Botticelli - June, 2014

On we go. The new letter is

E.

IQs:

  1. Did your husband frequently tell you to stifle yourself?
  2. Did you write “Except to heaven, she is nought”?
  3. Did you recently play Charades on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon?

Was that the one with the dump trucks and the bank robbery? I saw a few minutes of it.
IQ1: Are you known in connexion with a sticky substance?
IQ2: Were you the mascot for Borden Dairy?
IQ3: Were you a 19th-century London businessman?

IQ1: Did you and your brother drive 106 miles to Chicago, with only half a pack of cigarettes?
IQ2: Is one of your nicknames “Mr. Cub”?
IQ3: Do you hunt a wascally wabbit?

Yes to the dump trucks and bank robbery.

Not Edith Bunker, dunno, and not… Ed Norton?

Dunno, not Effie the Cow, and not Ebenezer Scrooge.

Not Elwood Blues, dunno, and not Elmer Fudd.

IQ1: Did you host The Newlywed Game before Paul Rodriguez?
IQ2: Did you win a Pulitzer in 1944 for your reporting from the WWII front lines?
IQ3: Did you star in Lords of Dogtown and Alpha Dog?

Correct on Edith. #2 is Emily Dickinson. #3 is Emma Thompson.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

IQs:

  1. Did you remark: “In this world you have to be oh-so-smart or oh-so-nice. I’ve been both. I recommend nice.”?
  2. Did you write Soul On Ice?
  3. Are you Romain de Tirtoff’s better known pseudonym?

Elmer the bull, as in Elmer’s Glue.
Close - it was Elsie.
Correct on Ebenezer Scrooge.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Are you the earl of Wessex?
IQ2: Were you the top-scoring American ace in WW I?
IQ3: Did you lose a big acting role because of an allergy?

The Prof ninja’ed you, SCAdian. Ask those DQs again.

Two DQs reserved pending the answers to Prof P’s.

Correct on Elwood and Elmer. “Mr. Cub” was baseball player Ernie Banks.

DQ reserved for now.

Dunno, not Ernie Pyle, and dunno.

Dunno, not Ralph Ellison, and dunno.

Not Prince Edward of Great Britain, Eddie Rickenbacker or Buddy Ebsen, the first Tin Man in Wizard of Oz.

E.

  1. real
  2. male

Bob Eubanks, correct, Emile Hirsch

DQ1: First name start with E?
DQ2: Politician?

#1 is Elwood P. Dowd from the play Harvey.
#2 is Eldridge Cleaver.
#3 is the artist Erte.

DQ: Living?

2 DQs reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you introduce the song Santa Claus Is Coming To Town on your radio broadcast?
  2. Were you The Perfect Fool?
  3. Did you slap George Kaufman’s face after attending the debut of his play The Royal Family?

I’ll bring this one forward.

DQ: American?

Correct on all three.
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Born after 1975?
IQ1: Did you demand surrender in the name of the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress?
IQ2: Did you command the Marine Raiders?
IQ3: Did you take Vashti’s place after she was sent away?

IQ1: Were you visited by four ghosts on a particular night?
IQ2: Did you play a character who was taught commodities trading by the Duke brothers?
IQ3: Once upon a midnight dreary, did you ponder, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore?