[ GAME ] Botticelli - Nov. 2014

Are you David Duke?

So far, all I can think of are entertainers Jeff Dunham and Jakob Dylan. (NOT guesses.) Think, think, think…

I am not.

I can’t think of anyone who fits, so I’m just going to sit here and twiddle my thumbs whilst waiting to see if my wife was right…

DQ: Are you Jim Bob Duggar, of the reality show19 and Counting.

I only think of him because I read that one of his daughters was married last week. I’ve never seen the show.

That was my wife’s suggestion. I’d never even heard of the show.

Right you are, Prof. P.! I am indeed

Jim Bob Duggar

Patriarch of the ginormous Duggar clan: Jim Bob Duggar - Wikipedia. I haven’t seen the show either, but I’ve certainly heard of him and his progeny. Well done!

Thank you, Professor. I hadn’t a clue.

Ah, etv78 would have had that one for sure.

Now, I am E.

IQ1) Are you an acclaimed poet who helped get James Joyce’s Ulysses published in America?

IQ2) Did you write a sonnet called “The New Colossus” that every American recognizes exactly2 lines from"?

IQ3) Have you been played in major movies by Telly Savalas, Donald Pleasance and Max von Sydow?

  1. I am not T. S. Eliot.

  2. I am not Emma Lazarus.

  3. I am not Ernst Blofeld.

Grats, Prof. I’m too entrenched in typical Botticelli categories to consider Reality TV, which I avoid like the plague.

IQ1: Are you an English poet and illustrator, famous for nonsense limericks and neologisms like “runcible spoon”?
IQ2: Are you another nonsense artist noted for your gothic style in illustrating children’s books?
IQ3: Did you typically play gangsters in early 20th century movies, including roles as Rico and Rocco?

  1. I am not Edward Lear.
  2. I am not Edward Gorey.
  3. I am not Edward G. Robinson.

Emma Lazarus and Ernst Stavro Blofeld are correct.

But it was Ezra Pound who helped get Ulysses published in America.

DQ) Real person?

IQ1) Are you a student at Little Dipper Elementary School?

IQ2) Are you a star athlete whose last name means “Trees by still water”?

IQ3) Are you a US Senator who reached #16 on the Billboard singles charts and won a Grammy for a spoken word record?

IQs:

Did most people think your older sister Jane was the pretty one?
Were you rained upon and left groomless at your wedding?
Should your half-sister arguably have had you executed?

DQ:

  1. Real

If #3 is Everett Dirksen, take 2 DQs. If not, take 3.

#2: I am not Elizabeth Swann.

Take 2 DQs for the others.

Everett Dirksen is correct! He scored a #16 hit with the spoken word single “Gallant Men”!
Tennis star Evonne Goolagong’s name means “Trees by still water” in Australian Aborigine.

Elroy Jetson goes to Little Dipper Elementary School.
DQ) Male?

DQ) American?