Botticelli, June 2025

Michael Jordan.
Michael Jackson.
Mary Jane Watson.

MJ x 3!

DQ: Last name begins with M?

2 DQs reserved.

correct
James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree, from the poem by A A Milne
Matthew

Two DQs reserved.

DQ:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not begin with M.

IQs:

  1. Are you a villainous magician in Ojo in Oz?
  2. Did you create the Metal Men?
  3. Did you order that a train not depart from its station on time so that you could paint its smoke?

IQs:

  1. Did Scott Baio play you in a gangster movie spoof?
  2. Are you an all-star NBA player who “always delivered?”
  3. Did you play Dr Ellie Arroway in Contact?

DQs:

Known from prose fiction?
American creator?

Take 3 DQs and clearly it’s time to reread the Oz books.

I am not Bugsy Malone, I am not Karl Malone and I am not Jena Malone.

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not begin with M.
  4. Not known from prose fiction.
  5. American creator.

Swept me! Malone x3!

IQs:

  1. Are you a fictional elderly spinster who is also a consulting detective?
  2. Did Elsa Lanchester portray a parodied version of the above in a comedy/spoof detective movie?
  3. Are you a dirty old man who sleeps in a hole in the road?

IQs:

  1. Did you aid the protagonist in Niven and Pournelle’s Inferno?
  2. Did you found the Foursquare Church?
  3. Did you appear as an ethereal “angel” in a Star Trek: TOS episode?

DQ1: American character?
DQ2: Known from movies/TV?

#1 was the malevolent Mooj.
#2 was Dr. Will Magnus.
#3 was Claude Monet, the Archimpressionist.

DQ: Created after 1980?

2 DQs reserved.

Nitpick: Jodie Foster played Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact; Jena Malone played her as a pre-doctorate little girl.

IQs:

Did you, in an Irish-American folk song from the Civil War, share your opinions on various matters?
Did the Germans essentially just drive around elaborate fortifications named after you?
Were you AKA Olorin and Tharkun?

I am not Jane Marple, take a DQ and take another.

Take 2 DQs and I am not Melvin Belli

Take a DQ, I am not Maginot and take a DQ.

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not begin with M.
  4. Not known from prose fiction.
  5. American creator.
  6. American
  7. Not known from movies/TV
  8. Created in 1980

The others were Benito Mussolini and Aimee Semple McPherson, respectively.

DQs:

From a song?
Last name starts with A-L?

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not begin with M.
  4. Not known from prose fiction.
  5. American creator.
  6. American
  7. Not known from movies/TV
  8. Created in 1980
  9. Not from a song
  10. Last name starts with A-L.
  1. Correct
  2. Miss Jessica Marbles, Murder By Death
  3. Mean Mister Mustard

DQ: Known from stage?

1 DQ reserved

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not begin with M.
  4. Not known from prose fiction.
  5. American creator.
  6. American
  7. Not known from movies/TV
  8. Created in 1980
  9. Not from a song
  10. Last name starts with A-L.
  11. Not from the stage.