Botticelli - September 2017

Not Leon Trotsky.
Not Thomasina.
Not Tammy (Tammy, Tammy’s in love).

Not Sir Terry Pratchett.
DQ.
Not Terry Whatsername.

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
  4. Living
  5. Not American

Correct x3.

IQs:

  1. Did you write Idylls of the King?
  2. Were you a blind prophet of Apollo who was transformed into a woman for several years?
  3. Were you the only Apostle who was a twin?

Not … T H White?
DQ.
Not Thomas the doubting Didymus.

correct, Terry Bradshaw, Terry Farrell

Terry x 3!

DQ: European?
DQ: Known for the Arts?

holding a DQ

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts

#1 was Alfred Lord Tennyson.
#2 was Tiresias.
Correct on Tom.

DQs:

  1. Born after 1960?
  2. Known for the performing arts?

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not born after 1960
  9. Known for the performing arts

IQs:

  1. Do you have Fairly Oddparents?
  2. Are you the title character in a play by Moliere?
  3. Did you do the animations for Monty Python’s Flying Circus?

Not Timmy Turner.
DQ.
DQ.

Correct on Timmy.
#2 is Tartuffe.
#3 was Terry Gilliam.

DQs:

  1. Known as an actor?
  2. Unusual first name?

IQ1: Are you the starting QB for the NE Patriots?
IQ2: Did you know the dark under the stars when it was fearless - before the Dark Lord came from Outside?
IQ3: Did you play for, manage, and serve as an executive for the LA Dodgers for 68 seasons, starting when they were the Brooklyn Dodgers?

IQs:

  1. Did the Moody Blues sing about your death while you were still alive?
  2. Are you the title character of Shakespeare’s first tragedy?
  3. Are you a German trickster hero of folklore, sometimes known in English as “Owlglass”?

DQ.
Not … Tom Bombadil?
DQ.

DQ.
Not Titus Andronicus.
Not Till Eulenspiegel.
I’d translate that as “Owlmirror,” but whatever…

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not born after 1960
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known as an actor
  11. Not an unusual first name

Tom Brady, correct, Tommy LaSorda

Tom x 3!

DQ: From the UK?
DQ: Known primarily as a film actor?

holding a DQ

#1 was Timothy Leary.
Correct on 2 and 3. The Owl’s Mirror (or Glass) is the Moon, BTW.

1 DQ reserved.

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not born after 1960
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known as an actor
  11. Not an unusual first name
  12. Not from the UK
  13. Known primarily as a film actor

Previous IQs:

Did your several nicknames include “Old Slow-Trot”? - Yes, Gen. George H. Thomas of Civil War fame (he supposedly didn’t want the cadets at West Point to tire out the horses)
Were you a senior Starfleet officer who said not a word in your only on-screen appearance? - Adm. Thomas, in ST:TNG “The Drumhead” - seen but not heard
Did you put together your own Bible that mostly focused on Jesus’s words of wisdom? - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas x3!

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Did Brad Pitt make his screen debut in a movie that bore your name?
Did your book on naval power impress T.R.?
Were you, a Vermonter who moved to Pennsylvania, played by a Texan in a recent movie?

DQ.
Not Alfred Thayer “Sailor” Mahan.
DQ.
I know you’ve asked this one before…

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not born after 1960
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known as an actor
  11. Not an unusual first name
  12. Not from the UK
  13. Known primarily as a film actor
  14. Born west of Vienna
  15. Born south of Vienna

IQ1: Did you play Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowsky?
IQ2: Did you play Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games?
IQ3: Did you play Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back Kotter?

DQ.
DQ.
Not John Travolta.