Let's play Botticelli!

Not John Dillinger. Not John Wilkes Booth, may he burn in Hell forever.

J.

1. fictional
2. male
3. not American
4. unknown, but would probably not be alive now if real
5. European
6. created after 1950
7. not from Mainland Europe
8. British
9. from literature
10. created after 2000
11. did not receive big-screen adaptation
12. created before 2010
13. considered a good guy
14. a, but not the sole, main character
15. not the love interest of the main lead character
16. from a work of prose
17. human
18. not aimed at children
19. has fantasy but not sf elements

IQ: Are you the much mocked “Star Wars” character?
IQ2: Are you Kiefer Sutherland’s most durable role?
IQ3: Are you Sam Waterston’s best known character?

Not Jar Jar Binks, Jack Bauer or Jack McCoy.

3 for 3

IQ: Were you the title character of “show about nothing”?
IQ2: Did your character’s lie about being a marine biologist bite him in the ass?
IQ3: Do you play a fictional political figure and did you watch your (RL) son help your Alma mater make history?

Not Jerry Seinfeld (loved that show!), Jason "The sea was angry that day, my friends" Alexander, or... dunno.

Correct (me too!)
Correct
Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (her son played basketball at Northwestern, they were the last power team to make the tournament)

DQ: Adult?

Aaand that's 20

J.

1. fictional
2. male
3. not American
4. unknown, but would probably not be alive now if real
5. European
6. created after 1950
7. not from Mainland Europe
8. British
9. from literature
10. created after 2000
11. did not receive big-screen adaptation
12. created before 2010
13. considered a good guy
14. a, but not the sole, main character
15. not the love interest of the main lead character
16. from a work of prose
17. human
18. not aimed at children
19. has fantasy but not sf elements
20. adult

Ask your "Are you Firstname Lastname?" question by noon EST Weds., if you please.

The 2 extra days didn't help, so I cry "Uncle!"

Very well, then - I am

Jonathan Strange

One of the two title characters of Susanna Clarke's wonderful magic-returns-to-Regency-England alternative-history novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonath...%26_Mr_Norrell

Want to start the next category?

That was a stumper! Letter soon

Your letter is:

C

Had you heard of the book before?

On to C.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln's first SECWAR?
Did you write about Henry and Beezus?
Were you the Finch family's cook and maid?

Not Salmon Chase
Not Beverly Cleary
DQ (I SHOULD know this!)

Reading prior rounds, I got #1 wrong

I wasn’t familiar with it

But had you heard of it?

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln's first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron, not Salmon P. Chase
Did you write about Henry and Beezus? - Yes, Beverly Cleary
Were you the Finch family's cook and maid? - Calpurnia, in To Kill A Mockingbird

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Were you the head of the Flying Tigers in China?
By your own description, was your brief military service limited to hiding out in the woods with your fellow militiamen?
Were you the first to fly across America, "crash by crash"?

DQ
DQ
Not "Wrong Way" Corrigan

1.Fictional
2.Female

I had vaguely heard of it

Previous IQs:

Were you the head of the Flying Tigers in China? - Claire Chennault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Lee_Chennault
By your own description, was your brief military service limited to hiding out in the woods with your fellow militiamen? - Samuel Clemens, during the Civil War, when he was in the Confederate Missouri militia
Were you the first to fly across America, "crash by crash"? - Not Corrigan, but the intrepid Cal Rodgers - quite a tale!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calbraith_Perry_Rodgers

DQs:

First appeared since 1950?
First appeared in print?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you play a Texas member of Congress in House of Cards?
Did you forget your name when you first met your future spouse?
Were you that future spouse?

DQ
Not Bill Clinton
Not Hillary Clinton

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Did NOT first appear I print (though she's a composite of print characters)
5.Would be living, if real

I looked it up, will edit 4 for accuracy after the next batch

Previous IQs:

Did you play a Texas member of Congress in House of Cards? - Cicely Tyson
Did you forget your name when you first met your future spouse? - Yes, Bill Clinton, at Yale law school
Were you that future spouse? - Yes, Hillary Clinton

DQ:

Has appeared in a movie?

IQs:

Did you choose between Kerslake and Gould?
Did Sam Neill once play you in a long black wig?
Were you the dad of the guy whom Neill played?

3 DQS

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie

Previous IQs:

Did you choose between Kerslake and Gould? - King Charles III, selecting the next British prime minister in Jeffrey Archer's terrific political novel First Among Equals
Did Sam Neill once play you in a long black wig? - King Charles II
Were you the dad of the guy whom Neill played? - King Charles (wait for it!) I

DQs:

protagonist of the movie?
considered a beauty?
first appeared after 2000?

IQs:

Did you give your wife a four-word summary of a preacher's very long sermon?
Were you Lord Nelson's #2 guy at Trafalgar?
Did you play Scarecrow?

Not “Silent Cal” Coolidge
DQ
Not Susan St. James (last minute moment of clarity)

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie
7.NOT a main protagonist
8.Considered a beauty (according to Wikipedia AND me)
9.First appeared AFTER 2000 (book character IN 2000)

Previous IQs:

Did you give your wife a four-word summary of a preacher's very long sermon? - Yes, Calvin Coolidge. Do you remember the four words?
Were you Lord Nelson's #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Collingwood
Did you play Scarecrow? - Susan St. James is not a "C." This was Cillian Murphy in the recent Batman movies.

DQs:

Love interest of the protagonist?
American?

IQs:

Were you elected mayor of the unnamed city on Hill Street Blues?
Were you a top official who, in your earlier public service, personally hanged convicted murders?
Are you credited with surveying a major American city but have your name often misspelled today?

Don’t know the 4 words. :(

I kinda knew I messed up Susan

DQ
Not Grover Cleveland
Not Mr. Cleavland

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie
7.NOT a main protagonist
8.Considered a beauty (according to Wikipedia AND me)
9.First appeared AFTER 2000 (book character IN 2000)
10.Briefly the love interest of the protagonist
11.NOT American

The story goes that Calvin Coolidge went to church alone and was gone a long time. When he returned, his wife asked what took so long. He explained that the preacher had given a very long sermon.

"What was it about?" she asked.
"Sin," he said.
"Well, what did he say about it?"
"He was against it."

Previous IQs:

Were you elected mayor of the unnamed city on Hill Street Blues? - Ozzie Cleveland
Were you a top official who, in your earlier public service, personally hanged convicted murders? - Yes, Grover Cleveland, while he was sheriff of Buffalo, N.Y.
Are you credited with surveying a major American city but have your name often misspelled today? - Close enough, I guess - it was Moses Cleaveland

Cleveland x3!

DQ:

European?

IQs:

Are you a kid on South Park?
Does your creator mostly keep to himself these days in Chagrin Falls, Ohio?
Are you the person after whom #2 is named?

Not Eric Cartman ("I'm NOT fat, I'm big-boned")
DQ
DQ

My misspelling in #3 from te last batch was a typo.

C.

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie
7.NOT a main protagonist
8.Considered a beauty (according to Wikipedia AND me)
9.First appeared AFTER 2000 (book character IN 2000)
10.Briefly the love interest of the protagonist
11.NOT American
12.European

Previous IQs:

Are you a kid on South Park? - Yes, Cartman
Does your creator mostly keep to himself these days in Chagrin Falls, Ohio? - Bill Watterson created Calvin and Hobbes
Are you the person after whom #2 is named? - Protestant theologian John Calvin

DQs:

British?
Story is contemporary (set at roughly the same time as when it first appeared)?

IQs:

Did you found Kenyon College?
Were you a hero of the Battle of Franklin?
Were you the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1920?

DQ (this is one of YOUR go tos I never remember)
Not Joshua Chamberlain
Not John Cox (only man either ticket never to become POTUS)

C.

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie
7.NOT a main protagonist
8.Considered a beauty (according to Wikipedia AND me)
9.First appeared AFTER 2000 (book character IN 2000)
10.Briefly the love interest of the protagonist
11.NOT American
12.European
13.British
14.Set contemporarious to publication

Previous IQs:

Did you found Kenyon College? - Philander Chase
Were you a hero of the Battle of Franklin? - Not Chamberlain, who wasn't there, but Jacob Cox
Were you the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1920? - Not John, but James Cox - close enough

Three Ohioans, as it happens.

DQs:

Last name start with C?
Story set in the UK?

IQs:

Did you talk about Earendil recently on national TV?
Were you a fictional animated VPOTUS?
Do you voice Mr. Krabs?

3 DQS

C.

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie
7.NOT a main protagonist
8.Considered a beauty (according to Wikipedia AND me)
9.First appeared AFTER 2000 (book character IN 2000)
10.Briefly the love interest of the protagonist
11.NOT American
12.European
13.British
14.Set contemporarious to publication
15.Set in UK
16.BOTH names start "C".

Previous IQs:

Did you talk about Earendil recently on national TV? - Tolkien junkie Stephen Colbert
Were you a fictional animated VPOTUS? - Cletus Spuckler, on The Simpsons
Do you voice Mr. Krabs? - Clancy Brown, on SpongeBob SquarePants

DQs:

The best-known role of the actress who played her?
Genre character (spy, crime, sf, fantasy, etc.)?
Associated with London?

IQs:

Were you Himmler to Adam Sutler's Hitler?
Did your political miscalculation lead to Brexit?
Were you head of the Abwehr?

DQ
Not PM Cameron
DQ

C.

1.Fictional
2.Female
3.First appeared AFTER 1950
4.Originally from print, though her character did things in the movie, another character had done in the book
5.Would be living, if real
6.From a movie
7.NOT a main protagonist
8.Considered a beauty (according to Wikipedia AND me)
9.First appeared AFTER 2000 (book character IN 2000)
10.Briefly the love interest of the protagonist
11.NOT American
12.European
13.British
14.Set contemporarious to publication
15.Set in UK
16.BOTH names start "C".
17.Actress' best known role
18.Fantasy character
19.Not directly associated w/London

BTW: please take both DQs.

Happy Easter

To you, as well!

Previous IQs:

Were you Himmler to Adam Sutler's Hitler? - Mr. Creedy, in V for Vendetta
Did your political miscalculation lead to Brexit? - Yes, David Cameron
Were you head of the Abwehr? - Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, during WWII

DQ:

In the Harry Potter series?

One DQ reserved.

IQ:

Are you of Asian ancestry and the one-time girlfriend of Harry Potter?

YES! I am indeed

CHO CHANG! :)

Woohoo! Good one - thanks. Our next letter will be

F

IQ: Are you the tennis player dating a former VS and SI model?
IQ2: Are you the tennis player with 2 sets of twins?
IQ3: Are you the famous 3 named architect?

Not Roger Federer, dunno, and not Frank Lloyd Wright.