Botticelli - Oct 2026

[De_La_Rue]

“…and there was much rejoicing.”

Congrats, Knoodler!

[Eureka]

Name rings a vague bell, but I wouldn’t have gotten it. Congrats knoodler!

[SunUp]

Good going, knoodler! I twigged to him right after question #23, which made it a shame that I used my last DQ on question #22.

[SCAdian]

Never heard of him.

[knoodler]

I’m a HUGE Python fan, so that last DQ rang a very loud bell. Up to then I was clueless.

Next up:

A

As in albatross, Albuquerque and Aloysius

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs

1. Did John Cleese play you in a successful non-Python comedy?
2. Didst Graham Chapman playeth you, a king who traveledeth by cocoanuts?
3. Are you “America’s Weatherman”?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did you create a team with Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and a victim of Dracula on it?
2. Did you play one of the pageant participants in Drop Dead Gorgeous?
3. Were you recently depicted transporting people to a secret government prison for monsters, supernatural beings, etc. in the Bermuda Triangle, in President Curtis?

[knoodler]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did John Cleese play you in a successful non-Python comedy?
2. Didst Graham Chapman playeth you, a king who traveledeth by cocoanuts?
3. Are you “America’s Weatherman”?

1. I am not Archibald Leach
2. I am not King Arthur/ Arthur Pendragon
3. I am not Al Roker

@De_La_Rue

1. Did you create a team with Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and a victim of Dracula on it?
2. Did you play one of the pageant participants in Drop Dead Gorgeous?
3. Were you recently depicted transporting people to a secret government prison for monsters, supernatural beings, etc. in the Bermuda Triangle, in President Curtis?

1. I am not Allan Quatermain
   Take 2 DQs

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Did you earn an architecture degree from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo?
2. Did you play a high school sidekick, a starship captain, and a tourist trapped on a bus?
3. Were you played on film by SNL’s longest-tenured cast member?

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Did you create a team with Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and a victim of Dracula on it?
2. Did you play one of the pageant participants in Drop Dead Gorgeous?
3. Were you recently depicted transporting people to a secret government prison for monsters, supernatural beings, etc. in the Bermuda Triangle, in President Curtis?

@knoodler

1. I am not Allan Quatermain
   Take 2 DQs

1 was Alan Moore; 2 was Amy Adams; 3 was Amelia Earhart.

DQs:
1. real?
2. male?
3. first name begins with A?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Have you now appeared in movies with dinosaurs, a cyclops, and “the Devil”?
2. Were you an Andalite ally of the Animorphs?
3. Did you turn down the presidency of Israel?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Well done, knoodler!

A it is.

IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Were you a Reconstruction-era Governor of Mississippi?
Were you one of the leaders of Organia?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Swept me.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs

1. Are you the king of Dictionopolos?
2. Were you Charlemagne’s teacher?
3. Did you star in Big Eyes?

[knoodler]

@SunUp

1. Did you earn an architecture degree from Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo?
2. Did you play a high school sidekick, a starship captain, and a tourist trapped on a bus?
3. Were you played on film by SNL’s longest-tenured cast member?

Take 3 DQs

[knoodler]

@De_La_Rue

1. Have you now appeared in movies with dinosaurs, a cyclops, and “the Devil”?
2. Were you an Andalite ally of the Animorphs?
3. Did you turn down the presidency of Israel?

I am not… Ariel Sharon? Take 2 DQs (or 3, if I’m wrong)

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Were you a Reconstruction-era Governor of Mississippi?
Were you one of the leaders of Organia?

Dammit, I know the first one… take 3 DQs

[knoodler]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Are you the king of Dictionopolos?
2. Were you Charlemagne’s teacher?
3. Did you star in Big Eyes?

Take 2 DQs
I am not Amy Adams

[knoodler]

A

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with A

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Have you now appeared in movies with dinosaurs, a cyclops, and “the Devil”?
2. Were you an Andalite ally of the Animorphs?
3. Did you turn down the presidency of Israel?

@knoodler

I am not… Ariel Sharon? Take 2 DQs (or 3, if I’m wrong)

1 was Anne Hathaway (in The End of Oak Street and The Odyssey, both this year, and The Devil Wears Prada, which had a sequel this year); 2 was Ax; 3 was Albert Einstein.

DQs:
1. main character?
2. originally from prose?
3. created by American(s)?

[knoodler]

A

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with A
4. Main character
5. Originally from prose
6. Created by American(s)