Botticelli - May 2017

IQ1: Is what you tell us three times true?
IQ2: Did your intimate friends call you ‘Candle Ends’?
IQ3: Could you only kill beavers?

Ah, missed that.
I’ll ask my DQs once I know if we’re aiming for a real person or not.

Not P.D.Q. Bach, Brendan Frazier or dunno.

Dunno x3.

Not Beetlejuice (?), dunno x2.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B

DQ1: Is your first appearance as a character in a novel?
DQ2: Are you American?
DQ3: Have you ever been portrayed in a movie?

IQ1: Did you have hits singing about Detroit City as well as a voodoo witch?
IQ2: Did you have a hit walking the streets of Bakersfield?
IQ3: Did you Walk Tall as a no-nonsense southern sheriff?

The Bellman.
The Baker.
The Butcher.
(If you’ve never read The Hunting of the Snark, you really, really need to.)
DQ1: First appeared after 1950?
DQ2: Would/Could be alive today, if real?
Four DQs reserved.

Correct, Correct, and Benny the Ball.

1 DQ reserved.

Barry Sanders, Barry White, Barry Gibb

Barry x 3!

holding 3 DQs

IQs:

  1. Were you a French Impressionist painter whose best known work is of Monet, Renoir, Manet and Zola together in your studio?
  2. Are you the character Michael Weatherly is currently portraying in a TV series?
  3. Did you write and illustrate the Madeline children’s books?

Dunno x2; not Buford Pusser.

Dunno x3; not Ludwig Bemmelmans (sp?).

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. first appeared as a character in a novel
  5. American
  6. has been portrayed in a movie
  7. first appeared before 1950
  8. would/could be alive today, if real, but seems unlikely

Correct on Buford Pusser (would also have accepted Joe Don Baker)

IQ1 is Bobby Bare (the voodoo witch was his song Marie Laveau)
IQ2 is Buck Owens

DQ1: Are you the protagonist of the novel/movie?
DQ2: Are you considered a comedic character?

DQ1: Movie made before 1960?
DQ2: Genre novel (SF, fantasy, western, mystery, &c)?
Two GQs reserved.

IQ1: Were you the star of a hit TV series, but every time your title character showed up, another actor took your place?
IQ2: Was the stated reason for your demise listed as “death by acne” when in actuality it was caused by driving your Ferrari into a cactus at high speed after freebasing Tender Vittles?
IQ3: Are you the person responsible for IQ2?

mmmmm… Tender Vittles…

#1 was Frederic Bazille.
#2 is Dr. Bull on Bull.
Correct on Ludwig Bemelmans.

3 DQs reserved.

Dunno, not Bill the Cat, and not Berke Breathed.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. first appeared as a character in a novel
  5. American
  6. has been portrayed in a movie
  7. first appeared before 1950
  8. would/could be alive today, if real, but seems unlikely
  9. protagonist of the novel/movie
  10. not considered a comedic character
  11. movie made before 1960
  12. not a genre novel (SF, fantasy, western, mystery, &c)

DQ: Created before 1900?

2 DQs reserved.

DQ: Was novel written by a man?

2 DQs reserved

Correct on the (Ack! Thpppt!) Bloom County items.

IQ1 is Bill Bixby (with Lou Ferrigno playing the titular Hulk)

DQ: Has your character appeared in 3 or more books written by the same author?

Ah, good one about Bill Bixby, divemaster.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. first appeared as a character in a novel
  5. American
  6. has been portrayed in a movie
  7. first appeared before 1950
  8. would/could be alive today, if real, but seems unlikely
  9. protagonist of the novel/movie
  10. not considered a comedic character
  11. movie made before 1960
  12. not a genre novel (SF, fantasy, western, mystery, &c)
  13. created after 1900
  14. novel written by a man
  15. character has not appeared in 3 or more books written by the same author