Botticelli - May 2023

DQ
DQ
Not Brigham Young

DQ
Not Yentl
DQ

Not Yvonne Craig.
DQ
DQ

DQ
Not poor Yorick.
Not Peter Yarrow.

DQ
Not Yog-Sothoth.
Not the Yellow Kid.


Y

1. Fictional
2. First Name starts with Y
3. Male
4. American

Prof, ask another DQ – DLR already asked your first one (DQ #1).
EH, ask another DQ – your second one is pointless (DQ #2), unless you want to see if my initials are YY.

  1. Yaz pistachio
  2. Yanni
  3. Correct.

DQ 1: First appears on TV
1 DQ reserved

2 (co-founder of Yahoo!) was Jerry Yang; 3 (Mario Bros. dinosaur) was Yoshi.

DQs:
1. created after 1950?
2. from prose?

Yog-Sothoth, eliminated by another IQ, so no DQ for me.
Correct
David Yates, director of the last 4 films + the 3 Fantastic Beasts films.

Holding one DQ

#1 was Vincent Youmans.
Correct on the others.

2 DQs reserved.

Y

1. Fictional
2. First Name starts with Y
3. Male
4. American
5. As best known, first appeared on TV
6. As best known, created after 1938

Chock, your question about Yog-Sothoth was asked first, so take the DQ.

DQs:

  1. Cartoon character?
  2. Created after 1970?

IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist of Catch-22?
  2. Are you a Hanna-Barbara duck with a patriotic-sounding name?
  3. Were you married to Kim Kardashian?

IQs:
1. Were you a 2020 US presidential candidate who advocated a universal basic income?
2. Are you the most famous member of the same species as Grogu, from The Mandalorian (indeed, when introduced Grogu was nicknamed as “Baby” you)?
3. Did you contribute vocals to “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”?

Not Yossarian
Not Yakky Doodle
DQ

Not Yang
Not Yoda
DQ


Y

1. Fictional
2. First Name starts with Y
3. Male
4. American
5. As best known, first appeared on TV
6. As best known, created after 1950
7. Not a cartoon character
8. Not created after 1970

Re 5 and 6: A form of me first appeared in a 1938 short story.

1 was indeed Andrew Yang; 3 was Yoko Ono.

DQ: main character?

Correct
Correct

Ye West (formerly Kanye West; he had his name legally changed.)

1 DQ reserved.

Previous IQs:

Does the Planetary Society celebrate you yearly? - Yuri Gagarin
Were you a fellow of infinite jest? - Yes, poor Yorick, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Were you part of a famous folk music trio? - Yes, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary

DQs:

A good guy?
White?
In genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)?

IQs:

Did Heinlein name a starship after you?
Were you aboard the first Space Shuttle flight into orbit?
Were you so good they named a sports prize after you?

IQs:
1. Are you a symbol of poison?
2. Were you (jokingly) claimed to be Amy Camus, from Brooklyn?
3. Did you often wear a black-and-white fishnet-patterned keffiyeh?

Not Rodger Young
Not John Young
Not Cy Young

Not Young x3!

DQ
DQ
Not Yasser Arafat

Y

1. Fictional
2. First Name starts with Y
3. Male
4. American
5. As best known, first appeared on TV
6. As best known, created after 1950
7. Not a cartoon character
8. Not created after 1970
9. Main character
10. Good guy
11. White
12. In genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)

Re 5 and 6: A form of me first appeared in a 1938 short story.

1 was Mr. Yuk; 2 was Yma Sumac.

DQs:
1. from a western?
2. as best known, appeared before 1960?

Y

1. Fictional
2. First Name starts with Y
3. Male
4. American
5. As best known, first appeared on TV
6. As best known, created after 1950
7. Not a cartoon character
8. Not created after 1970
9. Main character
10. Good guy
11. White
12. In genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)
13. From a western
14. As best known, appeared before 1960

So… a 1950’s American TV Western main character, first name starting with Y.

Huh.

DQs:

  1. Show had an ensemble cast?
  2. Kids show?

I was mulling it over out loud at my computer and Madame P. solved it. She grew up on watching Westerns with her dad

So I’m out, since it wasn’t me, myself, who figured it out.

Good luck to the rest of you.

Swept me!

IQs:

Were you Clint Eastwood’s first big TV role?
Did you play a gunslinger, a robot and a king?
Did you costar in The Black Hole?