[GAME] Botticelli - Sep 2014

Take 3 DQs.

Evelyn Waugh spoofed war journalists in Scoop and the funeral induistry in The Loved One.

Ezzard Charles was heavyweight champ between Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott

Jean Rhys’ ***The Wide Sargasso Sea ***told the backstory of Mr. Rochester’s wife. Rochester was the employer of Jane Eyre.

DQ) Are you human?

DQ2) Are you in the sci-fi or fantasy genre?

DQ3) Have you appeared in comic books, comic strips, or in animated form?

Eponine and Enjolras, from Les Miserables.
Correct on Ethelred.
DQ1: Appeared in more than one book?
DQ2: From a genre novel?
IQ1: Did your partner’s ghost visit you on Christmas Eve?
IQ2: Were you one of the princes in the Tower?
IQ3: Are you the eponymous pig in a work by Wodehouse?

#1 is Egius, and #3 is Ellidyr.

5DQs in reserve, but will probably use none of them. hmmmm…

IQ1: Are you Winnie the Pooh’s pessimistic donkey friend?
IQ2: Are you the half-elven Lord of Rivendell and father of Arwen?
IQ3: Are you considered the principle enemy of the state in Nineteen Eighty Four?

I’m not Ebenezer Scrooge. I’d tell you to take 2 more DQs, but…

I am not Elrond. However,
I am Eeyore (not that it matters to anyone, I’m sure).

Congratulations, KO! You get “F” next.

Ha Haaa! Orbital Mind Reading Laser > Tinfoil hats!

I am F!

IQ1) Were you known as the Fordham Flash?

IQ2) Have you played drums for the same band since 1967, when you were fired from John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers for excessive boozing?

IQ3) Did you manage the Fort Wayne Daisies in The All-American Girls Baseball League, and thereby inspire Tom Hanks’ character in ***A League of Their Own ***?

Way to go, Knowed Out!

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SecWar? - Yes, Edwin Stanton
Were you Lincoln’s AG? - Yes, Edward Bates
Did you have an affair with your videographer? - John Edwards (D-N.C.)

New IQs:

Were you the intrepid in-the-field reporter for FYI?
Did you coworkers watch your wedding home movies without your knowledge?
Did your dad kill your best childhood friend and make you watch?

Gotta get some new tinfoil.

IQs:

  1. Did you sell your soul to the devil?
  2. Did Johnny do you wrong?
  3. Art thou the great Shakespearean coward?

Correct.
Edward V.
Empress of Blandings.
IQ1: Did you write about Sheelba and Ningauble?
IQ2: Did you and your partner create the Pink Panther?
IQ3: Did Clint Eastwood appear in a naval comedy with you?

3 DQs for the fur trader

dunno, not Frank Burns, sounds familiar but can’t place it

Not Faust, dunno, not Falstaff

Not Fritz Leiber, not Fritz Feiling, dunno

Frankie, from the song Frankie and Johnny.
correct on the others.

DQ: Real?

Correct.
Friz Freleng, actually, but close enough. :slight_smile:
Francis the Talking Mule.
DQ: Male?
IQ1: Were you a king who wrote flute sonatas?
IQ2: Are you Flossie’s twin?
IQ3: Did you play the man who ran the oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York, on screen?

Previous IQs:

Were you the intrepid in-the-field reporter for FYI? - Frank Fontana on Murphy Brown
Did you coworkers watch your wedding home movies without your knowledge? - Yes, Frank Burns - wish I could find that on YouTube! One of favorite MASH* scenes.
Did your dad kill your best childhood friend and make you watch? - Frederick the Great. The two tried to run away from home; Prince Frederick’s dad, the king, had the friend executed (shot by firing squad, I think).

DQs:

American?
Last name start with F?

IQs:

Did your hump change sides?
Were you a conservative Maryland ally (usually) of President Lincoln?
Were you the first dude in town to swim for fun?

DQ roundup

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with F