Botticelli - October 2025

Congrats!

IQs:

  1. Are you Sam and Dean Winchester’s mother?
  2. Did you play Father Marcus on the Exorcist TV show?
  3. Did you play Angela Rance on the Exorcist TV show

Take three DQs.

#1 was Martin Niemoller.
#2 I was thinking of Reinhold Niebuhr, who Bonhoeffer wrote to reject a position at Union Seminary; but, having no evidence that he did not also correspond with Richard, I will yield the question.
#3 was Richard Niebuhr.

But, now it’s congratulations to to @De_La_Rue and on to D!

IQs:

  1. Did you play Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond?
  2. Did you win the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor and later die in the sinking of the U.S.S. Liscome Bay?
  3. Did you create a charitable foundation based on your father’s tobacco fortune?

IQs:
1. I am not Doris Roberts.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

Correct on #1.
#2 was Doris Miller (who probably deserved the MoH for Pearl Harbor…)
#3 was Doris Duke.

DQs:

  1. Fictional?
  2. Male?

I think you missed this:

Yeah, but we’re past “N” and onto “D”.

I’ll try this again.

IQs:

  1. Were you romantically linked with Ursula Andress and Linda Evans?
  2. Were you married to the person above?
  3. Did the Dallas Mavericks retire your #12 jersey?

Take three DQs.

DQs:

1. fictional
2. male

John Derek
Bo Derek
Derek Harper

Derek x3!

DQs:

American creator?
Known for sci/fi or fantasy?

1 DQ reserved

Okay, ignore #1. I was thinking of their grandmother, not their mother.

#2 is Ben Daniels
#3 is Geena Davis

2 DQs reserved

Ooops, missed a round!

Previous “C” IQs:

Did you have the silliest alternative name in all of Middle-earth? - Yes, Celeborn AKA Teleport
Did you forge the Rings of Power? - Celebrimbor
Were you lord of the Grey Havens? - Cirdan

True, but now he’s having a supercarrier named after him, which ain’t too shabby: USS Doris Miller - Wikipedia

On to D.

IQs:

Were you a friend of and campaign manager for Abraham Lincoln, who put you on SCOTUS?
Did you send into harm’s way the husband of a woman for whom you lusted?
An android, did you purposefully infect a shipmate with an alien lifeform?

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. creator not American
4. from work with fantastic elements

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not King David.
I am not David, in Prometheus.

David Davis, correct and correct.

David x3!

DQ:

Character would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you write We Are Lincoln Men?
Did you attend a military school and later Wharton?
Were you a political operative most closely associated with the phrase “ratfucking”?

Let’s see… It’s late October; there’s a Halloween-Orange Gothic Text D dripping blood…

IQ: Have you been portrayed on film by George Hamilton,Leslie Nielsen, Gary Oldman, Adam Sandler, Rutger Hauer, Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi?

IQs:

  1. Are you an antagonist of Harry Potter?
  2. Are you one of Cinderella’s stepsisters?
  3. Did you get your nickname from a dog?

I…am indeed…Dracula! Next game goes to the Prof.

(Speaking of Adam Sandler, Hotel Transylvania 2 was on TV at the bar last night. I’m also currently reading “Dracula’s Guest”, by Bram Stoker, in a horror anthology.)

Let’s go with…

That’s an “E” if there’s any trouble seeing it.

Wonderful typeface. What do they call it, do you know?