Botticelli - March 2015

Previous IQs:

Were you a sf editor who gave his name to a publishing house? - Lester Del Rey
Did your brother Thomas serve with you but later become an alcoholic? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, hero of Gettysburg
Did you run simultaneously for two Federal offices in 1988, as permitted by state law? - Yes, Lloyd Bentsen

DQs:

Irish?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Did you like to hang around Nighttown, in a book many people can’t get through?
Were you a barechested, tattooed prisoner in The Grand Budapest Hotel?
Have you been nominated to be Attorney General of the United States?

Take 3 DQs

Yes, I’m Irish. Yes, I’m a reasonably good guy. And more importantly…

YESSS, I am LEOPOLD BLOOM, Irish-Jewish protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses!
Elendil must have been carrying his lucky potato today.

Way to go, EH!

Thanks! A good Botticelli person, and good hints. Nicely done, astorian.

I’ll start the next round tomorrow, most likely.

My other IQs:

Were you a barechested, tattooed prisoner in The Grand Budapest Hotel? - Ludwig (Harvey Keitel): http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gbYkGiuI_ZU/maxresdefault.jpg
Have you been nominated to be Attorney General of the United States? - Loretta Lynch

OK, our next letter is

E.

Have at it!

IQs:

  1. Did you manage New York’s Winter Garden Theater?
  2. Were you a 20th century Russian-French artist and designer known best by your pseudonym?
  3. Is one of your best known prints titled Relativity?

IQ1: Are you the first High King of Arnor and Gondor?
IQ2: Are you the second High King of the Reunited Kingdom?
IQ3: Does your name mean “Star-spray” in Sindarin?

IQ1: Are you known for paintings of ballerinas?
IQ2: Were you governor of the Bahamas during most of WW II?
IQ3: Did you write Ronnie Milsap’s #1 hit “Pure Love”?

Dunno, not Erte, and not Escher.

Definitely not Elendil the Tall of blessed memory, Eldarion or Earendil.

Not Edouard Degas, Prince Edward the Duke of Windsor, and dunno.

Correct on 2 and 3. #1 was actor Edwin Booth, he of the notorious brother.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Hoosier Schoolmaster?
  2. Did you play Chief Screaming Chicken on Batman?
  3. Are you aka John Whorfin?

Edgar Degas, but close enough.
Correct.
Eddie Rabbitt.
DQ: Female?
IQ1: Did you succeed Aethelred the Unready as king of England?
IQ2: Did you, your siste, and your cousin visit the Dufflepuds?
IQ3: Were you that cousin?

IQ1: Are you a TV host who “crosses over” to answer audience questions?
!Q2: Are you a former NC Senator and VP candidate who escaped 5 counts of violating campaign contribution laws to cover up an extramarital affair?
IQ3: Did you report on Monck Mason’s trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon?

IQ1) Did you head the Senate’s committee investigating the Watergate scandal?

IQ2) Did you and your band burn the American flag on stage at the Royal Albert Hall while playing “America” from West Side Story?

IQ3) Were you both a real-life political figure and the primary character in William F. Buckley’s (fictional) spy novel See You Later, Alligator?

Dunno, dunno, and not Dr. Emilio “Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!” Lizardo.

Not Edwin, dunno and dunno.

Not Sen. Sam Ervin, dunno and dunno.

E.

  1. real
  2. male

Correct on #3. You will be duly enshrined in the miserable annals of the earth!

#1 was Edward Eggleston. #2 was Edward Everett Horton.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?

IQs:

  1. Hey, Vern, did you save Christmas?
  2. Are you a mountain man who livened up the lives of the good folks of Mayberry?
  3. Did you record The Star Carol?

Edmund Ironside.
Edmund Pevensie (The Voyage of the Dawn Treader).
“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”
DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: Last name starts with E?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did you write about a Welshman who was a soldier, a sailor, and a Benedictine monk?
IQ2: Are you #1’s real name?
IQ3: Were you a Coast Guard officer who later starred as a millionaire and a detective on TV?

Before founding the rock trio Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Keith Emerson and his previous band, the Nice, burned the US flag on stage at the Royal Albert Hall.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara was the main character of See You Later, Alligator.
Will save my DQs until a few others are answered.