Botticelli October 2023

IQs:
1. Did you write the novel Blonde?
2. Are not one but two car brands named after you?
3. Were you played by Brendan Fraser in the 1999 version of The Mummy and following sequels?

Count Orlock, renamed from Dracula in the silent Nosferatu, as the film makers did not have the rights to Stoker’s novel
Correct, correct

DQ: Female?

Finishing up the last round, No. 2 was Ann Jillian.

So, on to O!

  1. Did you highlight your youth (unusual for your position) by beginng your first day at your new job with a little dance as you went into your new office?
  2. Were you a fertility god, usually depicted as a green-skinned boy, who was killed and dismembered by your brother, but resurrected when your wife found the pieces of your body and bound them together?
  3. Are you part of one of the earliest and most famous interracial marriages, that unfortunately did not end well?

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name begins with O
  3. Male

Well, that was very quick.

I am, indeed,

Rick O’Connell,

hero of the Mummy movies franchise.

I’m very surprised.

Take it away, De La Rue!

OK:

I am W.

Way to go, DLR!

Previous IQs:

Were you a nude organist? - Onan, on Monty Python
Were you the Biblical figure after whom he was named? - Likewise Onan
Were you AKA Tharkun? - Olorin AKA Mithrandir AKA Gandalf, in Tolkien’s writings

On to W!

IQs:

Were you the borderline-treasonous mayor of NYC in 1861?
Are you a non-porn actor rumored to be very well-endowed?
Late in life, did you get a black limo with orange trim?

Well done, DLR! Speedy, too.

Just to finish up with O:

  1. was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2. was the Egyptian god Osiris, and 3. was Othello.

So, W.

  1. Were you a politician mocked by bumper stickers that read, “A village in Texas is missing its idiot”?
  2. Did you scandalize the music industry by releasing an album whose cover depicted you pressing a microphone cord between your labia?
  3. Were you the recipient of the first known telephone call?

IQs:

  1. Did you host Tic-Tac-Dough and High Rollers?
  2. Did your company first sell manufactured Christmas Tree ornaments?
  3. Did you create the idea of “15 minutes of fame”?

Respectively:
I am not William Williams.
I am not Willem Defoe.
I am not William Howard Taft.

1. I am not George W. Bush.
2. I am not Wendy O. Williams?
3. I am not Watson.

1. I am not Wink Martindale.
2. I am not the Williams in Williams-Sonoma?
3. I am not Andy Warhol.

Previous IQs:

Were you the borderline-treasonous mayor of NYC in 1861? - Fernando Wood
Are you a non-porn actor rumored to be very well-endowed? - James Woods
Late in life, did you get a black limo with orange trim? - Woodrow Wilson (those are Princeton U. colors)

Wood etc. x3!

DQs:

Male?
Real?
American?

IQs:

Did you often refer to “Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”?
Were you a smelly pet in a popular kids’ books?
Were you a noted labor leader after whom a US senator’s dog is named?

Swept me again!

IQs:

  1. In the 1860 campaign, was the aforementioned Copperhead mayor of New York, Fernando Wood, your campaign manager?
  2. Are you an American photographer known for taking unusual photos of your dogs?
  3. Were you a liberal Republican (back when that was a thing) senator from Connecticut?

Respectively:
I am not Walter Winchell.
I am not Walter the Farting Dog.
I am not Walter Chavez.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not William Wegman.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. male
2. real

(EH’s second question can also be answered by Willem Dafoe, so I am not accepting a third DQ.)

  1. was William H. Seward, who lost the Republican primary to Abraham Lincoln, whose Secretary of State he eventually became. 2. is correct. 3. was Lowell Weicker, who just died in June.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. American?

DQs:
1. male
2. real
3. dead
4. American

Correct, F. W. Woolworth, and Correct.

DQ: Last name starts with W?

IQs:

  1. Did you compose the five-part Dada Trilogy?
  2. Were you the announcer for the highly acclaimed quantum-scented 1950’s all-popcorn BBC Radio Series The Goon Show?
  3. Did your character step in to succeed Coach’s on Cheers?

Previous IQs:

Did you often refer to “Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”? - Yes, Walter Winchell
Were you a smelly pet in a popular kids’ books? - Yes, Walter the Farting Dog
Were you a noted labor leader after whom a US senator’s dog is named? - Walter Reuther, not Chavez (and it’s Sherrod Brown’s dog)

Walter x3!

DQ:

Died since 1900?

IQs:

Did you play Puddy?
Were you the most famous volleyball in movie history?
Were you the best-known Lord Admiral of the Cinque Ports?

1. I am not Mason Williams.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Woody.

Respectively:
I am not Patrick Warburton.
I am not Wilson.
I am not Admiral Wilsonburton.

DQs:
1. male
2. real
3. dead
4. American
5. first word of stage name begins with W

Previous IQs:

Did you play Puddy? - Yes, Patrick Warburton, on Seinfeld
Were you the most famous volleyball in movie history? - Yes, Wilson, in Cast Away
Were you the best-known Lord Admiral of the Cinque Ports? - Winston Churchill (one of his lesser-known titles, late in life - and sorry, I got the title slightly wrong: Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports - Wikipedia)

You didn’t answer this previous DQ:

Died since 1900?

To which I’ll now add:

Best known as a stage actor?

IQs:

Were you the patsy in “The Red-Headed League”?
Were you a top U.S. arms control negotiator in the Eighties?
Did you and your horse figure in a short story by Susanna Clarke?