Botticelli May 2025

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Did Tove Jansson write a book about you at sea?
IQ2: Are you #1’s spouse?
IQ3: Are you their son?

[knoodler]

@De_La_Rue

Regarding your second question, knoodler, are you thinking this a real person? Because I said before you asked that that she’s fictional.

I’ll rescind my DQ, I don’t know why I asked it.

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Did you take up comedy after your husband walked out?
2. Are you her manager?
3. Did you play her husband?

[De_La_Rue]

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did Tove Jansson write a book about you at sea?
IQ2: Are you #1’s spouse?
IQ3: Are you their son?

IQ1: I am not Moominpapa.
IQ2: I am not Moominmama.
IQ3: I am not Moomintroll.

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you take up comedy after your husband walked out?
2. Are you her manager?
3. Did you play her husband?

1. I am not Mrs. Midge Maisel (previously asked about by Thing.Fish).
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

[knoodler]

@De_La_Rue

1. I am not Mrs. Midge Maisel (previously asked about by Thing.Fish).
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

Ah, I missed that earlier IQ.

2. Susie Myerson
3. Michael Zegan (played Joel Maisel)

DQs:

1. First appear after 1960?
2. American?
3. American creator?

[SCAdian]

@De_La_Rue

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did Tove Jansson write a book about you at sea?
IQ2: Are you #1’s spouse?
IQ3: Are you their son?

IQ1: I am not Moominpapa.
IQ2: I am not Moominmama.
IQ3: I am not Moomintroll.

Harrumph.

[Thing.Fish]

Miss Marple is correct!! I am impressed with your erudition. Time to escalate.

1. Did your daughter use her telekinetic powers to stop your heart after you stabbed her with a kitchen knife?
2. Do you invariably wear a large bow and a polka-dot dress?
3. Are you a comic strip character whose speech is lettered in a different style than everyone else in the strip?

[SunUp]

Ah, swept me! Karl M. x3!

IQs:

1. Are you aka Olorin?
2. Were you a former MLS defender whose father played for the Padres, Pirates and Cubs?
3. Were you a slugging Giants right fielder, beloved of crossword composers?

[De_La_Rue]

@Thing4. .Fish

1. Did your daughter use her telekinetic powers to stop your heart after you stabbed her with a kitchen knife?
2. Do you invariably wear a large bow and a polka-dot dress?
3. Are you a comic strip character whose speech is lettered in a different style than everyone else in the strip?

1. I am not Margaret White.
2. I am not Minnie Mouse.
3. Take a DQ. I’m thinking this is someone from Pogo or Li’l Abner.

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Are you aka Olorin?
2. Were you a former MLS defender whose father played for the Padres, Pirates and Cubs?
3. Were you a slugging Giants right fielder, beloved of crossword composers?

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Mel Ott.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. female
3. first appeared after 1900
4. first appeared after 1960
5. American
6. American creators

[SunUp]

@De_La_Rue

@SunUp

1. Are you aka Olorin?
2. Were you a former MLS defender whose father played for the Padres, Pirates and Cubs?
3. Were you a slugging Giants right fielder, beloved of crossword composers?

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Mel Ott.

“I am Mithrandir among the elves”, says Gandalf.
Marvell Wynne II.
And correct.

DQs:

1. First name begins with M?
2. First appeared after 1990?

[Thing.Fish]

Damn, you’re good!

#3 was Moe, the bully from Calvin and Hobbes, whose speech was in lowercase, while everyone else talked and thought in all caps.

[Thing.Fish]

DQ: did you first become well known through a literary work (as distinct from movies, comics, etc)?

[kitap]

@kitap

IQs:

1. Did you Impress 10 fire lizards in the Pern books?
2. Are you a helpful, friendly witch in the Enchanted Forest Chronicles?
3. Did you die of starvation while living (with your sister Olive) with the Mohave Indians?

Menolly, Morwen, Mary Ann Oatman.

DQ:
Caucasian?

2 DQs reserved

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Welcome, Thing.Fish! Glad to have you here. Please explain your username, if you’re willing.

Previous IQs:

Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? - Capt. Marko Ramius in Tom Clancy’s The Hunt for Red October (played by Sean Connery in the movie)
Did you go to Vienna to meet up with your ol’ pal Harry Lime? - Holly Martins, the hapless author, in The Third Man
Were you Anne Frank’s older sister? - Margot Frank

DQs:

Main character?
From genre fiction (Western, detective, sf, fantasy, etc.)?
Considered a beauty?

[De_La_Rue]

DQs:
1. fictional
2. female
3. first appeared after 1900
4. first appeared after 1960
5. American
6. American creators
7. first name begins with M
8. first appeared before 1990
9. did not first appear in a literary work (as distinct from movies, comics, etc.)
10. Caucasian
11. supporting character
12. from a specific genre
13. not considered attractive

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you play Falseface on the 1960’s Batman TV series?
2. Did you play Mrs. Nussbaum on Fred Allen’s radio series?
3. Are you a racecar driver who won the Indianapolis 500 once, and whose family, though in the race every year since for decades, has never won again?

1. I am not Malachi Throne.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Mario Andretti?

Correct on 1 and 3.
#2 was Minerva Pious.

DQ: From comic books?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Were you an associate producer at WJM?
2. Were you Hogwarts’ Transfiguration professor?
3. Did you star in the underrated and badly titled movie Serial?

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Are you married to Chelsea Clinton?
2. Did your vote get the 1993 Clinton budget over the finish line in the House of Representatives?
3. Did you give a ride to a hitchhiking, bow-tie-wearing man-child on the way to the Alamo?

[De_La_Rue]

@Thing.Fish

#3 was Moe, the bully from Calvin and Hobbes, whose speech was in lowercase, while everyone else talked and thought in all caps.

moe! of course!

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Were you an associate producer at WJM?
2. Were you Hogwarts’ Transfiguration professor?
3. Did you star in the underrated and badly titled movie Serial?

1. I am not Mary Richards.
2. I am not Minerva McGonagall.
3. Take a DQ.

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Are you married to Chelsea Clinton?
2. Did your vote get the 1993 Clinton budget over the finish line in the House of Representatives?
3. Did you give a ride to a hitchhiking, bow-tie-wearing man-child on the way to the Alamo?

1. I am not Mark Nivetsky?
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Large Marge.

DQs:

1. fictional
2. female
3. first appeared after 1900
4. first appeared after 1960
5. American
6. American creators
7. first name begins with M
8. first appeared before 1990
9. did not first appear in a literary work (as distinct from movies, comics, etc.)
10. Caucasian
11. supporting character
12. from a specific genre
13. not considered attractive
14. from comic books

[SunUp]

@De_La_Rue

@SunUp

1. Are you married to Chelsea Clinton?
2. Did your vote get the 1993 Clinton budget over the finish line in the House of Representatives?
3. Did you give a ride to a hitchhiking, bow-tie-wearing man-child on the way to the Alamo?

1. I am not Mark Nivetsky?
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Large Marge.

Mark Mezvinsky, his mother Marjorie Margulies-Mezvinsky, and (correct) Large Marge.

DQs:

1. First appeared before 1975?
2. Last name begins with A-M?