Botticelli May 2025

[Thing.Fish]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you, and not Robert Fulton, actually invent the steamboat?
2. Were you the French painter who painted the very famous painting of a young woman in a bright pink dress on a swing?
3. Have you been portrayed by Eli Wallach, Otto Preminger, George Sanders and Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Take three DQs.

[Thing.Fish]

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Did you command Hill Street station?
Were you the FYI “action guy”?
Were you RNC Chair in the Eighties?

Take three DQs.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Thing.Fish

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you, and not Robert Fulton, actually invent the steamboat?
2. Were you the French painter who painted the very famous painting of a young woman in a bright pink dress on a swing?
3. Have you been portrayed by Eli Wallach, Otto Preminger, George Sanders and Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Take three DQs.

#1 was John Fitch.
#2 was Fragonard.
#3 is Mr. Freeze. (The first three on the 1960’s TV series, and the other in Batman & Robin.)

3 DQs reserved.

[Thing.Fish]

@De_La_Rue

1. Speaking of Drive-Away Dolls, are you married to the brother (and collaborator, though not on that film) of the director?
2. Did you say we have nothing to fear but this?
3. Were you a rabbit in Watership Down?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
3. I am not…Fluffy the Fierce? Oh, just take a DQ.

[Thing.Fish]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name begins with F
4. Not a main character
5. From prose fiction
6. Author not American

By my count, we are up to 19 DQs (or 18 if that Frank James guess is right), so the next set of IQs will likely be the last.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. European creator?
2. Created after 1950?

1 DQ reserved.

[Thing.Fish]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name begins with F
4. Not a main character
5. From prose fiction
6. Author not American
7. Author is European
8. Created before 1950

[SunUp]

DQ: From genre fiction (fantasy, sf, mystery, horror, western, etc.)?

[Thing.Fish]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name begins with F
4. Not a main character
5. From prose fiction
6. Author not American
7. Author is European
8. Created before 1950
9. Not from genre fiction

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Created before 1800?

[SCAdian]

@Thing.Fish

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you the dirty little coward that shot Mr Howard?I
IQ2: Are you still dead?
IQ3: Were you the Carolina Swamp Fox?

@De_La_Rue

Correction: Sigourney Weaver is the niece of Doodles Weaver, not his daughter.

Oops. Didn’t get to use the DQ anyway.

1. I think I should know this…I am not…Frank James?
2. I am not Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
3. Take a DQ.

Bob Ford
correct
Francis Marion

DQ1: Author a native speaker of a Germanic language?
One DQ reserved.

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Did you die in the Battle of the Five Armies?
2. Were you a relief pitcher with an extravagant handlebar mustache?
3. Were you a thief, the title character of a Dragon magazine comic strip?

[Thing.Fish]

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1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Only name begins with F
4. Not a main character
5. From prose fiction
6. Author not American
7. Author is European
8. Created before 1950
9. Not from genre fiction
10. Created before 1800
11. Author native speaker of a Germanic language

[Thing.Fish]

Did you die in the Battle of the Five Armies?
Were you a relief pitcher with an extravagant handlebar mustache?
Were you a thief, the title character of a Dragon magazine comic strip?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Carlton Fisk.
3. Steal a DQ.

[Thing.Fish]

IQs are now closed.

By my count, Prof has 4 DQs reserved, Elendil and SunUp 3 each, and SCAdian 1.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Looking back, I only asked 3 IQs, for which I received 3 DQs, which I’ve already asked. I should only have 0 DQs at the moment.

[SunUp]

@Thing.Fish

Did you die in the Battle of the Five Armies?
Were you a relief pitcher with an extravagant handlebar mustache?
Were you a thief, the title character of a Dragon magazine comic strip?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Carlton Fisk.
3. Steal a DQ.

Fili, nephew of Thorin Oakenshield and brother of Kili.
Rollie Fingers
Finieous Fingers

3 DQs reserved.

[Thing.Fish]

OK. on a more careful count, looks like knoodler 2, SCA 1, Elendil 3, de la Rue 2, and SunUp 3!

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Speaking of Drive-Away Dolls, are you married to the brother (and collaborator, though not on that film) of the director?
2. Did you say we have nothing to fear but this?
5. Were you a rabbit in Watership Down?

@Thing.Fish

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
3. I am not…Fluffy the Fierce? Oh, just take a DQ.

1 was Frances McDormand, Joel Coen’s wife; the third IQ was Fiver.

2 DQs reserved.

[Thing.Fish]

Can’t believe that brainfart, Fisk wasn’t even a pitcher. D’oh!