Botticelli, September 2025

[knoodler]

@SunUp

• Were you a Dodgers outfielder whose promising career was cut short due to multiple injuries?
• Are you, sixty years since the start of your collegiate career, still the top scorer in NCAA basketball history?
• Did your former bandmates put some tracks that included you on their compilation album that helped make your retirement more comfortable?

I am not Jose Pena
I am not “Pistol” Pete Maravich
Take a DQ

@De_La_Rue

1. Did you star in The Simple Life?
2. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building in the city (of brotherly love) could be taller than the statue of you atop City Hall?
3. Did Mark Mothersbaugh voice himself as part of a future sewer mutant version of Devo in “The Mutants are Revolting”, the 100th episode of the TV show of which you are a character?

I am not Paris Hilton
Take 2 DQs

[knoodler]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe?
• Were you the voice of Bluebottle in the grease-encrusted, zeppelin-lined, slightly volcanic 1950s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
• Did you have a nasty habit of nailing people’s heads to the furniture?

I am not Miss Peacock
I am not Peter Sellers
Take a DQ (I can only remember Dinsdale)

@Elendil_s_Heir

Were you the best-known person born on Corfu?
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules?
A Harvard Law grad, were you named to the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio five years ago?

Take 3 DQs

[knoodler]

P

1. Real
2. First name begins with P
3. American
4. Male
5. Not living
6. Known for the Arts

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Did you star in The Simple Life?
2. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building in the city (of brotherly love) could be taller than the statue of you atop City Hall?
3. Did Mark Mothersbaugh voice himself as part of a future sewer mutant version of Devo in “The Mutants are Revolting”, the 100th episode of the TV show of which you are a character?

@knoodler

I am not Paris Hilton
Take 2 DQs

2 was William Penn; 3 was Phillip J. Fry, of Futurama.

DQs:
1. died after 1950?
2. known for the literary arts?

[SunUp]

@knoodler

@SunUp

• Were you a Dodgers outfielder whose promising career was cut short due to multiple injuries?
• Are you, sixty years since the start of your collegiate career, still the top scorer in NCAA basketball history?
• Did your former bandmates put some tracks that included you on their compilation album that helped make your retirement more comfortable?

I am not Jose Pena
I am not “Pistol” Pete Maravich
Take a DQ

The only Jose Pena I can see who played for the Dodgers was a pitcher; this was a guess for “Pistol Pete” Reiser, who did play the outfield.
Correct on Maravich.
#3 was Pete Best, who drums on several tracks on the Beatles’ *Anthology 1" album.

2 DQs reserved.

[knoodler]

P

1. Real
2. First name begins with P
3. American
4. Male
5. Not living
6. Known for the Arts
7. Died after 1950
8. Not best known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it)

[SunUp]

DQs:

Known for the performing arts?
Died after 1980?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Were you the founder and vocalist of Jane’s Addiction?
2. Were you “Tania” when you were with the SLA?
3. Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Previous IQs:

Were you the best-known person born on Corfu? - The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules? - Philoctetes AKA Phil (Danny DeVito)
A Harvard Law grad, were you named to the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio five years ago? - Judge Philip Calabrese

Phil x3!

DQs:

Has won a top award in his field?
Considered handsome?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you write The Plot Against America?
Did you lead the 1984 LA Olympics project?
Were you the first woman elected to the US Senate from Florida?

[kitap]

1. Are you better known as Soap in the Finishing School quartet by Gail Carriger?
2. Are you the main character in Dragondrums?
3. Do you host The Amazing Race?

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@knoodler

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

• Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe?
• Were you the voice of Bluebottle in the grease-encrusted, zeppelin-lined, slightly volcanic 1950s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
• Did you have a nasty habit of nailing people’s heads to the furniture?

I am not Miss Peacock
I am not Peter Sellers
Take a DQ (I can only remember Dinsdale)

Correct.
Correct.
#3 is Dinsdale Piranha from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

1 DQ reserved.

[knoodler]

@De_La_Rue

1. Were you the founder and vocalist of Jane’s Addiction?
2. Were you “Tania” when you were with the SLA?
3. Are you pondering what I’m pondering?

I am not Perry Ferrell
I am not Patty Hearst
Take a DQ

@Elendil_s_Heir

Did you write The Plot Against America?
Did you lead the 1984 LA Olympics project?
Were you the first woman elected to the US Senate from Florida?

I am not Pete Uberroth [sp?]
Take 2 DQs

[knoodler]

@kitap

• Are you better known as Soap in the Finishing School quartet by Gail Carriger?
• Are you the main character in Dragondrums?
• Do you host The Amazing Race?

Take 3 DQs

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

#3 is Dinsdale Piranha from Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

Piranha! /slaps head

[knoodler]

P

1. Real
2. First name begins with P
3. American
4. Male
5. Not living
6. Known for the Arts
7. Died after 1950
8. Not best known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it)
9. Known for the performing arts
10. Died after 1980
11. Has received several awards related to his field
12. Not notably recognized as handsome but not an uggo either, in my opinion

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

DQ: Known as an actor?

[knoodler]

P

1. Real
2. First name begins with P
3. American
4. Male
5. Not living
6. Known for the Arts
7. Died after 1950
8. Not best known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it)
9. Known for the performing arts
10. Died after 1980
11. Has received several awards related to his field
12. Not notably recognized as handsome but not an uggo either, in my opinion
13. Not known as an actor

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you front the band known as the Raiders?
2. Are you the title character of a ballet by Stravinsky?
3. Are you the son of the giant Gargantua?

[knoodler]

I am not Paul Revere
Take 2 DQs

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

Correct.
#2 is Petrouchka.
#3 is Pantagruel.

DQ: Singer or musician?

1 DQ reserved.

[knoodler]

P

1. Real
2. First name begins with P
3. American
4. Male
5. Not living
6. Known for the Arts
7. Died after 1950
8. Not best known for literary arts (although has dabbled in it)
9. Known for the performing arts
10. Died after 1980
11. Has received several awards related to his field
12. Not notably recognized as handsome but not an uggo either, in my opinion
13. Not known as an actor
14. Not a singer or musician