Botticelli, April 2012 - Le Ministre de l'au-delà, chooser; initial Q

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IQ1: Did you win an major award for your film scores with Elton John?

IQ2: Did you play a washed up catcher who ‘called his shot’? :slight_smile:

IQ3: Is the length of your filmography inversely proportional to your critical acclaim?

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Terry-Thomas was the much-put-upon Brit in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Correct as to Jefferson.
I actually forget the answer to the third question. D’oh! It’ll come to me.

Loved the Seuss question, Spoons!

DQ:

Last name start with “T”?

IQs:

Were you a noted bad guy of the American Revolution?
What was the same bad guy’s slightly different name in the movie The Patriot?
Are you a longtime Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi?

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DQ Answers:

  1. I am male
  2. I am a real person
  3. I am alive today
  4. I am famous in a way that relates to the arts
  5. I am not American
  6. I am European
  7. I was born before 1960
  8. I am related to some sort of musical area (encompassing instrumental, vocal, and technical)
  9. I am a citizen of Great Britain.
  10. ‘T’ is the first initial of my last name.
384

I don’t know any of these - three more DQs.

  1. Is this Bernie Taupin? He’s John’s constant collaborator, but I think he’s primarily a lyricist and I’m not sure if they’ve done film scores together. If not, take a DQ.
  2. I’m not Tom Berenger. :smack:
  3. I don’t know - take another DQ.

I can picture the guy from the Patriot, but I can’t come up with either of the names. Traversomething, maybe? I’m not Trent Lott, so take two more DQs (in addition to the redo of your last one).
Outstanding DQs:
le Minstre (3)
Elendil’s Heir (4, assuming you remember whoever it was had mom issues)
Spoons (2)
Wargamer (1.5)

385

  1. George Takei is famous for playing the role of Sulu in ‘Star Trek’; he now has a whole other life as a Twitterati (Twitteratus?) who passes on amusingly captioned photos. His gay-rights videos mocking an NBA star and an Arkansas school trustee went viral, and when a Tennessee senate committee approved a ‘Don’t Say Gay’ motion, he offered to let everyone say ‘Takei’ instead of ‘Gay’.

  2. This is one of my favourite non-fiction writers from the 1970s, Lewis Thomas, best known for the books collecting essays that he wrote for the New England Journal of Medicine - The Lives of a Cell, The Medusa and the Snail, Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony.

  3. This is a Canadian icon - Tom Thomson, who died at the age of 39 before the Group of Seven was formed. His style of landscape painting, which captured the raw and powerful nature of the Canadian wilderness, was a huge influence on Canadian art for decades after his mysterious death.

I’ll use only one of my DQs at the moment, if I may -

DQ - Are you best known as an instrumentalist of any type?

386

I love George Takei - just couldn’t come up with a T name under pressure!

DQ Answers:

  1. I am male
  2. I am a real person
  3. I am alive today
  4. I am famous in a way that relates to the arts
  5. I am not American
  6. I am European
  7. I was born before 1960
  8. I am related to some sort of musical area (encompassing instrumental, vocal, and technical)
  9. I am a citizen of Great Britain.
  10. ‘T’ is the first initial of my last name.
  11. I am best known as an instrumentalist.
    Outstanding DQs:
    le Minstre (2)
    Elendil’s Heir (4, assuming you remember whoever it was had mom issues)
    Spoons (2)
    Wargamer (1.5)
387

The first is Terry-Thomas in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and the second is Sir Frederick Treves, of “Elephant Man” fame.

DQs:

Are you best known as a soloist, or as part of an ensemble?
Were you born before 1950?

388

Right on Bernie Taupin. The filmmaker was Terrence malick, who only puts out a very few highly regarded films.

I’ll reserve my DQ for a moment, until the outstanding DQs are answered.

389

IQ1: Did you play Sal Futurevillian in a film that also starred the Bee Gees; Earth, Wind, and Fire; and George Burns?

IQ2: Do you and your men order whiskey for yourselves, but beer for your horses?

IQ3: Did you compose a song whose video featured scenes from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis?

390

I’m not Toby Keith (2). If I knew all the members of Queen, I wouldn’t be #3, but I’m not sure who wrote Radio Ga Ga, and I have no idea about Sal Futurevillian. Take two more DQs.

DQ Answers:

  1. I am male
  2. I am a real person
  3. I am alive today
  4. I am famous in a way that relates to the arts
  5. I am not American
  6. I am European
  7. I was born before 1960
  8. I am related to some sort of musical area (encompassing instrumental, vocal, and technical)
  9. I am a citizen of Great Britain.
  10. ‘T’ is the first initial of my last name.
  11. I am best known as an instrumentalist.
  12. I am best known by my own name as opposed to a part of an ensemble
  13. I was born before 1950

Outstanding DQs:
le Minstre (2)
Elendil’s Heir (4, assuming you remember whoever it was had mom issues)
Spoons (2)
Wargamer (1)

391

Correct on Toby Keith.

Sal Futurevillian, front man of the Future Villian Band, was played by Steve Tyler (and the band was played by Aerosmith) in the film Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Roger Taylor, the drummer for Queen, wrote Radio Ga Ga.

I’ll reserve my DQs until the outstanding ones have been answered.

392

I’ll take my DQ: Were you born before 1935?

IQ1 Were you a renowned as a studier of English languages?

IQ2 Were you adopted off the street and rise to become a high ranking member of your family?

IQ3 Did you become the first Vice-President to succeed to the highest office in the land?

393

I was not born before 1935.

I’m not consiglieri Tom Hagen of the Corleone crime family or President John Tyler. Take another DQ for the linguist.
DQ Answers:

  1. I am male
  2. I am a real person
  3. I am alive today
  4. I am famous in a way that relates to the arts
  5. I am not American
  6. I am European
  7. I was born before 1960
  8. I am related to some sort of musical area (encompassing instrumental, vocal, and technical)
  9. I am a citizen of Great Britain.
  10. ‘T’ is the first initial of my last name.
  11. I am best known as an instrumentalist.
  12. I am best known by my own name as opposed to a part of an ensemble
  13. I was born before 1950
  14. I was not born before 1935.

Outstanding DQs:
le Minstre (2)
Elendil’s Heir (4, assuming you remember whoever it was had mom issues)
Spoons (2)
Wargamer (1)

394

JRR Tolkien was a professor of English literature and scholar of old Anglo-Saxon in between writing his Middle Earth books.

Did you front a band with your name in the band’s name?

395

A little tough to answer. I never fronted anything like the Marshall Tucker band (fun fact: there’ve been 27 members of the Marshall Tucker Band between 1972 and today, none of whom were named Marshall Tucker), but I have participated in project(s) known by the members names (e.g. John Smith and Mike Doe).

DQ Answers:

  1. I am male
  2. I am a real person
  3. I am alive today
  4. I am famous in a way that relates to the arts
  5. I am not American
  6. I am European
  7. I was born before 1960
  8. I am related to some sort of musical area (encompassing instrumental, vocal, and technical)
  9. I am a citizen of Great Britain.
  10. ‘T’ is the first initial of my last name.
  11. I am best known as an instrumentalist.
  12. I am best known by my own name as opposed to a part of an ensemble
  13. I was born before 1950
  14. I was not born before 1935.
  15. I’ve never fronted a full band that included my name, but you should see post 395 for caveats to this.
    Outstanding DQs:
    le Minstre (2)
    Elendil’s Heir (4, assuming you remember whoever it was had mom issues)
    Spoons (2)
396

Col. Banastre Tarleton.
Col. Tavington (I forget his first name).
Correct as to Trent Lott, so I’ll revise the DQ: Are you a longtime Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi who never served as Majority Leader?

I’m still blanking on the mom issues person. Double d’oh! Early senility, I tells ya…

I don’t know any British musicians who fit the answers given so far, so I yield my two (not four) current DQs to whoever’d like to ask them.

IQs:

Did your mom have a purposefully counterproductive hobby?
Were you the last person of your party to hold a particular top job?
Did you lose your vision in one eye while living in a famous house?

I’d already asked a Terry-Thomas question.

397

IQ1: Were you a guitarist with the Rolling Stones?

IQ2: Did you replace Phil Collins as drummer with Genesis when Phil replaced Peter Gabriel as lead singer?

IQ3: Are you one of the living members of The Who?

398

Man, I have no idea who these people are, and Trent Lott is the only Mississippian congressman I know. Take (or offer up for grabs) 4 more DQs.

I’m not Mick Taylor or Pete Townsend. I’m not Tony Banks either (I don’t actually think he plays drums, but those prog guys always surprise me so it’s worth a guess). You probably get another DQ.

399

Oops! Sorry about that. Take one of my DQs, if you like.

400

Every night, Telemachus’s mother Penelope undid all of her weaving from the day before to stall her many suitors while her husband Odysseus was away.
Zachary Taylor was the last Whig to serve as President.
Theodore Roosevelt was blinded in one eye during an amateur boxing match while President. It was kept from the public at the time.

And it’s Sen. Thad Cochran.

No worries. I’m still stumped! I’ll gladly return it to you - ask away.