New Boticelli

Is your most famous artwork of a man posed, chin on hand, in pensive concentration?

No, I’m not Rodin

ok, fine.
IQ1: According to your father, are you a tit man?
IQ2: Are you a two-time MLB triple crown winner?
IQ3: Did you play guitar for the Jeff Beck Group and Faces before landing your current gig in 1975?

IQ1: No idea, take a DQ
IQ2: No idea, take a DQ
IQ3: I am not Rod Stewart

  1. Richard Raskin or Renee Richards, the transgendered person who entered the US Open back in the 70’s.

  2. Rosenkrantz - he and Gildenstern were sent for by Queen Gertrude to discover the cause of Hamlet’s melancholy and to return him to normalcy.

  3. If you lived in Rock Ridge, you would have given [singing]RANDOLPH SCOTT[/singing] 24 hours…

DQ: Are you European?
DQ: Is your artistic field primarily a visual one - (ie painting, sculpture, photography, film, etc)?
DQ: Did you die after 1980?

Rufus Wainwright is a tit man, according to his songwriting father Loudon.
Rogers Hornsby won the triple crown in 1922 and 1925.
For #3 I was actually thinking of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, but Stewart followed the same path. Maybe I should just quit asking about guitarists.

Two DQs coming after Wargamer’s are answered.

IQ1: Did you create the characters Gargantua and Pantagruel?

IQ2: Were you killed in the defeat of Charlemagne at Roncesvalles?

IQ3: Were you a Norman ruler?

And Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern is one of my favorite movies. Go figure.

Yes, I am European
No, not primarily visual
Yes, I died after 1980

I am not Rabelais
No idea, take a DQ
I am not either one of the Richards

  1. I am male
  2. I am not living
  3. I am/was a real person
  4. I was born after 1900 AD
  5. I am best known for my accomplishments in The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. I am European
  8. My primary medium is not visual
  9. I died after 1980

Have you been dead less than a week?

No, when I died it was for longer than a week.
It was pretty much permanent.

  1. I am male
  2. I am not living
  3. I am/was a real person
  4. I was born after 1900 AD
  5. I am best known for my accomplishments in The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. I am European
  8. My primary medium is not visual
  9. I died after 1980
  10. I died before last week

DQ1: Does your first name begin with “R?”
DQ2: Were you born before 1950?

DQ1: No, my first name does not begin with R
DQ2: Yes, I was born before 1950

  1. I am male
  2. I am not living
  3. I am/was a real person
  4. I was born after 1900 AD
  5. I am best known for my accomplishments in The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. I am European
  8. My primary medium is not visual
  9. I died after 1980
  10. I died before last week
  11. Last name begins with R
  12. I was born before 1950

I was thinking Sendak.

No, not Sendak (my letter is R)

  1. Roland, who was the title character in ‘La Chanson de Roland’.

Right on Rabelais, and Richard qualifies, although he wasn’t who I had in mind.

So, a DQ -

Is your primary medium musical?

Yes.

  1. I am male
  2. I am not living
  3. I am/was a real person
  4. I was born after 1900 AD
  5. I am best known for my accomplishments in The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. I am European
  8. My primary medium is not visual
  9. I died after 1980
  10. I died before last week
  11. Last name begins with R
  12. I was born before 1950
  13. My primary medium is musical

IQ1. Do you usually have some splain’ to do?

IQ2. Are you one of the head writers for a successful fake TV show?

IQ3. Did you go 16-1 after being traded from one league to another back in 1984?

IQ1: I’m not Lucy Ricardo (or Ricky Ricardo)
IQ2: I’m not Sally Rogers (Rose Marie) from The Dick Van Dyke Show
IQ3: Take a DQ

**Wargamer **was thinking of Rick Sutcliffe

My IQ: Were you moptop lad from Liverpool?