Botticelli June 2015

IQ: Are you a maiden who, in the merry month of May, snubbed a dying man’s affections due to a snub on his part, the guilt of which caused you to die, but plants from your respective graves intertwined?

DQ: British in origin?

2 DQs reserved.

IQ1: Did you compose the opera Carmen?
IQ2: Did you compose Symphonie fantastique?
IQ3: According to Wagner, did you kill cats with a bow and arrow so you could reproduce their dying cries into your music?

Yes, I am British in origin.

More significantly, YESSSSSSS! I am the hard-hearted BARBARA ALLEN, subject of a very old, much-loved, and much-recorded folk ballad from the 17th century.

Art Garfunkel’s version may be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQdl9cP3e0

Ninja’d again, dammit…

Way to go, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Were you the CMO on DS9? - Dr. Julian Bashir.
Were you his boss? - Cmdr. (later Capt.) Benjamin Sisko.
Were you a noted Pirates pitcher of the late Seventies? - Bert Blyleven.

And I am M!

IQ1: Are you a spy chief best known as M?
IQ2: Are you a government assassin who works as a photographer?
IQ3: Are you a spy best known by a number?

IQ1: Were you Bruce Wayne’s oft-imperiled fiancee during the Golden Age who later dumped him because he wasn’t acting responsibly enough?
IQ2: Did you create the Metal Men?
IQ3: Are you one of the Forever People, chaste boyfriend of Beautiful Dreamer?

IQ1) Did you hit a walk-off homer to win the 1960 World Series?

IQ2) Did you sing “Zaz Turned Blue,” a torch song about suffocation, as a guest vocalist on the Was (Not Was) album*** Born to Laugh at Tornadoes***?

IQ3) Were you one of three Hall of Fame quarterbacks taken in the first round of the NFL draft in 1983?

Take 3 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

Take a D Q for 1.
I am not Will Magnus.
I am not Mark Moonrider, though she married Big Bear.

Admiral Sir Miles Messervy, from the James Bond stories.
Matt Helm.
Maxwell Smart (agent 86).
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American?

On second thought, I should have said “commonly known” rather than “best known” in IQ3. Scratch DQ3.

Julie Madison, correct x2

holding a DQ

*** Originally Posted by astorian
IQ1) Did you hit a walk-off homer to win the 1960 World Series?

IQ2) Did you sing “Zaz Turned Blue,” a torch song about suffocation, as a guest vocalist on the Was (Not Was) album Born to Laugh at Tornadoes?

IQ3) Were you one of three Hall of Fame quarterbacks taken in the first round of the NFL draft in 1983?***
Bill Mazeroski, Mel Torme, and Dan MArino

DQ1) First name start with M?
Saving two DQs

IQ1: Did you serve as the guardian for a child born in the far future but marooned in what was the present to the reader?
IQ2: Were you a ‘spokesman’ for New Coke?
IQ3: Is your partner a six-foot tall dog who typically wears a fedora?

IQ1: Did you throw acid into Harvey Dent’s face, turning him into Two-Face?
IQ2: Are you a Hawkman foe who uses a wand made from Mentachem?
IQ3: Are you a Heavenly Help Mate who claimed to be the one who directed the lightning bolt that hit Barry Allen’s lab and gave him his Flash powers? (I honestly remember this issue, which DC regrets publishing)

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with M

Take a D Q for 1.
I am not Michael Jackson.
I am not the joyously psychopathic Max.