Botticelli - June 2012

I am not Ishmael.

I am not Jim Ignatowski.

3 DQs for you.

Ingmar Bergman / Ingrid Bergman / Ivanka Trump

DQ1: Are you male?
DQ2: Are you a real (versus fictional) person?
DQ3: Are you best known for you contribution to the Arts?

  1. I am a man.
  2. I am a fictional character.
  3. I am not known for any contribution to The Arts.

IQs:

Did your last name eventually grace an institution of higher learning?
Are you a writer from a noted political family in your home country?
Did you once command the USS Constitution?

IQ1: Did you lose your head?
IQ2: Did you despise a Dane?

Hey - you skipped mine!

IQ1: Were you the subject of a memorial concert at which the Folksmen, the New Main Street Singers, and Mitch and Mickey played?

IQ2: Are you an archeologist/adventurer who insisted that the Cross of Coronado be put in a museum?

IQ3: Were you involved in Hungarian politics in the 1950s?

IQ: Did your hubris get you killed, because you flew too close to the sun?

Oops, sorry Enginerd for not seeing this…:smack:

I’m not Allen Iverson or Eddie Izzard, but you can have a DQ for your second question.

Not Isaac Hull, but you can take two more DQs.

I’m not Icarus.

Two DQs.

I’m not Indiana Jones. Two DQs for the others, but the Hungarian guy is on the tip of my toungue, but I can’t drag his name up from the memory banks at the moment.

Ice Cube.

DQ: Does your first name begin with I?

Ignatius Loyola.
Isabel Allende.
Yes, Capt. Isaac Hull.

DQs:

American?
Although fictional, would you be alive in 2012?

IQs:

Did you complain when the filming of a big movie messed up traffic in your neighborhood?
Have you played a villainous soldier and a troubled cop?
Did a writer named after a U.S. President immortalize you?

The subject of the memorial concert was folk music impresario Irving Steinbloom. The concert itself was a part of the mockumentary film, A Mighty Wind.

The Hungarian politician was Imre Nagy.

I’ll reserve my DQs for a moment.

3 DQs.
DQ Summary

  1. I am a man.
  2. I am a fictional character.
  3. I am not known for any contribution to The Arts.
  4. My last name begins with ‘I’.
  5. I am an American creation.
  6. Yes, even though fictional, I would be alive as of 2012.

I’ll bring forward my DQs.

DQ: Are you involved in politics?

DQ: Are you a character in literature?

Isaac Asimov, during the Central Park West filming of Ghostbusters.
Jason Isaacs, in The Patriot and Awake.
Washington Irving (d’oh, another “I”!) wrote about Ichabod Crane.

DQs:

Do you appear in just a single work of fiction (one book, one movie, one TV series, etc.)?
Are you a U.S. citizen?
Are you commonly thought of as being from the East Coast?

IQs

Were you a noted comic actress?
During the American Revolution and its aftermath, was your brother a much-better-known man than you were?
Did you recently speak at Oberlin College and bask in the students’ adulation?

IQ1: Are you regarded as a co-creator of Mickey Mouse, together with Walt Disney?

IQ2: Were you a department store mogul who died in the Titanic tragedy?

IQ3: Were you the wife of the man in IQ2?

Does #6 imply your creator is alive?

IQ1: Are you the most famous character Mandy Patinkin has ever played?

IQ2: Are you a handsome, blonde Russian spy?

IQ3: Did you compose three ballets for impressario Sergei Diagalev’s ‘Ballet Russe’ in the early 20th century?

IQ1: Did you style yourself the uncrowned King of Scotland?
IQ2: Did your trading career end with a prison sentence and a $100 million fine?