Botticelli - October 2013

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681

Hadn’t realised you weren’t American. :slight_smile: I saw your version of Dennis (in Beano, right?) in shops while I was in Scotland, but I never stopped to read any of it.

682

Yes, I grew up on the Beano.

683

IQs:

  1. Were you elected president in Of Thee I Sing?
  2. Were you a vet in Horse Feathers?
  3. Did you run against FDR in 1940?
684

DQ.
DQ.
Not Wendell Willkie.

685

1 was John P. Wintergreen, 2 was Quincy Wagstaff. [who I now realize was a college president, not a vet – that was A Day at the Races, so this DQ’s disqualified.]

DQ:
From films?

686

W

  1. Fictional
  2. W is the initial of my last name
  3. Male
  4. Not from literature
  5. Not depicted as living on 20th- or 21st-century Earth
  6. Have appeared in multiple works
  7. Not from films (though there was one later)

fanganga has three reserved DQs.

687

Prof. P., why didn’t Matthau like working with Streisand?

Previous IQs:

Did you make money fishing, distilling whiskey and growing hemp, among other things? - George Washington (and no, it wasn’t that kind of hemp)
Did you never again sleep in the room where your husband died? - Martha Washington
Do you take lots of artsy photos of your dogs? - Yes, William Wegman

DQs:

American?
First appeared as a TV character?

IQs:

Were you a top Catholic prelate profiled in The New Yorker?
Have you played a librarian, a Soviet officer and a terrified housewife?
Did your best friend have much nicer Christmas duds than you?

688

IQ: Are you a klingon who served on the Enterprise?

689

(IIRC, this was Matthau’s one-and-only musical, and the differences in making a musical vs a regular movie put him off. Couple that with his naturally grouchy nature and Streisand’s perfectionism (and, at this point, she was still something of a novice to movie making), and you had a breeding ground for insults.)
IQs:

  1. Did you supposedly summon Samuel’s spirit?
  2. Did you die when a house fell on you?
  3. Have children been searching for you since the late 1980’s?
690

Not … Karol Wojtyla?
DQ. (Interesting combo…)
DQ.

Not Worf.

Not the Witch of Endor.
Not the Wicked Witch of the … East?
Not Wally (UK)/Waldo (US).

W

  1. Fictional
  2. W is the initial of my last name
  3. Male
  4. Not from literature
  5. Not depicted as living on 20th- or 21st-century Earth
  6. Have appeared in multiple works
  7. Not from films (though there was one later)
  8. American
  9. First appeared as a TV character

fanganga has three reserved DQs.

691

Right on all 3.

IQs:

  1. Did Richard Thomas play you on a long-running TV series?
  2. Were you #1’s father?
  3. Were you an early TV show character who encouraged children to draw on the TV screen?
692

Not John-Boy Walton.
DQ.
DQ.

693

John Walton, Sr.
Winky Dink

DQs:

  1. Protagonist?
  2. Show set in the future?
694

W

  1. Fictional
  2. W is the initial of my last name
  3. Male
  4. Not from literature
  5. Not depicted as living on 20th- or 21st-century Earth
  6. Have appeared in multiple works
  7. Not from films (though there was one later)
  8. American
  9. First appeared as a TV character
  10. Protagonist
  11. Show not set in the future

fanganga has three reserved DQs.

695

Prof. P., thanks for the Matthau/Streisand explanation.

Previous IQs:

Were you a top Catholic prelate profiled in The New Yorker? - Not Karol Wojtyla, but I suppose that fits, so I’ll rephrase.
Have you played a librarian, a Soviet officer and a terrified housewife? - Rachel Weisz, in The Mummy, Enemy at the Gates and Dream House.
Did your best friend have much nicer Christmas duds than you? - Ron Weasley’s Yule Ball robes weren’t nearly as snazzy as Harry Potter’s.

DQs:

On a science fiction show?
On a show which first aired before 1980?

IQs:

Were you a top Catholic prelate, but not a Pope, profiled in The New Yorker?
Did someone close to you very often express bafflement at your remarks?
Was Geraldine your alter ego?

696

DQ.
Not … Nero Wolfe?
Not Flip Wilson.

W

  1. Fictional
  2. W is the initial of my last name
  3. Male
  4. Not from literature
  5. Not depicted as living on 20th- or 21st-century Earth
  6. Have appeared in multiple works
  7. Not from films (though there was one later)
  8. American
  9. First appeared as a TV character
  10. Protagonist
  11. Show not set in the future
  12. Not on a science fiction show, though there were science-fictiony elements
  13. On a show which first aired before 1980

fanganga has three reserved DQs.
Hmm. Based on the above DQs, I expect EH or Prof P to have the correct answer in their next set…

697

One quick thought:
IQ: Did you frequently thwart the heinous Dr. Loveless, assisted by Artemus Gordon?

698

Yes, I am indeed 19th-century Secret Service agent James West, of The Wild Wild West.

699

Just about had to be a Western. I was lucky it wasn’t someone from Rawhide or Wagon Train, since I didn’t watch those.

About to leave. I’ll think of a V later on tonight.

700

Okay, I’m back, and I am V.