Botticelli - Oct. 2020

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real.
  3. Last name does not start with J

Jim Starlin created Thanos.
Correct on Kirby.
Jim Steranko did the art on Strange Tales.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Born after 1950?

IQs:

  1. Did you play the one woman Spock truly loved in the original series?
  2. Are you married to Robert Wagner?
  3. Were you the title character in The Mentalist?

Good job, CFOHG!

Previous IQs:

You are not Evan Peters. Do you very briefly appear in Deadpool 2? - Brad Pitt
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules? - Yes, Philoctetes
Did you found Kenyon College? - Philander Chase, Episcopal bishop of Ohio

On to J.

IQs:

Did you play a hard-nosed editor?
Did Elizabeth Banks play your secretary?
Were you a hero of Little Round Top?

Not Jill “This Side of Paradise” Ireland.
Not Jill St. John
Take a DQ - why do I suspect it will be another “Jill”

Not J.K.Simmons
Not J. Jonah Jameson
Take a DQ

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. Living
  5. Not born after 1950
  1. Mary Jemison
  2. NK Jemisin
  3. Correct

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. Caucasian?

IQs:
1. Does a 1962 “hag horror” film answer the question Whatever Happened to you?
2. Did you take a break from basketball to take up baseball and golf?
3. Did you chronicle the adventures of book-hopping SpecOps agent Thursday Next?

Not Baby Jane
Not Michael Jordan
Take a DQ

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. Living
  5. Not born after 1950
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Caucasian

IQs

  1. Did he accuse your mother of being a hamster and your father of smelling like elderberries?
  2. In one of your more unique roles, did you play a large washerwoman in Baltimore?
  3. Did you write and direct the previous iteration of the movie referenced in #2?

IQ1: Did you play George and Oscar Bluth in Arrested Development?
IQ2: Did you play Michael Bluth in Arrested Development?
IQ3: Did you play Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development?

DQ: Actor?

Correct on #1 and #2. #3 was Patrick Jayne, not Jill.

1 DQ reserved.

3 (wrote about Thursday Next) was Jasper Fforde.

DQ: American?

IQs:
1. Did you direct Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein for Universal?
2. Did you and Brad take refuge at the Frankenstein place?
3. Did you write The Monkey’s Paw?

Not John Cleese
Not John Travolta*
Not John Waters

  • Should have been Harvey Fierstein.

3 DQs for you.

Not James Whale
Not Planet Schmanet Janet Weiss
Aargh! Take a DQ.

This past weekend I recommended The Monkey’s Paw to my son for Halloween, telling him it’s the gold standard of the “Be careful what you wish for” trope. I told him he could easily find it online as it is in the public domain, but if he wanted I could look up the author’s name. He found it without my help.

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. Living
  5. Not born after 1950
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Caucasian
  8. Not an actor
  9. American

Previous IQs:

Did you play a hard-nosed editor? - Yes, J.K. Simmons, in the early Spider-Man movies
Did Elizabeth Banks play your secretary? - Yes, J. Jonah Jameson
Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a shipmate name his daughter after you?
Are you the best-known person from Scranton, Pa.?
Are you the best-known jurist from Buffalo, N.Y.?

Take a DQ, not Joe Biden, take another DQ

Jeffrey Tambor, Jason Bateman, Jessica Walters

DQ: Known for the Performing Arts?

holding 2 DQs

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. Living
  5. Not born after 1950
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Caucasian
  8. Not an actor
  9. American
  10. Not known for the Performing Arts

IQs

  1. Are you a modern abstract artist with a penchant for American flags?
  2. Are you an author known for your Prey series?
  3. Did you head up CCR?

DQ: Known for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, fashion design, architecture, etc., but not including writing)?

IQs:

  1. Did you always have to ask your husband for help with the Beaver?
  2. Did you have a hit with Call Me Maybe?
  3. Did you write Born Free?