Botticelli June 2023

Correct, correct, and Julia Ormond.

DQ: Last name starts with O?

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O

Correct for O and O. Henry. No. 2 was Dara Ó Briain.

D.Q.: From a literary work?

I.Q.s:

  1. Were you a Church Father, a hugely influential theologian of early Christianity, author of more than 2,000 treatises?

  2. Did you co-star in a film with an actor who had stayed up for 72 hours to replicate his character doing that, and suggest to him, “My dear boy, why don’t you try acting?”

  3. Were you the second son of the Earl of Airlie, famous for marrying Queen Elizabeth’s cousin Princess Alexandra of Kent?

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work

Take a DQ
Not Laurence Olivier, to Dustin Hoffman while filming Marathon Man
Another DQ

IQs:

  1. Are you Olive Oyl’s mom?
  2. Are you Olive Oyl’s brother?
  3. Are you Olive Oyl’s dad?

Obviously, just answering “Oyl” with no first name is right out.

As is the number five.

Previous IQs:

Was a college named after you, an Alsatian pastor and peacemaker? - Yes, Johann Friedrich Oberlin
Were you a nude organist? - Onan, played by, yes, Terry Jones, on Monty Python
Were you the brave little hero of The Point ? - Oblio/Obie

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Were you the longtime conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony?
Does Maurice LaMarche often do your voice?
Have you become a SDMB meme, especially in the Made-Up Band Name thread?

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real

3 Oyly DQ for you

Take 2 DQs
Not (Hi) Opal

Mom is Nana Oyl; Brother is Castor Oyl; Dad is Cole Oil.

DQs:

DQs:

  1. Written after 1900?
  2. European author?
  3. Protagonist?
  1. was the second century C.E. theologian Origen of Alexandria. 2. was indeed Lawrence Olivier, speaking to Dustin Hoffman (who apparently later said that his method acting in that instance was a result of an epic partying binge). 3. was Sir Angus Ogilvy, banker and businessman.

D.Q.s

  1. Protagonist of his work?
  2. From genre fiction?

I.Q.s:

  1. Are you the eponymous hero of an iconic novel of Russian literature by Alexsandr Pushkin?

  2. Were you the villain of the first vampire movie, and the first vampire to die from exposure to the sun, rather than simply be weakened by it?

  3. Do you want some more?

IQs

  1. Did you found the colony of Georgia?
  2. Were you the subject of the memoir “Naked came I”?
  3. Can you transform into a big rig?

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle, your first DQ is a repeat. Go ahead and ask another

Take a DQ
Not Count Orlock, from Nosferatu
Not Oliver Twist

2 DQs for you
Not Optimus Prime

  1. James Oglethorpe
  2. Opus the Penguin (titled by Milo Bloom)

DQ:

  1. From Science fiction of fantasy
  2. From book originally written in English language

Correct on Count Orlok and Oliver Twist. No. 1 was Eugene Onegin.

Thanks. I got ninja’d by the Prof.

DQs reserved until the answer to Buck’s last DQs.

IQs:

  1. Are you the most famous motherfucker in literature?

  2. Were you a Nobel Prize-winning playwright who was one of the first to use vernacular American speech in your works?

  3. Were you a Medal of Honor-winning Union general, who headed the Freedman’s Bureau during Reconstruction, and founder of one of the oldest and most prestigious HBCUs?

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language

Not Oedipus
Not Eugene O’Neill
DQ

Correct, correct, and the last was O.O. Howard, the namesake of Howard University.

DQs:

  1. Comic character?

  2. Urban fantasy?

  3. Male author?

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language
  13. Not a comic character
  14. Urban fantasy
  15. Male author