Botticelli - Sep 2013

I didn’t want to host it again after running the game for three rounds, and I figured our European players (at least) could use a clue. Congratulations to EH!

Thanks! I’ll start the next round on Sat., I think.

Congrats again, Prof P!

Thanks, Draelin, but Elendil’s Heir’s the one who won.

Note to self: Drink coffee, then post. sigh Dammit.

Congrats to Elendil’s Heir, then. :slight_smile:

OK, I’m ready. The letter is

M.

IQs:

  1. Did Elton John write a song about you and then rewrite it about someone else?
  2. Do you hold the record for most World Series home runs?
  3. Was your beloved father slain by a man with six fingers on one hand?

IQ1: Are you a brilliant scientist who normally goes into action barefooted?
IQ2: Are you a chemist whose nickname comes from his simian appearance?
IQ3: Did you get your nickname after being framed for the theft of a truckload of meat?

IQ1: Are you ‘only pawn in game of life’?
IQ2: Are you a former Canadian Prime Minister?
IQ3: Are you member of The Band?

I’m not Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle or… I should know the last guy but don’t.

Dunno any of these. Take three DQs.

Heh. Not Mongo, Paul Martin or, um, dunno the third one here, either.

Hank McCoy, the Beast (X-Men).
Lt Col Andrew Blodgett “Monk” Mayfair (Doc Savage).
Brig Gen Theodore Marley “Ham” Brooks (Doc Savage).
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American?

IQ1: Are you strongly associated with the phrase “I’ve started, so I’ll finish?”
IQ2: Did you write “Stupid White Men”?
IQ3: Did you play a superpowered criminal casino owner?

Dunno any of these, either.

M.

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. American
  1. Was your beloved father slain by a man with six fingers on one hand?

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die.

DQ: Created after 1950?

Mungo and Paul Martin, indeed. Richard Manuel was a singer, piano player and drummer with The Hawks and then The Band.

DQ: Did you originally appear in a work of literature?

Magnus Magnusson, host of Mastermind who would allow a contestant to answer a question if time ran out while he was asking it, and would use those exact words when doing so.

Michael Moore

Malcolm McDowell who played the casino owner and crime boss in Heroes, whose character name I have forgotten

DQ1: Is your creator American?
DQ2: Have you appeared in multiple works?
DQ3: Does the work or works in which you appear belong to the Science Fiction, Fantasy or paranormal genre?

IQ1: Are you a composer whose best known work was premiered in a concentration camp?
IQ2: Are you an Alberta-born singer-songwriter?
IQ3: Are you a jazz bassist who collaborated with the above-mentioned Albertan?

IQ1: Did your father warn you not to get cider in your ear?
IQ2: Did you write A Musical Joke?
IQ3: Are you the angel who visited Joseph Smith?

IQs:

  1. Were you Edgar Bergan’s second best known puppet?
  2. Did Peter Lorre portray you in a series of movies?
  3. Were you Wayland Flower’s best known puppet?