Botticelli - May 2014

IQ1: Are you infamous for misspelling a type of tuber?
IQ2: Has your name been adopted as a synonym for collaborator?
IQ3: Are you the only composer other than John Williams to score a Steven Spielberg feature film?

Not John Quincy Adams, Don Quixote or… dunno.

Not Don Quixote, dunno and dunno.

Not Quayle, Quisling or… dunno this, either.

Correct on Adams. Quixote had a horse, as SCAdian mentioned. His sidekick was Sancho Panza. No, Quick-Draw McGraw had a burro for a sidekick, name of Baba Louie. Queen Latifah played Mama in Chicago.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

IQs:

  1. Did you have a dog named Bandit?
  2. Is your secret identity Vic Sage?
  3. Are you a Mesoamerican deity whose name means “feathered serpent”?

IQs
1, Did Bob Dylan write a song about you that was sung my Manfred Mann?
2. Are you a nobleman that a set of boxing rules was named after?
3. Are you a British dandy portrayed on film by John Hurt?

Not Jonny Quest, dunno, and not Quetzalcoatl.

Dunno, not the Marquess of Queensbury, and dunno.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 is The Question (DC Comics).

DQ: From the movies?

IQs:

  1. Did you occasionally show up to bother Jean-Luc Picard?
  2. Are you secretly Green Arrow?
  3. Were you a Confederate guerrilla leader in the Civil War?
  1. The Mighty Quinn
  2. Quentin Crisp

DQs

  1. Did H. Rider Haggard write about you?
  2. Did your story take place in the 19th century?

Not Q, Oliver Queen or Quantrill.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century

IQs:

  1. Are you a dragon from The Giant Horse of Oz?
  2. Did you have a hit with Stumblin’ In?
  3. Are you best remembered for your Oxford Book of English Verse?

Quincy Jones scored The Color Purple.

DQ: Last name starts with Q?

IQ1: Are you the head of the British Experimental Rocket Group?
IQ2: Are you a cannibal that is an expert with a harpoon?
IQ3: Are you the subject of the Sting song Englishman in New York?

  1. Are you a detective whose name is the pen name of the two cousins who author you?

  2. Are you a coma victim who had to wait through a year of legal battles before getting your respirator removed, then survived another nine years?

  3. Dang it Chock, you beat me to my question!

  1. Are you known for saying “Giggity”?

Yeesh. Dunno any of these!

Dunno the first or the third; not Queequeg.

Not Ellery Queen or Karen Ann Quinlan.

Not Glenn Quagmire.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q

Yeah, the more difficult letters lead to more obscure questions.
#1 is Quiberon. #2 is Suzi Quatro. #3 is Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

DQs:

  1. From literature?
  2. Set in the 20th Century?
  3. Protagonist?

1: British sci-fi hero Bernard Quartermass, often cited as an influence on Dr Who.
2: Correct on Queequeg
3: Quentin Crisp, who I somehow missed was already asked by Knowed Out, so no DQ for me for that one.

I’ll hold my one DQ until I see answers to some of the other DQs.

IQ1: Did you grant Esmerelda sanctuary?
IQ2: Were you a Patrician of Ankh-Morpork who was killed because you wanted all metaphors to be literal?
IQ3: Are you an elf from the 1985 Atari arcade game Gauntlet?

Dunno any of these three, either.

Q.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not from the movies, although I have been a movie character
  4. H. Rider Haggard did not write about me
  5. story did not take place in the 19th century
  6. last name starts with Q
  7. from literature
  8. set in the 20th century
  9. not the protagonist

IQs:

  1. Were you a Scottish archer in a novel by Sir Walter Scott?
  2. Were you a mysterious detective in short stories by Agatha Christie?
  3. Were you at one point editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics?