Botticelli, July 2025

IQs:
1. Did you write The Joy Luck Club?
2. Are you an astrophysicist and explainer of science to the masses, like your stint as host of the recent iteration of Cosmos?
3. Does Edi Gathegi play you in Superman?

IQs:

  1. Were you Ozma when she was a boy?
  2. Are you a boy adventurer/inventor in a large series of books?
  3. Are you #2’s son?

IQs:

Did some wild and crazy guy write a song about you?
Did you lose your starting position after a team doctor accidentally punctured your lung?
Was your first music video based on Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love”?

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Known, though not best known, from prose
4. Only known name starts with T
5. Not a main character
6. Not created after 1930
7. American creator(s)

DQx3!

DQ
Not Neil deGrasse Tyson
DQ

Not Tip
Not Tom Swift
Not Tom Swift Jr

Three DQs

1 was Amy Tan; 3 was Mr. Terrific.

DQs:
1. created after 1900?
2. character is human?

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. According to your theme song, are you “the undisputible leader of the gang”?
  2. Are you one of the two creators of South Park?
  3. Did you write the voluminous A Study of History?

IQs:
1. Did you burst out of a crate of “canned eggs” in the Futurama episode “Roswell That Ends Well”?
2. Man! Did you feel like a woman (and work the word “prerogative” into a song)?
3. Are you the title character of a 1999 animated Disney movie, whose locomotion through his associated environment was inspired by that of surfers?

  1. Tutankhamen (“King Tut” by Steve Martin)
  2. Tyrod Taylor
  3. Tone Lōc (“Wild Thing”)

3 DQs reserved

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Known, though not best known, from prose
4. Only known name starts with T
5. Not a main character
6. Not created after 1930
7. American creator(s)
8. Created after 1900
9. Character is human

Not Top Cat
DQ
Not Arnold Toynbee

Three DQs


Which brings us up to 21 DQs, so no more, please.

Previous IQs:

Did both the Secretary of Defense and the Governor of Virginia praise you in 2016? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, a Virginian who remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War, on the occasion of the bicentennial of his birth
Did you work for the Fat Controller? - Thomas the Tank Engine
Did you sing “What’d I Miss?” in Hamilton? - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas x3!

DQs:

American character?
Appeared in a movie?
Considered a “good guy”?

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Known, though not best known, from prose
4. Only known name starts with T
5. Not a main character
6. Not created after 1930
7. American creator(s)
8. Created after 1900
9. Character is human
10. American character
11. Appeared in several movies, the most recent 100 years after the first
12. Originally considered a “good guy”

DQs:

  1. From a genre?
  2. Caucasian?

T

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Known, though not best known, from prose
  4. Only known name starts with T
  5. Not a main character
  6. Not created after 1930
  7. American creator(s)
  8. Created after 1900
  9. Character is human
  10. American character
  11. Appeared in several movies, the most recent 100 years after the first
  12. Originally considered a “good guy”
  13. From a genre
  14. Caucasian

Correct, Trey Parker, correct.

1 DQ reserved.

1 was Harry Truman; 2 was Shania Twain; 3 was Tarzan.

DQ: originally from prose?

2 DQs reserved.

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Known, though not best known, from prose
4. Only known name starts with T
5. Not a main character
6. Not created after 1930
7. American creator(s)
8. Created after 1900
9. Character is human
10. American character
11. Appeared in several movies, the most recent 100 years after the first
12. Originally considered a “good guy”
13. From a genre
14. Caucasian
15. Originally from prose

I show knoodler with three remaining DQs, DLR with two, and the Prof with one.

Well, it’s not Tarzan, Tintin, Toto or Tonto. Hmmm…