Botticelli - March 2026

OK, I’ll take a crack.

Are you Damien… Thorn?

Yes! I am… DAMIEN THORN! Otherwise known as “The Omen!”

Good job SunUp!

I didn’t know how to answer this: Damien is a central character (he is The Omen, after all), but Gregory Peck had more screen time as well as top billing. Which one qualifies as the main character?

Damien, I would say.

Damien is the main character, and the one who appeared in later versions. Good job, SunUp!

Thanks for the input!

Glad I remembered the last name right!

OK, next one up: I am

K

Let’s hear your IQs!

IQs:

  1. Are you a Scottish privateer?
  2. Are you a 2011 NBA champion?
  3. Did you headline an alternative Super Bowl halftime show?

IQ1: Did you write The Duck-Footed Hound?
IQ2: Did your boat sink after being rammed by Amagiri?
IQ3: Were you one of the people killed in that collision?

IQs

  1. Did you play Captain Kangaroo on TV?
  2. Did you create Pogo?
  3. Did you write Critique of Pure Reason?

Congrats, SunUp!

IQs:
1. Did you write a letter from a Birmingham jail?
2. Did you voice Alice on Dilbert?
3. Did you foil the Wet Bandits?

I am not Captain Kidd.
I am not Jason Kidd.
I am not Kid[d] Rock.

Take a DQ.
I am not John F. Kennedy.
Take another DQ.

I am not Bob Keesham.
I am not Walt Kelly.
I am not Immanuel Kant.

I am not Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take a DQ.
I am not Kevin… Arnold? No, that was the Wonder Years kid, but the real last name isn’t coming to me now. Take another DQ.

2 was Kathy Griffin; 3 was Kevin McCallister (and I don’t get a DQ, because you got the name beginning with “K”.)

DQ: real?

K

  1. Real

Good job, SunUp!

K it is.

IQs:

Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?
Were you the (fictional) senior sergeant of the 20th Maine?
According to Doonesbury, was your life saved when your surgeon remembered the Hippocratic Oath?

IQs:
1. Did you have the easiest acting job in Uncut Gems, because you were playing yourself?
2. Likewise, are you not a professional actor, but didn’t have to stretch to voice anchorwhale Tom Jumbo-Grumbo on BoJack Horseman?
3. Are you Bruce Wayne’s cousin?

Swept me! Kid(d) x3!

Jim Kjelgaard
correct
Andrew Jackson Kirksey


DQ: Male?
One DQ reserved pending decision on how well-known Kirksey is. (My sister bought ma a book about PT-109 when I was eight or nine, so I’ve known the names of Kirksey and Marney for over sixty years, but YMMV.)

Swept me.

IQs

  1. Were you the Shadow’s real secret identity?
  2. Did Drax and Mantis kidnap you as a Christmas present for Quill?
  3. Did you play Uncle Buck on the TV series?

IQs:

  1. Were you cast as a minor character before having your role substantially expanded in Stranger Things?
  2. Did you play a “sexy” grandmother opposite of Steve Carell?
  3. Did you describe your role in a Steven Spielberg movie as “not much more than a dumb screaming blonde”?