Botticelli April 2015

Thread Games
21

Not Robert Vaughn or Victor Herbert or Val Kilmer.

22

Not Victor Buono.

Take DQs for 2 and 3

23

Not Van Cliburn or Van Morrison.

DQ for 3

24

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with V
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
25

Correct.
Correct.
Not whom I had in mind, but… I’ll rephrase.
IQ1: Were you a 15th-century Wallachian prince?
IQ2: Were you a Russian-born pianist who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
IQ3: Did you write a novel about a man travelling around the US with a young girl?

26

Not Vlad the Impaler, Vladimir Horowitz or Vladimir Nabokov.

27

Joan Van Ark

DQ: European?

IQ1: Are you a popular character actor known for sad eyes who played the subway ghost who taught Patrick Swayze’s character in Ghost how to move things?
IQ2: Are you a NYC-based philanthropist born from wealth who served in the Navy in both World Wars and equipped Earnest Hemingway’s fishing boat with a radio to report U-boat sightings?
IQ3: Are you an actor who played Cher’s father in Moonstruck and Archie Bunker’s neighbor?

28

Correct on Mr. Buono. #2 was Victor Mature. #3 was Veronica Lake.

DQ: Died before 1900?

1 DQ reserved.

29

IQs:

  1. Did you propound the theory that man’s civilization was due to alien visitors?
  2. Did you play a character whose best remember line was “Boss! De Plane! De Plane!”?
  3. Are you the captain of the Flying Dutchman?
30

Ahem.

31

Correct on all three. (Are you trying to be difficult? :))
IQ: Did you play a tubercular dentist and a Biblical hero in films made before Val Kilmer was born?

32

Ignore that. I see Prof P already asked about him, but it’s too late to edit it.

33

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with V
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. European
34

Not Uncle Vanya or Valerie Plame
Take a DQ for #2

35

Not Vincent Gardenia

Take DQs for 1 and 2

36

Just for the record, Val Kilmer was a tubercular dentist in*** Tombstone***, and Moses in Prince of Egypt.

37

Ahem.

IQs:

  1. Did you propound the theory that man’s civilization was due to alien visitors?
  2. Did you play a character whose best remember line was “Boss! De Plane! De Plane!”?
  3. Are you the captain of the Flying Dutchman?
38

Vincent Schiavelli, Vincent Astor

DQ: Known for the arts?
DQ: From the UK?

39

Not Herve Villechaize

Take DQs for 1 and 3

40

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with V
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. From the UK
  8. Not involved in the arts as the term is commonly defined… but there is a certain artistry in what I’m best known for