Botticelli - April, 2013

Thread Games
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Yes, Perry, in the Ohio Statehouse: http://www.ohiostatehouse.org/UserContent/102199/135956.jpg
It was indeed Sinatra, but in his character as Pal Joey (from the movie of the same name).
William Perry, who served during the Clinton Administration.

DQs:

Actor?
Died since 1900?

IQs:

Were you a top official of the Second Foundation?
Did you accomplish and then undo the same achievement every day for quite awhile?
Was a smash-hit Fifties musical loosely based on an ancient work about you?

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Ah. I only know the song from records and the radio; have never seen the movie. (Couldn’t even have told you it was from a movie, for that matter.) Too bad it wasn’t Perry Como - you’d have had three Perrys there… :smiley:

I’ll get your IQs tomorrow when I’m more awake and in less pain. :slight_smile:
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
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
63

IQ: Did you commit suicide because you were about to be “outed”?

64

IQs:

  1. Were you an American protest folk singer of the 1960s-70s?
  2. Were you a Spanish artist who pioneered Cubism?
  3. Were you one of the best-known French Impressionists?
65

Not Penelope (?) or Pygmalion.
Take a DQ for Asimov, and a second if I’ve misremembered the name of Odysseus’s wife.

And a DQ for you…

Not Pete Seeger or Pablo Picasso.
Take a DQ for the Frenchman.
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
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
66

DQ:Are you associated with classical music? My IQ was about Tchaikovsky.

67

Yes, Penelope (weaving a tapestry) and Pygmalion (My Fair Lady).
Preem Palver is the Asimov character.

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a coworker tell your boss you were an only child?
Did you fly a flag with unusual stripes?
Did a court make a prediction about your lawsuit that turned out to be quite wrong?

68

The French Impressionist was Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

I’ll reserve my DQ for the moment.

IQs:

  1. Did you buy Manhattan from the Indians?
  2. Were you an ancient Greek mathematical philosopher?
  3. Were you a Classical mythological character with a tortuous bed?
69

Not John Paul Jones.
Have yourself a couple of DQs (though that first one is really nagging at me…).

Not Peter Minuit, Pythagoras or Procrustes.
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
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
70

IQ: Are you a royal who was known to be “vertically challenged”?

71

Not Pepin the Short.

72

DQ:
Did you die before 1700?

IQs:

  1. Are you the prophecied Dragon Warrior?
  2. Were you the greatest statesman of Athen’s golden age?
  3. Are you the anti-C. S. Lewis?
73

Not Pericles or Philip Pullman.
Take a DQ for the Dragon Warrior.
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
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
  12. Died before 1700
74

Um, that would be Po, from Kung Fu Panda. (Ah, the benefits of having a grandson!)

DQ: Were you a visual artist (e.g., painter, sculptor)?

75

My daughter liked that movie, but she saw it at the cinema - we never bought a copy.
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
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
  12. Died before 1700
  13. Visual artist
76

IQs

  1. Are you Sheb Wooley’s answer to The Chipmunks?
  2. Did you create The Last Judgment at St. Cecelia, Trastevere, Rome?
  3. Does your work The History of The True Cross appear in the Uffizi?
77

Not the Purple People Eater.
DQs for the two painters(?).

78

#2 is Pietro Cavallini, #3 is Piero della Francesca.

DQs:

  1. Were you Italian (or what today would be considered Italian)?
  2. Did you die before 1500?
79

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
  9. Not an actor
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Not associated with classical music
  12. Died before 1700
  13. Visual artist
  14. Not Italian
  15. Did not die before 1500
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IQs:

  1. Are you Walt Kelly’s eponymous comic strip character?
  2. Are you a Flemish Renaissance painter known for scenes with peasants?
  3. Are you the son of #2?