Botticelli - October 2018

IQs:

  1. Are you Mighty Mouse’s girlfriend?
  2. Are you Underdog’s girlfriend?
  3. At the end of your life were you making money by simply signing blank pieces of paper?

IQ1: Are you head coach for the Detroit Lions?
IQ2: Are you head coach for the New Orleans Saints?
IQ3: Are you head coach for the Philadelphia Eagles?

IQ1: Are you the Knight of the Round Table that was the subject of Wagner’s final opera?
IQ2: Is your grandfather very clean?
IQ3: Are you Barney Gumble’s choice for all time best Prime Minister of England?

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Pal.
I am not Phyllis Wheatley.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Polly Purebred.
  3. I am not Pablo Picasso.

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Doug Peterson.

IQ1: I am not Parsifal.
IQ2: I am not Paul McCartney.
IQ3: I am not Lord Palmerston.
DQs:

  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
  3. not American
  4. male
  5. probably Caucasian
  6. born before 1800

Previous IQs:

Are you probably the best-known person born on Corfu? - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Are you Arthur’s adorable puppy on PBS? - Yes, Pal, on Arthur
Were you a black poet who admired George Washington? - Yes, Phyllis Wheatley

DQs:

A Biblical character?
Considered a good guy?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Are you an everyman agent of SHIELD?
Did you found Kenyon College?
Did Prof. Harold Hill woo you?

#1 was Pearl Pureheart. Correct on the others.

DQ: Born before 400 A.D.?

Matt Patricia, Sean Payton, correct

holding 2 DQs

IQs:

  1. Are you Alexander the Great’s dad?
  2. Are you Socrates’s best known pupil?
  3. Did you hang with Athos and Aramis?

Respectively:
I am not Phil Coulson.
Take a DQ.
I am not Marian Paroo.

  1. I am not Phillip of Macedon.
  2. I am not Plato.
  3. I am not Porthos.
    DQs:
  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
  3. not American
  4. male
  5. probably Caucasian
  6. born before 1800
  7. not a Biblical character
  8. not a “good guy”; more of an aggravation
  9. born after 400 A.D.

Previous IQs:

Are you an everyman agent of SHIELD? - Yes, Phil Coulson
Did you found Kenyon College? - Episcopal Bishop Philander Chase of Ohio
Did Prof. Harold Hill woo you? - Yes, Marian Paroo in The Music Man

DQ:

European?
Born after 1066?

IQs:

Did Judi Dench play you, the title character in a movie?
Was Brett your buddy and subordinate?
Were you a Presidential candidate in the first season of 24?

DQ: Is your name a sobriquet (like “Ivan the Terrible”)?

1 DQ left

Respectively:
I am not Philomena.
I am not Parker.
I am not David Palmer.

DQs:

  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
  3. not American
  4. male
  5. probably Caucasian
  6. born before 1800
  7. not a Biblical character
  8. not a “good guy”; more of an aggravation
  9. born after 400 A.D.
  10. European
  11. born after 1066
  12. identity unknown, name is a sobriquet

Swept me!

IQs:

Did Jane Seymour once play your beautiful young wife?
Were you portrayed as a satyr in a Disney movie?
Were you briefly imprisoned in very cushy jail from which you easily escaped?

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Philoctetes.
Take a DQ.

Swept me, too!

  1. Are you the author of the Heechee series?
  2. Did you write Pensees?
  3. Were you the one who, in the words of Homer & Jethro (Spike Jones), “stabbed the louse who stole his spouse and then he stabbed the lady and himself”?

Previous IQs:

Did Jane Seymour once play your beautiful young wife? - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Were you portrayed as a satyr in a Disney movie? - Yes, Philoctetes, trainer of the gods (voiced by Danny DeVito), in Hercules
Were you briefly imprisoned in very cushy jail from which you easily escaped? - Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug kingpin

DQs:

British?
Considered a criminal by the authorities of the day?

IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
Were you a major player in the widely-panned The Sting, Part 2?
Did you design the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D?

  1. I am not Frederik Pohl.
  2. I am not…Marcel Proust?
  3. Take a DQ.

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
If you’re thinking of Paul Newman, he didn’t appear in the sequel.
Take a DQ.
DQs:

  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
  3. not American
  4. male
  5. probably Caucasian
  6. born before 1800
  7. not a Biblical character
  8. not a “good guy”; more of an aggravation
  9. born after 400 A.D.
  10. European
  11. born after 1066
  12. identity unknown, name is a sobriquet
  13. British
  14. not considered a criminal by the authorities of the day

#1. Correct.
#2 was Blaise Pascal.
#3 is Pagliacci.

2 DQs reserved.

IQ: Do the Frenchies seek you here, they seek you there, the Frenchies seek you everywhere?

Previous IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, in the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Were you a major player in the widely-panned The Sting, Part 2? - Not Paul Newman, but Trevor Plantagenet (played by Jackie Gleason)
Did you design the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D? - Andrew Probert

DQs:

Born before 1500?
English?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you listen to a birthday message from your parents while sunbathing?
Do you frequently ask rhetorical questions about whether people have done particularly embarrassing things, and then confess, “I have”?
Were you “a basic pleasure model”?

I am not the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Respectively:
I am not Poole.
Take a DQ.
I am not Pris.

DQs:

  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
  3. not American
  4. male
  5. probably Caucasian
  6. born before 1800
  7. not a Biblical character
  8. not a “good guy”; more of an aggravation
  9. born after 400 A.D.
  10. European
  11. born after 1066
  12. identity unknown, name is a sobriquet
  13. British
  14. not considered a criminal by the authorities of the day
  15. born after 1500

(I already said British for 13.)