Let's play Botticelli!

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Although a man of many accomplishments, are you best known for your biography of a somewhat sharp-tongued but strangely loveable lexicographer?

[Orual]

I am not James Boswell.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Were you by far the most seriously injured victim of the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan?
IQ: Did you go berserk at Yankee Stadium in the infamous Pine Tar Incident of 1983?
IQ: In spite of a long and distinguished acting career, including Oscar, Golden Globe, and Emmy nominations, are you best known for having a real purty mouth and squealing like a pig?

[Orual]

a) I am not James Brady.
b) I am not A. Baseballplayer.
c) I am not Ned Beatty.

[OneCentStamp]

A. Baseballplayer = George Brett.

DQ: Primarily known as a politician?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you a mad, bad and dangerous to know aristocrat/poet/freedom fighter?

[Orual]

DQ: Primarily known as a politician?

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name startes with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.

IQ: Are you a mad, bad and dangerous to know aristocrat/poet/freedom fighter?

I am not Lord Byron.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you a 19th century French writer whose terrific literary output was fuelled by an equally terrific coffee consumption?

[Orual]

I am not Honore de Balzac?

[OneCentStamp]

I am not Honore de Balzac?

I feel bad that I'm 38 years old and I still can't say his name without snerking. :

[Elendil's Heir]

Sorry, your guesses were all wrong.

IQs:

Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?
Have you played an unscrupulous prosecutor, a lovesick network exec, and a computer wiz?
Did you smooch Margaret as you left for home?

Bob Roberts, in the movie of the same name.
Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, Seinfeld, and 2010.
The beloved but doomed Lt. Col. Henry Blake, on M*A*S*H.

DQs:

Born after 1700?
American?
Famous for the creative arts (writer, actor, singer, painter, etc.)?

IQs:

Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland?
Was a Kansas basement apartment your official residence?
Did your dad favor you over your kid brother?

[Orual]

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.

[Orual]

Sorry, your guesses were all wrong.

IQs:

Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland?
Was a Kansas basement apartment your official residence?
Did your dad favor you over your kid brother?

a) Lionel Barrymore
b) Kevin Bacon.
c) John Wilkes Booth

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Are you the favourite composer of a musical prodigy "Peanuts" character?

[Orual]

I am not Ludwig von Beethoven.

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Are you the subject of a documentary biopic titled [Your] Magic Soapbox?
IQ: Are you the televangelist who built Heritage USA, at the time the third-largest theme park in America?
IQ: Did fashion designer Marc Ecko buy your record-breaking home run ball at auction, put an asterisk on it, and send it to Cooperstown?

[Orual]

a) Dr. Bronner?
b) Billy Graham?
c) Barry Bonds (If this is a true story, that is BAD. ASS.)

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you write a novel whose title character was a young lady responsible for a rash of suicides at Oxford?

[OneCentStamp]

"Dr." Emanuel Bronner, Jim Bakker, Barry Bonds.

DQ: Writer?

[Orual]

IQ: Did you write a novel whose title character was a young lady responsible for a rash of suicides at Oxford?

I am not Samuel Beckett?

DQ: Writer?

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
10) Writer.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you write a novel whose title character was a young lady responsible for a rash of suicides at Oxford?

I am not Samuel Beckett?

Good ol' Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson.

DQ: Are you primarily famous as a novelist?

[Orual]

You and your Max Beerbohm.

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
10) Writer.
11) Not primarily famous as a novelist.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: In addition to gaining notoriety for your translation of Middle-Eastern folktales, were you also famous as an African explorer and for being one of the few non-Muslims to gain entry to Mecca?

[Orual]

I am not Sir Richard Burton.

[Elendil's Heir]

Alas, your guesses were again mistaken.

IQs:

Were you born in London but raised in Cleveland?
Was a Kansas basement apartment your official residence?
Did your dad favor you over your kid brother?

Bob Hope.
Bob Dole, during the 1996 campaign.
Denethor favored Boromir over Faramir in LOTR.

DQs:

Born after 1800?
British?
Best known as a short story writer?

IQs:

Did you create a famous arrangement of The Nutcracker?
Were you a noteworthy dancer who defected?
Did you muse that you were maybe a god, but not THE God?

[Orual]

Denethor favored Boromir over Faramir in LOTR.

Oh, I am deeply shamed.

DQs:

Born after 1800?
British?
Best known as a short story writer?.

DQs:

1) Real person.
2) Male.
3) Dead.
4) Last name starts with "B".
5) Born prior to 1/1/1900.
6) Not a politician.
7) Born after 1700.
8) Not from the U.S.
9) Famous for the creative arts.
10) Writer.
11) Not primarily famous as a novelist.
12) Born after 1800.
13) Not British.
14) Known for short stories.

IQs:

Did you create a famous arrangement of The Nutcracker?
Were you a noteworthy dancer who defected?
Did you muse that you were maybe a god, but not THE God?

a) I am not Balanchine?
b) I am not Mikhail Baryshnikov.
c) I am not George Burns!

[Elendil's Heir]

a) I am not Balanchine?
b) I am not Mikhail Baryshnikov.
c) I am not George Burns!

Correct as to the first two, but Burns specifically said he was the monotheistic God in those I, God! movies. It was Bill Murray, in the coffeeshop in Groundhog Day, who mused on his own possible divinity.

DQ:

European?

IQs:

Were you played by a man who also played a Nazi and a turncoat scientist?
Did you refer to the actual street on which you grew up in several of your books?
Did you argue that your kidnapper was nothing like George Washington?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you both work in a library and write a famous story about a practically infinite library?

[Orual]

EH, I don't know the answer to any of your IQs, however -

IQ: Did you both work in a library and write a famous story about a practically infinite library?

Yes, I am Jorge Luis Borges. (AKA: My Very Favorite, AKA: The Best Ever.)

Congratulations, Rube!

[OneCentStamp]

[Rube E. Tewesday]

So, I guess I'm up again.

Hmm...."H"

[Elendil's Heir]

Way to go, Rube!

IQs:

Were you played by a man who also played a Nazi and a turncoat scientist?
Did you refer to the actual street on which you grew up in several of your books?
Did you argue that your kidnapper was nothing like George Washington?

Blofeld, James Bond's nemesis, was played in You Only Live Twice by Donald Pleasence, who also played Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed and the bad guy in Fantastic Voyage.
Beverly Cleary often referred to Klickitat Street.
Dr. Beverly Crusher said that in one episode to a terrorist who likened himself to the first President.

So... H, eh?

IQs:

Did a friend of yours suggest the band leader speed up the song a bit?
Were you FDR's cadaverous but invaluable aide?
Although more famous later, were you an artillery captain in WWI?

[OneCentStamp]

Victimized by your own brilliance!

IQ: Are you an industrialist who is a godlike figure in Brave New World, to the point that calendar years are counted from your birth?
IQ: Are you a famous writer who, deemed too short to join the U.S. Army in WWI, joined the British Army?
IQ: Are you the famously inept deputy sheriff of Mayberry, NC?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Way to go, Rube!


So... H, eh?

IQs:

Did a friend of yours suggest the band leader speed up the song a bit?
Were you FDR's cadaverous but invaluable aide?
Although more famous later, were you an artillery captain in WWI?

(a) Dunno, take a DQ.

(b) Not Harry Hopkins.

(c) Not Harry S Truman

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Victimized by your own brilliance!

IQ: Are you an industrialist who is a godlike figure in Brave New World, to the point that calendar years are counted from your birth?
IQ: Are you a famous writer who, deemed too short to join the U.S. Army in WWI, joined the British Army?
IQ: Are you the famously inept deputy sheriff of Mayberry, NC?

(a) Not Henry Ford

(b) Drawing a blank, although I really feel I should know it. Take a DQ.

(c) Can't think of how an H. comes in for Barney Fife, so take a DQ.

[OneCentStamp]

(a) Not Henry Ford

(b) Drawing a blank, although I really feel I should know it. Take a DQ.

(c) Can't think of how an H. comes in for Barney Fife, so take a DQ.

So, let me tell you a story. I did the Henry Ford one, and then thought to myself, "Well, who else would be fun to throw in?" Only I'd forgotten that Henry Ford was there for his H, not his F, and I went off mentally, in search of more F guys. Which I found - William Faulkner and Barney Fife - only that doesn't really help us here, does it?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

(a) Not Henry Ford

(b) Drawing a blank, although I really feel I should know it. Take a DQ.

(c) Can't think of how an H. comes in for Barney Fife, so take a DQ.

So, let me tell you a story. I did the Henry Ford one, and then thought to myself, "Well, who else would be fun to throw in?" Only I'd forgotten that Henry Ford was there for his H, not his F, and I went off mentally, in search of more F guys. Which I found - William Faulkner and Barney Fife - only that doesn't really help us here, does it?

This game just keeps on giving.

And I was hoping to find out that Barney's real first name was Hiram or something.

[Orual]

IQs:

Are you the Father of History?
Did you live in the hall of Heorot?
Are you going to be playing Jean Valjean in the upcoming Les Mis movie?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQs:

Are you the Father of History?
Did you live in the hall of Heorot?
Are you going to be playing Jean Valjean in the upcoming Les Mis movie?

(a) Not Herodotus.

(b) Not coming to me. Take a DQ.

(c) Not...Hugh Jackman?

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Were you the last democratically elected president of the Weimar Republic?
IQ: Are you the paper-shredding secretary who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal?
IQ: Did you (actually, not just onscreen) play bass for Spinal Tap?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQs:

Did a friend of yours suggest the band leader speed up the song a bit?
Were you FDR's cadaverous but invaluable aide?
Although more famous later, were you an artillery captain in WWI?

Bob Hope (yes, him again) and Sammy Davis Jr. were pretending to be political running mates in a Seventies TV special. They did a song and dance routine, and Davis suggested to the conductor that the band play faster, presumably to provoke poor ol' Bob to have a heart attack.
Yes, Hopkins and Truman.

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did your husband think your newborn child understood gravity when she really didn't?
Did you hide a fugitive while doing the dishes?
Are you a licensed American pilot but much more famous for something else?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Were you the last democratically elected president of the Weimar Republic?
IQ: Are you the paper-shredding secretary who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal?
IQ: Did you (actually, not just onscreen) play bass for Spinal Tap?

(a). Not Hindenburg.

(b). Not Fawn Hall.

(c). Not....Harry Shearer?

[Orual]

Did you live in the hall of Heorot?

(b) Not coming to me. Take a DQ.

Hrothgar.

DQ: Male?

IQs:

a) Are you a well-known conductor on the Underground Railroad?
b) Are you known for writing depressing stories about waifs, ex-cons, gypsies, and hunchbacks?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQs:

Did a friend of yours suggest the band leader speed up the song a bit?
Were you FDR's cadaverous but invaluable aide?
Although more famous later, were you an artillery captain in WWI?

Bob Hope (yes, him again) and Sammy Davis Jr. were pretending to be political running mates in a Seventies TV special. They did a song and dance routine, and Davis suggested to the conductor that the band play faster, presumably to provoke poor ol' Bob to have a heart attack.
Yes, Hopkins and Truman.

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did your husband think your newborn child understood gravity when she really didn't?
Did you hide a fugitive while doing the dishes?
Are you a licensed American pilot but much more famous for something else?

None of these are coming to me, so take DQs.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

Orual, I'm neither Harriet Tubman nor Victor Hugo.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

DQs:

1. Real

2. Male

[OneCentStamp]

IQ: Did you found the only rival league ever to break the NFL's choke hold on pro football, allowing you to merge with them as equals?
IQ: Did you win your first Grammy for providing the soundtrack to a film starring a character with your same first name?
IQ: Did you originally publish under your initials because you worried that tough-subject-matter novels such as The Outsiders wouldn't sell if the public knew you were a woman?

[Rube E. Tewesday]

IQ: Did you found the only rival league ever to break the NFL's choke hold on pro football, allowing you to merge with them as equals?
IQ: Did you win your first Grammy for providing the soundtrack to a film starring a character with your same first name?
IQ: Did you originally publish under your initials because you worried that tough-subject-matter novels such as The Outsiders wouldn't sell if the public knew you were a woman?

(a) I have no idea who founded the AFL, so take a DQ.

(b) Lots of "H" musicians and songwriters in my mind, no movie characters to match them, so take a DQ.


(c) I am not S. Hinton. (Never knew that story about her, or had forgotten. Not surprising, though. Ursual Leguin has often written about being asked to go by her initials when writing for "Playboy".)

[OneCentStamp]

(a) I have no idea who founded the AFL, so take a DQ.
(b) Lots of "H" musicians and songwriters in my mind, no movie characters to match them, so take a DQ.
(c) I am not S. Hinton. (Never knew that story about her, or had forgotten. Not surprising, though. Ursual Leguin has often written about being asked to go by her initials when writing for "Playboy".)

Lamar Hunt, Harry Connick Jr. (for the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack), Susan Eloise "S. E." Hinton. And hey, I'm just proud that I managed to do the right letter this time.

DQ: Alive?

I'll hold the other DQ until I see the answer to that one.

[Rube E. Tewesday]

(a) I have no idea who founded the AFL, so take a DQ.
(b) Lots of "H" musicians and songwriters in my mind, no movie characters to match them, so take a DQ.
(c) I am not S. Hinton. (Never knew that story about her, or had forgotten. Not surprising, though. Ursual Leguin has often written about being asked to go by her initials when writing for "Playboy".)

Lamar Hunt, Harry Connick Jr. (for the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack), Susan Eloise "S. E." Hinton. And hey, I'm just proud that I managed to do the right letter this time.

DQ: Alive?

I'll hold the other DQ until I see the answer to that one.

1. Real

2. Male

3. Dead