Botticelli - May 2024

Quentin Collins


DQ: Real?

3 (Owens) was Queen Latifah.

DQ: male?

#1 was John Quincy Adams.
#2 is John Q. Public.
#3 is correct, Quinn Cummings.

DQ: Last name starts with Q?

1 DQ reserved.

#1 was J. Danforth Quayle.
#2 was Margaret Qualley.
Correct on #3.

2 DQs reserved.

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with “Q”.

DQ1: Created by an American?
DQ2: Created before 1950?

DQ: Originally from prose?

IQs:

  1. Is the author of the book you’re from still spinning in his grave over having his story turned into a Disney animated musical?
  2. Are you the hero of Five Million Years To Earth?
  3. Do you give 007 his many gizmos and gadgets?

IQs:
1. Were you Inspector Gadget’s boss?
2. Did you hold the same position (albeit with a different name) Doug Emhoff does now?
3. Were you editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics?

IQs:

  1. Did you command a garbage-collecting spaceship on a 70s-era Star Trek parody TV show?
  2. Were you a long-time catcher and coach for the Kansas City Royals?
  3. Were you a tattooed friend of the narrator of a classic American novel?
  1. Were you a dragon in Tik-Tok of Oz?
  2. Did Manfred Mann sing about you, the Eskimo?
  3. Was your mother Cynthia Ann Parker?
  1. I am not … Qin Shi Huang, author of Mulan?

  2. Take a DQ.

  3. I am not “Q”, in either his Desmond LLewelyn, John Cleese, or Ben Wishaw incarnations.

Take 3 DQs.

  1. Take a DQ.

  2. I am not Dan Quisenberry.

  3. I am not Queequeg, chief harpooner of the Pequod.

  1. Take a DQ.

  2. I am not Quinn the Eskimo

  3. Take a DQ.

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with “Q”.
  4. Created by an American.
  5. Created after 1950.
  6. Originally from prose.

1 was Chief Quimby; 2 was Marilyn Quayle (Second Lady of the US, while Emhoff is Second Gentleman); 3 was Joe Quesada.

DQs:
1. created before 1980?
2. appeared in film?
3. main character?

Dammit; I knew I knew Emhoff’s name, I just couldn’t remember from whence.

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with “Q”.
  4. Created by an American.
  5. Created after 1950.
  6. Originally from prose.
  7. Created before 1980.
  8. Not in a movie.
  9. Main character.

#1 was Quasimodo. Victor Hugo put it in his will that he didn’t want his poems put to music, as he felt that was just horrible. He had no idea anyone would add songs to his novels.
#2 Is Prof. Quatermass. The UK title of the movie is Quatermass and the Pit.
#3 is correct.

DQ: From a work of science fiction, fantasy or horror?

1 DQ reserved.

#1 was Adam Quark (played by Richard Benjamin) of the short-lived Quark (I always wondered if the Feregi was named as a callback to him)
#2 was Jamie Quirk (Quiz was a good guess, though he was a reliever not a catcher)
Correct on #3.

DQ: Created before 1975?

One DQ reserved.

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with “Q”.
  4. Created by an American.
  5. Created after 1950.
  6. Originally from prose.
  7. Created before 1980.
  8. Not in a movie.
  9. Main character.
  10. Not from a work of science fiction, fantasy, or horror?
  11. Created after 1975.

Quox, correct, Quanah Parker.

DQ:

  1. Caucasian?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Were you a famous 1960s clothes designer who popularized the mini-skirt?
  2. Were you a 1960s cartoon main character who had a dog named Bandit?
  3. Are you #2’s father?

Okay, for my future reference Five Million Years To Earth is the Quatermass movie, 20 Million Miles to Earth is the Harryhausen movie (which I thought the Prof. was asking about). Five Million Years: Quatermass, 20 Million Miles: Ymir. Five Million Years: Quatermass, 20 Million Miles: Ymir.

IQs:
1. Did you have a live-action role as the Jewish mother in Woody Allen’s “Oedipus Wrecks” segment of New York Stories? He’d previously used you in Zelig, singing “Chameleon Days” in a voiceover.
2. In a Star Trek novel by Peter David, is Trelane revealed to be part of the same continuum as you?
3. Did you host Tough Crowd?