Botticelli - April, 2013

Thread Games
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Abel Janszoon Tasman?

42

Yes, shot in the dark.

43

Wow - I think the last one I got was Bruce Wayne a couple months ago, back before I actually started playing!

Can’t think of any likely O’s, so …

I am P!

44

Congrats, SCAdian! Well done. Anyone interested in Ned Kelly should read True History of the Kelly Gang, a Booker Prize-winning novel by Peter Carey, written as if it were the long-undiscovered secret journal of the outlaw. Very entertaining. An interesting quirk is that he uses “adjectival” every time a normal lowlife would use “fucking.”

From the last round:

Buzz Lightyear was called Mrs. Nesbit by Sid’s little sister for her dolls’ tea party in Toy Story.
Yes, Natalie Cole.
Ron Nessen, in the Ford Administration.

IQs:

Was Dawes a much-less-well-known colleague of yours?
Were you hit in the head by an apple in a movie?
Did you think you could eat maple walnut ice cream off the floor of most women’s bathrooms?

45

IQ: Were you the POTUS with the shortest retirement?

46

INT WTF - I answered this a couple hours ago! Where did my post go?

Three DQs, though I have a distinct feeling I should know the answer to the first one…

47

Not Franklin Pierce. (If that’s the wrong answer, take a DQ.)

48

Dawes rode the same night as Paul Revere to warn that the British were coming.
Peregrin “Pippin” Took: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_BBR5n-_Jk
“Paulie Walnuts” on The Sopranos - at 0:27 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lUPPDqanuw

DQs:

Male?
Real?
First name start with P?

IQs:

Did you star in Jury Duty?
Were you a supermodel married to a rock star?
Did you observe the martyrdom of St. Stephen?

49

Polk died within months.

DQ: Living?

50

Knew I should have recognised the Dawes reference…

Not St Paul. DQs for the first two.

P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
51

IQs:

  1. Are you an 18th Century English poet known for The Rape of the Lock?
  2. Are you the greatest composer of Italian opera since Verdi?
  3. Are you an American comic strip boxer?
52

Not Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pucchini or Joe Palooka. (DQs if I’m wrong on any of these, of course…)
P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
53

The Rape of the Lock is by Alexander Pope. The other two are fine.

DQ:
Is English your first language?

54

IQ1: Are you a harmonica master in a jam band?
IQ2: Are you an athlete and a Brazilian national hero?
IQ3: Is what used to be Glen Canyon named in your honor?

55

Not Pele or John Wesley Powell. DQ for the harmonica.
P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
  5. English was not my first language
56

John Popper of Blues Traveler.

DQ: Are you associated with the arts, by our usual definition?

57

(What’s a “jam band”?)
P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
  5. English was not my first language
  6. Associated with the arts
58

Jam band.

Basically, they’re bands that feature extended improvisational segments in their live shows. The Grateful Dead would be they archetype, but there are a bunch of others out there. They’re definitely not for everyone, but I’m a (somewhat picky) fan.

59

Pauly Shore.
Paulina Porizkova married Rick Ocasek of The Cars (all spellings approximate).
Yes, St. Paul (then Saul of Tarsus).

DQs:

European?
Writer?

IQs:

Does a massive painting in a Midwestern statehouse’s rotunda commemorate your greatest victory?
Did you sing “The Lady is A Tramp”?
Were you a U.S. Secretary of Defense between 1950 and 2000?

60

Um … not Oliver Hazard Perry or Perry Como? (Could have sworn Sinatra sang that song…)

DQ for the SecDef, and for the others if I was wrong.
P

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Dead
  5. English was not my first language
  6. Associated with the arts
  7. European
  8. Not a writer