Botticelli - May 2024

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you the Finch family’s cook and housekeeper? - Not Sebastian Cabot, but Calpurnia, in To Kill A Mockingbird
Were you the most prominent Confederate general killed at the 1864 Battle of Franklin? - Not Gen. Cadaverous, but Patrick Cleburne
Did you and another writer agree as to how each would be credited on both sides of the Atlantic? - Winston Churchill (American) and Winston Spencer Churchill (British); for more on the less-well-known dude: Winston Churchill (novelist) - Wikipedia

DQs:

Living?
European?
Best known for the Arts?
Born since 1964?

IQs:

Was it said that you resembled a rotten mackerel by moonlight?
Did Tommy Lee Jones play you in JFK?
Were you the clever young criminal behind the Red-Headed League con?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

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

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you a very close associate, at the very least, of J. Edgar Hoover?
2. Did you use the pseudonym Mary Westmacott?
3. Were you Janet, on The Good Place?

#2. I am not Agatha Christie.
Take 2 DQs.

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Was it said that you resembled a rotten mackerel by moonlight?
Did Tommy Lee Jones play you in JFK?
Were you the clever young criminal behind the Red-Headed League con?

1. I am not Al Capone?
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not John Clay.

[SCAdian]

@De_La_Rue

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

So. Too obscure?

I have not heard of the book.

Nor have I.

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Were you a very close associate, at the very least, of J. Edgar Hoover?
2. Did you use the pseudonym Mary Westmacott?
3. Were you Janet, on The Good Place?

1 was Clyde Tolson; 3 was D’Arcy Carden.

DQs:
1. known for the performing arts?
2. from the United Kingdom or Ireland?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

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

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Are you a rapper and Olympic commentator known for consumption of weed, gin, and juice?

2. Did you discover Pluto?

3. Were you a Brat Pack actor, best known for your roles in The Outsiders, Hitcher, and Red Dawn?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you a nonhuman crewmember in Red Dwarf?
2. Did you write The House on Mango Street?
3. Does the song “The Presidents” sum you up as “lusted in his heart for peanuts”?

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Did you write “The Case For Reparations”?
2. Did you sing lead for Men At Work?
3. Did you create a Saturday morning cartoon character played by Kenan Thompson in a live-action cinematic adaptation?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you a rapper and Olympic commentator known for consumption of weed, gin, and juice?
2. Did you discover Pluto?
3. Were you a Brat Pack actor, best known for your roles in The Outsiders, Hitcher, and Red Dawn?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Clyde Tombaugh.
3. I am not Charlie Sheen (?)

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you a nonhuman crewmember in Red Dwarf?
2. Did you write The House on Mango Street?
3. Does the song “The Presidents” sum you up as “lusted in his heart for peanuts”?

#3. I am not Jimmy Carter.
Take 2 DQs.

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Did you write “The Case For Reparations”?
2. Did you sing lead for Men At Work?
3. Did you create a Saturday morning cartoon character played by Kenan Thompson in a live-action cinematic adaptation?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Colin Hay.
3. I am not Bill Cosby (?)

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

#3. I am not Jimmy Carter.
Take 2 DQs.

1 was the Cat; 2 was Sandra Cisneros.

DQs:
1. known for acting?
2. from the UK?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

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.

[SunUp]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@SunUp

1. Did you write “The Case For Reparations”?
2. Did you sing lead for Men At Work?
3. Did you create a Saturday morning cartoon character played by Kenan Thompson in a live-action cinematic adaptation?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Colin Hay.
3. I am not Bill Cosby (?)

#1 was Ta-Nehisi Coates. Correct on #s 2 and 3.

DQ: Born since 1988?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

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

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Are you a rapper and Olympic commentator known for consumption of weed, gin, and juice?
2. Did you discover Pluto?
3. Were you a Brat Pack actor, best known for your roles in The Outsiders, Hitcher, and Red Dawn?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Clyde Tombaugh.
3. I am not Charlie Sheen (?)

1 was Calvin Broadus, better known as Snoop Dogg. 2 was indeed Clyde Tombaugh. Good guess on 3, but the star of Hitcher was C. Thomas Howell.

DQs:

1. Comic actor?
2. Frequent guest on panel shows like QI and Would I Lie To You?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

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.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

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

Hmm. Well, that rules out Claudia Winkelmann…

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Are you the personification of Ireland, the Irish equivalent of Uncle Sam or John Bull?

2. Are you a former mayor of San Antonio, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?

3. Were you one of the Nixon Administration’s Plumbers?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did you and your son play the same role in The Ten Commandments?
2. Did you defend John Scopes?
3. Were you Mabel’s shorter, bespectacled friend on Gravity Falls?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Are you the personification of Ireland, the Irish equivalent of Uncle Sam or John Bull?
2. Are you a former mayor of San Antonio, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development?
3. Were you one of the Nixon Administration’s Plumbers?

#3. I am not Charles Colson.
Take 2 DQs.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Did you and your son play the same role in The Ten Commandments?
2. Did you defend John Scopes?
3. Were you Mabel’s shorter, bespectacled friend on Gravity Falls?

#2 I am not Clarence Darrow.
Take 2 DQs.