Botticelli March 2023

Chock is on the right trolley track.

Are you Lady Elaine Fairchild?

Whew! I was beginning to think nobody else’s kids watched Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.

Yes! I am

Lady Elaine Fairchilde

an honest, if mischief-making puppet.

Take it away, De_La_Rue!

Ah, I’d forgotten her. Good one, and well done, DLR.

I may have watched Mr Rogers once or twice…

OK:
I am T.

IQs:

Did a noted fictional officer get your name as his middle name?
Did a noted real officer get your name as his middle name?
Was Elessar the first head of this royal house?

IQs:

  1. Did you gain fame by starring on The A-Team?
  2. Are you one of the dead Monkees?
  3. Did you write Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me?

Respectively:
I am not Tiberius.
I am not Tecumseh.
Take a DQ (is this a person?).

1. I am not Mr.T.
2. I am not Peter Tork.
3. I am not Augustus Toplady.

Well done De-La_Rue

IQ’s

  1. Are you one of two french detectives who were identical in appearance and homo-phonically.
  2. Are you the other one.
  3. Are you their friend the young world traveling reporter?

Swept me! I have to get new material.

IQs:

  1. Did you write the short story The Night The Bed Fell In?
  2. Did you propose to Miss Vikki on TV?
  3. In the movie Field of Dreams, did the other ball players refuse to let you play with them?

1. I am not Thomson.
2. I am not Thompson.
3. I am not Tintin.

1. I am not James Thurber?
2. I am not Tiny Tim.
3. I am not Ty Cobb?

All correct.
IQs:

  1. Were you an early innovator in electronic music, making futuristic arrangements of classical music pieces for synthesizer.
  2. Did you author three trilogies set in the world of the true game?
  3. Were you a young adventurer in the early 20th century who gave his name to a type of pun.

IQ1: Were we exhorted to give you the ball and just look at you go?
IQ2: Are you #1 under a different name?
IQ3: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter?

Swept again!

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Black Horse And The Cherry Tree?
  2. Were you a stereotypical Irish character on the radio series The Fred Allen Show?
  3. Did you play Toto in the 1939 The Wizard of Oz?

Nitpick: Belgian detectives
.

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. “I am not Tom Swift,” said De La Rue slowly.

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Thompson.

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Terry.

Nitpick of a nitpick: certainly Tintin and Haddock are Belgian, but I don’t believe Thompson and Thomson are ever confirmed to be.

Mr Touchdown
Mr Team
correct


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

#1 is K. T. Tunstall.
#2 was Titus Moody.
Correct on Terry.

DQ: Last name starts with T?

1 DQ reserved.

  1. Isao Tomita
  2. Sheri S. Tepper
  3. Correct

2 DQ’s reserved pending answers to previous DQs.