Botticelli May 2015

Good job, SCAdian!

Chick Gandil

Congrats SCAdian!

Only reason I knew about Gregor was because we read Die Verwandlung in my third-year German class, long, long ago back in high school.

I don’t think we’ve done ‘F’ recently, so … I am F

When in doubt, check the list: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

IQs:

Did your palace have a French name, even though you weren’t French?
Do many people credit you with the invention of television?
Did your parents have the same names as a kind of tree and a figure from Jewish mythos?

IQ1) Did you almost drown while doing the swimming race on the ABC TV sports show “The Superstars”?

IQ2) Was Tom Hanks’ character in “A League of Their Own” based on you, a real-life major league slugger and alcoholic?

IQ3) Did you get in a heap of trouble for making fried chicken and watermelon jokes about Tiger Woods?

IQs:

  1. Were you “the bull with the delicate ego”?
  2. Did you play Peter Parker’s best friend in the first Spider-Man movie trilogy?
  3. Did you make your debut in the pages of Not Brand Ecch! comics?

IQ1: Are you a dwarf from Norse myth whose greed and avarice eventually transformed you into a dragon?
IQ2: Are you a gigantic wolf of Norse myth who bit off the right hand of Tyr when the gods tried to bind you?
IQ3: Are you a Norse fertility god, fated to be slain by Surtr at Ragnarök?

I did check the list, but it hasn’t been updated for a few weeks - and I forgot that I just did an ‘F’ myself a couple weeks ago. :smack:

Not Frederick the Great.
DQ.
DQ.

Three DQs.

Not Ferdinand.
DQ.
Not Forbush-Man.

Not Fafnir, Fenris, or Frey.

IQ1. Did you create Fallingwater?
IQ2. Did you give your name to a word meaning “senselesslly, surreally complex”?
IQ3. Did you name yourself after a car, thereby confusing trans-Atlantic audiences?

Correct, James Franco, correct.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Did you play Charlie on Charlie’s Angels?
  2. Did you play Sgt. O’Rourke on F Troop?
  3. Were you a jewel thief who occasionally helped out Father Brown?

Not Frank Lloyd Wright.
Not Franz Kafka.
DQ.

Three DQs.

F

  1. Real

Previous IQs:

Did your palace have a French name, even though you weren’t French? - Yes, Frederick the Great of Prussia, whose palace was Sanssouci.
Do many people credit you with the invention of television? - Elon Farnsworth.
Did your parents have the same names as a kind of tree and a figure from Jewish mythos? - Frederick Crane, son of Frasier and Lilith Crane.

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with F?

IQs:

Did you see your guests killed at the Red Wedding?
Have you played an aircraft engineer, a rape victim and an FBI special agent?
Did you joke that your dog was mad about partisan attacks on you?

IQ1: Are you a rock bassist who played a nihilist in a Coen Brothers movie?
IQ2: Were you once mistaken for Iseek of the Jug?
IQ3: Did Patty Hearst claim you were drunk when defending her in court?

#1 was John Forsythe (whose voice was heard on the phone, but was never seen).
#2 was Forrest Tucker.
#3 was Flambeau, in the stories by G. K. Chesterton.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. American?
  3. Known for the Arts?

IQs:

  1. Did you star in Mutiny on the Bounty along with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable?
  2. Did you direct The Wizard of Oz?
  3. Did you circumnavigate the globe?

Three DQs.

DQ.
If you mean Issek of the Jug, I am not Fafhrd. Otherwise, DQ.
Not F Lee Bailey - though I almost was! :slight_smile:

DQ.
DQ.
Not Sir Francis Chichester.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with F
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts

#1 was Franchot Tone. #2 was Victor Fleming. #3 is correct, though I had in mind Ferdinand Magellan.

DQs:

  1. Born after 1900?
  2. Known for politics/military?

IQs:

  1. Are you the eponymous heroine in a novel by Christopher Morley?
  2. Did you provide the voice for Mulan’s grandmother in Mulan?
  3. Did Tim Curry play you in the Rocky Horror Picture Show?