Botticelli - Sept. 2024

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you the only woman on Country Music Televisions list of “Top Ten Outlaw Singers”?
2. Are you a somewhat unusual sexual assault survivor and activist for the MeToo movement?
3. Just because it’s been a minute since his name’s come up, did you have the most awkward name in Middle Earth? (That one’s just for you, EH )

Not Tanya Tucker, dunno, and not (thanks for that, SMV) Teleporno AKA Celeborn!

Correct on Tanya and Teleporno. 2 was actor and former NFL linebacker Terry Crews, who has been open about being groped by a influential producer at a Hollywood party.

DQ: created in the 20th century?

IQs:

1. Were you a Civil War general, who, when asked by a subordinate in the aftermath of a battle if the dead should be sorted and buried by their home states, thought for a moment and replied, “No, mix 'em up, mix 'em up: I am tired of this state’s rights business.”
2. Were you a poet whose best-known quotation translates to “I am human; therefore nothing human can be alien to me.”?
3. Does a famous allegorical drawing show the Buddha, Confucius, and you tasting water from a well, Confucius finding it sour, the Buddha bitter, and you sweet?

[knoodler]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you and your husband record a song written by John Fogarty?
2. Did you fight zombies with Little Rock?
3. Were you a backup to Jalen Hurts in college?

Dunno, not Tallahassee in Zombieland and dunno.

Ike & Tina Turner recorded CCR’s “Proud Mary”; correct; the current NFL quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, Tua Tagovailoa, backed up Jalen Hurts while attending University of Alabama

DQs:

1. Created before 1920?
2. Appeared in more than one book?

[Buck_Godot]

IQ:

1. Did you think that David and Goliath were Jesus’s first two disciples?
2. Were you known for your colorful Washington Post Sports columns about the Red Skins?
3. Are you the culinary wizard of the Adventure zone podcast?

DQ:
Main protagonist?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you write the 12-volume A Study of History?
2. Were you the Herd Godfather of a musk ox farm in Alaska?
3. Did your celebrity husband pass away within the last month?

Not Tacitus, dunno and dunno.

#1 was Arnold Toynbee.
#2 was Alex Trebek.
#3 is Marlo Thomas, widow of Phil Donahue.

3 DQs reserved.

[kitap]

@kitap

IQs:

1. Did you famously fall in love with a ghost named Marion Kerby?
2. Were you trying to Escape to Witch Mountain?
3. Were you #2’s sibling, who was also trying to Escape?

Cosmo Topper, Tony and Tia.

DQ:

1. From a genre?

4 DQs reserved.

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Were you born in your father’s cabin on the coast of Angola?
IQ2: Were you the older son of Vespasian?
IQ3: Were you Hadrian’s best-known cousin?

[SunUp]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@SunUp

IQs:

1. Were you a New York Giant first baseman who was the last National Leaguer to hit .400 in a season?
2. Did you organize the Credit Mobilier, thus being at the center of one of the biggest political corruption scandals in U.S. history?
3. Are you a Trollop who hangs around with a Klahd and a Pervect?

Dunno and dunno (although I’m sure I’ll recognize the names when I read 'em), and not Toni Trollope.

Bill Terry, Thomas Durant, and Tananda, the brother of Chumley, from Robert Asprin’s Myth books.

3 DQs reserved.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

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IQs:

1. Were you a Civil War general, who, when asked by a subordinate in the aftermath of a battle if the dead should be sorted and buried by their home states, thought for a moment and replied, “No, mix 'em up, mix 'em up: I am tired of this state’s rights business.”
2. Were you a poet whose best-known quotation translates to “I am human; therefore nothing human can be alien to me.”?
3. Does a famous allegorical drawing show the Buddha, Confucius, and you tasting water from a well, Confucius finding it sour, the Buddha bitter, and you sweet?

Still not the great George H. Thomas, dunno (although I know that quotation) and not Tao.

@Buck_Godot

IQ:

1. Did you think that David and Goliath were Jesus’s first two disciples?
2. Were you known for your colorful Washington Post Sports columns about the Red Skins?
3. Are you the culinary wizard of the Adventure zone podcast?
   …

Dunno x3.

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you born in your father’s cabin on the coast of Angola?
IQ2: Were you the older son of Vespasian?
IQ3: Were you Hadrian’s best-known cousin?

Dunno, not Tiberius and not Tiberius (I think it’s one of 'em).

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with T
4. originally from prose fiction
5. American creator(s)
6. created in the 20th century
7. created after 1920
8. did not appear in more than one book
9. not main protagonist
10. not from what I would consider a genre, but YMMV

[Buck_Godot]

@Buck_Godot

• Did you think that David and Goliath were Jesus’s first two disciples?
• Were you known for your colorful Washington Post Sports columns about the Red Skins?
• Are you the culinary wizard of the Adventure zone podcast?

1 Tom Sawyer from one of my favorite scenes of the book.
2. Tony Kornheiser
3. Taako (pronounced Taco)

DQ:
written after 1970?
Character is an adult human?

1DQ reserved

[knoodler]

IQs:

1. Did you survive a global pandemic and relocate to Boulder, CO?
2. Did you attend your prom with an outcast girl?
3. Are you the best friend of someone who may or may not be a murderous psychopath?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

IQs:

1. Were you a Civil War general, who, when asked by a subordinate in the aftermath of a battle if the dead should be sorted and buried by their home states, thought for a moment and replied, “No, mix 'em up, mix 'em up: I am tired of this state’s rights business.”
2. Were you a poet whose best-known quotation translates to “I am human; therefore nothing human can be alien to me.”?
3. Does a famous allegorical drawing show the Buddha, Confucius, and you tasting water from a well, Confucius finding it sour, the Buddha bitter, and you sweet?

Still not the great George H. Thomas, dunno (although I know that quotation) and not Tao.

Figured you’d get George Thomas. 2. is the Roman poet known in English as Terance. 3. I’ll give to you, because it is the supposed founder of Taoism and author of the Tao Te Ching; but his name was Lao Tze.

One DQ reserved.

[SCAdian]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@SCAdian

IQ1: Were you born in your father’s cabin on the coast of Angola?
IQ2: Were you the older son of Vespasian?
IQ3: Were you Hadrian’s best-known cousin?

Dunno, not Tiberius and not Tiberius (I think it’s one of 'em).

John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke – AKA Tarzan
Titus
Trajan

DQ1: Still alive when last seen/heard from?
DQ2: Could be alive today, if real?
DQ3: Book was filmed for movie or TV?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you survive a global pandemic and relocate to Boulder, CO?
2. Did you attend your prom with an outcast girl?
3. Are you the best friend of someone who may or may not be a murderous psychopath?

Dunno, not John Travolta and dunno.

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with T
4. originally from prose fiction
5. American creator(s)
6. created in the 20th century
7. created after 1920
8. did not appear in more than one book
9. not main protagonist
10. not from what I would consider a genre, but YMMV
11. written before 1970
12. character is an adult human
13. probably still alive when last seen/heard from
14. wouldn’t be alive today, if real
15. book was filmed for movie or TV

With the reserved DQs, that will get us to 20. No more IQs, please.

[Zakalwe]

Is it okay to post DQs that are in the form of “Are you X?” or do you have to have a reserved IQ/DQ question? Could I suggest posting the rules (or link to) at the top of each new month thread?

[kitap]

DQs:

1.Caucasian?
2. Award-winning work?

2 DQs reserved

[knoodler]

@Elendil_s_Heir

@knoodler

IQs:

1. Did you survive a global pandemic and relocate to Boulder, CO?
2. Did you attend your prom with an outcast girl?
3. Are you the best friend of someone who may or may not be a murderous psychopath?

Dunno, not John Travolta and dunno.

1. Tom Cullen, The Stand by Stephen King
2. Tommy Ross, Carrie also by King (William Katt played him in the 1976 movie; John Travolta played bad boy Billy Nolan)
3. Timothy Price, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

DQ: Are you a sidekick?

2 DQs reserved

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Botticelli General Questions

I’m sidin’ with EH on this one.

Above, the General Questions thread, including the rules of the game.

Welcome to the game, Zakalwe! You do need to have a reserved DQ question to ask “Are you X?”. However, I have three DQs, so you can have one of mine for your guess.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

T.

1. fictional
2. male
3. first name starts with T
4. originally from prose fiction
5. American creator(s)
6. created in the 20th century
7. created after 1920
8. did not appear in more than one book
9. not main protagonist
10. not from what I would consider a genre, but YMMV
11. written before 1970
12. character is an adult human
13. probably still alive when last seen/heard from
14. wouldn’t be alive today, if real
15. book was filmed for movie or TV
16. likely Caucasian
17. not, as far as I can determine, an award-winning work
18. not a sidekick

Please ask all earned DQs by 5pm EST tomorrow.

[knoodler]

I have 2 “Are you X” questions; can I ask them now or just one at a time?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

I guess both at the same time, although we’ve never done that before.