Botticelli - September 2015

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive

Well, I haven’t seen either cereal on the shelves in 40 years or so, and I WAS just a little kid when I ate them. I honestly don’t remember what Quisp looked or tasted like and don’t know if Quisp was any good or if I just liked them because I wanted everything I saw advertised on TV.

IQ1) Did David Niven play you in a movie that won the Oscar as Best Picture?

IQ2) Did Quinton McHale outfox you every week?

IQ3) Did you win a Best Actor Oscar posthumously?

But Quake had Simon, the orange quangaroo!
IQ1: Were you a flautist and composer (mainly of flute sonatas) who was also a king?
IQ2: Did you have an unfortunate encouner with a young man named Princip?
IQ3: Did you write about an Amerindian fighter pilot in WW II who found himself in a parallel universe?

My mind’s not working right now. Take 3 DQs.

Quisp is still around, at least at our local groceries. Quake is still around too, but they rebranded it and remarketed it: it’s Cap’n Crunch.

It’s not my day. Take 3 DQs.

Phileas Fogg (From*** Around the World in 80 Days***), Joe Flynn (Captain Binghamton on McHale’s Navy) and Peter (Network) Finch.

DQ1) Last name start with F?

DQ2) American?

DQ3) Male?

Frank Langella (The Ninth Gate)
Frank Black (Lance Henrikson, Bishop from Aliens)
Cal Farley (I have my computer’s security settings on a paper note that has letterhead from his organization, and he has a Wikipedia page mentioning the sort of work he does for kids, so I felt this was at least somewhat appropriate)

5 DQs waiting on answers to others.

Yes, Quagmire and Quint. The last was Queenie.

Congrats, Prof. P.! On to F.

IQs:

Did Churchill, not a fan of yours, joke about your last name?
Did you give a speech in front of a giant poster of you?
Were you Arthur’s tomboy galpal?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Not American
  5. Female

…and take 3 DQs.

IQ1) Did you get to the top of the company ladder by reading How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying?

IQ2) Are you a glam-rock icon whose Dad was a coal miner in Newcastle?

IQ3) Did you get in big trouble for suggesting that a young black man avoid serving fried chicken and collard greens at a ceremonial dinner?

Ha, got one! I am not J. Pierpont Finch.

Take 2 DQs for the others.

Frederick the Great.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Philip Jose Farmer (The Gate of Time, revised and expanded as Two Hawks from Earth).
DQ1: European?
DQ2: Born after 1975?
DQ3: Known for the Arts?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Not American
  5. Female
  6. European
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Known for the Arts
    Pfui, I was thinking of Philip Jose Farmer, but all I was coming up with was A Barnstormer In Oz, which didn’t have a Native American flier, and the flier was from WWI.

Singer Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music, and golfer Frank Urban “Fuzzy” Zoeller

DQ1) A singer, musician or composer?

DQ2) From a country that speaks a Romance language?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Not American
  5. Female
  6. European
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Singer, musician or composer
  10. Not from a country that speaks a Romance language

IQ1: Are you a Polish composer known for writing mazurkas?
IQ2: Are you a Hungarian pianist who was so popular with the ladies, they fought over the silk handkerchiefs and velvet gloves you threw to them after your performances?
IQ3: Are you a German composer who wrote your Second Symphony (Hymn of Praise) in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the invention of the printing press?

DQs:

From a country that speaks a Germanic or Scandinavian language?
Primarily known as a singer?
Born before 1950?

2 DQs reserved.