Botticelli May 2015

Don’t know, but we’re at 20.

Are you Major Henry Rathbone, who was sitting with President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater on the night of Lincoln’s assassination?

Yes, I am Major (later Colonel) Henry Rathbone, who was in the President’s box with his fiancee and the Lincolns on the night of the assassination. Very good, astorian!

D’oh! I was thinking of him and his date, Clara Harris, just the other day. Good job, astorian!

Let’s try… the letter G

IQ1: Do you have an inordinate fondness for beetles?
IQ2: Were you J S S P Vereker VC?
IQ3: Did you sing “It’s My Party”?

IQs:

  1. Were you supposed to be sitting in the theater box with Abe & Mary instead of Henry Rathbone and his fiancee?
  2. Did Drew Carey star as you in a disastrous eponymous TV musical?
  3. Did you team up with Bill Buchanan for a series of successful novelty records in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s?

IQ1: Was one of your most famous plays named after a mythic Cypriot figure?
IQ2: Did the French and the Brits try to stop you from nationalizing the Suez Canal?
IQ3: Did you play an Alabaman lawyer who tried to support those who were victims of discrimination and prejudices?

Hey, Welcome back, guylevesque!

IQ1: Were you the father of Henry Curtmantle?
IQ2: Did you lose the Battle of Pharsalus?
IQ3: Do you and your wife both have varieties of tea named after you?

What he said.

IQ1: Did Tom Bombadil capture and marry you?
IQ2: Are you the Drúedain chief who led Théoden and his troops to Minas Tirith?
IQ3: Did Legolas take your place in the animated version of Lord of the Rings, and Arwen take your place in the live-action version?

Not God or Leslie GOre
Take a DQ for 2

Not Dickie Goodman.

Take a DQ for 1 and 2

Take a DQ for 1

Not Gamal Abdel Nasser or Gregory Peck

Not Earl Grey.

Take DQs for 1 and 2

Not GOldberry

Take DQs for 2 and 3

Correct.
Field Marshal the Viscount Gort (normally referred to simply as Field Marshal Lord Gort).
Correct.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Was a fellow with green teeth accused of having voted for you for president?
IQ2: Were you the most famous man to come from Gath?
IQ3: Were you the crewman aboard Jonas Grumby’s boat?

IQs:

Were you buried in your wife’s hometown of Troy, N.Y.?
Were you a Marine aviator, now noted for something else, whose wife’s name is Annie?
Were you a Swiss-born early American financier?

  1. Geoffrey Plantagenet, who gave his name to the English royal house.
  2. Gnaeus Pompeius, or Pompey the Great, whose loss to Caesar at Pharsalus forced him to flee to Egypt (and to his death).
  3. Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey is correct.

DQ: Male?
DQ: American?