DQs:
Are you Robert Louis Stevenson?
Yes, I am!
Good job, KO!
Congrats @Knowed_Out!
Allrighty then. Let’s go with B.
Of course! I’d forgotten middle names were fair game. Well played all.
IQ1: Did you paint The Birth of Venus?
IQ2: Did you famously write a book on ornithology?
IQ3: Are you a confectioner both loved and hated for your most famous product?
Wrapping up the last round…
Leonard Bernstein. As detailed in this cartoon.
Good one. I always forget about middle names.
IQ1: Are you part of a pair of children’s book authors where confusion over the spelling of your name is frequently cited as an example of the Mandela effect?
IQ2: Are you a drummer mainly known for being fired from your band before it became successful?
IQ3: Did you defend Heorot from Grendel and Grendel’s mother?
Not Botticelli, DQ, not Betty Crocker?
not Beatrix Potter? not Pete Best, not Beowulf
Congrats, Knowed Out!
IQs:
1. Are you the amorphous title character of a 1958 sci-fi/horror film?
2. Did you spend a great many pages to prove that 1+1=2?
3. Are you the author of Animalia, The Eleventh Hour, and other picture books?
#1 - Jan and Stan Berenstain, creators of the Berenstain Bears. Many people insist the books they had as kids spelled it “Berenstein”.
Correct on the other two.
DQ1: Real?
Good job, K_O!
Previous IQs:
Were you killed by crossbow in a privy? - Tywin Lannister, in Game of Thrones
Were you a son of that guy? - His murderer, Tyrion
Were you, too? - His oldest son, Jaime
Middle names are indeed fair game in Botticelli if routinely used to refer to the person in question, like Robert Louis Stevenson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. or Aimee Semple McPherson, for example.
On to B.
IQs:
Were you appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Jimmy Carter?
Were you appointed to the Sixth Circuit by George H.W. Bush?
A former lawyer for the Mayo Clinic, were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon?
Not the Blob, DQ x 2
not Bebe Rebozo, DQ x 2
DQ Roundup for B
IQs
Previous IQs:
Were you appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by Jimmy Carter? - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Were you appointed to the Sixth Circuit by George H.W. Bush? - Alice M. Batchelder
A former lawyer for the Mayo Clinic, were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Richard M. Nixon? - Harry Blackmun, who eventually wrote the majority decision in Roe v. Wade
DQs:
Male?
Last name start with B?
Would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Were you Lincoln’s AG?
Were you JFK’s national security advisor?
Did you paint, among other things, the emergence of Venus from a giant clamshell?
IQ1: Are you an Metallica T-shirt wearing teen who thinks everything either “sucks” or is “cool”?
IQ2: Are you the above’s AC/DC shirt wearing best friend?
IQ3: Did you play a Bond girl and later marry a Beatle?
Correct on Botticelli, of course. The ornithologist was James Bond, famous because that was how Fleming chose the name of his best known character. And the confectioner is the fictional Bertie Bott from Harry Potter, known for his Every Flavour Beans.
DQ1: First appeared in print?
DQ2: First appeared before 1930?
IQ1: Are you one of the farmers in Dahl’s Fantastic Mr Fox?
IQ2: Were you a market stall trader who sold Slade’s Noddy Holder his famous hat before striking the big time as a rock star yourself?
IQ3: Did you die while leaning against the mantelpiece “just to prove it could be done” (at least, according to Douglas Adams)?