Botticelli - October 2025

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Old English Font by Alamy. That’s all I know.

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Is a New Jersey turnpike rest area named after you?
2. Were you actually Mary Ann Evans?
3. Did you write a poem about the object in the climax of Ghostbusters II?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Is a New Jersey turnpike rest area named after you?
2. Were you actually Mary Ann Evans?
3. Did you write a poem about the object in the climax of Ghostbusters II?

#2. I am not George Eliot. Take 2 DQs.

[knoodler]

Great job Prof!

IQs:

1. Were you married to a Beatle?
2. Were you married to John Derek?
3. Was your character married to Jeff Greene?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Take 3 DQs.

[SunUp]

Great detective work, Prof.! As soon as I saw your IQ, I thought “that’s it!”

On to E.

IQs:

1. Are you the eponymous subject of a Billboard #1 hit by Gene Chandler?
2. Did you stop U.S. Grant’s first drive on Vicksburg by capturing his supply depot at Holly Springs?
3. Were you the perpetrator of an April 4, 1968 assassination?

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

#2. I am not George Eliot. Take 2 DQs.

1 (rest area) was Thomas Edison; 3 was Emma Lazarus (the climax of Ghostbusters II involves the Statue of Liberty).

DQs:
#1. real?
#2. male?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
#1. Did you invent the cotton “gin”?
#2. Did you appear in Freaks?
#3. Were you on Team Cockroach?

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Were you Freydis’s brother (or possibly half-brother)?
IQ2: Were you their father?
IQ3: Was your original name Mary Doud?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Are you the eponymous subject of a Billboard #1 hit by Gene Chandler?
2. Did you stop U.S. Grant’s first drive on Vicksburg by capturing his supply depot at Holly Springs?
3. Were you the perpetrator of an April 4, 1968 assassination?

1. I am not the Duke of Earl.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not James Earl Ray.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
#1. Did you invent the cotton “gin”?
#2. Did you appear in Freaks?
#3. Were you on Team Cockroach?

1. I am not Eli Whitney.
   Take 2 DQs.

@SCAdian

Q1: Were you Freydis’s brother (or possibly half-brother)?
IQ2: Were you their father?
IQ3: Was your original name Mary Doud?

Take 3 DQs.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female

[SunUp]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Are you the eponymous subject of a Billboard #1 hit by Gene Chandler?
2. Did you stop U.S. Grant’s first drive on Vicksburg by capturing his supply depot at Holly Springs?
3. Were you the perpetrator of an April 4, 1968 assassination?

1. I am not the Duke of Earl.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not James Earl Ray.

Correct on #1 and #3.
#2 was Major General (CSA) Earl Van Dorn.

Earl x3!

DQ: Last name starts with E?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Only name starts with E

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
#1. Did you invent the cotton “gin”?
#2. Did you appear in Freaks?
#3. Were you on Team Cockroach?

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. I am not Eli Whitney.
   Take 2 DQs.

2 was Johnny Eck; 3 was Eleanor Shellstrop, in The Good Place.

DQs:
1. created after 1980?
2. from movies and/or TV?

[SCAdian]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

@SCAdian

Q1: Were you Freydis’s brother (or possibly half-brother)?
IQ2: Were you their father?
IQ3: Was your original name Mary Doud?

Take 3 DQs.

Leif Eriksson
Erik the Red
Mamie Eisenhower

DQ1: American creator(s)?
DQ2: Originally from prose fiction?
One DQ reserved.

[kitap]

Congrats!

IQs:

1. Were you nicknamed The Desert Fox?
2. Are you perhaps Rachel Weisz’s most famous role?
3. Did you play the original Equalizer?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Did you write the introduction to the first American edition of The Diary of Anne Frank?
2. Did you try to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket?
3. Do Lock, Shock, and Barrel first mistakenly kidnap you in The Nightmare before Christmas?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@kitap

IQs:

1. Were you nicknamed The Desert Fox?
2. Are you perhaps Rachel Weisz’s most famous role?
3. Did you play the original Equalizer?

1. I am not Erwin Rommel.
2. I am not Evie O’Connell.
3. Take a DQ.

@De_La_Rue

IQs:

1. Did you write the introduction to the first American edition of The Diary of Anne Frank?
2. Did you try to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket?
3. Do Lock, Shock, and Barrel first mistakenly kidnap you in The Nightmare before Christmas?

1. I am not Albert Einstein (??).
2. I am not Evel Knievel.
3. I am not the Easter Bunny.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQs:

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. Only name starts with E
4. Created after 1980
5. From movies and TV
6. American creator(s)
7. Not originally from prose fiction

[De_La_Rue]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. I am not Albert Einstein (??).
2. I am not Evel Knievel.
3. I am not the Easter Bunny.

1 was Eleanor Roosevelt (I went to the Anne Frank exhibit at the Center for Jewish History in NY on Sunday; near the end, there’s a long display of various editions and translations of the diary.).

DQ: created after 2000?