Botticelli - March 2015

Byron “Pack Rat” Williams, Tom Wright

holding 4 DQs

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Best known for the creative arts, allied with the performing arts
  8. Born west of the Mississippi
  9. Last name starts with W
  10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. Well known as a composer/songwriter, among other things

IQ) Did you create Professor Harold Hill?

IQ2) Did you write Art Garfunkel’s only top ten as a solo artist?

IQ3) Did your wife try to give James Bond a deadly kick in the shin?

Yes! I am Meredith Willson. Once again, congrats to astorian!

Okayyy… me again…

Let’s try L.******

Grats, astorian. Been saying that a lot.

IQ1: Are you a crime caper author who wrote “Get Shorty” and “Rum Punch”?
IQ2: Are you a Canadian singer/songwriter who composed the hit “Bird on a Wire”?
IQ3: Were you a friend of Teddy Roosevelt’s who served as military governor of Cuba and governor-general of the Philippines?

IQs:

  1. Were you aka Junker Jorg?
  2. Are you the wife of King Eomer of Rohan?
  3. Are you the lead singer for Storm & the Balls?

IQ1: Was Richard Hauptmann convicted and executed for killing you?
IQ2: Were you the first head of what became the Genovese family?
IQ3: Were you Bugsy Siegel’s partner?

Good job, astorian! I was a long way from guessing him.

Previous IQs:

Were you badly defeated by Congressman David Joyce (R-Ohio) in Nov. 2014? - Michael Wager.
Were you a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Yes, Wayne Brady.
Was Archibald Butt a trusted aide of yours? - President William Howard Taft; Butt was lost when the Titanic sank.

IQs:

Did you run a “grocery” when it meant something different than it does now?
Did an actress have to really bulk up to play you since 1998?
Did you look quite a bit like Leonardo DiCaprio as a young man?

First, I apologize for keeping everyone hanging. I’ve had some family emergencies, and online games haven’t been my top priority.

I’m back to what’s really important now.

Not Elmore Leonard or Leonard Cohen.

Take a DQ for #3

Not Martin Luther.

Take DQs for #2 and 3

Take 3 DQs (I haven’t said that in a while- it’s embarrassing!)

Not the Lindbergh baby (Charles Jr.)
Not Charles “Lucky” Luciano

Take a DQ for #2

Leonard Wood

DQ: Real?

IQ1: Were you allegedly forced to marry your manager Jack Gordon?
IQ2: Have you described yourself as a “gangsta Nancy Sinatra”?
IQ3: Is your real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?

SUMMARY

  1. Fictional

Not LaToya Jackson or Lady Gaga

Take a DQ for #2

Correct.
Correct.
Meyer Lansky.
DQ: Female?
IQ1: Did your son play Clint Eastwood’s partner in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot?
IQ2: Did you write about Orrin, Logan, and Tell?
IQ3: Did the federales say they could have had you any day?

Correct on Luther. #2 is Lothiriel. #3 is chanteuse Storm Large (which, oddly enough, is her actual name).

DQs:

  1. Originally from film or TV?
  2. Last name starts with L?