Botticelli - Sept. 2020

Last month’s thread: Botticelli -- Aug 2020

Our next letter will be

R

IQs:

  1. Did you kill someone over a penmanship award?
  2. Did you write The Classics Reclassified?
  3. Are you a rock star who visited East Germany, got involved with the Resistance and helped infiltrate the notorious Flurgendorf prison to free your love interest’s father?

IQs:

  1. Were you killed by a sparrow archer?
  2. Did you play Shaft in the 1970’s movie?
  3. Have you played a rodeo cowboy, a con artist and an investigative reporter?

Dunno, dunno, and not the guy from Top Secret!, although I don’t know his name. Take three DQs.

Not Richard I Lionheart, Richard Roundtree or Robert Redford (also POTUS in the HBO Watchmen alternative history).

IQs:

  1. You are not Richard the Lionhearted. Were you also killed by a sparrow archer?
  2. Did Frank Sinatra play you in more than one movie?
  3. Did you write the poem “Goblin Market”?

IQ:

  1. Were you a kilted pro wrestler?
  2. Are you a female wrestler whose nickname is taken from the person referred to in #1?
  3. Did Dave Chapelle say he was me?

Dunno, not Richard Ocean, and not Robert Frost.

Dunno, dunno, and still not Robert Frost.

  1. Roddy Piper
  2. Rhona Rousey
  3. Rick James

DQ:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
  3. Known for the Arts?

R.

  1. male
  2. deceased
  3. not known for the Arts

#1 was Cock Robin. “I,” said the sparrow, “with my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin.”
#2 was Tony Rome. I think he only played Ocean once.
#3 was Christina Rossetti.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with R?

1 DQ reserved.

And, besides, that was Danny Ocean.

Thanks. I was guessing.

R.

  1. male
  2. deceased
  3. not known for the Arts
  4. real
  5. last name started with R

DQ: American?

IQs:

  1. Did you host The Match Game?
  2. Have you played Bruce Banner in the latest round of Marvel movies?
  3. Were you a theoretical physicist and a prankster?
  1. Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed
  2. Richard Armour
    3.NIck Rivers in, yep Top Secret

3 DQs reserved

Dunno, not Mark Ruffalo and not Richard Feynman (sp?).

R.

  1. male
  2. deceased
  3. not known for the Arts
  4. real
  5. last name started with R
  6. American

#1 was Gene Rayburn. Correct on the others.

DQ: Died after 1950?

IQ:

  1. Did you break the color barrier in the well known ballpark game?
  2. Did you have a propensity for playing gangsters?
  3. Were you a Russian composer who died in California?

IQs:

  1. Did you create the best known thesaurus?
  2. Are you the actual author of the Cormoran Strike series of mysteries?
  3. Are you the nom de plume #2 uses in writing those stories?

Not the great Jackie Robinson, Edward G. Robinson or Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Not Mr. Roget, J.K. Rowling or… Richard Thornton?

R.

  1. male
  2. deceased
  3. not known for the Arts
  4. real
  5. last name started with R
  6. American
  7. died after 1950