Botticelli - September 2015

I am not Yorick.
I am not Youngblood Hawke.
I am not Ying Yong? Okay, take a DQ.

Correct.
Correct.
Mighty Joe Young.
DQ: Real?

DQ:

  1. Real

Grats Perfesser!

IQ1: Are you the name of a thunderbolt Johnny Thunder would inadvertently summon whenever he said “say you”?
IQ2: Are you a Slavic witch who flies around on a mortar wielding a pestle?
IQ3: Did the Norse gods create the Earth from your flesh and the ocean from your blood?

I am not Yz.
I am not Baba Yaga.
I am not Ymir.

Good one, I’ve seen other reference to that series but haven’t read it myself.

IQ1: Did you share a Nobel prize with IQ2?
IQ2: Did you share a Nobel prize with IQ1?
IQ3: Did you famously forget a cello in a taxi?

I am not Yo-Yo Ma. Take 2 DQs for the others.

IQ1: Were you a left fielder/first baseman for the Boston Red Sox from 1961-1983?
IQ2: Are you one of the writers of Puff, the Magic Dragon?
IQ3: Are you one of only two drivers in NASCAR history to win three consecutive championships?

I am not Peter Yarrow. Take 2 DQs for the others.

Yassir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Shimon Peres. Yo Yo Ma is correct, of course.

DQ: Alive?

reserving one DQ.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead

IQ1: Were you a quarterback for the 49ers?
IQ2: Were you a Wide Receiver for the Steelers?
IQ3: Did you train Bruce Lee?

Take 3 DQs.

Steve Young, Yancey Thigpen, and Yip Man.

Yip Man taught a teenaged Bruce Lee. There’s an interesting semi-biographical movie Ip Man, which is apparently what you get when you cross a biography with a Hong Kong martial arts movie. Invading Japanese are karate masters and make an arena to fight in, but eventually lose to the protagonist’s superior kung fu skill.

DQ1: Does your last name start with a Y?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
DQ3: Born prior to 1900?

holding one DQ.

IQ1: Did you have 20/10 eyesight?
IQ2: Were you nicknamed “Yaz”?
IQ3: Did you first get ranked in San’yaku in 2014?

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Last name starts with Y
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Born after 1900

Take DQs for #1 and #3. I am not Carl Yastrzemski.

IQ1: Is the original Skid Row (according to Seattle, at least) named after you?
IQ2: Did you star in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?
IQ3: Did you also star in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?

Take 3 DQs.

Chuck Yeager, Correct, Yoshikaze (sumo).

DQ: American?
DQ: Known for performing arts?