Botticelli - April, 2013

Thread Games
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Rubens - d’oh! Nice one, SCAdian.

Nitpick: He invaded in the summer; he was unfortunately still there in the winter.

J it is.

IQs:

Is your favorite sailboat displayed outside a museum dedicated to you?
Did you privately have harsh things to say about Indira Gandhi?
A businessman and diplomat, did you have a fling with Gloria Swanson?

142

EH-I originally had that as fall. :wink: :smiley:

143

Not … Jung?
No idea on the first two.

Not Josephine de Beauharnais.

Not Jawaharlal Nehru.
No idea on the others.

Take DQs as appropriate…

144

Yep, Jung. Tiffany voiced Judy Jetson in the Jetsons movie, and Johann Gutenberg was the original big name in publishing.

DQ4: Are you real?
DQ5: Are you European?

145

Bah. I thought of Gutenberg, but dismissed him as a printer, not a publisher.

J

  1. Female
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Real
  5. European
146

IQ: Did you lead a ragtage army of French soldiers?

147

IQs

  1. Were you the protagonist of an apocryphal OT book?
  2. Is your name a synonym for betrayer?
  3. Were you Chuza’s miraculously healed wife?
148

DQ.

Not Josiah(?) or Judas.
DQs as appropriate.

149

Going for Joan of Arc.

DQ: Military figure?

150

I’ll have to give you Judas though I was going for Jezebel.
Judith is the protagonist, Johanna the wife.

DQs

  1. Did you die before 1900?
  2. Were you royalty?
151

IQ: Were you a queen born in Cleeves?

152

John F. Kennedy’s sailboat Victura: http://www.hage-homepage.de/Victura.jpg
Not Nehru, but Jackie Kennedy, in her recently-released oral history.
Joseph P. Kennedy, JFK’s dad.

DQs:

Last name start with J?
British?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you very briefly Queen of England?
Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives?
Did Tuesday Next enter your literary world?

153

J

  1. Female
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Real
  5. European
  6. Not a military figure
  7. Did not die before 1900
  8. Not royalty
  9. First name starts with J
  10. Not British (though this may come as a surprise to you)
154

Only person from Cleves that I can think of is Anne, so DQ.

Not Jane Grey, Jane Seymour or Jane Eyre.

And that is one weird book…

155

I thought it was Jane :smack: cede DQ.

156

IQs

  1. Did you star in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman?
  2. Were you 20th Century Fox’s answer to Elizabeth Taylor?
  3. Did you have Dem Old Kozmic Blues?
157

Correct as to all three, and yes, it is.

IQs:

Did you father several children with your royal sister?
Were you the oldest of those children?
Were you a female American Olympic track-and-field star?

158

Not Jayne Mansfield(?). No idea on the other two.

If this were P, I’d say Ptolemy on the first two, but for J? No idea on any of these.

DQs as appropriate.

159

My answers: 1) Jane Seymour (not the wife of Henry VIII); Joan Collins, and Janis Joplin.

DQ:

  1. Were you in the movies?

I’ll save the other two until I think of better questions.

160

Ser Jaime Lannister, in Game of Thrones.
The odious King Joffrey.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

DQs:

Best known for creative arts? (usual definition)
Died since 1950?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you command the British fleet at the Battle of Jutland?
Did you negotiate a controversial early American treaty?
Did you briefly assume command in Capt. Picard’s absence?