Let's play Botticelli!

Previous IQs:

Did you write a memoir of growing up on an Arizona ranch? - Sandra Day O'Connor.
Were you President Reagan's last White House chief of staff? - Kenneth Duberstein.
Was it your habit to get a teeth cleaning every Election Day? - Dan Quayle.

DQs:

Best known for appearing in dramas?
Has won an Oscar?
Greatest fame since 2000?

IQs:

Did your son mention your name just once onscreen?
Did your creator mention your homosexuality only after the last book about you had been published?
Did your case set the standard for the use of scientific evidence in court?

DQ: Born north of the Mason-Dixon?

The family name on "Roseanne" was Connor, BTW.

IQ: We're you the African-American member of the "Magnificent 7"?

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

The family name on "Roseanne" was Connor, BTW.

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Ah. I thought it had the "O'" prefix. If that would make a difference to your answers, CIAS, I'll waive my next two earned DQs.

DQs
1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with D
4. Living
5. American
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born after 1950
8. Best known for the performing arts
9. Has won a top award in her field
10. Not considered a beauty - yet again YMMV, but its not what she is known for.
11. Actress
12. Born East of the Miss. River
13. Best known for appearing in Drama
14. Has not won an Oscar
15. Greatest Fame since 2000.
16. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Did your son mention your name just once onscreen?
Did your creator mention your homosexuality only after the last book about you had been published?
Did your case set the standard for the use of scientific evidence in court?

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Don't worry about the Connor family, I wouldn't have got it anyway, even though I should have.

1. Pass
2. Albus Dumbledore
3. Pass

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: We're you the African-American member of the "Magnificent 7"?

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Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Coburn, Vaughn, Buchholz - drat it must be the one I can't remember. :(

Previous IQs:

Did your son mention your name just once onscreen? - Dr. McCoy referred to himself as "McCoy, Leonard H., son of David" in the Vulcan temple scene at the end of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock.
Did your creator mention your homosexuality only after the last book about you had been published? - Yes, Albus Dumbledore (a mistake by Rowling, I think - better to make it canon by including it in the books).
Did your case set the standard for the use of scientific evidence in court? - Jason Daubert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard

DQs:

Caucasian?
Best known for a single role?

IQs:

Did you do terrible things but remain handsome?
Were you a jazz musician with a nickname that had two repeated letters next to each other?
Do you and Nick Clegg not talk so much anymore?

Wrong Magnificent 7. ;) I was going for gymnast Dominique Dawes. DQ reserved.

IQ: Did you live "your so-called life"?

DQ: from TV?

DQs
1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with D
4. Living
5. American
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born after 1950
8. Best known for the performing arts
9. Has won a top award in her field
10. Not considered a beauty - yet again YMMV, but its not what she is known for.
11. Actress
12. Born East of the Miss. River
13. Best known for appearing in Drama
14. Has not won an Oscar
15. Greatest Fame since 2000.
16. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
17. Caucasian
18. Is best known for a single role
19. From TV.

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Did you do terrible things but remain handsome?
Were you a jazz musician with a nickname that had two repeated letters next to each other?
Do you and Nick Clegg not talk so much anymore?

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1. Dorian Grey
2. Dizzy Gillespie? - umm maybe not.
3. David Cameron

Possibly a DQ for you

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: Did you live "your so-called life"?

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Pass, take a DQ.

Correct as to all three of mine.

IQs:

Are you quite sure that it's rabbit season?
Were you a cinematic Antichrist?
Were you a governor's wife who became a lesbian after divorcing?

That was Clare Danes.

DQ: Emmy winner?

IQ: Did you from working at a magazine for a JFK buff, to the second most powerful job in the free world?

DQs
1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with D
4. Living
5. American
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born after 1950
8. Best known for the performing arts
9. Has won a top award in her field
10. Not considered a beauty - yet again YMMV, but its not what she is known for.
11. Actress
12. Born East of the Miss. River
13. Best known for appearing in Drama
14. Has not won an Oscar
15. Greatest Fame since 2000.
16. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
17. Caucasian
18. Is best known for a single role
19. From TV.
20. Nominated multiple times but never won an Emmy.

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Are you quite sure that it's rabbit season?
Were you a cinematic Antichrist?
Were you a governor's wife who became a lesbian after divorcing?

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1. Daffy Duck
2. Damien from The Omen
3. No idea

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: Did you from working at a magazine for a JFK buff, to the second most powerful job in the free world?

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Umm: Dan Quayle??

I suppose I should ask for last guesses please, although I'll throw in an extra DQ for fun.

That's Julia Louis Dreyfuss.

DQ: Show aired on broadcast TV?

Previous IQs:

Are you quite sure that it's rabbit season? - Yes, Daffy Duck.
Were you a cinematic Antichrist? - Yes, Damien Thorne from The Omen and its sequels.
Were you a governor's wife who became a lesbian after divorcing? - Dagmar Celeste, former wife of Ohio Gov. Dick Celeste.

DQ waived.

Not sure who this is. Hmmm....

Me either. :(

Gonna give it a shot anyway

DQ: Are you Adana Delaney

Ooo! And if not her, are you Dana Delaney from China Beach?

EH: I think it's clear that's who I meant.

DQs
1. Real
2. Female
3. Last name starts with D
4. Living
5. American
6. Best known for the Arts
7. Born after 1950
8. Best known for the performing arts
9. Has won a top award in her field
10. Not considered a beauty - yet again YMMV, but its not what she is known for.
11. Actress
12. Born East of the Miss. River
13. Best known for appearing in Drama
14. Has not won an Oscar
15. Greatest Fame since 2000.
16. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
17. Caucasian
18. Is best known for a single role
19. From TV.
20. Nominated multiple times but never won an Emmy.
21. Show aired on broadcast TV

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

Me either. :(

Gonna give it a shot anyway

DQ: Are you Adana Delaney

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Nope, not Dana Delaney - who won two emmy's for the role.

Hint - the show has only been around for the last few years.

I don't watch any shows that started that recently. I concede.

I too cry "uncle"!

And the answer is: Lena Dunham, writer and star of Girls

She has won Two Golden Globes, but no Emmys

D'oh! Good one. I should've guessed that. She's an Oberlin graduate, as am I, and was on the cover of the alumni magazine a few months back. :: headsmack ::

Good one!! But isn't "Girls" on HBO? Or is it Fox?

HBO wouldn't be considered "broadcast TV".

HBO, I think. Cable, not broadcast. I still probably wouldn't have guessed it.

Hmm, someone new.

Ok, let's go with P

IQ: Are you a Greek-American tennis champ?
IQ2: Did you commit suicide because you were about to be "outed"?
IQ3: Were you a WWII general who was an expert in tank strategy?

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: Are you a Greek-American tennis champ?
IQ2: Did you commit suicide because you were about to be "outed"?
IQ3: Were you a WWII general who was an expert in tank strategy?

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1. Pass
2. Pass
3. General Patton?

Those were:

Pete Sampras
Peter. Tchaikovsky

DQ: Real
DQ: Male

On to P.

IQs:

Did Ray Bradbury write a short story featuring a character who was surely based on you?
Were you U.S. Grant's only Indian aide?
Were you Brett's buddy on the USCSS Nostromo?

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male

Good IQs Erictelevision

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Did Ray Bradbury write a short story featuring a character who was surely based on you?
Were you U.S. Grant's only Indian aide?
Were you Brett's buddy on the USCSS Nostromo?

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1. Pass
2. Pass
3. Aarrgh, I should know this one. Pascale???

IQ: We're you an advisor to both Clinton and Obama?

Previous IQs:

Did Ray Bradbury write a short story featuring a character who was surely based on you? - Pablo Picasso, in "In A Season of Calm Weather." An admirer finds the artist drawing in the sand on the beach - a masterpiece which will be lost forever when the tide comes in.
Were you U.S. Grant's only Indian aide? - Eli Parker.
Were you Brett's buddy on the USCSS Nostromo? - Parker, played by Yaphet Kotto in Alien.

DQs:

Living?
Last name start with P?
American?

IQs:

Are you better known as Littlefinger?
Do you play Tyrion Lannister?
Were you a noted cellist who played for JFK in the White House?

IQ: Were you responsible the legislation allowing middle class kids the means to afford college?
IQ2: Were you his grandson, married to my celebrity crush?

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. First name starts with P
5. Not American

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Are you better known as Littlefinger?
Do you play Tyrion Lannister?
Were you a noted cellist who played for JFK in the White House?

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1. Peter...someone...something
2. Peter Dinklage
3. Pass

2 DQs

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: Were you responsible the legislation allowing middle class kids the means to afford college?
IQ2: Were you his grandson, married to my celebrity crush?

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Pass on both - 2 DQs.

Previous IQs:

Are you better known as Littlefinger? - Petyr Baelish, in Game of Thrones.
Do you play Tyrion Lannister? - Yes, Peter Dinklage.
Were you a noted cellist who played for JFK in the White House? - Pablo Casals: http://www.jfklibrary.org/~/media/as...20original.jpg

DQs:

European?
Died since 1950?

IQs:

Did you found the city known for a time as Leningrad?
Did you play a vagabond, a crime boss's right-hand man and a billionaire?
Were you a fictional Napoleonic-era Secretary of State for War?

Do I get a DQ for the advisor?

DQ: Died after 1900?
DQ2: European?

BTW, those were

Claiborne Pell
Clay Pell

Please ignore my first DQ,, which I reseverve.

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. First name starts with P
5. Not American
6. Did not died since 1950?
7. European

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Did you found the city known for a time as Leningrad?
Did you play a vagabond, a crime boss's right-hand man and a billionaire?
Were you a fictional Napoleonic-era Secretary of State for War?

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1. Peter the Great and St Petersburg
2. Pass
3. Pass

Two DQs to you.

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: We're you an advisor to both Clinton and Obama?

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Nope - take a DQ, you've got three in total.

Actually, only 2. :)

That was Leon Panetta.

DQ: died after 1900?
Dq2: in the arts?

Perhaps you might want to edit DQ answer#6...?

Previous IQs:

Did you found the city known for a time as Leningrad? - Yes, Peter the Great.
Did you play a vagabond, a crime boss's right-hand man and a billionaire? - Pete Postlethwait, in James and the Giant Peach, The Usual Suspects and Inception.
Were you a fictional Napoleonic-era Secretary of State for War? - Lord Pole, in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.

DQs:

British?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
Was Yasmine Bleeth a costar of yours?
Were you the most recent member of SCOTUS appointed from Richmond, Va.?

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. First name starts with P
5. Not American
6. Did not die since 1950
7. European
8. Not British
9. Died before 1900
10. Not in the arts.

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
Was Yasmine Bleeth a costar of yours?
Were you the most recent member of SCOTUS appointed from Richmond, Va.?

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Nope. Pass on all three.

Previous IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, in Asimov's Foundation novels.
Was Yasmine Bleeth a costar of yours? - Pamela Anderson, on Baywatch.
Were you the most recent member of SCOTUS appointed from Richmond, Va.? - Lewis Powell, appointed by President Nixon.

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Political/military?
Died before 1800?
Considered a "good guy" today?

IQs:

Did you lose part of a finger because of a bargain of which you were unaware?
Were you the title character of a Seventies reincarnation thriller?
Did some call you Muad'Dib?

IQ: Were you famous for your "Common Sense"?
IQ2: Did you make a killing in colonial-era real estate?

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. First name starts with P
5. Not American
6. Did not die since 1950
7. European
8. Not British
9. Died before 1900
10. Not in the arts.
11. Born west of Vienna
12. Not Political/military
13. Died before 1800
14. Definitely considered a "good guy" today.

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Did you lose part of a finger because of a bargain of which you were unaware?
Were you the title character of a Seventies reincarnation thriller?
Did some call you Muad'Dib?

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1. Umm Peter Pettigrew??
2. Nope - Pass.
3. Paul Atreides from Duen

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Originally posted by Erictelevision

IQ: Were you famous for your "Common Sense"?
IQ2: Did you make a killing in colonial-era real estate?

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Pass on both of those.

Previous IQs:

Did you lose part of a finger because of a bargain of which you were unaware? - Lady Pole, in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
Were you the title character of a Seventies reincarnation thriller? - The ill-fated dude in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud.
Did some call you Muad'Dib? - Yes, Paul Atreides from Duen, er, Dune.

DQs:

Born in or north of Vienna?
Died before 1700?

IQs:

Do you have a famous name and now design jewelry for Tiffany's?
Did you try to kill William Seward?
Did you found Kenyon College?

Thomas Paine
Peter Stuyvesant

DQs reserved

DQs:

1. Real
2. Male
3. Dead
4. First name starts with P
5. Not American
6. Did not die since 1950
7. European
8. British <- On Checking, he is British, just not normally associated with Britain - hence the mistake.
9. Died before 1900
10. Not in the arts.
11. Born west of Vienna
12. Not Political/military
13. Died before 1800
14. Definitely considered a "good guy" today.
15. Born North of Vienna
16. Died before 1700

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Originally posted by Elendil's Heir

IQs:

Do you have a famous name and now design jewelry for Tiffany's?
Did you try to kill William Seward?
Did you found Kenyon College?

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Nope - another three blanks for me.