Botticelli - Sept. 2024

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DQ: Antagonist?

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As you wish, SunUp. Ask another, knoodler.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with G
  4. human
  5. created after 1950
  6. not from a work of prose fiction
  7. created by American(s)
  8. from TV or movies
  9. created before 1990
  10. has appeared more than once in media
  11. from a genre
  12. American
  13. not Caucasian
  14. created after 1970
  15. not the, or a, protagonist
  16. from movies
  17. did not live in the Queens borough of NYC before “movin’ on up” to the Upper East Side of Manhattan
  18. surname does not begin with A-M
  19. not an antagonist

Please ask all remaining earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

103

Thanks, both of you.

DQ:

  1. Are you known mostly for comedy?
104

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with G
  4. human
  5. created after 1950
  6. not from a work of prose fiction
  7. created by American(s)
  8. from TV or movies
  9. created before 1990
  10. has appeared more than once in media
  11. from a genre
  12. American
  13. not Caucasian
  14. created after 1970
  15. not the, or a, protagonist
  16. from movies
  17. did not live in the Queens borough of NYC before “movin’ on up” to the Upper East Side of Manhattan
  18. surname does not begin with A-M
  19. not an antagonist
  20. known mostly for comedy
105

Last DQ: Has a speaking role?

106

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with G
  4. human
  5. created after 1950
  6. not from a work of prose fiction
  7. created by American(s)
  8. from TV or movies
  9. created before 1990
  10. has appeared more than once in media
  11. from a genre
  12. American
  13. not Caucasian
  14. created after 1970
  15. not the, or a, protagonist
  16. from movies
  17. did not live in the Queens borough of NYC before “movin’ on up” to the Upper East Side of Manhattan
  18. surname does not begin with A-M
  19. not an antagonist
  20. known mostly for comedy
  21. has a speaking role

Please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST tomorrow.

107

Gonna go with…

DQ: Are you Mayor Goldie Wilson (Williams?) from Back To The Future?

108

Dayyyyum, you’re good! Yes, I am indeed

Mayor Goldie Wilson

of Hill Valley, California in Back to the Future, seen working in the malt shoppe as a young man in the first movie, and referred to in other parts of the franchise.

Well done, Prof. P.!

109

Thanks!

Let’s go with…

110

Excellent sleuthing Prof.P!

IQs:

  1. Were you the first Bond girl on the silver screen?
  2. Are you a famous author who taught history at Portland State University?
  3. Are you the gutteral intonaton of the name of a prog-rock album from the 1969?
111
  1. I am not Ursula Undress, er, Andress.
  2. I am not Louis Untermeyer (??)
  3. I am not Uriah Heep (??)
112

Great guess, Prof.P! You’re gonna clean up this thread!

IQs:

  1. Were you the copilot on the lunar shuttle Mayflower One?
  2. Did you play Sergeant Markov of the French Foreign Legion, commander of Digby Geste’s fort?
  3. Were you the only woman in the main cast of A Bridge Too Far?
113

U it is.

IQs:

Did you serve as a British officer during the Arnhem campaign and later as a United Nations official?
Were you the protagonist of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life?
Were you a top Burmese diplomat before heading the UN?

114

#3. I am not U Thant. Take 2 DQs.

IQs:

  1. Were you the copilot on the lunar shuttle Mayflower One?
  2. Did you play Sergeant Markov of the French Foreign Legion, commander of Digby Geste’s fort?
  3. Were you the only woman in the main cast of A Bridge Too Far
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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Peter Ustinov.
#3. I am not Liv Ullmann (??)

115

Congrats!

  1. Were you a co-leader of a 1970s German far-left terrorist group?
  2. Did you marry George of the Jungle?
  3. Was your roommate Oscar Madison?
116

Correct, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ummagumma (title of a Pink Floyd album)

DQs:

  1. Are you fictional?
  2. Are you human?
117

knoodler, if Ummagumma wasn’t a person (real or fictional), I don’t think that’s a proper Botticelli IQ.

118

Previous IQs:

Did you serve as a British officer during the Arnhem campaign and later as a United Nations official? - Roy Urquhart
Were you the protagonist of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life? - Ursula Todd
Were you a top Burmese diplomat before heading the UN? - Yes, U Thant

DQs:

American?
First name start with U?

IQs:

Did Ian Richardson play you in the original British House of Cards?
Did Kevin Spacey play you in the American remake of House of Cards?
Were you Igraine’s illicit lover?

119

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Human
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with U
120
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Ursula.
  3. I am not Felix Unger.

Take 3 DQs.