Botticellii -- Dec 2025

IQs:
1. Were you the Eraser?
2. Did you co-found Google?
3. Did you do an OK as hell performance as the Duchess on The Mandalorian?

Louie (of “Louie Louie” by The Kingsmen)
Correct
Correct

DQ: Born after 1950?

IQs:

  1. Were you the lead singer for the Stone Poneys?
  2. Did you, a classically trained actor, often carry a whoopee cushion around on set?
  3. Did you play the fast-talking manager of a Connecticut resort hotel?

IQs:

  1. Did you front the band Nine Stories?
  2. Were you frightened by a spider?
  3. Are you best remembered for working with Lloyd Dobyns?

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. No obvious Christmas connection
  5. Born after 1950

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Linda Ronstadt.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Little Miss Muffet.
  3. Take a DQ.

Correct on #1.
#2 was Leslie Nielsen.
#3 is Lauren Graham of Gilmore Girls.

DQs:

Alive?
Known for the arts?

1 (the Eraser) was Lenny Fiasco; 2 (Google co-founder) was Larry Page; 3 (the Duchess on The Mandalorian) was Lizzo.

DQ: American?

2 DQs reserved.

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. No obvious Christmas connection
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Alive
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. American
  1. Lisa Loeb
  2. Correct
  3. Linda Ellerbee (NBC News Overnight)

DQs:

Born after 1980?
Known for literature?

  1. Were you a paleoanthropologist who.worked in Olduvai Gorge?
  2. Were you his wife?
  3. Are you considered the father of the National Weather Service?

IQs:
1. Were you showrunner on TGS with Tracy Jordan?
2. Were you shot by Jack Ruby?
3. Just imagine…did you create Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Shazam, and Reverend Darrk, for DC in 2001? (Well, with multiple artists. Also Michael Uslan.)

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. No obvious Christmas connection
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Alive
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. American
  9. Born after 1980

knoodler, take another DQ. Literature is considered part of the Arts.

  1. I am not Louis Leakey.
  2. I am not Mrs. Leakery.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Lee Harvey Oswald.
  3. I am not Stan Lee.

Thanks Prof! Brain fart on my part.

1 DQ reserved

IQs:

  1. Are you the Hick from French Lick?
  2. Are you the boss of Samantha Stephen’s husband?
  3. Are you the mother of Biff and Happy?

IQs:

  1. Are you the White House Press Secretary?
  2. Are you a right-wing provocateur who once chained herself to the door of a Twitter office?
  3. Did you once offer psychiatric help for the low, low price of a nickel?

IQs:
1. According to a song in Sunday in the Park with George, does everybody love you?
2. Did you have an affair with your boss, who happened to be president of the US?
3. In a comedy, does your character climb the side of a department store building as a publicity stunt, planning to switch places with his acrobatic friend after the first floor—except the friend keeps getting delayed, so you keep climbing, higher and higher, all the way to the top, leading to the iconic image you’re best known for?

Belated IQ wrap-up: 1 (showrunner of TGS with Tracy Jordan) was Liz Lemon, on 30 Rock.

DQ: known for sports?

Correct, Mary Leakey and Increase Lapham.

DQ: Caucasian?

One DQ reserved

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. No obvious Christmas connection
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Alive
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. American
  9. Born after 1980
  10. Known for sports
  11. Caucasian