Botticelli May 2015

Previous IQs:

Did you see your guests killed at the Red Wedding? - Walder Frey, in Game of Thrones.
Have you played an aircraft engineer, a rape victim and an FBI special agent? - Jodie Foster, in *Flightplan, The Accused *and The Silence of the Lambs.
Did you joke that your dog was mad about partisan attacks on you? - FDR: FDR Discusses his Dog Fala - YouTube

DQs:

European?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you Ike’s SecState?
A fictional character, did you give a speech in front of a huge picture of yourself?
Did you found a fictional grand duchy?

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

Heavyweight boxer Joe Frazier couldn’t swim, and sank to the bottom of the pool after diving in.
IQ2) Was Tom Hanks’ character in “A League of Their Own” based on you, a real-life major league slugger and alcoholic?

Hanks played Jimmy Dugan, who was based on Jimmy Foxx
IQ3) Did you get in a heap of trouble for making fried chicken and watermelon jokes about Tiger Woods?

That was Frederick Urban “Fuzzy” Zoeller
Will save my DQs

DQ.
DQ.
Not … Frank N Furter?

Not John Foster Dulles.
DQ.
Not Sir Roger(?) Fenwick.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with F
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not born after 1900
  8. Known (more or less) for politics/military
  9. European

DQ1) Born before 1700?

DQ2) From a country that speaks a Romance language?

DQ3) A member of the royalty or nobility?

Previous IQs:

Were you Ike’s SecState? - Yes, John Foster Dulles.
A fictional character, did you give a speech in front of a huge picture of yourself? - Charles Foster Kane (as with Dulles, his middle name is invariably used, so I think it’s fair play): http://www.haywiremag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CitizenKane3.jpg
Did you found a fictional grand duchy? - Yes, Sir Roger Fenwick from The Mouse That Roared.

DQs:

Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Were you Arthur’s tomboy gal pal?
Were you President Bartlet’s first CJCS?
Were you a noted Irish freedom fighter of the 18th century?

Doubled the wrong letter. Issek is correct.
Flea (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) in The Big Lebowski

holding a DQ

IQ1: Are you Vladimir Harkonnen’s nephew and heir apparent to his schemes?
IQ2: Are you a friend of Emperor Shaddam IV, described as “a killer with the manners of a rabbit … the most dangerous kind?”
IQ3: Did you write about the above characters?

Not Francine.
DQ.
DQ.

DQ.
DQ.
Not Frank Herbert.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with F
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not born after 1900
  8. Known (more or less) for politics/military
  9. European
  10. Not born before 1700
  11. Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  12. Not a member of the royalty or nobility
  13. Best known for a single incident

#1 was Kitty Foyle. #2 was June Foray. Correct on #3.

2 DQs reserved.

IQ1) Did David Niven play you in a movie that won Best Picture?

IQ2) Did you create Yosemite Sam, after concluding that Elmer Fudd was just too dumb to be taken seriously as a foe for Bugs Bunny?

IQ3) Did you make a solo album under the name of a non-existent country band called the Blue Ridge Rangers?

Feyd-Rautha, Hasimir Fenring, correct

DQ: From the UK?
DQ: Born after 1800?

holding a DQ

IQ1: Are you an Olympic track & field runner who married your coach, Bob Kersee?
IQ2: Did you play Carol Brady?
IQ3: Did you achieve fame during the Crimean War, becoming known as “The Lady with the Lamp?”

DQ.
Not … Friz Freleng?
DQ.

DQ.
Not Florence Henderson.
Not Florence Nightingale.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with F
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not born after 1900
  8. Known (more or less) for politics/military
  9. European
  10. Not born before 1700
  11. Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  12. Not a member of the royalty or nobility
  13. Best known for a single incident
  14. From the UK
  15. Not born after 1800

Florence Joyner

holding 2 DQs

IQ1: Do the British commemorate your attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5th?
IQ2: Were you a hero to the English, but a pirate to the Spaniards who called you El Draque?
IQ3: Did you invent the turbo-jet engine?

IQ: Were you Prime Minister of England during the American Revolution?

Not Guy Fawkes.
Not Sir Francis Drake.
DQ (though I really should know this).

Lord North, I think, but I’ve no idea what his name was. DQ.

Correct on Frederick North, Lord North.

DQs:

  1. Common first name?
  2. Did the event occur in the 18th Century?

IQs:

  1. Were you a butler played by Dick van Dyke in a film from the 1960’s?
  2. Have you played a first lady, a concerned aunt and a stand-up comedian?
  3. Are you aka Jay Garrick?

DQ.
DQ.
Not the original Flash.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with F
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not born after 1900
  8. Known (more or less) for politics/military
  9. European
  10. Not born before 1700
  11. Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  12. Not a member of the royalty or nobility
  13. Best known for a single incident
  14. From the UK
  15. Not born after 1800
  16. Not a common first name
  17. Event occurred in the 18th Century

#1 was Fitzwilly.
#2 was Sally Field (in Lincoln, The Amazing Spider-Man and Punch Line respectively).
Correct on #3.

2 DQs reserved.