Botticelli June 2015

Take DQs for 1 and 2

Not Bob Hoskins

Not Bellerophon, Bacchus or… Balder?

Ralph Bakshi (Wizards).
DQ: Best known from literature?
IQ1: Did you design the Lincoln cent?
IQ2: Were you a Holy Roman emperor who drowned in a river?
IQ3: Were you the captain of Queen Anne’s Revenge?

SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Not known from TV or movies
  4. Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine
  5. Not primarily known from literature

Not Frederick Barbarossa
Take a DQ for 1 and 3

IQs:

  1. Did Godzilla step on you?
  2. Were you a noted scrivener?
  3. Were you Jeremiah’s scribe?

grrrrr

IQ1: Are you a bear-descended man whose legs Bilbo Baggins thought he could walk through without touching your body?
IQ2: Are you the goblin leader IQ1 slew in the Battle of the Five Armies?
IQ3: Do you own the Inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree?

Not Bambi, Bartleby or… Baruch?

Not Butterbur
Take a DQ for 1 and 2

…and he swept it again!
IQs:

  1. Were you a 20th Century British painter known for your grotesquely raw images?
  2. Did you write and illustrate the Madeline books?
  3. Were you an early French Impressionist painter who died in the Franco-Prussian war at a young age?

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first Attorney General? - Edward Bates.
Was your heraldic symbol the bee? - Napoleon Bonaparte: The symbols of Empire - napoleon.org
Did you play a crime boss with a young Helen Mirren as your moll? - Yes, Bob Hoskins, in The Long Good Friday.

DQs:

From a song?
First name start with B?

IQs:

Was Veronica Lodge your principal rival?
Was a beautiful young woman the sole guest in your quarters?
Have you played a computer expert, a network executive and a concierge?

Victor David Brenner, whose initials originally appeared on the coins.
Correct.
Blackbeard.
DQ1: First appeared after 1950?
DQ2: Created by an American?

SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Not known from TV or movies
  4. Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine
  5. Not primarily known from literature
  6. First name starts with B
  7. Best known from a song

/quote]IQ1: Are you a bear-descended man whose legs Bilbo Baggins thought he could walk through without touching your body?
IQ2: Are you the goblin leader IQ1 slew in the Battle of the Five Armies?
IQ3: Do you own the Inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree?

Not Butterbur
Take a DQ for 1 and 2
[/quote]

Beorn, Bolg, correct

DQ: From a rock song?

holding a DQ

You swept me back- take three DQs.

Not Betty Cooper

No idea on #2

Nope, #3 isn’t coming to me, either. Take 2 DQs

#1 was Francis Bacon.
#2 was Ludwig Bemelmans.
#3 was Frederic Bazille.

3 DQs reserved pending the answers to waiting DQs.

SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Not known from TV or movies
  4. Primary character in work I’m best known for, but not a heroine
  5. Not primarily known from literature
  6. First name starts with B
  7. Best known from a song
  8. Created before 1950
  9. Not created by an American
  10. Not in a pop/rock song (though a few pop/rock artists have recorded the song I’m known for)

Previous IQs:

Was Veronica Lodge your principal rival? - Yes, Betty Cooper, in the *Archie *comics.
Was a beautiful young woman the sole guest in your quarters? - Capt. Barbarossa in Pirates of the Caribbean. Now if only I could remember her name…
Have you played a computer expert, a network executive and a concierge? - Bob Balaban, in 2010: The Year We Make Contact, Seinfeld and The Grand Budapest Hotel.

DQs:

The object of the singer’s affections?
A nice person, from what we know of her in the song?

IQs:

Were you the CMO on DS9?
Were you his boss?
Were you a noted Pirates pitcher of the late Seventies?