Botticelli - June 2024

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

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”?

Not Annabel, Adelaide or Adlai Stevenson.

1. Everybody sing! Once in love with Amy, always in love with Amy,…
   2 was Miss Agnes DePesto.
   3 was Alfred E. Smith.

DQ:
Elected official?

2 DQs reserved.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

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 Adamien Athorne, not Admiral Akbar and dunno.

1 is Adam Young, from Pratchett and Gaiman’s Good Omens. Correct on 2. 3 is Fiona Apple.

DQs: Served in American Civil War?
1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

1. Did you play a German World War II soldier whose catchphrase was “Verrry interesting”?
2. Were you a U.S. Army lieutenant general with almost identical first and last names?
3. Did you play a fairytale princess come to life, and later a linguist attempting to decipher an alien language?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@SunUp

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?

Not Arthur MacArthur (dad of Douglas), Aaron Burr or Andrew Jackson.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Did you play a German World War II soldier whose catchphrase was “Verrry interesting”?
2. Were you a U.S. Army lieutenant general with almost identical first and last names?
3. Did you play a fairytale princess come to life, and later a linguist attempting to decipher an alien language?

Not Artie, also not Arthur MacArthur, and not Amy Adams (in Enchanted and Arrival, both good flicks IMHO).

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”
12. born after 1800
13. elected official, among other things
14. served in American Civil War

[SunUp]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@SunUp

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?

Not Arthur MacArthur (dad of Douglas), Aaron Burr or Andrew Jackson.

Ah, swept me. (I think that’s going to be happening a lot now).

IQs:

1. Did you write The Devil’s Dictionary?
2. Could you have been thought of as the first Enterprise security crewman, given your mode of dress in battle and failure to survive the Civil War?
3. Is your last name an anagram of your most prominent facial hair feature?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ:

1. Served in the military as a Yankee?
2. Elected to federal office?

IQs:

1. Did you legendarily invent baseball?
2. Did you assist James West on TV?
3. Did Roger Miller voice you in a Disney cartoon movie?

[kitap]

@kitap

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?

Correct, Andre Norton, Will Arnett.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Did you play a German World War II soldier whose catchphrase was “Verrry interesting”?
2. Were you a U.S. Army lieutenant general with almost identical first and last names?
3. Did you play a fairytale princess come to life, and later a linguist attempting to decipher an alien language?

Not Artie, also not Arthur MacArthur, and not Amy Adams (in Enchanted and Arrival, both good flicks IMHO).

Swept me! And frankly, I’m astounded to realize that Douglas MacArthur was the son of a Civil War veteran. 1 was Arte Johnson, for the record.

IQs:

1. Did you play a character known for doing something this one time at band camp?
2. When people think of you, do they associate you with lesbianism, poetry, and pot brownies?
3. Did you write The Delta of Venus?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@SunUp

…
3. Is your last name an anagram of your most prominent facial hair feature?

Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed

Ambrose Burnside

A none-too-impressive Civil War general and later Rhode Island politician whose facial hair is thought to have inspired the word “sideburns”: Ambrose Burnside - Wikipedia

Well done, SunUp!

[SunUp]

Thank you!

#s 1 & 2 were, respectively, Ambrose Bierce and Ambrose Powell “A.P.” Hill.

Ambrose x 3 (and all Civil War officers)!

On to the next round: I am

O

I promise this will be easier than last time!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun?
Did you head the Freedmen’s Bureau and later have a college named after you?
Were you one of Drew Carey’s Cleveland sitcom buddies?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Nicely done, SunUp!

IQs:

1. Were you the 44th POTUS?
2. Did you write The Iceman Cometh?
3. Did you play the villain in The Fifth Element?

[SunUp]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun?
Did you head the Freedmen’s Bureau and later have a college named after you?
Were you one of Drew Carey’s Cleveland sitcom buddies?

Don’t know, I am not Oliver Otis Howard, and I am not… Otto?

Take a DQ.

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you the 44th POTUS?
2. Did you write The Iceman Cometh?
3. Did you play the villain in The Fifth Element?

I am not Barak Obama, I am not Eugene O’Neil, and I am not Gary Oldman.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Swept me. (It’s “Barack”, btw.)

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphoses and The Art of Love?
2. Are you an obsequious courtier in Hamlet?
3. Were you “the Queen of the Golden West”?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

Good guess, Sunup! I was vaguely wondering if the answer was “Abraham Lincoln”, knowing EH’s affinity for the Civil War.

IQs:

1. Did you once suggest to Dustin Hoffman that he try “acting, dear boy, it’s much easier”?
2. Did you once have the title “Lord Protector” of your country?
3. Are you both a Shakespearian character and a board game?

Just for the record, the answers to my last set of IQs were Alyson Hannigan, Alice B. Toklas, and Anäis Nin.

[SunUp]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphoses and The Art of Love?
2. Are you an obsequious courtier in Hamlet?
3. Were you “the Queen of the Golden West”?

I am not Ovid.
I am not… dang it, I was thinking of Polonius. Take a DQ.
I am not Annie Oakley.

[SunUp]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Did you once suggest to Dustin Hoffman that he try “acting, dear boy, it’s much easier”?
2. Did you once have the title “Lord Protector” of your country?
3. Are you both a Shakespearian character and a board game?

I am not Sir Laurence Olivier.
I am not Oliver Cromwell.
I am not Othello.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun? - Olorin* AKA Mithrandir AKA Gandalf
Did you head the Freedmen’s Bureau and later have a college named after you? - Yes, Gen. Oliver O. Howard
Were you one of Drew Carey’s Cleveland sitcom buddies? - Not Otto, but Oswald

DQs:

Male?
Fictional?

IQs:

Did you supposedly say, “Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never see either made”?
Were you a fictional South African minister of justice?
Did your head turn entirely around when you got excited?

*And see: We Need Your Votes!! in the Anthology Thread of the February 2012 SDMB Poetry Sweatshop! - #3 by Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Oops, sorry - use this link instead: We Need Your Votes!! in the Anthology Thread of the February 2012 SDMB Poetry Sweatshop! - #4 by Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SunUp

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write Metamorphoses and The Art of Love?
2. Are you an obsequious courtier in Hamlet?
3. Were you “the Queen of the Golden West”?

I am not Ovid.
I am not… dang it, I was thinking of Polonius. Take a DQ.
I am not Annie Oakley.

Correct, Osric, Correct.

1 DQ reserved.

[SunUp]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did you supposedly say, “Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never see either made”?
Were you a fictional South African minister of justice?
Did your head turn entirely around when you got excited?

Swept me. Take 3 DQs.