Botticelli - November 2023

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

M

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with M

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you lead The Citadel after WWII?
Were you a Western gunslinger with the nickname of a flying critter?
Were you chief engineer of DS9?

DQ
Not Bat Masterson
Not Miles O’Brian

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
2. Did you write Nearer My God To Thee?
3. Did The Gryphon say you had no sorrow, really?

2 DQs
Not the Mock Turtle

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
2. Did you write Nearer My God To Thee?
3. Did The Gryphon say you had no sorrow, really?

2 DQs
Not the Mock Turtle

#1 was Count Jim (Cockshafer) Moriarty.
#2 was Lowell Mason.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

1. Living?
2. American?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Are you a sad young man whose best friends are a Watchdog and a Humbug?
2. Were you the mess officer for the 256th Squadron on Pianosa, who made a fortune buying eggs for 5 cents an egg, and selling them for 1 cent?
3. Did you live with your grandfather in a boarding house with a neurotic young man, a sentient cockroach, and a penguin?

Not Milo from the underappreciated The Phantom Tollbooth
DQ - probably another Milo
Not Milo Bloom from Bloom County

Correct on 1 and 3. As surmised, 2 was another Milo, Milo Minderbinder, the utterly amoral mess officer from Catch-22.

DQ: First name starts with A - M?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you lead The Citadel after WWII? - Gen. Mark Clark
Were you a Western gunslinger with the nickname of a flying critter? - Yes, Bartholemew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson
Were you chief engineer of DS9? - Yes, Miles O’Brien (sic)

DQ:

Best known for politics/military?

IQs:

Were you a deposed Latin American dictator in a Sherlock Holmes story?
Are you the mayor of Lakewood, Ohio?
A businessman and big-city mayor, did you have a very direct approach to pretty girls early in your career?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you an actress who was married to Neil Simon?
2. Are you an actress who was married to Antonio Banderas?
3. Were you a friar who was very successful with peas?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

M

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with M
4. Living
5. Not American
6. First name starts with A-M
7. Not best known for politics/military

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you a deposed Latin American dictator in a Sherlock Holmes story?
Are you the mayor of Lakewood, Ohio?
A businessman and big-city mayor, did you have a very direct approach to pretty girls early in your career?

2 DQs
Not Marion Barry?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you an actress who was married to Neil Simon?
2. Are you an actress who was married to Antonio Banderas?
3. Were you a friar who was very successful with peas?

Not Marsha Mason
Not Melanie Griffith
Not Mendel

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Swept again.

IQs:

1. Do you currently make between 2.5 and 3 million dollars a year from sales/plays of one particular seasonal song?
2. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and never again?
3. Did you write the verse play J. B.?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Were you possibly the most sucessful gospel singer of all time, the first one to have a song hit #2 on the Billboard chart, and subsequently singing the national anthem at a Presidential inauguration?

2. Was your name adapted and used as a nickname for extremely long-lived humans in the novel Altered Carbon?

3. Were you the author of that novel?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Are you Hercules Grytpype-Thynne’s French thug sidekick on the highly acclaimed mock-leather-covered all-whistling 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?

Note to self: Memorize the names of every character, actor, producer, and writer on The Goon Show, in preparation for the Prof’s next round.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

Note to self: Memorize the names of every character, actor, producer, and writer on The Goon Show, in preparation for the Prof’s next round.

Sapristi knuckoes! Are you in for a treat!!

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Do you currently make between 2.5 and 3 million dollars a year from sales/plays of one particular seasonal song?
2. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and never again?
3. Did you write the verse play J. B.?

Not Mariah Carey?
2 DQs

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you possibly the most sucessful gospel singer of all time, the first one to have a song hit #2 on the Billboard chart, and subsequently singing the national anthem at a Presidential inauguration?
2. Was your name adapted and used as a nickname for extremely long-lived humans in the novel Altered Carbon?
3. Were you the author of that novel?

DQ
Not Methusalah
DQ

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Do you currently make between 2.5 and 3 million dollars a year from sales/plays of one particular seasonal song?
2. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 in 1969 and never again?
3. Did you write the verse play J. B.?

Not Mariah Carey?
2 DQs

1. Correct on Mariah.
   2 is Mario Andretti.
   3 is Archibald MacLeish.

DQs:

1. European?
2. Born after 1980?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. singer of all time, the first one to have a song hit #2 on the Billboard chart, and subsequently singing the national anthem at a Presidential inauguration?
2. Was your name adapted and used as a nickname for extremely long-lived humans in the novel Altered Carbon?
3. Were you the author of that novel?

DQ
Not Methusalah
DQ

1 was Mahalia Jackson. Correct, though misspelled, on Methuselah. 3 was Richard Morgan.

DQs:

1. Mother tongue is English?
2. Known for the arts?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

M

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with M
4. Living
5. Not American
6. First name starts with A-M
7. Not best known for politics/military
8. European
9. Born before 1980
10. Mother tongue is not English
11. Known for the arts

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you a deposed Latin American dictator in a Sherlock Holmes story? - Don Juan Murillo, in “Wisteria Lodge”
Are you the mayor of Lakewood, Ohio? - Mayor Meghan George
A businessman and big-city mayor, did you have a very direct approach to pretty girls early in your career? - Not Marion Berry but NYC’s own Michael Bloomberg, who once admitted that he would ask girls point-blank, soon after meeting them, if they’d go to bed with him. A friend asked, “Didn’t you get slapped a lot?” He replied, “Yeah… but I got laid a lot, too!”

DQs:

Best known for the performing arts?
Considered handsome?
Born before 1880?

IQs:

Were you stabbed to death in your bath?
Did you say, late in life, “I am always learning”?
Did you write and illustrate Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Were you a composer with a scatological fetish, who wrote (among symphonies, concertos, and operas) a canon whose title translates to “Lick Me in the Ass”?

2. Were you another composer who, despite his name, was not related to one of @Prof.Pepperwinkle’s IQs in post #166?

3. Did you have a hit in the 70’s with the song “Midnight in the Oasis”?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

M

1. Real
2. Male
3. Last name starts with M
4. Living
5. Not American
6. First name starts with A-M
7. Not best known for politics/military
8. European
9. Born before 1980
10. Mother tongue is not English
11. Known for the arts
12. Best known for the performing arts, but not as a performer
13. Not considered handsome, at least not in my opinion
14. Born before 1980 (I assume “1880” was a typo given #4)

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you stabbed to death in your bath?
Did you say, late in life, “I am always learning”?
Did you write and illustrate Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus?

Not Jean-Paul Marat
DQ
Not Mo Willems - I hope I spelled it right, my now-college-age kids had several of the pigeon and the K’nuffle Bunny books when they were younger

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you a composer with a scatological fetish, who wrote (among symphonies, concertos, and operas) a canon whose title translates to “Lick Me in the Ass”?
2. Were you another composer who, despite his name, was not related to one of @Prof.Pepperwinkle’s IQs in post #166?
3. Did you have a hit in the 70’s with the song “Midnight in the Oasis”?

Not Mozart
Not Mendelsonn - hopefully I was looking at the correct post
Not Maria Muldar (sp?)

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you a composer with a scatological fetish, who wrote (among symphonies, concertos, and operas) a canon whose title translates to “Lick Me in the Ass”?
2. Were you another composer who, despite his name, was not related to one of @Prof.Pepperwinkle’s IQs in post #166?
3. Did you have a hit in the 70’s with the song “Midnight in the Oasis”?

Not Mozart
Not Mendelsonn - hopefully I was looking at the correct post
Not Maria Muldar (sp?)

Yup. Swept me! (But, at the risk of breaking my arm patting my own back, I thought the Mendel/Mendelssohn question was kinda clever).

IQs:

1. Did you originate both the roles of Peter Pan and Maria Von Trapp on Broadway?

2. Despite your fame as a comedian, comic actor, and writer, is your true passion banjo music?

3. Are you a gender-fluid Canadian actor now, resident in the UK, who wrote and starred in the series Feel Good, opposite Charlotte Ritchie and Lisa Kudrow?