Botticelli -- May 2026

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

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?

@SCAdian

3 DQs

1 was Abraham Lincoln; 2 was Ayn Rand; 3 was Archie Andrews.

3 DQs reserved.

[Eureka]

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?

4. Lady Alys Vorpatril (Vorkosigan Series by Lois McMaster Bujold)

5. Anne of Green Gables

6. Alfred of Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead which is based on Hamlet

[Eureka]

Clearly I am not smarter or more patient than the formatting help my computer is giving me. But the answers are in the right order.

[Eureka]

1. Are you an orphan whose benefactor enables you to meet President FDR?
2. Did you help a young deaf/blind child learn to communicate?
3. Did you play the Princess of Genovia?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SCAdian

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

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?

Not Alma Gropius &c
DQ
DQ

1 is correct.
2 was Alan Arkin.
3 was Amy Adams.

2 DQs reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Congrats, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Did David Sedaris visit you in your home not long before you died? - Phyllis Diller
Were you the victor of the 1865 Battle of Five Forks? - Gen. Phil Sheridan
Were you “trainer of the gods” in Disney’s Hercules? - Yes, Philoctetes, voiced by Danny DeVito.

Phyl/Phil x3. On to A!

IQs:

Were Elladan and Elrohir your badass twin brothers?
Were you AKA Sauron?
Were you AKA Elessar?

[kitap]

1. Did you write Watership Down?
2. Did you It All Started With Eve?
3. Did you write The Forgotten Door?

[knoodler]

@SCAdian

@knoodler

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?

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

Alfred Pennyworth
I’m withdrawing this IQ because apparently I thought an “H” or “G” was appropriate here.
Correct

1 DQ reserved

[SCAdian]

@Eureka

1. Are you an orphan whose benefactor enables you to meet President FDR?
2. Did you help a young deaf/blind child learn to communicate?
3. Did you play the Princess of Genovia?

Not Annie
Not Anne Lastname (The Miracle Worker was the senior class play when I was in 12th grade)
DQ for this presumed Anne

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were Elladan and Elrohir your badass twin brothers?
Were you AKA Sauron?
Were you AKA Elessar?

Not Arwen Undomiel
DQ
Not Aragorn

@kitap

1. Did you write Watership Down?
2. Did you It All Started With Eve?
3. Did you write The Forgotten Door?

Not Richard Adams
Not Richard Armour
Not Alexander Key (thank you, Scholastic!)

A

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with A

[kitap]

Swept me!

1. Did Willa Cather write a book with your name in the title?
2. Did you play Chanel #5 on Scream Queens?
3. Was your most famous role probably Jennifer Marlowe?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs

1. American?
2. Living?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs

1. Were you a Dadaist artist who sometimes used the first name Jean and sometimes Hans?
2. In the musical Hamilton are you rudely told to shut up?
3. Did you knock the Beatles off the #1 spot in 1964?

[knoodler]

DQ: Known for the arts?

IQs:

1. Did Leonardo DiCaprio portray you in a Spielberg movie?
2. Were you an alias used by him?
3. Did you host a British comedy/musical show that bore your name?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were Elladan and Elrohir your badass twin brothers? - Correct: Arwen Undomiel
Were you AKA Sauron? - Annatar, “Lord of Gifts,” when he was deceiving the Elves and others with magic rings
Were you AKA Elessar? - Yes, Aragorn

DQ:

Born since 1950?

IQs:

Were you a Maine infantry officer and later a Carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi?
Are you the current Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio?
Did you play Disraeli very, very well in Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown?

[Eureka]

1. Are you an orphan whose benefactor enables you to meet President FDR?

2. Did you help a young deaf/blind child learn to communicate?

3. Did you play the Princess of Genovia?

@SCAdian

Not Annie
Not Anne Lastname (The Miracle Worker was the senior class play when I was in 12th grade)
DQ for this presumed Anne

1. Correct
2. Anne Sullivan (The Miracle Worker was the play I was in as a sophomore in high school. I had the most minor of parts–I think I was a fellow blind student, and one of the voices in Anne’s head)
3. Anne Hathaway

[Eureka]

1. Do you sing “Anything you can do, I can do better”?
2. Are you a girl who can’t say no?
3. Were you one of Henry the Eighths wives?

[SCAdian]

@kitap

1. Did Willa Cather write a book with your name in the title?
2. Did you play Chanel #5 on Scream Queens?
3. Was your most famous role probably Jennifer Marlowe?

Three DQs

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Were you a Dadaist artist who sometimes used the first name Jean and sometimes Hans?
2. In the musical Hamilton are you rudely told to shut up?
3. Did you knock the Beatles off the #1 spot in 1964?

Three DQs

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did Leonardo DiCaprio portray you in a Spielberg movie?
2. Were you an alias used by him?
3. Did you host a British comedy/musical show that bore your name?

Three DQs

@Elendil_s_Heir

IQs:

Were you a Maine infantry officer and later a Carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi?
Are you the current Democratic nominee for Governor of Ohio?
Did you play Disraeli very, very well in Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown?

Three DQs

@Eureka

1. Do you sing “Anything you can do, I can do better”?
2. Are you a girl who can’t say no?
3. Were you one of Henry the Eighths wives?

DQ
DQ
Neither Anne Boleyn nor Anne of Cleves

And that’s 28, so no more IQs, please. Ask all earned DQs by 2200 Eastern, Saturday 15 May.

A

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with A
4. American
5. Dead
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Not born after 1950

[Eureka]

Born after 1800?

[SCAdian]

A

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name begins with A
4. American
5. Dead
6. Not known for the Arts
7. Not born after 1950
8. Born after 1800

[Eureka]

Known for science?