Botticelli October 2023

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:217, topic:990977, full:true”]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with G
3. Living
4. American
5. Female
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for Acting

[kitap]

@kitap

1. Did you play Nick Stokes on CSI?
2. Did you marry Jared Padalecki?
3. Did Sterling K. Brown play you in four episodes of Supernatural?

George Eads, Genevieve Cortese, Gordon Walker.

DQs:

1. Caucasian?
2. Born in or before 1960?

One,DQ reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did you sculpt the trophy formerly used for the World Fantasy Award, a bust of H.P. Lovecraft?
2. Did you write the humor column You’ll All Be Sorry! for the website Comic Book Resources, before writing comics professionally like Deadpool and Welcome to Tranquility?
3. Did you survive a nasty brain injury with a tamping iron?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

IQs:

Did you complain that New Englanders were, as a rule, slovenly and fractious?
Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”?
Was your middle name Catlett?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with G
3. Living
4. American
5. Female
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for Acting
8. Caucasian
9. Born in or before 1960

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Did you sculpt the trophy formerly used for the World Fantasy Award, a bust of H.P. Lovecraft?
2. Did you write the humor column You’ll All Be Sorry! for the website Comic Book Resources, before writing comics professionally like Deadpool and Welcome to Tranquility?
3. Did you survive a nasty brain injury with a tamping iron?

Take 3 DQs.

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you complain that New Englanders were, as a rule, slovenly and fractious?
Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”?
Was your middle name Catlett?

Take 3 DQs.

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

Take 3 DQs.

1 was Gahan Wilson; 2 was Gail Simone; 3 was Phineas Gage.

DQs:
1. born after 1940?
2. first name begins from A-M?
3. known for leading roles?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Were you a journalist and mystery writer, known for paradoxes, like your statement “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”?
2. In 1991, did you release “Coming Out Of The Dark”, a song inspired by your year-long recovery from a severe bus crash that required you to have two titanium columns implanted in your spine?
3. Were you the first of your royal house to speak the your country’s language natively, and whose interest in agriculture led your subjects to nickname you “Farmer [your name]?”

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with G
3. Living
4. American
5. Female
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for Acting
8. Caucasian
9. Born in or before 1960
10. Born after 1940
11. First name begins with N-Z
12. Has had leading roles, usually known for supporting roles

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a journalist and mystery writer, known for paradoxes, like your statement “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”?
2. In 1991, did you release “Coming Out Of The Dark”, a song inspired by your year-long recovery from a severe bus crash that required you to have two titanium columns implanted in your spine?
3. Were you the first of your royal house to speak the your country’s language natively, and whose interest in agriculture led your subjects to nickname you “Farmer [your name]?”

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Gloria Estefan.
3. I am not George II (??).

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you complain that New Englanders were, as a rule, slovenly and fractious? - George Washington, when first named to command the Continental Army
Were you “the Sledge of Nashville”? - George H. Thomas, a Virginian who remained loyal to the Union and virtually destroyed a Confederate army in that battle
Was your middle name Catlett? - George C. Marshall, CJCS, SECSTATE and SECDEF

Just came across a reference to two separate incidents in which US Army superiors of Marshall, evaluating his performance as a junior officer, said they wanted to serve under him!

George x3!

DQs:

Best known for film work?
Considered a beauty?
Still has an active career?

IQs:

Were you editor of The Liberator?
Were you said to be able, as a party trick, to write simultaneously in Greek and Latin?
Were you a noted Swedish warrior-king after whom an American college is named?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with G
3. Living
4. American
5. Female
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for Acting
8. Caucasian
9. Born in or before 1960
10. Born after 1940
11. First name begins with N-Z
12. Has had leading roles, usually known for supporting roles
13. Best known for film work
14. Considered a beauty
15. Retired from acting at the present

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you editor of The Liberator?
Were you said to be able, as a party trick, to write simultaneously in Greek and Latin?
Were you a noted Swedish warrior-king after whom an American college is named?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not James A. Garfield.
3. Take a DQ.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a journalist and mystery writer, known for paradoxes, like your statement “Anything worth doing is worth doing badly”?
2. In 1991, did you release “Coming Out Of The Dark”, a song inspired by your year-long recovery from a severe bus crash that required you to have two titanium columns implanted in your spine?
3. Were you the first of your royal house to speak the your country’s language natively, and whose interest in agriculture led your subjects to nickname you “Farmer [your name]?”

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Gloria Estefan.
3. I am not George II (??)

#1. is G.(ilbert) K.(eith) Chesterton, creator of Father Brown and a number of lesser-remembered characters. Correct on #2. #3. was actually George III, the addressee of the Declaration of Independence. Still, close enough.

DQ: known for comic roles?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you the first female prime minister of Israel?
2. Are you a four-armed Mortal Kombatant?
3. Did you say the ambiguous vampire movie Martin was your favorite of all your films?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

The Declaration of Independence had a lot to say about George III (none of it good), but he’s not actually the addressee.

Previous IQs:

Were you editor of The Liberator? - Firebreathing abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
Were you said to be able, as a party trick, to write simultaneously in Greek and Latin? - Yes, James A. Garfield
Were you a noted Swedish warrior-king after whom an American college is named? - Gustavus Adolphus

DQs:

Has won an Oscar?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did an expy of you appear in Gone Girl?
Were you, in some tellings of Arthurian legend, the sickly but powerful son of Sir Launcelot?
Did you joke that you knew only two songs - one was “Yankee Doodle,” and the other wasn’t?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

An update: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #112 by Elendil_s_Heir

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:232, topic:990977, full:true”]

DQs:

1. Real
2. Last name starts with G
3. Living
4. American
5. Female
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for Acting
8. Caucasian
9. Born in or before 1960
10. Born after 1940
11. First name begins with N-Z
12. Has had leading roles, usually known for supporting roles
13. Best known for film work
14. Considered a beauty
15. Retired from acting at the present
16. Known for comedy roles
17. Oscar-nominated, but not an Oscar-winner

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Were you the first female prime minister of Israel?
2. Are you a four-armed Mortal Kombatant?
3. Did you say the ambiguous vampire movie Martin was your favorite of all your films?

1. I am not Golda Meir.
   Take 2 DQs.

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did an expy of you appear in Gone Girl?
Were you, in some tellings of Arthurian legend, the sickly but powerful son of Sir Launcelot?
Did you joke that you knew only two songs - one was “Yankee Doodle,” and the other wasn’t?

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Sir Galahad. (??)
3. I am not Ulysses S. Grant (??)

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. I am not Golda Meir.
   Take 2 DQs.

2 was Goro; 3 was George Romero.

2 DQs reserved.