Botticelli - June 2024

IQs:

  1. During the late 18th Century did you accompany America’s Russian ambassador to be his translator?

  2. Did you have a hit with the song Rehab?

  3. Did you play Endora on Bewitched?

  1. Are you the hero of one of the two arguably best-known tales from The Arabian Nights?
  2. Are you the hero of the other?
  3. Were you musically enjoined to retrieve your firearm?

Not John Quincy Adams, dunno, and not Agnes Moorhead (sp?).

Dunno, dunno and not Annie Oakley.

A.

  1. real
  2. male

Correct on John Quincy Adams.
#2 was Amy Winehouse.
Correct on Agnes Moorehead.

DQ: Last name starts with A?

IQs:

  1. Were you the first king of the Visigoths?
  2. Did you suffer from nephritis while POTUS?
  3. Were you Mickey Rooney’s first wife?

IQs:

  1. Did you voice Joy in the Inside Out movies?
  2. Did you act alongside Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s?
  3. Were you a World War II correspondent whose 60 Minutes segments replaced “Point/Counterpoint”?

Not Alaric, Andrew Jackson or Anne Rooney.

Not Amy Poehler, Audrey Hepburn (le sigh) or Andy Rooney.

#1 is correct.
#2 was Chester A. Arthur.
#3 was Ava Gardner.

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. Living?

The first two, which I would have taken in either order, are Aladdin and Ali Baba (from Ali Baba and the Fourty Thieves). Correct on Annie Oakley.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for politics/military?

IQs:

  1. Are you a Phoenician goddess of fertility, possibly the consort of Yahweh in early Hebrew religion?
  2. Are you the founder and eponym of one of the best-known of the “Big Five” accounting firms, that collapsed in the wake of the Enron scandal?
  3. Were you Muhammed’s youngest wife, who became an important leader and teacher in the early Muslim community?

Richard Armour, correct and Amy.

2 DQs held

Dunno, not Arthur Anderson and not Alyssa.

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with A
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. dead
  6. known for politics/military

SMV, take another DQ.

Ah, swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you command the 20th Maine before Joshua Chamberlain?
  2. Did you patent an invention for buoying vessels over shoals in a river?
  3. Was your death in battle considered by your president to be “the turning point of our fate”?

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Caucasian?

IQs:

  1. Did you write, among other books, The Ship Who Sang?
  2. Did you write, among other books, Forerunner Foray?
  3. Do you host the US version of Lego Masters?

IQs:

  1. Are you Charley’s love interest in Where’s Charley?
  2. Were you the receptionist for the Blue Moon Detective Agency in Moonlighting?
  3. Were you a presidential candidate known as “the Happy Warrior”?

1 was Astarte/Ashtoreth, also called Ishtar. Correct on Arthur Andersen. 3 was A’isha.

DQs:

  1. Military officer?
  2. Born before 1900 CE?
  3. Last name begins “A” - “M”?

IQs:

  1. Were you the child of Satan, destined to be the Antichrist and bring about Armageddon, but because of a clerical mix-up at your birth were raised by a middle-class family in rural England?
  2. Were you right, it was a trap?
  3. Was your biggest hit a song called “Criminal”?

Not Adelbert Ames, not Abraham Lincoln and dunno.

Not Anne McCaffrey (sp?), dunno and dunno.

Not Annabel, Adelaide or Adlai Stevenson.

Not Adamien Athorne, not Admiral Akbar and dunno.

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with A
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. dead
  6. known for politics/military
  7. American
  8. Caucasian
  9. military officer, among other things
  10. born before 1900 CE
  11. last name begins “A” - “M”

Correct on #s 1 & 2; #3 was Albert Sidney Johnston, one of the few men (along with Braxton Bragg) that Jefferson Davis could never find fault with.

DQ: Born before 1800?

IQs:

  1. Did you get the Medal of Honor for bravery in attacking Missionary Ridge?
  2. Did you survive a famous duel with a former Treasury Secretary?
  3. Did you survive a slightly less-famous duel with a man who insulted your wife?