Botticelli - October 2013

Aha!

IQ1: Were you a 16th-century Spanish missionary?
IQ2: Did you write the Anabasis?
IQ3: Were you a Warrior Princess?

I am not Xander Harris.
I am not Xavier Cugat.

I’ll just X these out, shall I?

I’m not Francis Xavier, Xenophon, nor Xena.

DQ:

  1. Real

Well, probably real.

Nicely done, Prof. P., and thanks for proceeding directly to X!

Previous IQs:

Did you play the President’s national security advisor in an Eighties movie? - Yakov Smirnoff in Buckaroo Banzai.
Were you a jazz musician admired by Clint Eastwood? - Charles “Yardbird” Parker.
Were you a very unpleasant alien from H.P. Lovecraft’s stories? - Yog-Sothoth (sp?).

X marks the spot… but all the good X questions have already been asked!

IQs:

Did you complain about when Black History Month is?

Correct on both.

Hmmm…

Ah! A throwback to my college days, when I should have been in lectures instead of the arcade:

IQ1: Are you a character featured on a Bally pinball machine?

Two more IQs:

Were you a very atypical Vulcan?
Did you publish a crank newspaper and wear an interesting medallion?

Take a DQ.

Take a DQ.

and two more DQs for you.

Previous IQs:

Did you complain about when Black History Month is? - Nat X (Chris Rock) on SNL, a black radical with a 'fro that just wouldn’t quit: http://members.tripod.com/~Reco_Williams/natx.jpg. He complained that “The Man” made February Black History Month because it’s the shortest and coldest month.
Were you a very atypical Vulcan? - Xon, a Vulcan who wanted to get more in touch with his emotions, in the never-made Star Trek TV sequel Star Trek: Phase II.
Did you publish a crank newspaper and wear an interesting medallion? - Xenophilius Lovegood, Luna’s dad, in the Harry Potter books.

DQs:

Male?
Now alive?
First name start with X?

Wracking my brains to think of any Xs other than those already asked about…

The character, and the machine, were named Xenon.

DQ: Are you best known for your work in the arts?

DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Dead
  3. Only name starts with X
  4. Not known for her work in the arts.

You had this DQ answer earlier, too.

DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Dead
  3. Only name starts with X
  4. Not known for her work in the arts.
  5. Real

…and now we know why nobody picks X…

IQ: Did your husband die of hemlock poisoning?

Yes! Once again SCAdian has come through! Well done, again!

I am Xanthippe.

I’m sure you all remember Petruchio’s speech in The Taming of the Shrew

PETRUCHIO.

Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such friends as we
Few words suffice; and therefore, if thou know
One rich enough to be Petruchio's wife,
As wealth is burden of my wooing dance,
Be she as foul as was Florentius' love,
As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd
As Socrates' **Xanthippe** or a worse,
She moves me not, or not removes, at least,
Affection's edge in me, were she as rough
As are the swelling Adriatic seas:
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua;
If wealthily, then happily in Padua.

Well, that was certainly painful…

Z, Y, X, W.