Botticelli - May 2023

Fantastic job, DLR!

I’d never heard of it, but Madame P. claims she watched in with her dad. She’d have been two, so it must have been in reruns.

I think I picked it up from your using him here before.

New letter: I am F.

IQs:

  1. Did Hamlet hear your approach as he was dying?
  2. Did you edit an encyclopedia with Mr. Wagnalls?
  3. Did you play the ruralized housewife Barbara Good on The Good Life (US title Good Neighbors)?

IQ1: Were you a suine detective?
IQ2: Were you a king of Egypt?
IQ3: Were you a king of Saudi Arabia?

Yes. He’s one of the few Ys who come readily to mind. (To my mind, anyway. :smiley:)

1. I am not Fortinbras.
2. I am not Funk.
3. Take a DQ.

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Faisal.

Freddy the Detective
Fuad (I or II, take your pick)
Not whom I had in mind, but valid


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?


IQ1: Were you a Saudi king not named Faisal?
IQ2: Were you one of “those meddling kids”?
IQ3: Did you wish that someone felt like your big toe all over?

Correct, Correct and Felicity Kendal.

DQ: Last name starts with F?

  1. Did your main claim to fame come from your simple attempt at modeling the population growth of Rabbits?
  2. Are you the father of Modern statistics (after whom I named my cat)?
  3. If math books had wider margins would you probably not be as famous?

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not Fred Jones.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

1. I am not Fibonacci.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Pierre de Fermat.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with F

Fahd
correct
Benjamin Franklin, in 1776


Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you play Jonathan Kent in the movie Superman?
  2. Were you an early 20th Century novelist who wrote The Good Soldier?
  3. Are you the title character of a short story by Saki?

IQ1: Are you an American economist, known in the SCA as the king who declared war on himself, and lost?
IQ2: Were you the Noble-laureate economist who was #1’s father?
IQ3: Does a SETI paradox (if intelligent life is as common in the galaxy as it seems it should be, why don’t we have proof of extraterrestrial visits?) bear your name?


DQ1: Living?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?


I’m assuming none of you are familiar with the Agent of TERRA series…

  1. Correct
  2. Roland Fisher
  3. Correct

DQ:

  1. Known for the arts?

These will probably result in a clean sweep but its too fun to resist

IQ1. Were you Scrooge’s former employer?
IQ2. Did you play the part of the answer to IQ1 in “a Muppet Christmas Carol”?
IQ3. Did you play the part of the answer to IQ2?

(IQ2 and IQ3 should have distinct answers)

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Ford Maddox Ford.
3. Take a DQ.

IQ1: I swear I read about this but can’t remember the name. Take a DQ.
IQ2: Same as above.
IQ3: I am not Frank Drake.

IQ1. I am not Fezziwig.
IQ2. I am not Fozzie-wig.
IQ3. I am not Frank Oz-iwig.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with F
4. dead
5. not known for the arts
6. no, seriously, not known for the arts

Buck, since you asked the same DQ as someone else, ask something different.

#1 was Glenn Ford.
#3 was Filboyd Studge (the Mouse who Helped).
Correct on FMF.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Died before 1960?

David Friedman (Duke Cariadoc of the Bow)
Milton Friedman
Enrico Fermi (the XKCD neither asks or answers the “where are they?” question)


DQ: Known for science?
Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a sex droid referred to on Archer?
Were you the action guy on FYI?
Did your callous dad say he wished you, and not your older brother, had died?

Aw, hell. I skimmed the question and did not think about my answer enough, because of course the Fermi paradox is “where are all the aliens”, while the Drake equation is the estimate of how many alien civilizations there are.

Respectively:
I am not Fred the sex droid.
I am not Frank Fontana.
I am not Faramir? If not Faramir, take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with F
4. dead
5. not known for the arts
6. American
7. died after 1960
8. not known for science

I’m going out for grocery shopping now.

IQs:

  1. Are you a Brazilian race car driver who won the Indy 500 twice?
  2. Are you an American race car driver who won the Indy 500 four times?
  3. Were you murdered three years ago tomorrow?