Botticelli – July 2026

  1. Mother Maybelle Carter
  2. Joe Mullins
  3. Marilyn Monroe, correct

DQs

  1. died after 1950?
  2. Known for science?

IQs.

  1. Were you known for dancing while wearing a fruit hat on your head?
  2. Did you write (and perform in) Hamilton, the musical?
  3. Are you a youtuber famous for singing poorly with badly applied lipstick?

IQs:
1. Were you mayor of Philadelphia?
2. Were you so fine, were you so fine you blew Toni Basil’s mind?
3. Did you play a woman who falls in love with a time traveler and travels in time herself in a 1979 movie, and then a woman who falls in love with a time traveler and travels in time herself in a 1990 movie?

I am not Carmen Miranda
I am not Lin Manuel Miranda
Take a DQ

Take a DQ
I am not Mickey He’s-So-Fine
Take a DQ

M

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with M
  3. Male
  4. Not living
  5. Not American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Not known from the arts
  8. Not European
  9. Not Caucasian
  10. Asian
  11. Died after 1950
  12. Not known for science
  13. Not known for politics
  14. From East Asia

1 (mayor) was Michael Nutter; 3 (time travel) was Mary Steenburgen (in Time After Time and Back to the Future Part III).

DQs:
1. known for politics?
2. from East Asia (as defined here)?

Marjoe Gortner
Marion Michael Morrison
Missy LeHand

Three DQs reserved.


DQ: Were you a Korean religious leader whose followers were not known as being sunny?

Yes! I am Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church, whose followers are commonly known as “Moonies.” Good job, SCA!

  1. Carmen Miranda. Correct
  2. Lin-Manuel Miranda. Correct
  3. Miranda Sings

Miranda X 3!

Good job. Scadian, I thought that was an oddly specific question.

I
am
E.

IQs.

  1. Did you see a wheel, way up in the middle of the air?
  2. Was the car named for you a spectacular failure?
  3. Are you Sherlock Holmes’s much younger sister?

Not Ezekiel
Not Edsel Ford
DQ

E it is, and a good guess with Moon!

IQs:

  1. Did you turn out to be a vehicle for a Chinger spy?
  2. Did you write Love Story?
  3. Did you play a character who loved Chachi?

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Moffats?
  2. Did you write The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet?
  3. Did you write The Time Garden?

IQs:
1. Were you in Monty Python?
2. Have you starred in the Quiet Place movies, Mary Poppins Returns, and Disclosure Day?
3. Were you Second Gentleman of the US?

IQs:

  1. Were you a night manager at a pizza parlor before moving to LA with your closest friends?
  2. Were you in a rap group with Dr Dre and Ice Cube?
  3. Did you successfully sue the President of the United States?

Not Ezekiel
Not Edsel Ford
DQ

  1. correct
  2. correct
  3. Enola Holmes

1 DQ reserved

DQ
DQ
Not Erin Lastname.

Not Eleanor Estes
DQ (pretty sure that’s E Cameron, but can’t remember her first name)
Not Edward Eager

Not Eric Idle
DQ
DQ

DQ x3!

2 was Emily Blunt; 3 was Doug Emhoff.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with E?