Botticelli - Oct 2026

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May I ask that you specify which IQs you’re answering, knoodler, if you’re not answering every one?

Previous IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Were you a Reconstruction-era Governor of Mississippi? - Adelbert Ames
Were you one of the leaders of Organia? - Ayelborne, in ST:TOS “Errand of Mercy”

Wow, Discourse actually knew the correct spelling of Ayelborne (I thought there was a “u” in there)!

DQs:

More like a country song?
A good guy?
Song won a Grammy?

IQs:

You were a fictional military officer. Did your daughter’s first name start with the same letter as yours?
Were you that daughter?
Were you a badass female cartoon character who got her own poorly-reviewed movie?

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YES! I am Amos Moses! Jerry Reed wrote and recorded my tale in 1970.

[!] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7GyLr7Cz2g

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I thought I answered all IQs. Which one or ones did I miss?

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And on we go…

R!

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Congrats, Prof!

IQs:
1. Were you the 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee?
2. Were you Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect?
3. Did you have a cameo in Gremlins?

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Take 3 DQs.

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1 was Paul Ryan; 2 was Rebel Wilson; 3 was Robby the Robot.

DQs:
1. real?
2. female?
3. first name begins with R?

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DQs

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with R
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Point of order; Paul Ryan was the 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin was 2008.

Also, good call on Amos Moses, a name I’d never heard before.

IQs:

  1. Were you the “Stonewall of the West”?
  2. Did you win the Battle of Pea Ridge?
  3. Were you famous for wearing a rainbow wig at sports events?
250

Aw, hell.

IQs:
1. Did the Beach Boys ask for your aid?
2. Is a mathematical co-ordinate system named after you?
3. Was your show parodied or otherwise referenced in “Hungry are the Damned”, “Bart’s Dream”, “Clown without Pity”, “Terror at 5 1/2 Feet”, and “Homer³”?

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Take 3 DQs .

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  1. I am not Rhonda.
  2. I am not Rene Descartes.
  3. I am not Rod Serling.
253

IQs:

  1. Was your Best Actor Oscar statuette sold at an auction of Christie’s in 2002?
  2. Did you make your debut in 1963 by a popular TV personality?
  3. Did you serve in WWII as part of the Provisional Task Force Show Unit?
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A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you a White House chief of staff and mayor of Chicago?
2. Were you Tangina the medium in Poltergeist, and the mother in the meta-horror movie Anguish?
3. Were you a red skull-faced supervillain on The Venture Bros.?

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In your posts 216, 217, 226 and 233, it wasn’t clear to me which of your answers went to which IQs.

Congrats, Prof. P.! I’d never heard of that song character myself.

On to R.

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Were you the best-known person from Dixon, Ill.?
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga?

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Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Samuel Ryan Curtis, and “Rockin’” Rollen Stewart, the latter profiled by the master himself back in the 90’s.

DQs:

Human?
First appearance in prose fiction?
American creator?

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  1. I am not Robert Hope.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Take 3 DQs .

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  1. I am not Radagast the Brown.
    Take 2 DQs .
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DQs

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with R
  4. Human
  5. First appeared in prose fiction
  6. Creator not American