Botticelli -- June 2026

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Yeah, no. I’m stumped.

[SunUp]

With 72 minutes left to go, I am bereft of answers.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

As am I.

[kitap]

Okay, I was Arnold Vosloo.

Best known for the Mummy movies. With any luck he’ll be in the new one.

So, I am S

As in silver, swan and storage.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Yes, I know him. My grandson was a huge fan of the Mummy movies, and I saw them often.

[knoodler]

Was not on my radar. I know the face but not the name.

IQs:

1. Are you behind the FiveThirtyEight website?
2. Did you vie for best hitting record against Ken Griffey, Jr?
3. Were you known publicly as “Soupman” before changing your moniker?

[kitap]

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Are you behind the FiveThirtyEight website?
2. Did you vie for best hitting record against Ken Griffey, Jr?
3. Were you known publicly as “Soupman” before changing your moniker?

Take 3 DQs.Oh, wait. Is #1 Nate Silver?

[SunUp]

S it is. Arnold Vosloo, great choice!

IQs:

1. Are you the commissioner of the NBA?
2. Were you played by Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year?
3. Were you a filthy-mouthed comedian who somehow became a dad on a classic family sitcom?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs

1. Did you always carry the Luck Magnet with you?
2. Did you write The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin?
3. Next month on HBO are you and your friends going to fail to save the universe?

[Eureka]

1. Are you the mother of a (fictional) hockey-playing, pie baking college student?
2. Did you star on the tv show “Step by Step”?
3. Did Stephen Foster write a song about you?

[knoodler]

@kitap

1. [quote=“knoodler, post:206, topic:1030504, full:true”]
   1. Are you behind the FiveThirtyEight website?
   2. Did you vie for best hitting record against Ken Griffey, Jr?
   3. Were you known publicly as “Soupman” before changing your moniker?

Take 3 DQs.Oh, wait. Is #1 Nate Silver?
[/quote]

#1 is indeed Nate Silver. Your example put his name in my head (and it appears, yours as well)
Sammy Sosa (they also competed against Mark MaGwire)
Soupy Sales

DQs:

Real?
Male?

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Did you front a band that had a hit song based on Jayne Mansfield?
2. Were you the Half Blood Prince?
3. Were you and your brother early pioneers in the automotive industry before internal combustion engines took over?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I remember Vosloo well in the Mummy movies, but didn’t know his name. Good one.

On to S!

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his one and only SECSTATE?

[kitap]

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Are you the commissioner of the NBA?
2. Were you played by Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year?
3. Were you a filthy-mouthed comedian who somehow became a dad on a classic family sitcom?

Take 2 DQs and I am not Bob Sarlatte

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Did you always carry the Luck Magnet with you?
2. Did you write The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin?
3. Next month on HBO are you and your friends going to fail to save the universe?

Take 3 DQs

@Eureka

1. Are you the mother of a (fictional) hockey-playing, pie baking college student?
2. Did you star on the tv show “Step by Step”?
3. Did Stephen Foster write a song about you?

Take a DQ, I am not Suzanne Somers, I am not Oh, Susannah

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you front a band that had a hit song based on Jayne Mansfield?
2. Were you the Half Blood Prince?
3. Were you and your brother early pioneers in the automotive industry before internal combustion engines took over?

Take a DQ, I am not Snape and I am not Stanley

@Elendil_s_Heir

On to S!

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his one and only SECSTATE?

Take 3 DQs

[kitap]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@kitap

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Did you always carry the Luck Magnet with you?
2. Did you write The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin?
3. Next month on HBO are you and your friends going to fail to save the universe?

Take 3 DQs

1 was the Shaggy Man of Oz.
2 was Montague Summers.
3 is Stuart from The Big Bang Theory:

3 DQs reserved.

[SunUp]

@kitap

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Are you the commissioner of the NBA?
2. Were you played by Peter O’Toole in My Favorite Year?
3. Were you a filthy-mouthed comedian who somehow became a dad on a classic family sitcom?

Take 2 DQs and I am not Bob Sarlatte

#1 was Adam Silver.
#2 was Alan Swann.
I’m not aware of a sitcom that Sarlatte did; I was thinking of Bob Saget.

Silver, Swan(n) and 5/7 of Storage.

DQs:

First name begins with S?
Known for the arts?

1 DQ reserved??

[kitap]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with S
4. Known for the arts

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs

1. American?
2. Living?
3. Known for the performing arts?

[kitap]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with S
4. Known for the arts
5. American
6. Dead
7. Not known for the performing arts