Botticelli - May 2024

Thread Games
181

Correct on 3. 1 is Caithlín ní Houlihan. 2 is Henry Cisneros.

DQs: Last name starts N - Z?

1 DQ reserved.

182

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Not American
  5. Living
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Born since 1964
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. From UK/Ireland
  11. Known for acting
  12. From the U.K.
  13. Born before 1988
  14. Comic actor
  15. Has appeared on a number of panel shows, but neither QI nor Would I Lie To You? - has been on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Duck Quacks Don’t Echo and 8 Out Of 10 Cats, though not best known from them.
  16. Last name starts with N-Z
183

IQs:

  1. Before you assumed your current superhero title, were you a skinny kid from Brooklyn?

  2. Are you the actor most famous for playing 1?

  3. Are you a British TV personality, known for your erudition and wit, one of whom’s first works was a pornographic film you co-wrote (but did not appear in) after being disappointed by the poor quality of pornos you reviewed for the Erotic Review?

184
  1. I am not Captain America :us:
  2. I am not Chris Evans.
  3. Take a DQ.
185

1 was Charlton Heston (his son played the infant Moses); 3 was Candy Chiu.

DQ: known for TV?

1 DQ reserved.

186

Correct and correct. 3 was - brace yourself, if you’re familiar with her - Victoria Coren Mitchell.

DQs:

  1. Has appeared on Taskmaster?

  2. Black?

  3. RADA-trained?

187

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Not American
  5. Living
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Born since 1964
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. From UK/Ireland
  11. Known for acting
  12. From the U.K.
  13. Born before 1988
  14. Comic actor
  15. Has appeared on a number of panel shows, but neither QI nor Would I Lie To You? - has been on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Duck Quacks Don’t Echo and 8 Out Of 10 Cats, though not best known from them.
  16. Last name starts with N-Z
  17. Best known from TV
  18. Hasn’t appeared on Taskmaster
  19. Not Black
  20. Not RADA-trained (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).

That’s 20. No new IQs please. Please ask all remaining DQs by 6pm EST tomorrow.

188

Final DQ: first name is Catherine, Cathy, Cat, Cate, or some variation?

189

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Not American
  5. Living
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Born since 1964
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. From UK/Ireland
  11. Known for acting
  12. From the U.K.
  13. Born before 1988
  14. Comic actor
  15. Has appeared on a number of panel shows, but neither QI nor Would I Lie To You? - has been on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Duck Quacks Don’t Echo and 8 Out Of 10 Cats, though not best known from them.
  16. Last name starts with N-Z
  17. Best known from TV
  18. Hasn’t appeared on Taskmaster
  19. Not Black
  20. Not RADA-trained (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art).
  21. First name is Catherine or some form of that name
190

Given that my knowledge of British comic actresses begins with French and ends with Saunders, I’d better bow out of this now.

191

Are you Catherine Tate?

192

I wonder if anyone would be bovvered to answer. :crazy_face:

Yes, I am Donna Noble! Er, that is, Catherine Tate, comedian and one of David Tennant’s Doctor’s companions.

Well done, SMV!

193

Never heard of her.

194

I have, but didn’t remember her in time, and probably never would have.

Previous IQs:

Was it said that you resembled a rotten mackerel by moonlight? - Henry Clay, “because he both stank and shined” (i.e. personally corrupt but politically impressive)
Did Tommy Lee Jones play you in JFK? - Clay Shaw
Were you the clever young criminal behind the Red-Headed League con? - Yes, John Clay

Clay x3!

195

Do you disrespect the house of Cooper, sir?

My lord, I am not bovvered.

(Inside joke that apparently only the Prof and I will get.)

196

Good one, @Prof.Pepperwinkle - Donna Noble is the companion that everyone hates on first watching, then comes to realize is possibly the best one of NuWho. Plus of course she had the sweetest grandpa on TV.

Okay, new round! (Promise I didn’t pick anyone as obscure as last time).

I am
Z

Incidentally, I have updated the “Letters Used” thread as of May 27, as well.

197

IQs:

  1. Are you Don Diego de la Vega?
  2. Did you start the restoration of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity?
  3. Were you a Dutch printmaker remembered for your “breastscapes”?
198

  1. Yo no soy Zorro.

  2. I am not Zechariah.

  3. Take a DQ.

199

Hey, I’ve met her! She was at a comics convention I went to in 2018, and I got to tell her how much my friend Yvonne liked her on Doctor Who and DuckTales.

ZQs:
1. Did you write White Teeth?
2. Did you attempt to assassinate Franklin Roosevelt?
3. Did Athena spring from your forehead?

200
  1. Correct on Zorro.
    #2 was Zerubbabel.
    #3 was Anders Zorn.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?