Botticelli - October 2025

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141

Correct, correct, and Ira Glass (“Head Lice and My Worst Boyfriend”)

DQ: male?

142

IQs:

  1. Did you play Gretchen, the maid, on Benson?
  2. Did you “come out of the west, / Through all the wide border / His steed was the best”?
  3. Did you write White Christmas?
143

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Ivanhoe?
3. I am not Irving Berlin.

DQs:
1. real
2. male

144

1 was Inga Swenson.
Correct on the others.

DQ: Last name starts with I?

145

IQs:

  1. Are you an African billionaire who set up an eponymous foundation?
  2. Were you replaced after leaving a hit TV sitcom after five seasons?
  3. Did you win an Emmy posthumously in 1982?
146

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Ivan Dixon?
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with I

147
  1. Mo Ibrahim
  2. Correct
  3. Ingrid Bergman (for her role of Golda Meir)

2 DQs reserved

148

How is everybody’s October 14th going?

149

Busy, busy, busy.

IQs:

  1. Did you make physical discoveries that led to the invention of the MRI machine?
  2. Was your masterpiece spoofed with a game of Battleship in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey?
  3. Were you “looking for 143”?
150

DQs:

American?
Born after 1950?

151

IQs:

  1. Did you form the rock band Guns N Roses with another member of the band?
  2. Were you involved with the director while appearing in a remake of Cape Fear?
  3. Did you survive the shoot-out at the OK Corral?
152

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Ingmar Bergman.
3. Take a DQ.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Isabella Rosellini?
3. I am not Ike Clanton?

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with I
4. American
5. born before 1950

153

#1 was Isidore “I.I.” Rabi.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Irving, the 142nd fastest gun in the west.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for the arts?
154
  1. Izzy Stradlin
  2. Illeana Douglas
  3. Correct

2 DQs reserved

155

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with I
4. American
5. born before 1950
6. dead
7. known from the arts

156

DQs:

Born before 1850?
Known for literature?

157

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. last name starts with I
4. American
5. born before 1950
6. dead
7. known from the arts
8. born before 1850
9. known for literature

158

IQs:

  1. Have you been portrayed by both Bing Crosby and Johnny Depp?
  2. Did you play one of the Rutles?
  3. Did you play another Rutle?
159

IQs:

  1. Did you create a character that Robin Williams portrayed early in his career?
  2. Did you create a character that Johnny Depp played?
  3. Did you receive an Oscar nomination for Yentil?
160

I am not Ichabod Crane, Eric Idle, Neil Innes, John Irving, or Amy Irving, but I am indeed “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” author Washington Irving!

Next game goes to Knoodler.