Botticelli -- May 2026

Correct, Jared Padalecki, Penelope Anne Miller

DQ: Caucasian?

One DQ reserved

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Phillip Pullman.

Respectively:
Knoodler already used Philip Baker Hall.
I am not Picasso.
I am not Patricia O’Neal.

DQs:
1. male
2. real
3. first name begins with P
4. dead
5. known for the arts
6. known for the performing arts
7. died after 1950
8. not American
9. European
10. best known as an actor
11. Caucasian

Previous IQs:

Did you play a gruff library cop on Seinfeld? - Ah, yes, Philip Baker Hall; I missed the earlier reference
Did your wife photograph you wearing a lobster suit in a bathtub? - Not Picasso, but this guy: Patrick Stewart cooks up delight in a lobster costume
Were you Roald Dahl’s long-suffering wife? - It was Patricia Neal, but close enough

DQ:

Native English speaker?

IQs:

Did David Sedaris visit you in your home not long before you died?
Were you the victor of the 1865 Battle of Five Forks?
Were you “trainer of the gods” in Disney’s Hercules?

IQs:

  1. Were you the losing commander in the 1865 Battle of Five Forks?
  2. Were you a humorist who once tried to explain the entire U.S. government?
  3. Were you Ferris’s girlfriend?

Swept me!

2 DQs still reserved

Respectively:
I am not Phillip Roth.
I am not General Lewis R. Phakename.
I am not Philoctetes.

1. I am not General Pope?
2. I am not Paul Krassner?
3. I am not Sloane Peterson.

DQs:
1. male
2. real
4. first name begins with P
5. dead
6. known for the arts
7. known for the performing arts
8. died after 1950
9. not American
10. European
11. best known as an actor
12. Caucasian
13. native English speaker

IQ1: Did you play a bumbling French cop in several films?
IQ2: Were you a Vietnamese soldier who became a supporting character in a comic strip?
IQ3: Were you a main character in a musical film based on a book by Ian Fleming?


DQ: Best known as a film or TV actor?

I am not Nguyen Van Phred or Caractacus Potts, but I am indeed Peter Sellers! Next game goes to SCAdian.

#1 was General George Pickett.
#2 was P.J. O’Rourke (it was the subtitle of his book “Parliament of Whores”)
#3 is correct.

DQs:
Died after 2000?
Won a major acting award?

EDIT: Ah, ninja’ed. Congrats to SCAdian!

Good job! Peter Sellers was not on my radar.

I had finally schemed up a nicely themed trio of questions, which I will save for another day.

Good job! I was about to ask a Goon Show question about him myself.

I am A.

IQs:

  1. Were you a widow whose graces were sung by Tom Lehrer?
  2. Did you star and sing in the movie The Return of Captain Invincible?
  3. Did you star and sing in the movie Enchanted?
  1. Were you the Emperor’s social secretary?
  2. Were you adopted by a pair of siblings as how were expecting a boy?
  3. Were you the youngest member of as set of traveling players hired to put on a play within a play based on a famous play?

IQs:
1. Did Daniel Day-Lewis play you in a biopic directed by Steven Spielberg?
2. Did you say that A = A?
3. Have you been drawn by Dan DeCarlo and Dan Parent?

IQs:

  1. Were you originally depicted in comics as a bumbling, overweight detective?
  2. Were you defeated at the Battle of Hastings?
  3. Did you provide assistance to Harry and Hermione in Godric’s Hollow?

IQs:

  1. Were you a modern dancer who founded your own dance company?
  2. Did you play opposite Vin Diesel in the extreme-sports-based movie XXX?
  3. Were you a Union brigadier general from Maine who became a carpetbagger governor of Mississippi?

Not Alma Gropius &c
DQ
DQ

Three DQs

3 DQs

DQ
Not Harold Godwinsson, who isn’t an ‘A’
Not … Aberforth?

Three DQs

Alvin Ailey, Asia Argento, and Adelbert Ames.

A.A. x3!!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
First name begins with A?