Botticelli - May 2017

  1. I am not Bob Knight.
  2. I am not Gladys Knight.
    Take a DQ for #3.
  1. I am not Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
  2. I am not Kevin Kline.
  3. Take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

IQ3 is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his role as co-pilot “Roger Murdock” in Airplane!

DQ: Are you ethnically Slavic?

Suge Knight.

Knight x 3!

DQ: Visual artist?

IQ1: Are you the coach of Duke Men’s Basketball? (bonus points if you spell it right)
IQ2: Were you Secretary General of the United Nations from 2009 to 2016?
IQ3: Were you President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) until your death in 1976?

IQ1: Are you the title character of a world-renowned novel, first published serially in a Russian magazine?
IQ2: Did your character (played by Donald Sutherland), enlist a prostitute to assist you in solving a murder mystery?
IQ3: Are you a former NBA All-Star, head coach, and general manager; and currently the NBA’s vice-president of basketball operations?

Heh. Murdock was my mystery person in a Botticelli round a few years back.

Previous IQs:

Were you, until recently, the U.S. ambassador to Japan? - Caroline Kennedy
Were you, in Robert Harris’s Fatherland, POTUS in 1964? - Joseph Kennedy Sr.
Were you that person’s youngest son? - Edward “Ted” Kennedy

Kennedy x3 again! I just noticed SCAdian already asked about Joe Sr., so I’ll withdraw that question.

DQ:

Received a top award in his field?
Died before 1850?

IQs:

Did Jonathan Pryce play your dad in several big-budget movies?
Was Emma slow to see that you were really her true love?
After 1950, was your coffin hauled in a mule-pulled wagon?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with K
  6. Known for the Performing Arts
  7. Not American
  8. Not an Actor
  9. Died before 1950
  10. Not ethnically Slavic, according to all sources I found
  11. A visual performing artist, as opposed to a musical or oratorial performing artist
  12. Did not receive a top award in his field
  13. Quite possibly died on or before 1850, as there is no certain death date for him

#3. I am not Chiang Kai-shek.
Take 2 DQs.

  1. I am not Anna Karenina.
  2. I am not Klute.
    Take a DQ for #3, and any other I may have gotten wrong.
  1. I am not Keira Knightley.
  2. I am not Nikita Khrushchev. (??)
    Take 1 or 2 DQs.

I’m of the firm opinion that one can quote or usefully reference Airplane! at least once a day.

Damn! Well at least I don’t have to research the history of Russian ballet dancers…

Right on both counts!

IQ3 is Kiki Vandeweghe

DQ: Are you a dancer?

IQ1: Did you play a cop in a comedy, and a chain-gang member in a drama?
IQ2: Did David Drake expand one of your novels by adding several chapters about the trials and vicissitudes of several minor characters?
IQ3: Were you commonly known as “Kick”?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with K
  6. Known for the Performing Arts
  7. Not American
  8. Not an Actor
  9. Died before 1950
  10. Not ethnically Slavic, according to all sources I found
  11. A visual performing artist, as opposed to a musical or oratorial performing artist
  12. Did not receive a top award in his field
  13. Quite possibly died on or before 1850, as there is no certain death date for him
  14. Not a dancer

#1) I am not Buster Keaton (??)
Take 2 DQs, or three if I’m wrong about Buster.

Mike Krzyzewski, Ban Ki-moon, correct

I had a brain fart in asking DQ 11. Maybe it won’t matter.

DQ: European?

holding a DQ

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with K
  6. Known for the Performing Arts
  7. Not American
  8. Not an Actor
  9. Died before 1950
  10. Not ethnically Slavic, according to all sources I found
  11. A visual performing artist, as opposed to a musical or oratorial performing artist
  12. Did not receive a top award in his field
  13. Quite possibly died on or before 1850, as there is no certain death date for him
  14. Not a dancer
  15. European

George Kennedy (The Naked Gun and Cool Hand Luke).
Jim Kjelgaard (Fire Hunter > The Hunter Returns).
JFK’s sister Kathleen.
DQ1: Native Speaker of a Germanic language?
DQ2: Normally performed in a circus or similar venue?
One DQ reserved.