Botticelli - October 2021

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81

Correct on Ussher.
Close enough on Ulee.
#3 is Urania, though. Uranus is a different character entirely.

DQ: From a work of science fiction or fantasy?

82

Interesting - never heard that about Grant. Died of throat cancer, so it makes sense.

U.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with U
  4. might be alive today, if real
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. from film or TV
  7. not the main character
  8. has not appeared in multiple media
  9. from film
  10. created after 1980
  11. not the antagonist
  12. first appeared before 2000
  13. first appeared after 1990
  14. appeared in only one movie
  15. not from a work of sf or fantasy
83

IQs:

  1. Are you the name a certain Hobbit went by whilst staying at an inn?
  2. Were you roundly criticized for including your own poems in a book of modern poetry you edited?
  3. Are you the Norse God of Winter?
84

I’m not Mr. Underhill; dunno the other two.

85

Correct on Underhill.
#2 was Louis Untermeyer.
#3 was Ullr.

DQ: From an Oscar-winning movie?

1 DQ reserved.

86

U.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with U
  4. might be alive today, if real
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. from film or TV
  7. not the main character
  8. has not appeared in multiple media
  9. from film
  10. created after 1980
  11. not the antagonist
  12. first appeared before 2000
  13. first appeared after 1990
  14. appeared in only one movie
  15. not from a work of sf or fantasy
  16. from an Oscar-winning movie
87

IQ1: Are you Principal Krupp’s alter-ego?
IQ2: Were you a questionable babysitter played by Buck Henry in the early days of Saturday Night Live?
IQ3: Were you a minor villain voiced by Pixar’s “good luck charm”?

88

Not Ursula, Uncle Letch or the Underminer.

89

Captain Underpants
Uncle Roy
Correct

DQ: From a film set in contemporary times at its release?

Holding one DQ

90

IQs:
1. Did you create Harry Angstrom, whose nickname is the species of creature featured in a 1972 sci-fi/horror film of dubious merit?
2. Did you detail the various things you did to your likely soon-to-be ex’s car, so next time he’ll think before he cheats?
3. Joe Mantegna (including audiobooks); Mark Wahlberg, in a movie for Netflix; you, before either of them?

1 DQ reserved.

91

Dunno, not Carrie Underwood and dunno.

U.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with U
  4. might be alive today, if real
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. from film or TV
  7. not the main character
  8. has not appeared in multiple media
  9. from film
  10. created after 1980
  11. not the antagonist
  12. first appeared before 2000
  13. first appeared after 1990
  14. appeared in only one movie
  15. not from a work of sf or fantasy
  16. from an Oscar-winning movie
  17. not from a film set in contemporary times at its release

We’re about to go over 20, so no more IQs, please.

92

1 was John Updike (Harry Angstrom’s nickname is “Rabbit”); 2 was correct; 3 was Robert Urich, with his fellow Spenser actors.

DQ: character actually appears onscreen and is not alias of another character?

Two DQs reserved.

93

DQ: from a comedy?

94

Spenser, of course! Shoulda gotten that.

U.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with U
  4. might be alive today, if real
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. from film or TV
  7. not the main character
  8. has not appeared in multiple media
  9. from film
  10. created after 1980
  11. not the antagonist
  12. first appeared before 2000
  13. first appeared after 1990
  14. appeared in only one movie
  15. not from a work of sf or fantasy
  16. from an Oscar-winning movie
  17. not from a film set in contemporary times at its release
  18. character actually appears onscreen and is not alias of another character
  19. not from a comedy
95

DQ: from a World War II movie?

1 DQ reserved.

96

Bumpicelli

97

U.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with U
  4. might be alive today, if real
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. from film or TV
  7. not the main character
  8. has not appeared in multiple media
  9. from film
  10. created after 1980
  11. not the antagonist
  12. first appeared before 2000
  13. first appeared after 1990
  14. appeared in only one movie
  15. not from a work of sf or fantasy
  16. from an Oscar-winning movie
  17. not from a film set in contemporary times at its release
  18. character actually appears onscreen and is not alias of another character
  19. not from a comedy
  20. from a World War II movie

Please ask all earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

98

Hmm… Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, The English Patient, Life Is Beautiful, The Thin Red Line…

I don’t watch war movies, so I’m not gonna get this one.

99

Final DQ, and I’m going to go with a hunch here: from Saving Private Ryan?

100

Looks like either Saving Private Ryan or Thin Red Line… Schindler’s List is based on real events, so no one fictional, unless it’s some composite character. English Patient was British and adapted from a novel, Life is Beautiful was Italian…
Hmmm… Didn’t see Thin Red Line and for Ryan, other than Pvt. Ryan (Matt Damon) and Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) I mainly remember the actors’ names. Oh yeah, there was the German guy Steamboat Willie. Otherwise it was Vin Diesal, Giovanni Ribessi, the guy with the typewriter who spares Steamboat Willie (at first), Ted Danson…