Botticelli - October 2025

Oops! I misread.

DQ: Known for novels?

Correct
Chevy Chase (Community costar Joel McHale played him in A Futile and Stupid Gesture)
Crispin Glover (The Doors)

DQs:

Caucasian?
Last name begins Ca-Cl?

2 DQs reserved

#1 was Cal Ripken Jr.
#2 was Cal Thomas.
#3 was Cal(vin) Coolidge, so correct.

Cal(vin) x3!

DQ: Best known for a particular genre?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Are you rumored to gather with your teammates to drink champagne following the first loss of the last undefeated team each year?
  2. After declaring bankruptcy, did you auction off a pair of pants and an ice scraper?
  3. Are you the voice of Sgt. Boscoe on Bob’s Burgers?

IQs:
1. Did you note that it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty?
2. Did you predict the Rapture in 2011?
3. Did you direct Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and also some horror movies?

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SECTREAS? - Salmon P. Chase
Were you his first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron
Did you play Insp. Lestrade in the Eighties Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series? - Colin Jeavons

DQ:

Ever won either a Pulitzer or Nobel?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you have the silliest alternative name in all of Middle-earth?
Did you forge the Rings of Power?
Were you lord of the Grey Havens?

IQs

  1. Did you write The Well of Souls series?
  2. Did you write Piranesi?
  3. Did you write the Father Brown mysteries?

Take 3 DQs

And you can take 3 DQs.

I am not Celeborn and take 2 DQs.

I am not Jack Chalker, Suzanne Clarke or G. K. Chesterton

And no more IQs, please.

DQs:

1.Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Last name begins with C.
5. Known for the arts
6. American
7. Not known for the performing arts
8. Died after 1950
9. First name begins with A-M
10. Died before 1990.
11. Known for the literary arts
12. Died after 1970
13. Known for novels
14. Caucasian
15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl
16. Best known for a particular genre.
17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize.

Please ask all final DQs by 9 PM Pacific Time Friday.

1 was Cher, in Clueless; 2 was evangelist Harold Camping; 3 was John Carpenter.

DQ: known for horror and/or fantasy?

2 DQs reserved.

Swept me!

  1. Larry Csonka (Miami Dolphins’ running back, part of the 1972 team with the only perfect record—14-0—in league history)
  2. Gary Coleman (Jimmy Kimmel bought the pants)
  3. Gary Cole

DQs:

Best known for series of novels (as opposed to one book)
Also known as a short story writer?
Has one or more book adapted for a TV movie/feature film?

2 DQs reserved

DQs:

1.Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Last name begins with C.
5. Known for the arts
6. American
7. Not known for the performing arts
8. Died after 1950
9. First name begins with A-M
10. Died before 1990.
11. Known for the literary arts
12. Died after 1970
13. Known for novels
14. Caucasian
15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl
16. Best known for a particular genre.
17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize.
18. Not known for horror or fantasy
19. Yes, probably best known for a series, or possibly for 2
20. Also known for short stories.
21. Has been adapted for film

Final DQ: Known for mysteries?

DQs:

1.Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Last name begins with C.
5. Known for the arts
6. American
7. Not known for the performing arts
8. Died after 1950
9. First name begins with A-M
10. Died before 1990.
11. Known for the literary arts
12. Died after 1970
13. Known for novels
14. Caucasian
15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl
16. Best known for a particular genre.
17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize.
18. Not known for horror or fantasy
19. Yes, probably best known for a series, or possibly for 2
20. Also known for short stories.
21. Has been adapted for film
22. Known for mysteries

Final DQs:

1. last name begins Ca or Ce?
2. greatest fame from 1930-1950?

DQs:

1.Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. Last name begins with C.
5. Known for the arts
6. American
7. Not known for the performing arts
8. Died after 1950
9. First name begins with A-M
10. Died before 1990.
11. Known for the literary arts
12. Died after 1970
13. Known for novels
14. Caucasian
15. Last name begins with Ca-Cl
16. Best known for a particular genre.
17. Never won a Pulitzer or Nobel prize.
18. Not known for horror or fantasy
19. Yes, probably best known for a series, or possibly for 2
20. Also known for short stories.
21. Has been adapted for film
22. Known for mysteries
23. Last name begins with Ca or Ce
24. Greatest fame between 1930-1950

Time for “Firstname Lastname” questions, no? I have an idea, but I’m going to wait…

Ditto.

Sorry!

Yep, it’s time for First name Last name guesses.

Go ahead and guess until Monday noon.