Botticelli - July 2024

I think you misspelled “begin” above.

Previous IQs:

Were you Henry VIII’s only son to take the throne? - Edward VI
Were you Victoria’s only son to take the throne? - Edward VII
Were you his grandson, who reigned for less than a year? - Edward VIII

Royal Edward x3!

DQs:

American?
Living?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR?
Did you play Miss Honey in Matilda?
Did you command the Afrika Korps?

Swept me, by crikey! Thought I’d get you with Eleanor of Aquitaine.

IQs:

  1. Were you a Libyan Greek mathematician who calculated the Earth’s circumference around 240 BCE, obtaining a result that is only 2.4% off the modern scientific measurement?
  2. Were you Harry Flashman’s much-loved, much-betrayed wife?
  3. Were you a philosopher who, ironically, given the popular misunderstanding of his teachings, ate very simple meals and lived an austere life?

1 was Annie Edison, on the sitcom Community; 2 was Ego Nwodim.

1 DQ reserved.

DQs:
1. Did you write Adam Bede, Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner?
2. Were you an unusually-eyed member of Bill Cipher’s Henchmaniacs on Gravity Falls?
3. Were you a British member of Parliament and cabinet secretary who, on April 28th, 2011, mistakenly posted a tweet consisting entirely of his name on Twitter?

#1 is the famous Eccles. Correct on Ed and Elizabeth.

1 DQ reserved.

Take 2 DQs and I am not Erwin Rommel.

I M not George Eliot and take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with E.
  4. American
  5. living
  6. Best known for the Arts

2 was Eightball; 3 Ed Balls.

DQ: born after 1964?

DQ: Known for literature?

2 DQs reserved.

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?

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?

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? - Edwin Stanton
Did you play Miss Honey in Matilda? - Embeth Davidtz
Did you command the Afrika Korps? - Yes, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

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

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

I am not Edwina, then take 2 DQs.

I am not Emily Litella and take 2 DQs unless #3 is Eleanor Roosevelt.

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.

DQ: Known for the performing arts?
DQ: Born after 1945?

IQs:

  1. Were you the last husband of Carla Tortelli?
  2. Are you the first person to ski jump for England at an Olympics?
  3. Did you play #2 in a biopic?

I am not Eddie, I am not Eddie the Eagle, take a DQ.

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.

1 was Eratosthenes, Chief Librarian of the Library at Alexandria, who measured the angle of sunlight hitting the earth in Alexandria, then compared it to the angle at a city 5,000 stadia away on the same meridian, and used geometry to calculate the circumference of the earth. 2 was Elspeth Morrison Flashman. 3 was Epicurius, who taught that the highest goal was pleasure, which he defined as the avoidance of fear, stress, and pain, not excessive hedonism.

DQs:

  1. Actor?
  2. Known for filmed work (movies or TV)?
    1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  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?

Yes, Eddie Lebec, and “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards. #3 was Taron Edgerton.

1 DQ reserved.