Botticelli - May 2017

DQ: Best known for political/military work?

Correct. Correct. #3 is Tommy Reynolds (of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds).

DQ reserved.

Not Tony Romo (?), DQ, not Ricky Gervais

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else
  8. European
  9. Not best known for political/military work

DQ: British?

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else
  8. European
  9. Not best known for political/military work
  10. Not British

IQs:

  1. Were you a French Symbolist painter of the late 19th/early 20th centuries?
  2. Was your dog named Bullet?
  3. Is your name synonymous with the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror?

Ricky Williams, Ricky Skaggs, correct

Ricky x 3!

DQ: Known primarily for a business or product?

holding a DQ

Not Henri Rousseau (?), not Roy Rogers, not Maximilien de Robespierre

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else
  8. European
  9. Not best known for political/military work
  10. Not British
  11. Known primarily for a business or product

IQ1: Were you released by the Baltimore Ravens in 2014 when a video surfaced of you assaulting your fiancee in an elevator?
IQ2: Were you keyboardist for The Doors?
IQ3: Are you a pop/country artist who released “The Streak” in 1974?

#1. Nice try, but Rousseau was a Primitivist. Odilon Redon was the Symbolist.
Correct on 2 and 3.

DQ) Known for Science?

IQs:

  1. Did Dan Aykroyd play you in Ghostbusters?
  2. Did you play Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters?
  3. Were you a Gallifreyan whose actress was married to the man who played the 4th Doctor?

Not Ray Rice, not Ray Manzarek, not whoever this Ray is so have a DQ :slight_smile:

Not Ray Stantz, not Harold Ramis, DQ

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else
  8. European
  9. Not best known for political/military work
  10. Not British
  11. Known primarily for a business or product
  12. Involved in the scientific field, but better known for something else

Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was the Lady Romana.

DQ: Known for criminal acts or law enforcement?

Correct. An easy way for me to know that “It” is older or younger than me.

Previous IQs:

Does a lisping Pontius Pilate order your release? - Roderick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0XDHF3M60
And yours? - Roger
Although famous for something else, did you once appear as an extra in an opera’s party scene with a good friend and colleague? - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with Antonin Scalia: https://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/newscms/2016_07/1417876/160214-ginsburg-scalia-230p_d8c1506bab17a5efb1e0e2577595d371.nbcnews-ux-2880-1000.jpg

DQs:

Inventor?
Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Did you insist on being paid in $1 bills early in your career?
Were you featured in a short story originally titled “Odd Playmate”?
Were you “the dog that saved Hollywood”?

Not Ray Charles, DQ, not Rin Tin Tin

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else
  8. European
  9. Not best known for political/military work
  10. Not British
  11. Known primarily for a business or product
  12. Involved in the scientific field, but better known for something else
  13. Not known for criminal acts or law enforcement
  14. Inventor
  15. Born in or east of Vienna
  16. Born in or south of Vienna

IQ: Did you create a novelty puzzle in the form of a Cube?

Yes, I am indeed **Ernő Rubik **, the man behind Rubik’s Cube among other puzzles including Rubik’s Magic and Rubik’s Snake!

Well done. I am glad this round ended as I was about to go to sleep :slight_smile:

So, now

I am S!

IQ1: Do you run a comic book shop in The Big Bang Theory?
IQ2: Are you a lifestyle guru who served 5 months for insider trading in 2004?
IQ3: Are you the drummer for The Police?

  1. I’m not Stuart.
    Take 2 DQs.