Botticelli - May 2017

Previous IQs:

Were you Ted Baxter’s girlfriend? - Yes, Georgette, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Were your official papers moved in the past ten years to Mississippi, of all places? - U.S. Grant: http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/USG_volume. During the Civil War, that was enemy territory to him
Did a newspaper say you should be elected because 1. you were honest, 2. you were honest, and 3. you were honest? - Grover Cleveland

DQs:

Best known as a businessman?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Were you the victor of the Battle of Gettysburg?
Were you a Confederate general at Gettysburg who became a Georgia politician after the war?
When asked if you were armed, did you once say (paraphrased), “As long as I’m wearing trousers, I have pockets, and as long as I have pockets, I have something in them”?

#1 was Robert Goulet.
#2 was, indeed, Eydie Gorme.
#3 was, indeed, Gladys Kravitz.

DQ: Known for sports?

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Born since 1964
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. American
  8. Not known for politics/military
  9. Not known for business
  10. Born south of Mason-Dixon
  11. Known for sports

not George Meade, not Lyndsey Graham(?), DQ

IQs:

  1. Were you known as “the Galloping Ghost”?
  2. Did you pilot Friendship 7?
  3. Did (or does) your art grace the intro to PBS’s series Mystery?

IQ1: Was your stage name a play on the name of a Norwegian playwright?
IQ2: Are you a football player commonly known by the first syllable of your name?
IQ3: Were you a Byrd and a Flying Burrito Brother?

3 DQs

DQ, not Garo Yepremian(?), DQ

#1 was early football player Red Grange.
#2 was astronaut John Glenn.
#3 is Edward Gorey.

DQs:

  1. Known for playing baseball or football?
  2. Currently active as a player?

1 DQ reserved.

Previous IQs:

Were you the victor of the Battle of Gettysburg? - Yes, George G. Meade
Were you a Confederate general at Gettysburg who became a Georgia politician after the war? - John Brown Gordon
When asked if you were armed, did you once say (paraphrased), “As long as I’m wearing trousers, I have pockets, and as long as I have pockets, I have something in them”? - Scotland Yard Inspector G. Lestrade (Conan Doyle never told us his full first name), in the Sherlock Holmes stories

DQ:

White?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a Seventies Pittsburgh Pirates player likened to Yosemite Sam?
Were you a recent Cleveland Indians player with a five-syllable-long last name?
A Yankee player, did you ironically say you considered yourself the luckiest man in the world?

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Born since 1964
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. American
  8. Not known for politics/military
  9. Not known for business
  10. Born south of Mason-Dixon
  11. Known for sports
  12. Known for playing baseball or football
  13. Currently active
  14. Not white

DQ, DQ, not Lou Gherig

When I went to WCU, the head football coach had Lou Gherig’s disease and coached in a wheelchair till he died.

DQ: Known for playing football?

Henry Gibson (Henrik Ibsen).
Never heard of Garo, but that’s a two-syllable name. I was thinking of Gronkowski.
(Never would have heard of him, either, if I hadn’t seen some ads – fast food of some sort? – with him.)
Gram Parsons.
DQ1: Player (as opposed to manager, owner, &c)?
DQ2: Own/employed by a team based east of the Mississippi?
One DQ reserved.

Previous IQs:

Were you a Seventies Pittsburgh Pirates player likened to Yosemite Sam? - Phil Garner
Were you a recent Cleveland Indians player with a five-syllable-long last name? - Nomar Garciaparra
A Yankee player, did you ironically say you considered yourself the luckiest man in the world? - Yes, Lou Gehrig

Three DQs reserved.

Okay – now that I’m awake enough to see that DQ12 specifically says “playing,” scratch my first DQ.

DQ: Player for a team based east of the Mississippi?
Two DQs reserved.

I’ve heard him referred to more as “Gronk,” but I’ll take your word for it.

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Born since 1964
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. American
  8. Not known for politics/military
  9. Not known for business
  10. Born south of Mason-Dixon
  11. Known for sports
  12. Known for playing baseball or football
  13. Currently active
  14. Not white
  15. Plays football
  16. Player for a team based east of the Mississippi

[Well, I’m not gonna get this one.]

IQs:

  1. Are you a Looney Toon character who is no longer considered to be politically correct?
  2. Did you compose the Pere Gynt Suite?
  3. Were you a lion tamer with Ringling Brothers?

DQ:

In the NFL?
(If yes) Plays for a team that has been in the Super Bowl in the past five years?

One (or two) DQs reserved.