Botticelli -- May 2026

E

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name begins with E
  5. Not American
  6. Known for the arts

IQs

  1. Are you best remembered for painting The Scream?
  2. Did you compose the ballet Pere Gynt?
  3. Were you a Hoosier who was one of the earliest automobile inventors?

Elizabeth Enright, Erika Kirk, Elgion

3 DQs reserved

IQs:
1. Did you wait for Godot?
2. Did you voice Maggie Simpson?
3. Is a mathematical constant named after you (well, your initial)?

I am not Edvard Munch nor Elwood Hayes, but I am Edvard Grieg! Legendary Norwegian composer of Peer Gynt Suite, including the epic “Hall of the Mountain King!” Good job, Prof. P!

Well done, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did your eldest son make a very, very big mistake (that eventually cost him his own life) right after you died? - Not Edward I AKA Longshanks (and what was that mistake?), but King Elendil, in Tolkien’s writings
Were you the first king of the House of Telcontar? - Elessar FKA Aragorn
Were you the second? - Eldarion

And on to…

R !

  1. Did you compose a Requiem as well as an arrangement of “the Lord Bless you out and Keep you”?
  2. Did you write a poem about good neighbors or fences?
  3. Were you an actor turned politician?

IQs:
1. Did you have binders full of women?
2. Can we stand under your umbrella?
3. Are you on the search for Amelia Earhart in the current comic series [you]: The Island?

  1. I oughta know, but take a DQ.
  2. I am not Robert Frost.
  3. I am not Ronald Reagan.
  1. I am not Mitt Romney.
  2. I am not Rihanna.
  3. Take a Dq.
  1. John Rutter
  2. correct
  3. correct

3 was the Rocketeer.

DQ: real?

IQs:
1. Did you write We the Living?
2. Were you a Discworld “wizzard”?
3. Were you a White House Chief of Staff-turned-mayor of Chicago?

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga?
Were you U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1981-85?

Congrats!

  1. Did you accompany Prince Inga in his efforts to free his people and his parents?
  2. Did you play Parker on Leverage?
  3. Were you the star of Back to School?

IQs:

  1. Were you a spokesperson for Alberto VO-5?
  2. Did Macaulay Culkin play you in an eponymous film?
  3. Were you discovered on a WWI battlefield before going on to becoming a world-famous movie star?
  1. I am not Rincewind.
  2. Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Rodney Dangerfield.