Botticelli -- June 2026

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@kitap

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Were you a fat, bloated Welsh idiot portrayed by the illustrious Harry Secombe on the highly acclaimed, magenta-scented, all-leather 1950s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
2. Are you aka the Human Torch?
3. Did you tell Rudolph where his folks and Clarice went?

I am not Neddy Seagoon, Johnny Storm or Santa Claus.

Correct, correct, but 3 was Sam the Snowman, voiced by Burl Ives.

1 DQ reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs

1. Did you create Nero Wolfe?
2. Did you write The Odd Couple?
3. Are you a character from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series who shares a name with one of Neptune’s smaller moons?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Died after 2000?

[kitap]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Did you create Nero Wolfe?
2. Did you write The Odd Couple?
3. Are you a character from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series who shares a name with one of Neptune’s smaller moons?

I am not oh, blast. I can’t remember his name. But I know I am not Neil Simon and take another DQ.

[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
8. Known for prose
9. Not known for the fantasy or sci-fi genres.
10. I’m not sure if you mean the category or fiction vs. Non-fiction. He wrote fiction vs. Non-fiction
11. Died after 1950.
12. Died after 2000.

[SunUp]

DQ: Known for genre (as opposed to literary) fiction?

[knoodler]

@kitap

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you play Brad Pitt’s character’s handler in Bullet Train?
2. Did you play Bunny in a spoof of Pulp Fiction?
3. Did you play an educator in The Princess Diaries?

Take 3 DQs

Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Oh

Sandra x3!

DQ: Work(s) have been adapted for movies or TV?

2 DQs reserved

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@kitap

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs

1. Did you create Nero Wolfe?
2. Did you write The Odd Couple?
3. Are you a character from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series who shares a name with one of Neptune’s smaller moons?

I am not oh, blast. I can’t remember his name. But I know I am not Neil Simon and take another DQ.

1 was Rex Stout.
2 is correct.
3 is Samantha.

2 DQs reserved.

[Eureka]

@Eureka

1. Are you a writer probably best known for a documentary on the Civil War,?
2. Did you write Where the Sidewalk Ends?
3. Were you the bride in a wedding where the Grooms cake was shaped like an armadillo (and made from red velvet cake)?

@kitap

I am not Shelby Foote, Shel Silverstein and take a DQ.

#3 was Shelby from Steel Magnolias (her mother was played by Sally Field, to tie into that other set)

Shel(by) X3

2 DQs reserved

[Eureka]

Born after 1970?

1 DQ reserved

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron
Were you his second? - Edwin Stanton
Were you his one and only SECSTATE? - William H. Seward

DQs:

Greatest fame before 1990?
Won a Pulitzer?
Had work appear in The New Yorker?

IQs:

Did you write Darkness Visible?
Did you write The Last Emperox?
Did your character fire Ryan Gosling’s in La La Land?

[kitap]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you write Darkness Visible?
Did you write The Last Emperox?
Did your character fire Ryan Gosling’s in La La Land?

Definitely take 3 DQs

[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
8. Known for prose
9. Not known for the fantasy or sci-fi genres.
10. I’m not sure if you mean the category or fiction vs. Non-fiction. He wrote fiction vs. Non-fiction
11. Died after 1950.
12. Died after 2000.
13. Known for genre fiction
14. Works have been adapted for both movies and TV.
15. Born before 1970
16. Greatest fame before 1990
17. Has not won a Pulitzer.
18. Work has not appeared in The New Yorker.

All right, no more IQs, please.

Please ask all DQs by noon Pacific Time on Saturday

[Eureka]

Do you write Horror?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Last name starts with Sa - Sn?
2. Known for books for children or young adults?

[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
8. Known for prose
9. Not known for the fantasy or sci-fi genres.
10. I’m not sure if you mean the category or fiction vs. Non-fiction. He wrote fiction vs. Non-fiction
11. Died after 1950.
12. Died after 2000.
13. Known for genre fiction
14. Works have been adapted for both movies and TV.
15. Born before 1970
16. Greatest fame before 1990
17. Has not won a Pulitzer.
18. Work has not appeared in The New Yorker.
19. Did not write horror
20. Last name does not start with Sa-Sn
21. Not known for writing for children or Young Adults.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you write Darkness Visible? - William Styron
Did you write The Last Emperox? - John Scalzi
Did your character fire Ryan Gosling’s in La La Land? - J.K. Simmons, at his brusque best

DQ:

Best known for crime fiction?

Two DQs reserved.

[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
8. Known for prose
9. Not known for the fantasy or sci-fi genres.
10. I’m not sure if you mean the category or fiction vs. Non-fiction. He wrote fiction vs. Non-fiction
11. Died after 1950.
12. Died after 2000.
13. Known for genre fiction
14. Works have been adapted for both movies and TV.
15. Born before 1970
16. Greatest fame before 1990
17. Has not won a Pulitzer.
18. Work has not appeared in The New Yorker.
19. Did not write horror
20. Last name does not start with Sa-Sn
21. Not known for writing for children or Young Adults.
22. Bestknown for crime fiction

[knoodler]

DQ: Did you play your fictional detective in a movie?

1 DQ reserved

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

I think knoodler’s dropped the Hammer on this one.