Botticelli - September 2019

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. American
  4. Not political/military
  5. Living
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Either best known for acting or for singing, it’s a toss-up
  8. Greatest fame arguably before 1990
  9. Currently active
  1. I am not Mabel.
    Take 2 DQs.

Previous IQs:

Were you the heroine of The Pirates of Penzance? - Yes, Mabel
Have you played a scheming nobleman, a spy and an Austenien hero? - Mark Strong, in Sherlock Holmes, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Emma.
Did your son Casey end up living in Brattleboro, Vt.? - Edward R. Murrow

DQs:

Has won either an Oscar or a Grammy?
White?

IQs:

Did you introduce Neo to the Matrix?
Does your strip go 'round and 'round into infinity?
Were you the lead male character in the novel Rebecca?

IQs:

IQ1: Are you known for your Sophie Tucker jokes, red hair, and being Divine?
IQ2: Were you the first wife of a former Beatle?
IQ3: Were you married to Anson Williams, and did you appear on several episodes of Happy Days?

Good one, Prof. Pepperwinkle! As soon as I saw Honus Wagner, I couldn’t believe I didn’t think of it.

IQ1: Were you a singer after whom was named both a health food and a decadent dessert?

IQ2: Did the restaurant Jack Rabbit Slim’s, in the movie Pulp Fiction, call their vanilla milkshake after a comedy duo of which you were one half?

IQ3: Were you the mother of the Muses?

Yes, I am the Divine Miss M, Bette Midler!

Hey, they don’t all have to be hard. Good one, atimnie! Take it away!

Good job, atimnie!

My previous IQs:

Did you introduce Neo to the Matrix? - Morpheus
Does your strip go 'round and 'round into infinity? - Moebius
Were you the lead male character in the novel Rebecca? - Maxim de Winter

Got a feeling the DQs will come rapidly…

Okay, I am Z

IQs:

Did you play the mom of two different doomed young women?
Did you invent the warp drive?
Were you Ike’s favorite writer?

IQs:

  1. Are you one of the Wonder Twins?
  2. Did you star in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum?
  3. Did you have sisters named Magda and Eva?

First two, take a DQ, third one is … Zane Grey?

Not Zero Mostel, and not Zsa Zsa Gabor, dahlink. Not Zan either, but I looked that up, so take a DQ for that.

DQ: Real?

  1. Real

Gosh, I blinked and there’s a new game.

IQ1: Are you Walden’s resident tanning competitor?
IQ2: Are you his airhead nephew?
IQ3: Did you play J. D. on Scrubs?

Dang, that was quick! Well done, atimnie!

Previous IQs -

IQ1: Were you a singer after whom was named both a health food and a decadent dessert? - The opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, the eponym of Melba toast and Peaches Melba.

IQ2: Did the restaurant Jack Rabbit Slim’s, in the movie Pulp Fiction, call their vanilla milkshake after a comedy duo of which you were one half? - Dean Martin, the partner of Jerry Lewis.

IQ3: Were you the mother of the Muses? - Mnemosyne, the personification of memory.
New IQs:

IQ1: Were you the wife of a writer, and one half of a famous Guilded Age couple?

IQ2: Were you a minor Hebrew prophet? (two acceptable answers)

IQ3: Are you a movie director, famous/notorious for your use of slo-mo and over-the-top violence?

And that’s three DQs. Told ya this would be quick.

Not Zelda Fitzgerald, and not Zephaniah/Zachariah. Should know three, but take a DQ.

Previous IQs:

IQ1: Were you the wife of a writer, and one half of a famous Guilded Age couple? - Correct.

IQ2: Were you a minor Hebrew prophet? (two acceptable answers) - Correct.

IQ3: Are you a movie director, famous/notorious for your use of slo-mo and over-the-top violence? - Zack Snyder, of 300 fame.

New IQs:

IQ1: Were you an African warlord who faced off against Julius Caesar in an Epic Rap Battle of History?

IQ2: Is “Parsi” the name for Indian adherents of the religion you founded?

IQ3: Was the alternate form of the name of IQ2 part of the title of a tone poem by Richard Strauss, and a philosophical novel by Friedrich Nietzsche?

DQ1: Female?

I’m guessing 1 is Zulu, and 3 is definitely Zarathustra, take a DQ on 2, and 1 if it’s the incorrect answer.