Botticelli - July 2024

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Did you and H.I. steal a quintuplet in Raising Arizona?
2. Did you, Pete, and Delmar go an odyssey in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Are you one of the links between and the obvious person to ask about after mentioning the above movies?

@kitap

I am not Edwina, then take 2 DQs.

2 was Ulysses Everett McGill; the links between Raising Arizona and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are their directors, the Coen brothers, so 3 was Ethan Coen.

DQs:
1. last name begins with E? (Might as well confirm it.)
2. won any awards?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@kitap

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you Dorothy Gale’s pet kitten, who somehow turned pink?
2. Did you create a popular plan for speed reading?
3. Are you Dagwood Bumstead’s neighbor, a sometimes annoying little boy?

I am not Eureka, take a DQ, I am not Elmo.

Correct, Evelyn Woods, correct.

2 DQs reserved.

[kitap]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you an expatriate American-English poet who apparently didn’t like April?
2. Were you a contemporary of 1, who published his most celebrated work while incarcerated in a mental hospital after being judged unfit to stand trial for treason?
3. Were you an influential Victorian poet of sonnets, whose reputation was, until the 70s and 80s, overshadowed by that of your husband?

Take 2 DQs and I am not Elizaberh Barret Browning.

[kitap]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name does not begin with E.
4. American
5. living
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born before 1964
8. Not known for literature.
9. Known for the Performing Arts.
10. Born after 1945.
11. Actor
12. Known for filmed work
13. Last name begins with E
14. Has won awards

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you an opinionated but hard-of-hearing woman played by Gilda Radner? - Yes, Emily Litella
Were you Alice Roosevelt’s pet snake? - Emily Spinach
Did Julie Harris famously play you in a one-woman show? - Emily Dickinson

Emily x3!

DQs:

Has won an Oscar?
Considered handsome?
White?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you born with the exact same name as a famous person, but changed it when you became an actor?
Were you the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986?
Were you a former Federal prosecutor who became a top advisor to TR?

[kitap]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you born with the exact same name as a famous person, but changed it when you became an actor?
Were you the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986?
Were you a former Federal prosecutor who became a top advisor to TR?

Take 3 DQs.

[kitap]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. First name does not begin with E.
4. American
5. living
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born before 1964
8. Not known for literature.
9. Known for the Performing Arts.
10. Born after 1945.
11. Actor
12. Known for filmed work
13. Last name begins with E
14. Has won awards
15. Has,not won an Oscar
16. Not considered,handsome
17. White.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you an expatriate American-English poet who apparently didn’t like April?
2. Were you a contemporary of 1, who published his most celebrated work while incarcerated in a mental hospital after being judged unfit to stand trial for treason?
3. Were you an influential Victorian poet of sonnets, whose reputation was, until the 70s and 80s, overshadowed by that of your husband?

1. “April is the cruelest month”, according to T.S. Eliot, whose work was first published by 2., Ezra Pound, whose own Pisan Cantos came out while he was incarcerated for making propaganda broadcasts for Fascist Italy during World War II. Correct on Browning.

DQs:

1. Character actor?
2. First name begins N - Z?
3. Primarily known for movies?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Do you play guitar in U2, and did your bandmate appear as Dr. Robert in Across the Universe?
2. Elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna, man you should have seen them kicking [you]?
3. Are you you? (ooh) Are they they? (ooh) Are you the walrus?

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Are you famous for playing an undead serial killer in a fedora?
2. Do you sing half the duet on “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”?
3. Are you a new centenarian famous for being a “Hitchcock blonde”?

[kitap]

Don’t know 2 oe 3 but yes!!

I am Robert Englund !!! Freddy Krueger himself!

Good job!!

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Well done, SunUp!

[SunUp]

Thanks! I was just thinking up stock IQs and after I came to that thought “Hmm, maybe it’s him?” The other two IQs were Ellen Foley and Eva Marie Saint, respectively.

On to the next round: I am

J

(I’ve updated the “letters used” thread.)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Bravo, SunUp!

Previous IQs:

Were you born with the exact same name as a famous person, but changed it when you became an actor? - Albert Einstein became Albert Brooks
Were you the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Pennsylvania in 1986? - Bob Edgar
Were you a former Federal prosecutor who became a top advisor to TR? - Elihu Root

On to J.

Was your dad going to Berlin in Robert Harris’s Fatherland?
Were you Person #1’s wife?
Were you their son?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you promote the concept of the Collective Unconscious?
2. Were you an American artist who was a major inspiration for the Pop Art Movement?
3. Before NBC, were you the personage most represented by the peacock?

[De_La_Rue]

Congrats, SunUp!

IQs:
1. Did you wish to be preserved as an “auto-icon”?
2. Are you half of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update team?
3. Are you the above person’s spouse?

[SunUp]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Was your dad going to Berlin in Robert Harris’s Fatherland?
Were you Person #1’s wife?
Were you their son?

I am not… Alfred Jodl, Frau Jodl, or Alfred Jodl Jr.?
Probable 3 DQs.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you promote the concept of the Collective Unconscious?
2. Were you an American artist who was a major inspiration for the Pop Art Movement?
3. Before NBC, were you the personage most represented by the peacock?

I am not Carl Jung.
Take 2 DQs.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Did you wish to be preserved as an “auto-icon”?
2. Are you half of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update team?
3. Are you the above person’s spouse?

Take a DQ.
I am not Colin Jost.
I am not Scarlett Johansson.

[De_La_Rue]

@SunUp

Take a DQ.
I am not Colin Jost.
I am not Scarlett Johansson.

1 was philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

DQ: real?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SunUp

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you promote the concept of the Collective Unconscious?
2. Were you an American artist who was a major inspiration for the Pop Art Movement?
3. Before NBC, were you the personage most represented by the peacock?

I am not Carl Jung.
Take 2 DQs.

Correct on Jung.
#2 was Jasper Johns.
#3 was the Roman goddess Juno.

DQs:

1. Male?
2. Last name starts with J?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you make your entrance on the silver screen stepping off your sinking ship onto the pier?
2. Did you play #1?
3. A member of a musical family from Gary, IN, did you pose nude for Playboy?