Botticelli - June 2024

IQs:

  1. Did you throw bricks at Krazy Kat?
  2. Did you write a song where the devil advises his son to stay in Hell?
  3. In DC Comics are you currently in a relationship with Chemical King?

Correct on Itzak Perlman and Ilsa. Merwyn Bogue performed under the name “Ish Kabibble”.

DQ: European?

IQs:

  1. Were you - supposedly - the real-life inspiration for the above-mentioned Ilsa?
  2. Were you a tennis player who in 1972 was the first athlete to sign an endorsement deal with Nike, and later ran for mayor of Bucharest?
  3. Did Lady LeJean rent you (from your clacks address “yethmathter@uberwald”) and send you to assist Jeremy Clockson in Thief of Time?

I am not Itchy, I am not Irving Berlin, and dunno.

(I think I got swept!)

Dunno, I am not Ilie Nastase, and dunno.

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.

#1 was Ignatz.
#2 was, indeed, Irving Berlin.
#3 is Invisible Kid.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for business?

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.
  8. Living.
  9. Not known for business.

IQs:

  1. Were you married to David Bowie?
  2. Were you a regular comic on Your Show of Shows?
  3. Did you star in Alien From LA, which is best viewed as an episode of MST3K?

Correct on Nastase. 1 was Ilse Koch, she of the human-skin lampshades, who was married to the commandant of Buchenwald. 3 was Igor, Terry Prachett’s take on the traditional mad scientist’s assistant.

DQ: Known for a crime or crimes?

One DQ reserved.

I am not Imam, I am not Irwin Corey, and I am not Kathy Ireland.

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.
  8. Living.
  9. Not known for business.
  10. Not known for a crime or crimes.

IQs:

  1. Were you Persis Khambatta’s most famous role?
  2. Did you have Skeeve’s master killed in Another Fine Myth?
  3. Did you play Gretchen Kraus on Benson?

I am not Lt. Ilia, nor am I Isstvan, nor am I Inga Swenson.

#1. Correct on Iman.
#2 was Imogene Coca, and not the world’s foremost authority.
#3 is correct.

DQ: Born before 1970?

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.
  8. Living.
  9. Not known for business.
  10. Not known for a crime or crimes.
  11. Born after 1970.

Previous IQs:

Did your nursemaid supposedly introduce you, as an infant, to George Washington? - Washington Irving
Did you take a ring you really should have thrown into a volcano? - Yes, Isildur, Elendil’s first heir
Were you Sid Caesar’s comedic coconspirator? - Yes, Imogene Coca

DQ:

From the British Isles?

IQs:

Is the current Pope the only one who served in the order you established?
Did Agamemnon very reluctantly sacrifice you, his daughter?
Did you play a former burglar, a science officer, a conniving restaurateur and an overcautious bureaucrat?

Dunno, I am not Iphgenia (I repeat, I think), and I am not… Eric Idle?

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.
  8. Living.
  9. Not known for business.
  10. Not known for a crime or crimes.
  11. Born after 1970.
  12. Not from the British Isles.

Previous IQs:

Is the current Pope the only one who served in the order you established? - Ignatius Loyola established the Society of Jesus or Jesuits
Did Agamemnon very reluctantly sacrifice you, his daughter? - Yes, Iphigenia
Did you play a former burglar, a science officer, a conniving restaurateur and an overcautious bureaucrat? - Ian Holm, in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Alien, Big Night and Brazil

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Did you write about The Culture?
Did you share a bed one night with Queequeg?
Did you celebrate wildlife but one time just got too damn close to it?

IQs:

  1. Did you fake Howard Hughes’s autobiography?
  2. Were you Stephen Spielberg’s first wife?
  3. Did the media fixate on the number of shoes you had in the 1980’s?

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.
  8. Living.
  9. Not known for business.
  10. Not known for a crime or crimes.
  11. Born after 1970.
  12. Not from the British Isles.
  13. Born west of Vienna.
  14. Born south of Vienna.