Botticelli - June 2019

DQ.
Not Shirley Temple.
DQ.

IQ1: Were you a pitcher for who the case can be argued that you were the greatest to ever play the game, and without question the greatest Jewish pitcher of all time?

IQ2: Were you the host of a kid’s show who was disciplined for telling your audience to go into their parents’ rooms, get all the green pieces of paper with President’s portraits on them, and send them to you?

IQ3: Were you one of the originators of the theory of punctuated equilibrium?

IQ1: Were you a pitcher for whom a case can be made that you were the best in history, while unquestionably being the best Jewish pitcher of all time?

IQ2: Were you the host of a children’s show, who was suspended for two weeks for telling your young viewers to go into their parents’ wallets and purses, and send him all the funny pieces of green paper with pictures of the Presidents?

IQ3: Were you one of the originators of the theory of punctuated equilibrium?

Previous IQs:

Do you have the large stone head of an Olmec war god in your basement? - Homer Simpson: Olmec head | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom
Do you work for the man who gave that stone carving? - Smithers
Are you the favorite bartender of the first person? - Moe Syszlak

DQs:

American?
Best known for the Arts?
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Have you played an astronaut, an alcoholic and an adoptive mom?
Did your best-known character make use of an icepick?
Were you Madonna’s androgynous gal pal?

DQ.
Not Soupy Sales.
Not Stephen Jay Gould.

Three DQs.

S.

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with S
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Not best known for the Arts
  7. Not born after 1950

Is there an echo in here? :smiley:

Correct on 1.
Correct on 2. I blame auto-correct for turning Bab into Baby.
#3 was Peter Scolari, who starred with Tom on Bosom Buddies, about two young guys who, in order to stay at a place they could afford, dressed up and pretended to be women. It lasted two seasons. Tom was also a recurring character on Family Ties.

DQ: Known for business?

IQs:

  1. Did you attempt to kill Pres. Gerald Ford?
  2. Did you also attempt to assassinate Pres. Ford?
  3. Were you known as “the High Priestess of Soul”?

Shirley Chisholm, correct, Shirley Bassey
Shirley x 3!

DQ: Caucasian?

holding a DQ

IQ1: Did you rip apart a picture of the Pope during an SNL performance?
IQ2: Are you the voice of Turunga Leela on Futurama?
IQ3: Are you a punk rocker thought to have killed Nancy Spungen in 1978?

Previous IQs:

Have you played an astronaut, an alcoholic and an adoptive mom? - Sandra Bullock, in Gravity, 28 Days and The Blind Side
Did your best-known character make use of an icepick? - Sharon Stone, in Basic Instinct
Were you Madonna’s androgynous gal pal? - Sandra Bernhard

DQ:

Considered a beauty?
Born east of the Miss. River?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Did you costar in The Last Picture Show?
Were Robert and Renly your brothers?
Did you write the Maigret stories?

Well, that didn’t take as long as I’d hoped it would…

Not Sara Jane Moore or whoever IQ3 was, but yes, I am Manson follower and attempted assassin Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme.

IQs:
EH’s IQ3 is Georges Simenon (EH’s IQ3).
I think KO’s IQ3 was Sid Vicious.
Don’t know any of the others.

DQs:
Not known for business
Caucasian
Probably not considered a beauty*
Born west of the Miss. River
Born south of the Mason-Dixon Line
Worked with a young lady named Fromme last summer – of course I asked, and she said yes, she was some sort of cousin.

  • I think she was really cute, though :slight_smile:

Grats Prof! You must have Mafia on the mind.

Thang Q. On to O.
#3 was Nina Simone, BTW.

Good job, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did you costar in The Last Picture Show? - Cybill Shepherd
Were Robert and Renly your brothers? - Stannis Baratheon, in Game of Thrones
Did you write the Maigret stories? - Yes, Georges Simenon

On to O!

IQs:

Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown?
Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best friends on his sitcom?
Using a powerful aphrodisiac, did you collect the sperm of famous men in the early 1900s?

::Samuel L Jackson voice:: Check out the big brain on the Professor! ::/Samuel L Jackson. voice::

Just to clear up my last set of IQs, right on Soupy Sales and Stephen Jay Gould. The greatest Jewish pitcher in major league history was Sandy Koufax, of the Dodgers.

IQ1: Did you head the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War?

IQ2: Were you a writer of comic short stories, whose real name was W.S. Porter?

IQ3: Were you one of the leads in Gone With The Wind?

  1. I am not Lee Harvey Oswald.
  2. I am not Oswald Lee Harvey.
  3. Take a DQ.

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not O. Henry.
#3. I am not Olivia de Havilland.

Right on O. Henry and Olivia de Havilland. The head of the Freedman’s Bureau was O.O. Howard. Stole this question from Elendil’s Heir, above!.

IQ1: Did your sometimes-vitriolic rivalry with fellow paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope lead to the two of you discovering and describing dozens of species of dinosaurs?

IQ2: Were you the fat, mustached half of a comedy duo that originated in vaudeville, but became famous through film?

IQ3: Are you the Earl of Airlie? (Surname sufficient.)

DQ1: Real?

Previous IQs:

Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown? - Yes, Lee Harvey Oswald
Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best friends on his sitcom? - Yes, that Oswald
Using a powerful aphrodisiac, did you collect the sperm of famous men in the early 1900s? - The title character of the Roald Dahl novel My Uncle Oswald

Oswald x3!

DQ:

Male?

IQs:

Did you provide a voice in the cartoon version of The Hobbit and have since become a Doper running gag?
Were you the boss of Mork from Ork?
Famous in your own right, were you related to Lincoln’s SECNAV?