Botticelli - Oct 2026

[knoodler]

@knoodler

1. Did you feel compelled to look after your family after your dad committed suicide?
2. Did you play a character who was affectionately involved with a male character in two different series, with the same actor playing both roles?
3. Were you the human representation of a non-human entity?

Gilbert Grape (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Sara Gilbert (with Johnny Galecki: Roseanne; The Big Bang Theory)
Gilbert, aka Fiddler’s Green (The Sandman)

Gilbert x3!

3 DQs reserved

[SCAdian]

@Eureka

1. Are you a cooking show host with a fancy red car?
2. Do you host cooking shows on both sides of the Atlantic?
3. Are you a woman who has been a guest chef/judge on more than one cooking show?

DQ
Not Gordon Ramsey
DQ

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did you write The Phantom of the Opera?
2. Are you directing the new version of the Narnia stories?
3. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi ?

DQ x3

@De_La_Rue

#1. Did you direct Night of the Living Dead and the movie I saw last night, Creepshow?
#2. Were you a female US navy rear admiral and pioneering computer scientist?
#3. Was Billy Peltzer given you as a gift and told the three rules: keep you out of bright light, never get you wet, and never feed you after midnight?

DQ
Not Grace Hopper
Not … Gizmo?

G

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name begins with G
4. American creator
5. not known from prose
6. human
7. created after 1960
8. originally from movies or TV
9. not a main character

[SunUp]

IQs:

1. Were you the title character of a sitcom set on a desert island?
2. Were you a supporting character in the same sitcom?
3. Were you the eldest son in a different sitcom by the same creator?

[De_La_Rue]

@SCAdian

DQ
Not Grace Hopper
Not … Gizmo?

1 (Night of the Living Dead) was George Romero; 2 was correct; 3 was indeed Gizmo, in Gremlins.

DQ: originally from movies?

IQs:
1. Were you a monk who studied heredity in pea plants?
2. Did you recite the poem “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden’s inauguration?
3. Were you the only villain to appear in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters and its followup Extreme Ghostbusters–a monstrous creature in a hat and coat who urged kids to misbehave, more and more, until they became one of its kind?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SCAdian

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did you write The Phantom of the Opera?
2. Are you directing the new version of the Narnia stories?
3. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi ?

DQ x3

#1 was Gaston Leroux.
#2 is Greta Gerwig.
#3 was Gamaliel.

DQs:

1. Created for TV?
2. Good guy?
3. Created after 1990?

[SCAdian]

G

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name begins with G
4. American creator
5. not known from prose
6. human
7. created after 1960
8. originally from movies or TV
9. not a main character
10. not originally from movies
11. created for TV
12. good guy
13. not created after 1990

IQ answers after I get back from the lab.

[knoodler]

DQs:

Was a cast member from more than one series?
Created or first appeared before 1975?
Known mostly for comedy?

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Are you the only NY Yankee to hit four home runs in a single regular season game? (Not the playoffs.)
2. Did you, along with your two brothers, join the French Foreign Legion?
3. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did Ariana Grande play you in Wicked?
2. Did you create the character Kinsey Milhone in a series of mysteries?
3. Did Hal Peary play you on the radio?

[SCAdian]

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Were you the title character of a sitcom set on a desert island?
2. Were you a supporting character in the same sitcom?
3. Were you the eldest son in a different sitcom by the same creator?

not Gilligan
not Ginger
DQ

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Were you a monk who studied heredity in pea plants?
2. Did you recite the poem “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden’s inauguration?
3. Were you the only villain to appear in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters and its followup Extreme Ghostbusters–a monstrous creature in a hat and coat who urged kids to misbehave, more and more, until they became one of its kind?

not Gregor Mendel
DQ
DQ

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Are you the only NY Yankee to hit four home runs in a single regular season game? (Not the playoffs.)
2. Did you, along with your two brothers, join the French Foreign Legion?
3. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

not … George Herman Ruth?
not … Beau Geste?
DQ

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did Ariana Grande play you in Wicked?
2. Did you create the character Kinsey Milhone in a series of mysteries?
3. Did Hal Peary play you on the radio?

DQ x3

G

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name begins with G
4. American creator
5. not known from prose
6. human
7. created after 1960
8. originally from movies or TV
9. not a main character
10. not originally from moves
11. created for TV
12. good guy
13. not created after 1990
14. was a cast member from more than one series
15. created or first appeared before 1975
16. known mostly for comedy

And that takes us over 20 DQs, so no more IQs, please.

[De_La_Rue]

@SCAdian

not Gregor Mendel
DQ
DQ

2 was Amanda Gorman; 3 was the Grundel.

2 DQs reserved.

[SunUp]

@SCAdian

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Were you the title character of a sitcom set on a desert island?
2. Were you a supporting character in the same sitcom?
3. Were you the eldest son in a different sitcom by the same creator?

not Gilligan
not Ginger
DQ

Correct, correct, and Greg Brady (Sherwood Schwartz created both sitcoms).

Question (and maybe @knoodler can weigh in, as it was their DQ):

@SCAdian

1. fictional

but

@SCAdian

14. was a cast member from more than one series

Does this mean “was a character in more than one series”?

[SCAdian]

@SunUp

@SCAdian

14. was a cast member from more than one series

Does this mean “was a character in more than one series”?

That’s what my answer meant. The question, however. . . .

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SCAdian

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did Ariana Grande play you in Wicked?
2. Did you create the character Kinsey Milhone in a series of mysteries?
3. Did Hal Peary play you on the radio?

DQ x3

1 was Glinda.
2 was Sue Grafton.
3 was the Great Gildersleeve.

3 DQs reserved.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: From sitcoms that were part of the ruralization of TV?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Are you Gomer Pyle?

[SCAdian]

G

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name begins with G
4. American creator
5. not known from prose
6. human
7. created after 1960
8. originally from movies or TV
9. not a main character
10. not originally from moves
11. created for TV
12. good guy
13. not created after 1990
14. was a cast member from more than one series
15. created or first appeared before 1975
16. known mostly for comedy
17. from sitcoms that were part of the ruralization of TV
18. not Gomer Pyle

[knoodler]

@SCAdian

@knoodler

1. Are you the only NY Yankee to hit four home runs in a single regular season game? (Not the playoffs.)
2. Did you, along with your two brothers, join the French Foreign Legion?
3. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

not … George Herman Ruth?
not … Beau Geste?
DQ

Lou Gehrig
Correct
Young Goodman Brown

2 DQs reserved

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Last DQ: last name starts with A - M?

[SCAdian]

G

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name begins with G
4. American creator
5. not known from prose
6. human
7. created after 1960
8. originally from movies or TV
9. not a main character
10. not originally from moves
11. created for TV
12. good guy
13. not created after 1990
14. was a cast member from more than one series
15. created or first appeared before 1975
16. known mostly for comedy
17. from sitcoms that were part of the ruralization of TV
18. not Gomer Pyle
19. last name starts with A-M

I show @De_La_Rue and @knoodler each with two DQs remaining, and @SunUp with one. Pleas ask them NLT noon Eastern tomorrow (and I believe it’s time shift night tonight,so you get an extra hour).