Botticelli - May 2024

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you the father of the “plump little partridge” courted by Ichabod Crane?
2. Was your diary discovered in a story by H. P. Lovecraft?
3. Do you “pity the fool” that gets in your way?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Not Mr. Van Tassel, dunno and not Mr. T.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Correct, Alonzo Typer, Correct.

DQ: From a work by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Mark Twain?

1 DQ reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Are you acquainted with Vitamin Flintheart, B.O. Plenty, and Sam Catchem?
2. Are you a Swedish climate activist?
3. Did you observe that “It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years”? (Currently, you’ve outlived Mozart by 61 years.)

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Not Dick Tracy, Greta Thunberg (sp?) and dunno.

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with T
4. American creator
5. created before 1950
6. originally from prose fiction
7. created by American(s)
8. does not actually appear in-story; is an unseen character or an alias of another character or something else like that
9. unseen character
10. created before 1900
11. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Mark Twain

Answer #8 tweaked for clarity.

[De_La_Rue]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Dick Tracy, Greta Thunberg (sp?) and dunno.

3 was Tom Lehrer.

DQ (let’s get it out of the way): from a work by Edgar Allan Poe?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with T
4. American creator
5. created before 1950
6. originally from prose fiction
7. created by American(s)
8. does not actually appear in-story; is an unseen character or an alias of another character or something else like that
9. unseen character
10. created before 1900
11. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Mark Twain
12. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: From a story with C. Auguste Dupin?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with T
4. American creator
5. created before 1950
6. originally from prose fiction
7. created by American(s)
8. does not actually appear in-story; is an unseen character or an alias of another character or something else like that
9. unseen character
10. created before 1900
11. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Mark Twain
12. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe
13. not from a story with C. Auguste Dupin

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Hmm. It’s probably Mr. Tell-tale, or his heart…

Thinking.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who had an unusual way of holding the ball for a pass?
2. Were you punished in Greek mythology by being tormented with hunger and thirst, in the midst of grapes and clean water that retreated at your grasp?
3. Were you played by Peter Sellers in @Prof.Pepperwinkle favorite radio show?..

Not Terry Bradshaw, not Tantalus and dunno.

Correct, correct, and Hercules Grytpype-Thynne.

1 DQ reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

You silly twisted boy.

IQs:

1. Was Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog your pet?
2. Did you command a genie who lived in your ballpoint pen?
3. Are you a talking cat in a short story by Saki?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Was Jane Foster you for a bit?
2. Were you a tall, name-dropping socialite and member of Team Cockroach on The Good Place?
3. Did you say you never gave them hell, you told the truth and they thought it was hell?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

DQ: From one of Poe’s short stories?

IQs:

1. Are you a homespun humorist, best known for a series of hotel commercials?

2. Are you a senator from a Southern state, whose apparent qualifications for that role are your previous successful career as a college football coach?

3. Were you a devoutly religious quarterback whose touchdown celebrations lent your name to a style of prayer?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

…
IQs:

1. Was Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog your pet?
2. Did you command a genie who lived in your ballpoint pen?
3. Are you a talking cat in a short story by Saki?

Dunno, dunno and not Tom.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Was Jane Foster you for a bit?
2. Were you a tall, name-dropping socialite and member of Team Cockroach on The Good Place?
3. Did you say you never gave them hell, you told the truth and they thought it was hell?

Not Thor, dunno, and not Harry Truman.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

…
IQs:

1. Are you a homespun humorist, best known for a series of hotel commercials?

2. Are you a senator from a Southern state, whose apparent qualifications for that role are your previous successful career as a college football coach?

3. Were you a devoutly religious quarterback whose touchdown celebrations lent your name to a style of prayer?

Not Tom Bodet (sp?), Tommy Tuberville (feh) or Tim Tebow.

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with T
4. American creator
5. created before 1950
6. originally from prose fiction
7. created by American(s)
8. does not actually appear in-story; is an unseen character or an alias of another character or something else like that
9. unseen character
10. created before 1900
11. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Mark Twain
12. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe
13. not from a story with C. Auguste Dupin
14. from one of Poe’s short stories

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Was Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog your pet?
2. Did you command a genie who lived in your ballpoint pen?
3. Are you a talking cat in a short story by Saki?

Dunno, dunno and not Tom.
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#1 was Tom Terrific.
#2 was Johnny Thunder.
#3 is Tobermory.

3 DQs reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Was Jane Foster you for a bit?
2. Were you a tall, name-dropping socialite and member of Team Cockroach on The Good Place?
3. Did you say you never gave them hell, you told the truth and they thought it was hell?

@Elendil_s_Heir

Not Thor, dunno, and not Harry Truman.

2 was Tahani.

DQ: name is in title?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Story title begins with A-M, not counting “A”, “An” or “The”?
2 DQs reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. last name starts with T
4. American creator
5. created before 1950
6. originally from prose fiction
7. created by American(s)
8. does not actually appear in-story; is an unseen character or an alias of another character or something else like that
9. unseen character
10. created before 1900
11. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft or Mark Twain
12. from a work by Edgar Allan Poe
13. not from a story with C. Auguste Dupin
14. from one of Poe’s short stories
15. name is in title
16. story title does not begin with A-M, not counting “A”, “An” or “The”

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQ: In a song on the Alan Parsons Project album Tales of Mystery and Imagination do you (and your partner) have a soothing system that “has what it takes to make you feel better”?