for the record, were Elwood Blues and Elric of Melniboné.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Nice pick, EH!

[De_La_Rue]

Congrats, Vehicle! I first heard of her from this LearnedLeague question, and was going to confirm my suspicion with the Australia question.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Alright, new round, everyone!

Looking through EH’s list of letters, I am…

D

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you sometimes write under the pseudonum of Boz?
2. In Italian comics, are you the superhero Paperinik?
3. Are you a living gingerbread man in a book by L. Frank Baum?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

1. I am not Charles Dickens.
2. Take a DQ.
3. And then take another.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

IQs:

Were you the first black President, in the novel and movie The Man?
Did that guy’s first name come from you?
Did Jerry Ford, while in the House, try to get you impeached?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Were you the first black President, in the novel and movie The Man?
Did that guy’s first name come from you?
Did Jerry Ford, while in the House, try to get you impeached?

Woof. Three DQs for you.

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did you design a keyboard with a non-QWERTY key layout?
2. Did you play the title role in Philomena?
3. Did “MacArthur Park” win your column’s Bad Song Survey?

[kitap]

Congrats!

1. Did you produce and star in The China Syndrome?
2. Did you marry Harold Lloyd?
3. Are you Perry Mason’s secretary?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you sometimes write under the pseudonum of Boz?
2. In Italian comics, are you the superhero Paperinik?
3. Are you a living gingerbread man in a book by L. Frank Baum?

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

• I am not Charles Dickens.
• Take a DQ.
• And then take another.

1. Correct.
   2 is Donald Duck.
   3 was John Dough.

DQs:

1. Real?
2. Last name starts with D?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother?
2. Did you lie down in front of the yellow bulldozer before it could demolish your home?
3. Are you secretly Wonder Warthog?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Did you design a keyboard with a non-QWERTY key layout?
2. Did you play the title role in Philomena?
3. Did “MacArthur Park” win your column’s Bad Song Survey?

1. I am not…Davis? If not, take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take another DQ.

@kitap

1. Did you produce and star in The China Syndrome?
2. Did you marry Harold Lloyd?
3. Are you Perry Mason’s secretary?

1. Arrgh, I keep getting it tangled with The Manchurian Candidate. in my mind. Take a DQ.
2. No idea. Another DQ.
3. I am not Delia Reese (? Not sure of her surname).

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you Bill Murray’s actor brother?
2. Did you lie down in front of the yellow bulldozer before it could demolish your home?
3. Are you secretly Wonder Warthog?

1. I am not Brian Doyle Murray.
2. I am not Dent, Arthur Dent.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:

1. Real.
2. Last name starts with “D”.