Let's play Botticelli!

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you the creator of Neverland and the popularizer of "Wendy" as a name for girls?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you the creator of Neverland and the popularizer of "Wendy" as a name for girls?

Not James Barrie.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you subject your subjects to the Ludovico Technique?
IQ: Have your surviving bandmates drafted your son to the drum stool for periodic "reunion" appearances over the years?

[Orual]

IQ: Are you a Romantic-era German composer who wrote brutally challenging piano solos?

IQ: Are you a different German composer whose music is heard in a couple of different sections of Disney's Fantasia?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you subject your subjects to the Ludovico Technique?
IQ: Have your surviving bandmates drafted your son to the drum stool for periodic "reunion" appearances over the years?

1. Damn, I just read about the Ludovico Technique the other day, but I'm blanking. Take a DQ.

2. I'm not ....oh, take a DQ...I've got too many dead drummers floating around my brain to take a stab.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you a Romantic-era German composer who wrote brutally challenging piano solos?

IQ: Are you a different German composer whose music is heard in a couple of different sections of Disney's Fantasia?

I'm neither Brahms nor Beethoven, which, aside from the various Brahms, pretty much exhausts my possible reponses.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you a Romantic-era German composer who wrote brutally challenging piano solos?

IQ: Are you a different German composer whose music is heard in a couple of different sections of Disney's Fantasia?

I'm neither Brahms nor Beethoven, which, aside from the various Brahms, pretty much exhausts my possible reponses.

Sigh...various Bachs...not that it matters for the question, but I wanted to make a little sense.

[OneCentStamp]

1. Damn, I just read about the Ludovico Technique the other day, but I'm blanking. Take a DQ.

2. I'm not ....oh, take a DQ...I've got too many dead drummers floating around my brain to take a stab.

Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange, and John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, whose son Jason is also a drummer.

DQ: Are you primarily famous for acting?
DQ: Did you die before January 1, 1950?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

1. Male
2. Dead
3.Real
4. Last name starts with "B".
5. European (British)
6. Involved in the creative arts.
7. Born after 1800.
8. Primarily known in a field outside acting.
9. Died before 1950.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you the author most responsible for the popular image of vampires in Western culture, in spite of writing being a mere side hobby to your actual work during your life?

IQ: Are you the English noble who formed the inspiration and basis for the above-mentioned author's signature villain?

[Orual]

IQ: Did you write The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you the author most responsible for the popular image of vampires in Western culture, in spite of writing being a mere side hobby to your actual work during your life?

IQ: Are you the English noble who formed the inspiration and basis for the above-mentioned author's signature villain?

(a) Not...oh god, what was his name, that doctor who hung around and wrote the vampire novel the same weekend Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein"...OK, take a DQ

(b) Not George Gordon, Lord Byron

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you write The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus?

Feel like I should know this, but I don't.

Take a DQ.

[Orual]

L. Frank Baum

DQ: Are you a writer?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

1. Male
2. Dead
3.Real
4. Last name starts with "B".
5. European (British)
6. Involved in the creative arts.
7. Born after 1800.
8. Primarily known in a field outside acting.
9. Died before 1950.
10. A writer

[OneCentStamp]

(a) Not...oh god, what was his name, that doctor who hung around and wrote the vampire novel the same weekend Mary Shelley wrote "Frankenstein"...OK, take a DQ

(b) Not George Gordon, Lord Byron

For the author, I was going with Bram Stoker, whose day job was a theater manager. Byron was dead on, though.

DQ: Are you famous for the manner of your death?

IQ: Did you starve yourself down from 185 lbs. to a grotesque 120 lbs. for your role in The Machinist?

[Orual]

IQ: Are you the male half of a famous British poet couple?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

1. Male
2. Dead
3.Real
4. Last name starts with "B".
5. European (British)
6. Involved in the creative arts.
7. Born after 1800.
8. Primarily known in a field outside acting.
9. Died before 1950.
10. A writer
11. Pretty ordinary death

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you the male half of a famous British poet couple?

Yes, I'm Robert Browning.

Very good, Orual.

You're "it".

[Orual]

The letter is: M.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you a trim woman of Midwestern extraction and early middle age who claims seven Grammys and three Razzies to her credit?

[Orual]

No, I'm not Madonna.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you the notoriously womanizing frontman of a late 90s alt-rock band who once held his hand in the air, index finger extended, at an awards show after party, shouting, "Hey, who wants to smell Madonna?"

IQ: Were you the voice of Max Headroom?

[Elendil's Heir]

Way to go, Orual!

...IQs:

Were you very close to being named the top student at your medical school?
Have you played both a great general and a dim-witted politico?
Do you often correctly insist, "I am not making this up"?

Dr. Julian Bashir, on ST: DS9.
Yes, Barry Bostwick, who played both George Washington and the mayor on Spin City.
Yes, Dave Barry.

New IQs:

Will you be the next Bilbo Baggins?
Were you a Congresswoman with an unbelievably WASPy name?
Have you played an Austenian hero, a Sherlockian villain, and a le Carrean spy?

[Orual]

IQ: Are you the notoriously womanizing frontman of a late 90s alt-rock band who once held his hand in the air, index finger extended, at an awards show after party, shouting, "Hey, who wants to smell Madonna?"

IQ: Were you the voice of Max Headroom?

Take 2 DQs, I have no idea for either of those.

Will you be the next Bilbo Baggins?
Were you a Congresswoman with an unbelievably WASPy name?
Have you played an Austenian hero, a Sherlockian villain, and a le Carrean spy?

I am not (1) Martin Freeman or (3) Mark Strong. I don't know 2, so take a DQ.

[Elendil's Heir]

Well done! The Congresswoman was Millicent Fenwick.

Strong, FTR, was in Sense and Sensibility, Sherlock Holmes and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Are you widely rumored to be almost helpless in NYC, and very dependent on your spouse?
Did you play President Thomas Beck?
Are you a famous actor whom Stewie Griffin hates with a passion?

[Orual]

DQ:
1) Not real

IQs:
1) Michael Bloomberg?
2) no clue
3) I clearly do not watch enough Family Guy

2 (or 3) more DQs for you!

[OneCentStamp]

Take 2 DQs, I have no idea for either of those.

Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray. Matt Frewer.

DQ: Are you alive?
DQ: Are you a fictional character?

[Orual]

DQs:

1) Fictional
2) Not alive

[Elendil's Heir]

IQs:

Are you widely rumored to be almost helpless in NYC, and very dependent on your spouse?
Did you play President Thomas Beck?
Are you a famous actor whom Stewie Griffin hates with a passion?

Matthew Broderick.
Morgan Freeman, in Deep Impact.
Matthew McConnaghey (sp?).

DQs:

Male?
American?
Last name start with "M"?

[Elendil's Heir]

And some more IQs:

Did you and your fictional brother both share the same first name?
Did you and your staff sometimes move bodies around for greater dramatic effect?
Did you appear in the political documentary Swing State, signing a waiver?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Are you an English essayist and caricaturist known as the "Incomparable"?

[Orual]

Male?
American?
Last name start with "M"?

1) Fictional
2) Not alive
3) Female
4) Not American
5) Last name doesn't start with an 'M'

[Orual]

Did you and your fictional brother both share the same first name?
Did you and your staff sometimes move bodies around for greater dramatic effect?
Did you appear in the political documentary Swing State, signing a waiver?

a) I am not Professor James Moriarty.
b & c) Take 2 DQs.

Are you an English essayist and caricaturist known as the "Incomparable"?

Take a DQ, Rube.

[Elendil's Heir]

And some more IQs:

Did you and your fictional brother both share the same first name?
Did you and your staff sometimes move bodies around for greater dramatic effect?
Did you appear in the political documentary Swing State, signing a waiver?

Yes, the Moriarty brothers.
Civil War photographer Mathew Brady.
Former SecState Madeline Albright.

DQs:

European?
First appeared after 1800?

IQs:

Were you the first female Governor of Vermont?
Did you have a lot in common with William Jennings Bryan?
Were Elizabeth and Jane your sisters?

[Orual]

Civil War photographer Mathew Brady.

Dammit, I should have known that!

DQs:

European?
First appeared after 1800?

1) Fictional
2) Not alive
3) Female
4) Not American
5) Last name doesn't start with an 'M'
6) European
7) First appeared prior to 1800

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you shoot down a confirmed 80 enemy planes, making you the most decorated flying ace of World War I?
IQ: Did you chuck your half-brother Arthur's scabbard into a lake?

[Orual]

IQs:

Were you the first female Governor of Vermont?
Did you have a lot in common with William Jennings Bryan?
Were Elizabeth and Jane your sisters?

a) DQ
b) DQ
c) I am not Miss Mary Bennett.

IQ: Did you shoot down a confirmed 80 enemy planes, making you the most decorated flying ace of World War I?
IQ: Did you chuck your half-brother Arthur's scabbard into a lake?

a) I am not Manfred von Richthofen (AKA the Red Baron).
b) I am Morgan le Fay.

Congratulations, OCS, you guys are good with the IQs!

[Elendil's Heir]

Way to go, OCS!

IQs:

Were you the first female Governor of Vermont?
Did you have a lot in common with William Jennings Bryan?
Were Elizabeth and Jane your sisters?

Madeline Kunin.
Matthew Harrison Brady was the Bryan-analogue in the play and movie Inherit the Wind.
Yes, Miss Mary Bennet (no second "t") in Pride and Prejudice.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Oh, and as Orual had figured out, mine was Max Beerbohm.

[OneCentStamp]

OK, the letter is J. Have at you!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you discover something that could only be properly interpeted using the Urim and Thummim?

[Orual]

IQ:
Are you an astrophysicist who took up with a displaced Norse god in New Mexico last year?
Are you Adèle Varens' governess?

[OneCentStamp]

Nope, I'm not Joseph Smith. (As someone who grew up Mormon and served as a Mormon missionary, that's a softball.)

[OneCentStamp]

No, I'm not...Jane Eyre?
No idea on the astrophysicist. Have a DQ!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Nope, I'm not Joseph Smith. (As someone who grew up Mormon and served as a Mormon missionary, that's a softball.)

Yeah, but since you grew up Mormon, I was hoping to get the person on my first try.

Did you consider locusts and honey to be good eatin'?

[OneCentStamp]

No, I'm not John the Baptist. (Urk.)

[Orual]

No idea on the astrophysicist. Have a DQ!

Jane Foster from Thor.

DQ: Are you a fictional character?

IQs:
Do you play James Bond's boss?
Are you a well-known comedian/quasi-political-commentator?

[OneCentStamp]

1. Not a fictional character.

No, I'm not Judi Dench, nor am I Jon Stewart.

[Orual]

IQs:

Are you the Founding Father referred to as 'obnoxious and disliked' in the musical 1776?
Are you the star of Moonwalker?
Did you work for the OSS in World War II, and then make it big as a TV chef?