Botticelli May 2015

Two correct, and “Weird Al” Yankovic is finally free of his RCA contract after only fourteen albums.

DQ: Last name starts with A?

IQ1: Did you collaborate with Charles Babbage?
IQ2: Did you marry Walter Gropius?
IQ3: Did your husband have you executed?

  1. Not Alexander the Great.
  2. DQ.
  3. Not Kareem Abdul-Jabaar.

Oof. DQ x 3.

Apparently not well enough remembered by me…

DQ x 3.

IQ1. I am not Ada Lovelace.
IQ2. DQ.
IQ3. I am not Anne Boleyn.


DQ Summary:

  1. Real.
  2. Not male.
  3. Not living.
  4. Not American.
  5. Not known for the Arts.
  6. European.
  7. Last name starts with A.

Andy Roddick, Andy Dick, Andy Dalton, Andy x3!

DQ: Known for politics/government?
DQ: Born west of the Rhine?

holding a DQ

DQ Summary:

  1. Real.
  2. Not male.
  3. Not living.
  4. Not American.
  5. Not known for the Arts.
  6. European.
  7. Last name starts with A.
  8. Not known for politics/government.
  9. Born west of the Rhine.

#1 is Aram Khatchaturian. #2 was Agnes Moorehead. #3 was Airboy.

3 DQs reserved.

IQ1: Are you the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, and the alleviation of sore eyes?
IQ2: Did Frank Zappa write a song about your pancake breakfast?
IQ3: Were you captured after the Battle of San Jacinto by Texas militia?

DQs:

  1. Born after 1900?
  2. Known for Science?

1 DQ reserved.

Correct on 1 and 3, 2 was Alma Mahler (Gropius Werfel)

Holding one DQ.

IQ1. I am not St. Francis of Assisi.
IQ2. DQ.
IQ3. I am not Santa Anna (the Mexican general).


DQ Summary:

  1. Real.
  2. Not male.
  3. Not living.
  4. Not American.
  5. Not known for the Arts.
  6. European.
  7. Last name starts with A.
  8. Not known for politics/government.
  9. Born west of the Rhine.
  10. Not born after 1900.
  11. Known for Science.

IQ: Were you the first person to publish a book with photographs?

No, I am not Anna Atkins.

IQs:

  1. Are you a cockroach who writes vers libre?
  2. Are you Nero Wolfe’s secretary?
  3. Did Mike Myers play you in a trilogy of lowbrow comedies?

I am not Austin Powers. Take two DQ (and call me in the morning).


DQ Summary:

  1. Real.
  2. Not male.
  3. Not living.
  4. Not American.
  5. Not known for the Arts.
  6. European.
  7. Last name starts with A.
  8. Not known for politics/government.
  9. Born west of the Rhine.
  10. Not born after 1900.
  11. Known for Science.

#1 was archie from Don Marquis’s archie and mehitabel.
#2 is Archie Goodwin.
Correct on Austin Powers.

3 DQs reserved.

correct, St Alfonso, correct

holding 2 DQs

IQ1: Did you create one of the largest empires in the ancient world by the time you were 30?
IQ2: Were you IQ1’s tutor?
IQ3: Did you synthesize IQ2’s philosophy with the principles of Christianity?

Correct.
Abram, who was 99 when YHWH told him and his wife Sarai to change their names to Abraham and Sarah.
Correct.
DQ: French?
IQ1: Did you claim to be a grand duchess whose fate was uncertain?
IQ2: Were you that grand duchess?
IQ3: Are you known for discovering the fossils of marine reptiles?

Still not Alexander. Nor am I Aristotle, or St. Thomas Aquinas.

IQ1. I don’t remember this story, but…
IQ2. I am not Anastasia Romanov.
IQ3. I am, however, known for discovering the fossils of marine reptiles. I really wanted to type here “No, I’m not Louis Agassiz,” but I think you’ve got me figured out. I am Mary Anning, fossil collector, respected palaeontologist, and one of the earliest women in modern science.

Congratulations, SCAdian!

Good job, SCAdian! I don’t remember ever hearing about her…

All those books about palaeontology I read when I was a kid… :slight_smile:

Agassiz and his fish certainly would have been a good answer, but you would have just been delaying the inevitable. :smiley: Anning is indeed the one I was thinking of.
So… I am J!