Let's play Botticelli!

[Elendil's Heir]

Yes. Love it! You can just see the ghost of a smile as he reads the absurd "ad copy." One of my favorite SNL fake ads.

Previous IQs:

Did you play a broomstick-flying instructor in the Harry Potter movies? - Zoe Wanamaker, daughter of the aforementioned Sam.
Did you do a parody ad for robot-attack insurance? - Yes, Sam Waterston.
Were you Bill Clinton's first SECSTATE? - Yes, Warren Christopher.

DQ:

Born before 1900?

IQs:

Did you command the USS Monitor in her 1862 clash with the CSS Virginia?
Were you the only daughter of the Darling family?
Did George Orwell come to your defense when you were accused of being a Nazi sympathizer?

[Erictelevision]

DQ
DQ
Not Wallis Simpson

[Erictelevision]

[QUOTE=Erictelevision;258151]

I coulda sworn I answered those! Sorry, it didn't post b4.

1.Real
2.Male
3.American
4.1st initial "W"
5.Dead
6.Born before 1964
7.Born after 1900

[Elendil's Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you command the USS Monitor in her 1862 clash with the CSS Virginia? - John Worden.
Were you the only daughter of the Darling family? - Wendy Darling, in Peter Pan.
Did George Orwell come to your defense when you were accused of being a Nazi sympathizer? - Not Wallis Simpson, but P.G. Wodehouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._...and_broadcasts

DQs:

Best known for the arts?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you interview JFK while you both sat in lawn chairs in the summer of 1963?
Did Ike say your appointment was one of his two biggest mistakes?
Did Ike say yours was the other?

[Erictelevision]

DQ (though I suspect it's who the mystery person is)
Not Earl Warren
Not Byron "Whizzer" White

[Erictelevision]

]I coulda sworn I answered those! Sorry, it didn't post b4.

1.Real
2.Male
3.American
4.1st initial "W"
5.Dead
6.Born before 1964
7.Born after 1900
8.From Arts [/QUOTE]

[Elendil's Heir]

Previous IQs:

Did you interview JFK while you both sat in lawn chairs in the summer of 1963? - Walter Cronkite: http://archive1.jfklibrary.org/JFKWH...-C276-7-63.jpg.
Did Ike say your appointment was one of his two biggest mistakes? - Yes, Earl Warren.
Did Ike say yours was the other? - Not "Whizzer" White; JFK appointed him. This was William F. Brennan.

DQs:

Best known for the performing arts?
Won a top award?

IQs:

Did you play the leader of the Hong Kong Cavaliers?
Was a favorite hobby of yours clearing brush and chopping down trees?
Was Rusty your bailiff?

[Erictelevision]

I thought it might him!

I am indeed WALTER CRONKITE!

[Erictelevision]

But if we had continued:

DQ
Not George W Bush
Not <Rain Man> Judge Wapner <Rain Man>

[Elendil's Heir]

Thanks! Good one. I wouldn't say he was "from [the] Arts," though, but rather, journalism or broadcasting.

Previous IQs:

Did you play the leader of the Hong Kong Cavaliers? - Peter Weller, in Buckaroo Banzai.
Was a favorite hobby of yours clearing brush and chopping down trees? - I suppose George "Dubya" Bush is a "W" for purposes of this game, but I was thinking of British PM William Gladstone.
Was Rusty your bailiff? - Yes, indeed, Judge Wapner.

I'll start the next round in the next day or so.

[Erictelevision]

Excellent. I said "Arts" because he was on TV, though your point is well taken

[Elendil's Heir]

OK, our next letter is

F

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Are you the tennis star dating my favorite supermodel?
IQ2: Are you an early New England POTUS related by marriage to 2 recent POTUSs?
IQ3: Are you a tennis star with 2 sets of twins?

[Elendil's Heir]

Not Roger Federer, Franklin Pierce or... dunno.

[Erictelevision]

You reversed the tennis players.

Fernando Verdasco is dating Jarah Mariano, Roger Federer has 2 sets of twins.

DQ: Real

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Are you the government official who was brought in to investigate the Sandusky molestation scandal?
IQ2: Did you collaborate with David Bowie on an iconic 80s song?
IQ3: Did you go from NFL defensive lineman to TV cop?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQ: Are you the government official who was brought in to investigate the Sandusky molestation scandal?
IQ2: Did you collaborate with David Bowie on an iconic 80s song?
IQ3: Did you go from NFL defensive lineman to TV cop?

Dunno, not Freddy Mercury, and dunno.

F.

1. real

[Erictelevision]

Louis Freeh
Fred Dryer ("Hunter")

DQ: Male?
DQ2: Living?

IQ: Were you the 1st African-American MLB manager?
IQ2: Did you retire tied with Ted Williams and Willie McCovey on the HR list?
IQ3: Are you a former NFL RB who shares his last name with a former VPOTUS?

[Elendil's Heir]

Dunno x3.

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead

[Erictelevision]

Frank Robinson
Frank Thomas
Frank Gore

Frank X3!

DQ: American?
DQ2: Died after 1900?
DQ3: Political/Military figure?

IQ: Were you a Italian contributor to the Manhattan Project?
IQ2: Are you a mathematician with an only recently solved equation?
IQ3: Were you th baseball commissioner who came up with the controversial asterisk on the HR record?

[Elendil's Heir]

Ah, shoulda gotten Frank Robinson.

....
IQ: Were you a Italian contributor to the Manhattan Project?
IQ2: Are you a mathematician with an only recently solved equation?
IQ3: Were you th baseball commissioner who came up with the controversial asterisk on the HR record?

Not Fermi, Fermat or... Frick?

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure

[Erictelevision]

3 for 3.

IQ: Are you the Olympic athlete who flopped in a good way?
IQ2:Are you the fictional teacher who started at a middle school named for the actor's most famous role?
IQ3: Did you play the student who famously shouted his name?

[Elendil's Heir]

...
IQ: Are you the Olympic athlete who flopped in a good way?
IQ2:Are you the fictional teacher who started at a middle school named for the actor's most famous role?
IQ3: Did you play the student who famously shouted his name?

I should know the first. Take three DQs.

[Erictelevision]

Dick Fosbury (the "Fosbury Flop" high jumping technique)
Mr. George Feeny (played by William Daniels, he taught at John Adams High on "Boy Meets World")
Will Friedle (the main character's older brother)

DQ: European?
DQ2: Elected official?
DQ3: Died before 1950?

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Did you win the MVP AND RoY award in 1975, leading the Sox to the pennant?
IQ2: Are you the basketball player who checked out Chrissy Teigen at the Correspondence Dinner?
IQ3: Were you the man better known as "Deep Throat"?

[Elendil's Heir]

Fosbury, of course! Shoulda known that.

IQ: Did you win the MVP AND RoY award in 1975, leading the Sox to the pennant?
IQ2: Are you the basketball player who checked out Chrissy Teigen at the Correspondence Dinner?
IQ3: Were you the man better known as "Deep Throat"?

Dunno x2; not Mark Felt.

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure
7. European
8. not an elected official
9. died before 1950

[Erictelevision]

Fred Lynn
Frank Kaminsky

DQ: From traditional NATO nation?
DQ2: Unelected leader of your nation?

IQ: Are you a singer who famously ran into your ex at the supermarket on New Years Eve?
IQ2: Were you a carmaker with monochrome cars?
IQ3: Were you #2s son?

[Elendil's Heir]

...
IQ: Are you a singer who famously ran into your ex at the supermarket on New Years Eve?
IQ2: Were you a carmaker with monochrome cars?
IQ3: Were you #2s son?

Dunno; neither Henry ("Any color you want as long as it's black") nor Edsel Ford.

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure
7. European
8. not an elected official
9. died before 1950
10. from a traditional NATO nation
11. not an unelected leader of my nation

[Erictelevision]

That was Dan Fogelberg ("Old Lang Syne")

DQ: veteran of either World War?

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Did you rise to the 2 most powerful offices in America without ever winning a national election?
IQ2: Did you have "The Voice of God"?
IQ3: Did you cause Mania when you debuted with the Dodgers in 1981?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQ: Did you rise to the 2 most powerful offices in America without ever winning a national election?
IQ2: Did you have "The Voice of God"?
IQ3: Did you cause Mania when you debuted with the Dodgers in 1981?

Not Gerald Ford, dunno, and dunno.

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure
7. European
8. not an elected official
9. died before 1950
10. from a traditional NATO nation
11. not an unelected leader of my nation
12. not a veteran of either World War

[Erictelevision]

John Facenda (the go to narrator for NFL Films)
Fernando Valenzuela

DQ: From a country that lost the World Wars?
DQ2: Served under a democratically elected leader?

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Did you famously hit a WS HR that you willed to stay fair?
IQ2: Were you the director of Monday Night Football during its glory days?
IQ3: Did you write the song that should be Jackie Bradley Jr.'s favorite song?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQ: Did you famously hit a WS HR that you willed to stay fair?
IQ2: Were you the director of Monday Night Football during its glory days?
IQ3: Did you write the song that should be Jackie Bradley Jr.'s favorite song?

Curses! Dunno x3.

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure
7. European
8. not an elected official
9. died before 1950
10. from a traditional NATO nation
11. not an unelected leader of my nation
12. not a veteran of either World War
13. from a country which lost one World War but not another

I can't answer your last DQ; please rephrase.

[Erictelevision]

Rephrased DQ: Did something to influence a government leader/policy?

Carlton Fisk ('75)
Chet Forte
John Fogerty ("Centerfield")

DQ: Italian?
DQ2: Author?
DQ3: Died after 1925?

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Are you a former baseball player who played with your brothers, and managed your nephew?
IQ2: Are you the greatest Italian tennis player?
IQ3: are you Leslie Nielsen's most famous character?

[Erictelevision]

I just checked, WRT IQ1: it was his son.

[Elendil's Heir]

Thanks - makes no difference, as it happens.

IQ: Are you a former baseball player who played with your brothers, and managed your nephew?
IQ2: Are you the greatest Italian tennis player?
IQ3: are you Leslie Nielsen's most famous character?

Dunno x2; not Det. Frank Drebin (dunno the name of the doctor in Airplane!)

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure
7. European
8. not an elected official
9. died before 1950
10. from a traditional NATO nation
11. not an unelected leader of my nation
12. not a veteran of either World War
13. from a country which lost one World War but not another
14. did something to influence a government leader/policy
15. not Italian
16. not an author
17. died after 1925

[Erictelevision]

Felipe Alou (he's Matty and Jesus' brother, and Moises' dad)
Francesca Schiavone

DQ: Economist?
DQ2: Namesake of something?

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Did you famously play a Batman TV villian?
IQ2:Are you a TV actress with a famously annoying accent?
IQ3: Did you discover a number sequence important in nature?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQ: Did you famously play a Batman TV villian?
IQ2:Are you a TV actress with a famously annoying accent?
IQ3: Did you discover a number sequence important in nature?

Not Frank "Riddler" Gorshin, Fran Drescher or Fibonacci.

F.

1. real
2. male
3. dead
4. not American
5. died after 1900
6. kinda sorta a political/military figure
7. European
8. not an elected official
9. died before 1950
10. from a traditional NATO nation
11. not an unelected leader of my nation
12. not a veteran of either World War
13. from a country which lost one World War but not another
14. did something to influence a government leader/policy
15. not Italian
16. not an author
17. died after 1925
18. not an economist
19. namesake of something

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Did your death trigger the "War to end all wars"?
IQ2: Is there a school of thought that you suffered from Guilliam Barre Syndrome, rather than Infantile Paralysis?
IQ3: Ar you a former SI writer famous for your commentary?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQ: Did your death trigger the "War to end all wars"?
IQ2: Is there a school of thought that you suffered from Guilliam Barre Syndrome, rather than Infantile Paralysis?
IQ3: Ar you a former SI writer famous for your commentary?

Not the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, FDR or Frank DeFord.

[Erictelevision]

Very nice!

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Are you an actress derisively nicknamed after the world capital you controversially visited?
IQ2: Was your farewell performance a movie set near a small body of water?
IQ3: Were you an "Easy Rider"?

[Elendil's Heir]

IQ: Are you an actress derisively nicknamed after the world capital you controversially visited?
IQ2: Was your farewell performance a movie set near a small body of water?
IQ3: Were you an "Easy Rider"?

Not "Hanoi Jane," her papa Henry (On Golden Pond) or brother Peter Fonda.

[Erictelevision]

3 for 3 (I asked those exact IQs the last time we used "F")

IQ: Were the first man to begin a successful circumnavigation of the globe?
IQ2: Are you the first captain to survive an entire circumnavigation?
IQ3: Were you driven from power on 1/1/59?

[Elendil's Heir]

...
IQ: Were the first man to begin a successful circumnavigation of the globe?
IQ2: Are you the first captain to survive an entire circumnavigation?
IQ3: Were you driven from power on 1/1/59?

Not Ferdinand Magellan, dunno, and not Fulgencio Batista.

[Erictelevision]

Sir Francis Drake

DQ: Leader of notable NGO?

[Erictelevision]

IQ: Are you the "Picket Fences" star who died today (or maybe yesterday)?
IQ2: Are you the American tennis player who has to repeatedly correct people when they say your 1st name?
IQ3: Are you the charismatic NYC mayor with an airport named after you?