Botticelli - June 2013

IQ: Do you share your name with a magician?

IQ1: Did you have adventures with your sidekick, Muttley?
IQ2: Did Frank Zappa write and perform a song about you that was featured on the “Overnight Sensation” LP?
IQ3: Did you tell Sleepy Jean to cheer up?

I am not David Copperfield.

I am not Dick Dastardly. I am not Davy Jones. Take a DQ for #2.

IQ1: Are you a character in the "Fast and Furious’ movie franchise?
IQ2: Are you the actor with an automotive name who plays the above character?
IQ3: Come to that, are you a different actor in the most recent “Fast and Furious” movie?

I’m not Dominic Torretto, nor Vin Diesel. I haven’t seen the latest in the series, so take a DQ.

Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson reprises his role as agent Hobbs from whatever the heck they called the fifth film.

DQ: Was the work in which you appear written after 1900 AD?

DQ1) Fictional
DQ2) Male
DQ3) Literary character
DQ4) Would not be alive today if real
DQ5) Not a military character
DQ6) Not American
DQ7) Work written before 1900

IQ1: Did you give the camera a literal shit-eating grin at the end of your most infamous film?
IQ2: Are you a guitarist prone to on-stage fistfights with your brother?
IQ3: Are you a guitarist who was murdered on stage?

I’m not Divine. I’m not Don Everly. Take a DQ for #3.

IQ3: Dimebag Darrell, guitarist for Pantera and Damageplan.

DQ: Was the work in which you appear originally written in English?

IQ1: Are you a British guitarist prone to on-stage fistfights with your brother?
IQ2: Did Neil Armstrong bring a recording of your best-known symphony with him on Apollo 11?
IQ3: Did people mistakenly think your name was Hootie?

IQ1: Are you and your brother members of a group named after a brand of facial tissue?
IQ2: Did your brother claim to have fallen into a vat of chocolate?
IQ3: Did you and your brother appear on your parents’ TV show?

I’m not Dvorak and not Darius Rucker. Take one DQ.

I’m not Dick Smothers, and not David Nelson. Take a DQ for #1.

DQ1) Fictional
DQ2) Male
DQ3) Literary character
DQ4) Would not be alive today if real
DQ5) Not a military character
DQ6) Not American
DQ7) Work written before 1900
DQ8) Not originally written in English

Correct on Dick Smothers and David Nelson. (I’m impressed!)
Don Reid and his brother Harold are members of the Statler Brothers.
DQ: Work written before 1700?
IQ1: Are you an Italian war orphan who was adopted by an American soldier?
IQ2: Did you play a poor Mississippi teenager, a Titanic survivor and a musical nun?
IQ3: Did you play that same teenager in two other movies?

I never liked Dondi.
I’m gonna guess #2 is Debbie Reynolds (Tammy and the Unsinkable Molly Brown, but I’m not sure of the nun.)
Take a DQ for #3, 'cause I’m not that big a fan of Tammy.

DQ1) Fictional
DQ2) Male
DQ3) Literary character
DQ4) Would not be alive today if real
DQ5) Not a military character
DQ6) Not American
DQ7) Work written before 1900
DQ8) Not originally written in English
DQ9) Work written after 1700

I was never a big fan of Dondi, either, but I remember reading the strip when I was a kid.
The third Debbie Reynolds reference was The Singing Nun.
Sandra Dee starred in the other two Tammy movies.
DQ: Work written in French?
IQ1: Speaking of the Singing Nun, are you she?
IQ2: Did you sing about guitars, Cadillacs and hillbilly music?
IQ3: Were you a big man, with an eye like an eagle and as tall as a mountain?

As far as I remember the Singing Nun was Sister Sourire (or something like that). So, take a DQ for that one. Madame Pepperwinkle and I have been to see Dwight Yoakam in concert (she’s a fan). Ed Ames played Mingo to Fess Parker’s Daniel Boone. Yeah, I’m old.