Botticelli - May 2023

IQs:

  1. Are you one of the Tanakh’s minor prophets?
  2. Are you a 12 c. Irish archbishop, who prophesized a list of 112 future popes?
  3. Are you the brother of Angela’s Ashes author Frank McCourt, and author of your own memoir A Monk Swimming?

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you a real-life person and the title character of a 1980 film produced by Mel Brooks?
2. Did you write World War Z?
3. Are you a redheaded tomboy on Stranger Things?

IQs:

  1. Did you found the Grand Duchy of Tuscany?
  2. Were you a descendant of the above who was a patron of Leonardo da Vinci?
  3. Did you write 12 books of epigrams?

Previous IQs:

Did you command The Citadel after WWII? - Gen. Mark Clark
Did you costar in The Karate Kid? - Ralph Macchio
Were you no vampire gunslinger, despite your name? - Bat Masterson

DQs:

From the British Isles? (asking again; see post 356)
Activist or reformer of some kind?
Died before 1700?

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you the Nazi assassin in The ODESSA File?
Were you a sheepdog sung about in a pop song?
Do you command the Planetary Union starship Orville?

Correct
Mandy, from the song of the same name sung by…
Barry Manilow

Holding 2 DQs

take 3 DQ

  1. DQ
  2. DQ
  3. I’m not Max

Take 3 DQs

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3 more DQs (and darn it I actually was watching Orville a couple of month ago but I can’t remember the captain’s name.)

I think we are well over 20 DQs at this point so lets try to get all of them in by noon Sunday.

  1. Malachi, reputed author of the last book of the Tanakh, or, to Christians, Old Testament.
  2. St. Malachi of Armagh, to whom was ascribed a list of future Popes, clearly written some centuries after his death.
  3. Malachy McCourt.

DQ:

  1. Italian?
  2. Does your first name begin with N?
  3. Is your name a byword for political cynicism and devious scheming?

Well that was quick!

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with M
  4. Contributed to the Arts but is not primarily known for them
  5. Born before 1960
  6. Not North American
  7. Dead
  8. European
  9. Not active in 20th century
  10. Died before 1800
  11. Known for Politics but not a politician
  12. Not from the British Isles (sorry for missing this Elendil)
  13. Definitely not an activist of reformer
  14. Died before 1700
  15. Italian
  16. First name Begins with N
  17. Name is a byword for political cynicism and devious scheming

Since I’m a bit new to this I’m not sure whether the etiquette is to wait for Slow_moving_vehicle to make his guess official or just go ahead and reveal the answer declare him the winner now.

Okay, I’ll make it official:

Are you Niccolò Machiavelli?

Good job, SMV!

Thank you!

Do I need to wait for @Buck_Godot to make it official, or can I go ahead and start the next round?

Wait for him to make it official.

Previous IQs:

Were you the Nazi assassin in The ODESSA File? - Mackensen
Were you a sheepdog sung about in a pop song? - the titular Paul McCartney pet in “Martha My Dear”
Do you command the Planetary Union starship Orville? - Capt. Ed Mercer

Six DQs reserved, but I can see I won’t be using them :wink:

Yes I am. Good job Slow_Moving_Vehicle.

Next round to you.

Sorry for getting this response out late I couldn’t get to the computer this morning.

No worries, and thanks, BG!

Today I learned something new. I had no idea that it was directed at his dog.

Thanks, all!

Sorry it’s been a minute since I’ve been able to get to a computer to start the next round. And I’m not going to delay it trying to figure out how to upload a fancy-dan calligraphy letter from my phone, so here goes:

I am “J”.

IQs:

Did Dolly Parton famously sing about you?
Have you played a blue-collar husband, the Speaker of the House and an evangelist?
Were you fooled by the Red-Headed League?

Congrats, SMV!

IQs:
1. Were you a real-life person and the title character of a 1980 film produced by Mel Brooks?
2. Do you currently write and draw the comic strip Nancy?
3. Were you the Democratic candidate for vice president in 2000?

IQs

  1. When you got fired from your lucrative career for writing a manifesto, did you take the office fish with you?
  2. Were you Walter Whites main Partner in crime?
  3. Did you change your name to Saul Goodman?