Botticelli May 2015

IQs:

  1. Did you ask if Spider-Man was a threat or a menace?
  2. Did you win this year’s Indianapolis 500?
  3. Is today (May 24th) your Feast Day?

Anna Anderson.
Correct on Anastasia Nikolaevna.

Not Jolly Jonah Jameson.
DQ.
DQ.

Correct on #1, of course.
#2 is Juan Pablo Montoya.
#3 is St. Joanna.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

IQ1. Did you marry the heiress to the South Fork Ranch?
IQ2. Are you the Dear Leader?
IQ3. Yo bitch, were you known for using chili peppers as a secret ingredient?

IQs:

  1. Are you responsible for the deaths of Hans Gruber and his brother?
  2. Were you “the All-American Boy” on old-time radio?
  3. Were you born Frances Gumm?

Congrats, SCAdian! Never heard of that lady.

Previous IQs:

Are you inaccurately credited by some with inventing baseball? - Yes, Abner Doubleday.
Did you mention baseball just once in all of your written works? - Jane Austen, in Northanger Abbey.
Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first commanding officer? - Col. Adelbert Ames of the 20th Maine, later a Carpetbagger governor.

On to J.

IQs:

Did you talk by phone to a time-traveling teacher from Maine in a recent novel?
Were you that person’s spouse, who did the same?
Did you play Bruce Willis’s younger self in Looper?

DQ. (Dallas, right?)
Not Kim Jong Il.
DQ.

Not John McClane.
DQ. (Jack Somebodyorother, I think…)
Not … Joan Crawford?

Not … Jack Kennedy?
Not … Jackie Kennedy?
DQ.

J

  1. Real
  2. Male

#1 is correct. Yippee-ki-yay.
#2 was Jack Armstrong, brought to you by Wheaties, Breakfast of Champions!
#3 was Judy Garland.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Sorcerer?
  2. Were you the Dog-Faced Boy in a song performed by Annette Funicello?
  3. Are you the comic book writer and artist who created Booster Gold?

Not John Wellington Wells.
DQ.
Not … Jack Kirby?

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American, but known for work in America

IQ1: Is your birth name Marion Mitchell Morrison?
IQ2: Is your birth name Eric Bishop?
IQ3: Is your birth name Jay Scott Greenspan?

Correct on #1.
#2 was Jo-Jo.
#3 is Dan Jurgens.

DQs:

  1. Died after 2000?
  2. Known for the Arts?
  1. From Dallas, yes: John Ross “Jock” Ewing (aka JR’s dad).
  2. Kim Jong-il is correct.
  3. Jesse Pinkman, from Breaking Bad.

Witholding DQs… I’ve been ninjad!

IQ1: Did you play a blind lawyer, a vice-president, and a neurotic copyeditor?
IQ2: Did you play an apiform college graduate, a , and a neurotic stand-up comedian?
IQ3: Did you play an evil HR director, a private duck, and a neurotic man who can’t keep a job?

IQs:

  1. Were you a 1st Century Roman satirist?
  2. Are you the head of the maids at the palace at the Emerald City?
  3. Are you Johnny Chambers’ alter ego?

Not John Wayne.
DQ.
DQ.

Three DQs.

Not Juvenal.
DQ.
DQ.

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American, for certain values of “American”
  5. Did not die after 2000
  6. Not known for the Arts

ZUI the modified answer for #4.

correct, Jamie Foxx, Jason Alexander

DQ: North American?
DQ: Have you ever killed anyone?

IQ1: Are you the fourth king of Judea, named after a valley?
IQ2: Did gospel writer Mark attribute this description of you: “clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey?”
IQ3: Did Matthias replace you as one of the Twelve Apostles?

DQ.
Not John the Baptist.
Not Judas Iscariot.

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American, for certain values of “American”
  5. Did not die after 2000
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. North American
  8. Have undoubtedly killed at least one person

Re #4 and #7: Born in the Americas according to some sources, born elsewhere according to others; best known for activities in North America.

IQ1. Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
IQ2. Jerry Seinfeld.
IQ3. Jason Alexander (who I now see has already been named…)

Which (counting two from my previous post and two from this post) gives me 4 DQs…

DQ1. Born before 1800?
DQ2. Criminal?
DQ3. Of British descent?
DQ4 reserved.