Botticelli - October 2025

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did you found the Red Cross?
2. Were you the ultimate villain of Gravity Falls, an insane extradimensional reality warper modeled after the Eye of Providence?
3. Did you publish Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror?

[knoodler]

@SunUp

1. Did you command the Red River campaign?
2. Did you command the Mud March?
3. Did you command the Bermuda Hundred campaign?

Take 3 DQs

@De_La_Rue

1. Did you found the Red Cross?
2. Were you the ultimate villain of Gravity Falls, an insane extradimensional reality warper modeled after the Eye of Providence?
3. Did you publish Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror?

I am not Clara Barton
Take a DQ
I am not Bill Gaines

[knoodler]

B

1. Real
2. Male
3. Not living
4. First name (as best known by) begins with B
5. American
6. Died after 1970
7. Not known for the arts
8. Not known for military/political reasons

[SunUp]

@knoodler

@SunUp

1. Did you command the Red River campaign?
2. Did you command the Mud March?
3. Did you command the Bermuda Hundred campaign?

Take 3 DQs

Major Generals of Volunteers Nathaniel Banks, Ambrose Burnside, and Benjamin Butler, respectively.

DQs:

Known for science/technology?
Last name begins with A-M?

1 DQ reserved.

[kitap]

IQs:

1. Did you write Notes from a Small Island?
2. Did you star in the 1970s series The Magician?
3. Did you play Marion Kerby in the Topper film series?

[De_La_Rue]

@knoodler

I am not Clara Barton
Take a DQ
I am not Bill Gaines

2 (Eye of Providence) was Bill Cipher.

DQ: known for science?

IQs:
1. Are you a gymnast who competed in the 2020 Olympics, regarded as one of the greatest of all time?
2. Were you working in the lab, late last night, when your eyes beheld an eerie sight?
3. Did the above person take his nickname from you?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@knoodler

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did you write The Death of the Messiah and The Birth of the Messiah?
2. Were you one of the opposing party sent to a concentration camp in Anno Dracula?
3. Are you a little cardboard boy scout doomed to weekly demises in the all-mercurial, sensationally bombastic, bagpipe-driven 1950s BBC radio series The Goon Show?

Take 3 DQs

#1 was Father Raymond E. Brown.
#2 was Bram Stoker.
#3 was Bluebottle! (waits for applause…; not a sausage.)

3 DQs reserved.

[knoodler]

@kitap

• Did you write Notes from a Small Island?
• Did you star in the 1970s series The Magician?
• Did you play Marion Kerby in the Topper film series?

Take a DQ
I am not Bill Bixby
I am not… Billie Burke?

@De_La_Rue

1. Are you a gymnast who competed in the 2020 Olympics, regarded as one of the greatest of all time?
2. Were you working in the lab, late last night, when your eyes beheld an eerie sight?
3. Did the above person take his nickname from you?

I am not Simone Biles
I am not Bobby “Boris” Pickett (although that would be a great choice for this time of year)
I am not Boris Karloff

[knoodler]

B

1. Real
2. Male
3. Not living
4. First name (as best known by) begins with B
5. American
6. Died after 1970
7. Not known for the arts
8. Not known for military/political reasons
9. Not known for science/technology
10. Last name begins N-Z

@De_La_Rue ask a different DQ

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Known for sports?
2. Last name begins with N-S?

1 DQ reserved.

[De_La_Rue]

@knoodler

@De_La_Rue ask a different DQ

DQ: died after 2000?

[knoodler]

B

1. Real
2. Male
3. Not living
4. First name (as best known by) begins with B
5. American
6. Died after 1970
7. Not known for the arts
8. Not known for military/political reasons
9. Not known for science/technology
10. Last name begins N-Z
11. Known for sports
12. Died after 2000

@Prof.Pepperwinkle ask a different DQ

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Does your last name begin with N-S? (as opposed to T-Z)
2. Known for a team sport?

[knoodler]

B

1. Real
2. Male
3. Not living
4. First name (as best known by) begins with B
5. American
6. Died after 1970
7. Not known for the arts
8. Not known for military/political reasons
9. Not known for science/technology
10. Last name begins N-Z
11. Known for sports
12. Died after 2000
13. Last name begins T-Z
14. Known a team sport

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Are you Roxie’s lawyer in the musical Chicago?\
2. Were your last words “God bless Captain Vere!”?
3. Did you play Davy Crockett’s sidekick in the Disney mini-series?

[De_La_Rue]

@knoodler

I am not Simone Biles
I am not Bobby “Boris” Pickett (although that would be a great choice for this time of year)
I am not Boris Karloff

A clean sweep!

[Elendil_s_Heir]

B it is!

IQs:

Were you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas?
In your long career have you played a Federal prosecutor, network executive, computer expert and hotel concierge?
Did you fake an assassination attempt in order to win a US Senate seat?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you accused of giving your mother “forty whacks”?
2. Did you direct Hansel and Gretel, a Halloween special for the Disney Channel, in 1983?
3. “Though I know I should be wary,
Still I venture someplace scary,
Ghostly hauntings I turn loose…”
you…
YOU…
YOU?

[knoodler]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Are you Roxie’s lawyer in the musical Chicago?\
• Were your last words “God bless Captain Vere!”?
• Did you play Davy Crockett’s sidekick in the Disney mini-series?

I am not the Richard Gere character - I can’t remember his name, so take a DQ
Take a DQ
I am not… Buddy Ebsen?

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you the best-known person from Russell, Kansas?
In your long career have you played a Federal prosecutor, network executive, computer expert and hotel concierge?
Did you fake an assassination attempt in order to win a US Senate seat?

Take 3 DQs

[knoodler]

@De_La_Rue

1. Were you accused of giving your mother “forty whacks”?
2. Did you direct Hansel and Gretel, a Halloween special for the Disney Channel, in 1983?
3. “Though I know I should be wary,
   Still I venture someplace scary,
   Ghostly hauntings I turn loose…”
   you…
   YOU…
   YOU?

I am not Lizzie Borden
Take 2 DQs