Botticelli October 2023

IQ1:Were you considered one of the worst film directors of all time and the subject of a Tim Burton-directed biopic?
IQ2: Were you the Phantom of the Paradise?
IQ3: Were you obsessed with stealing a talking flute?

Respectively:
I am not Jabez Wilson.
I am not Oliver Worth.
I am not George Washington.

IQ1: I am not Edward D. Wood, Jr.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Witchie-poo.

DQs:
1. male
2. real
3. dead
4. American
5. first word of stage name begins with W
6. died after 1900
7. not known for acting, acted but mostly played himself

Correct
Winslow Leach
Correct

DQ: Known for music?

Previous IQs:

Were you the patsy in “The Red-Headed League”? - Yes, Jabez Wilson, in the Sherlock Holmes story
Were you a top U.S. arms control negotiator in the Eighties? - Not Oliver Worth (ha!), but Paul Warnke
Did you and your horse figure in a short story by Susanna Clarke? - Not George Washington, but Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington

DQs:

Won a top entertainment award?
Died after 1950?

IQs:

Is the main building on the Princeton U. campus named after your royal house?
Were you Ben Franklin’s least-favorite son, late in life?
Were you the best-known dude from Auburn, N.Y.?

Respectively:
I am not William of Orange.
I am not William Franklin.
I am not William Howard Taft.

DQs:
1. male
2. real
3. dead
4. American
5. first word of stage name begins with W
6. died after 1900
7. not known for acting, acted but mostly played himself
8. known for music (sorta)
9. did not win any awards, as far as I can tell
10. died after 1950

IQ1: Are you an outsider musician whose name is Larry?
IQ2: Did you share a name with one of your partner-in-crime’s fish?
IQ3: Did you join your father and uncle’s rock band at the age of 15?

Correct, Wallace Greenslade, and correct.

DQ: Died after 2000?

Okay, I’ll ask the obvious:

IQ: Was it said that you hated dogs and babies?

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not Wanda.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

I am not W.C. Fields.

DQs:
1. male
2. real
3. dead
4. American
5. first word of stage name begins with W
6. died after 1900
7. not known for acting, acted but mostly played himself
8. known for music (sorta)
9. did not win any awards, as far as I can tell
10. died after 1950
11. died before 2000

Dr. Demento staple Wild Man Fischer
Correct
Wolfgang Van Halen

DQ: DIsc jockey?

Holding one DQ

IQ: Were you a Top-40 disc jockey with a cameo in George Lucas’ first big hit feature film?

Aaah-OOOOOOO, I am indeed Wolfman Jack! Next game goes to Chock.

Next up…F

IQs:

  1. Do you have a glove with knives?
  2. Are you a sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania?
  3. Were you Boris Badenov’s female sidekick?

Great guess, CFOHG! And a clever pick, DLR!

Okay, “F”:

  1. Have you played a jealous musician and a theologically rigid inquisitor?
  2. Were you an assistant to your brother’s criminal empire, run out of the Hawthorne Inn in Cicero, Illinois?
  3. Did you think of yourself and your companions as little brothers of the poor?

IQs:
1. Did you ask us to think–think about what we’re trying to do to you?
2. Were your lesser-known writings collected in Fart Proudly?
3. Did you have a guest role in “Wolf in the Fold”, the Star Trek episode with Jack the Ripper?

Not Freddy Krueger
Not Frank N Furter
Not Natasha Fatale

Not F. Murray Abraham
Take 2 DQs

Not Aretha Franklin
Not Ben Franklin
DQ

2 was John Fiedler.

DQ: real?

Correct on F. Murray. 2. was Al Capone’s brother Frank, and by contrast, 3. was Francis of Assisi, who called his order the “little brothers” -“fratres minores”, or “friars minor” - of the poor.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Female?

F

  1. Fictional
  2. Could be alive today, if real
  3. Male

IQs:
1. Did you vanish alongside Amelia Earhart?
2. Did you star in Monster-in-Law?
3. Were you Satan’s daughter and thus the Anti-Christ in Little Demon?