Botticelli - October 2025

IQs:

  1. Are you about to put on the red light?
  2. Are you a closeted TV dad of a 70s sitcom?
  3. Are you the founder of the Sundance Film Festival?

DQ
Not Rembrandt
DQ

DQ
DQ
Not … Claude Rains?

DQ
DQ
Not Robert Redford

Edward Bates, correct and correct (referring to Earl Warren and William Brennan).

Wow, W is done already, and now we’re on to R!

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga?
Were you Earl Hickey’s even dumber younger brother?

Not Radagast the Brown
DQ
DQ

1 was singer Rihanna; 2 was Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012; 3 was correct.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with R?

Previous IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - Yes, the wizard Radagast the Brown
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? - Gen. William Rosecrans
Were you Earl Hickey’s even dumber younger brother? - Randy Hickey, on My Name Is Earl

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Were you Dracula’s mentally-disturbed, bug-eating familiar?
Have you played two different British Prime Ministers in two different shows?
Did you write The Plot Against America?

Roxanne (Roxanne, The Police)
Robert Reid (Mike Brady, The Brady Bunch)
Correct

2 DQs reserved

IQs:
1. Were you Barack Obama’s chief of staff, then mayor of Chicago?
2. Were you one of the main female characters on Friends?
3. Did your books warn kids that “Reader beware–you’re in for a scare”?

Not Renfield
DQ
DQ

Three DQs
(I think your #3 is a reference to Stine, the author of Goosebumps, but I’ve no idea what his first name is.)

No DQ for that one – Brady wasn’t closeted, and isn’t an R; Reid may have been closeted, but he was a real-life actor, not a TV dad.

R.

1. Fictional
2. Last part of name begins with R
3. Male

EH, ask another one. DLR beat you to “Real?” by 34 minutes. :slight_smile:

I should’ve asked, ‘Did you play…’

DQ: Literary character?

R.

1. Fictional
2. Last part of name begins with R
3. Male
4. Literary character

1 (chief of staff) was Rahm Emmanuel; 2 (Friends) was Rachel; 3 was indeed R.L. Stine.

DQs:
1. main character?
2. created before 1950?
3. created by American(s)?

IQs:
1. Are you the bloody title character of the second novel in the Anno Dracula series, a German flying ace and (unlike in real life) vampire?
2. Did you voice Terk in the 1999 animated Tarzan movie?
3. Did Pedro Pascal play you in a superhero blockbuster this summer (not Superman, the other one)?

#1 was Reggie, from the OTR series I Love A Mystery.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Marco Rubio.

2 DQs reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you co-anchor the ABC Evening News in the 1970s?
  2. Were you replaced by the person mentioned above?
  3. Did you play Henry Higgins in the original Broadway cast of My Fair Lady?

IQs:

  1. Were you a charter member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame?
  2. Were you the other one?
  3. Were you made a member of the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2003?

R.

1. Fictional
2. Last part of name begins with R
3. Male
4. Literary character
5. Main character
6. Created before 1950
7. American creator(s)

Not Manfred Frhr v Richthofen?
DQ
DQ (There was another one?)

DQ
DQ
Not Rex Harrison

Three DQs
(Baseball, right? :smiley: )

Yep.
Frank Robinson / Brooks Robinson (in any order)
Cal Ripken, Jr.

DQ: Created before 1900?

2 DQs reserved.