Botticelli June 2023

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

DQ: Science fiction/fantasy films?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

1. Were you an American theatrical impresario famous for your elaborate revues featuring dancing chorus girls?
2. Were you a silent film actress who successfully made the transition to talkies, and whose fluttery voice was supposedly the inspiration for Olive Oyl’s voice actress?
3. Were you a hard-partying exemplar of the Jazz Age, who died in a mental health facility after being diagnosed with schizophrenia, which modern scholars now believe to have been most likely bipolar disorder?

See DQ #13 above. Try another DQ.

1. I am not Florenz Ziegfeld.
2. I am not Zasu Pitts (??)
3. I am not Zelda Fitzgerald

Thank you, missed that one. Correct on all three (although it was ZaSu Pitts).

DQs:

1. Urban fantasy?
2. Live-action films?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. American
4. Last name starts with Z
5. Did not originally appear in a prose work.
6. Would be alive today, if real
7. Supporting character to the protagonists
8. First appeared before 2000
9. First appeared in movies
10. First appeared after 1960
11. Good guy
12. In genre films
13. SciFi/Fantasy genre
14. Films are part of a franchise
15. Urban fantasy
16. Live action films

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you a Mobile Infantry drill instructor? - Sergeant Zim in Starship Troopers
Did POTUS kneel before you? - Yes, General Zod, in Superman II
Were you prominent Swiss Protestant reformer? - Yes, Ulrich or Huldrych Zwingli

DQ:

White actor?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. American
4. Last name starts with Z
5. Did not originally appear in a prose work.
6. Would be alive today, if real
7. Supporting character to the protagonists
8. First appeared before 2000
9. First appeared in movies
10. First appeared after 1960
11. Good guy
12. In genre films
13. SciFi/Fantasy genre
14. Films are part of a franchise
15. Urban fantasy
16. Live action films
17. Black actor

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

IQ1: Will you believe anything [we] say [regarding the paranormal] if there’s a steady paycheck in it?
IQ2: Did you take it all too far, but boy could you play guitar?
IQ3: Will you be the Chief Defender of the Faith in the future?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

IQ1: Will you believe anything [we] say [regarding the paranormal] if there’s a steady paycheck in it?

Yes! I am the fourth Ghostbuster, Winston Zeddemore! Nicely done, Chock!

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

Cool!
Wrap-up…

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

IQ2: Did you take it all too far, but boy could you play guitar?
IQ3: Will you be the Chief Defender of the Faith in the future?

Ziggy Stardust, from the Bowie song/concept album
Dr. Zaius, from Planet of the Apes

Wow, every letter has been used at least once within the past 3-4 months.

Let’s go with… O

[Buck_Godot]

Congrats CFoHG. I certainly knew the character but didn’t know he had a last name.

IQ:

1. Are you the smartest man in the world who engineered a fake alien invasion so as to prevent nuclear war?
2. Were you a conquistador known for the massacre of a native american village (and the amputation of the feet of some of the survivors) in retaliation for the death of your nephew.
3. According to legend were you torn to pieces by a bunch of wild women under the influence of a drunken god.

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Buck_Godot

1. Are you the smartest man in the world who engineered a fake alien invasion so as to prevent nuclear war?
2. Were you a conquistador known for the massacre of a native american village (and the amputation of the feet of some of the survivors) in retaliation for the death of your nephew.
3. According to legend were you torn to pieces by a bunch of wild women under the influence of a drunken god.

Not Ozymandas from Watchmen
Take a DQ
Not Orpheus

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you also known as Mr. Wednesday in American Gods?
2. Were you famously not born in Kenya?
3. Did you star in Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel?

[Buck_Godot]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Buck_Godot

1. Are you the smartest man in the world who engineered a fake alien invasion so as to prevent nuclear war?
2. Were you a conquistador known for the massacre of a native american village (and the amputation of the feet of some of the survivors) in retaliation for the death of your nephew.
3. According to legend were you torn to pieces by a bunch of wild women under the influence of a drunken god.

Not Ozymandas from Watchmen
Take a DQ
Not Orpheus

2 was Juan de Onate the other two are correct.

DQ:
Real?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you also known as Mr. Wednesday in American Gods?
2. Were you famously not born in Kenya?
3. Did you star in Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel?

Not Odin
Not Barack Obama
Not Laurence Olivier?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

O

1. Fictional

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you also known as Mr. Wednesday in American Gods?
2. Were you famously not born in Kenya?
3. Did you star in Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel?

Not Odin
Not Barack Obama
Not Laurence Olivier?

Correct
Correct
Merle Oberon.

DQ: Male?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Well done, CFOHG!
IQs:

Was a college named after you, an Alsatian pastor and peacemaker?
Were you a nude organist?
Were you the brave little hero of The Point?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

O

1. Fictional
2. Male

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Was a college named after you, an Alsatian pastor and peacemaker?
Were you a nude organist?
Were you the brave little hero of The Point?

Not Oberlin
Not Terry (j)Ones - DQ
DQ

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Congratulations, CFOHG!

IQs:

1. Are you the protagonist of a 1954 French erotic novel, and later film, inspired by de Sade?

2. Are you a U.K.-based comedian, often called “Britain’s most beloved Irishman”?

3. Were you a pharmacist, bank clerk, and convicted embezzler, famous for your short stories that usually featured surprise endings?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphoses?
2. Did you play Will Turner in a series of movies?
3. Did you play Sabrina opposite Harrison Ford?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Are you the protagonist of a 1954 French erotic novel, and later film, inspired by de Sade?
2. Are you a U.K.-based comedian, often called “Britain’s most beloved Irishman”?
3. Were you a pharmacist, bank clerk, and convicted embezzler, famous for your short stories that usually featured surprise endings?

Not O, from The Story of O
DQ
Not O. Henry

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did you write Metamorphoses?
2. Did you play Will Turner in a series of movies?
3. Did you play Sabrina opposite Harrison Ford?

Not Ovid
Not Orlando Bloom
Take a DQ