Botticelli April 2015

Thread Games
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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. First name starts with J
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Known for the performing arts
542

not that conniving swine Jacob, not Jerrymander(?), not Jack Nicholson maybe

543

3 DQs for you

I remember Strom Thurman was the chair oddly enough, but no J’s there.

544

Okay, since I had 3 duplicate questions…

DQ1) Singer or musician?

DQ2) Caucasian?

DQ3) Born after 1960?

545

IQ1) Did you get in a lot of trouble for calling New York City “Hymietown”?

IQ2) Are you a rock legend who was named after the composer of Show Boat?

IQ3) Did you shout “OY” in a series of popular battery commercials?

546

IQs:

  1. Were you troubled on your TV show by a puppet named Umbriago?
  2. Did you record Lay Something On The Bar (Beside Your Elbow) and The Navy Gets Tje Gravy (But The Army Gets The Beans ?
  3. Do good things come from your garden in the valley?
547

IQ1: Did you play a prosecuting attorney on a TV comedy?
IQ2: Did you play the commander of a team of four aliens living undercover as humans on earth?
IQ3: Did the recent SNL reunion show list your name “in memorial”, only to pan to you sitting in the audience with a confused then angry reaction?

548

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. First name starts with J
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Known for the performing arts
  9. Not a singer or musician
  10. Caucasian
  11. Was not born after 1960
549

Correct.
The prophet Jeremiah (“jeremiad”).
Correct.
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did you write “Mr Bojangles”?
IQ2: Did you sing “Cherokee Fiddle”?
IQ3: Did you sing “If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets”?

550

not Jessie Jackson, not Elton John maybe, remember the commercial but not the guy’s name

551

dunno x2, not the Jolly Green Giant

552

not John Laroquette, not John Lithgow, not John Lovitz

553

dunno x2, not Robert Johnson

554

Correct on all three.

IQ1. Do you look like a walrus (and play the straight man to your explosion-loving colleague?
IQ2. Did your memoirs mention Pullo and Vorenus?
IQ3. Were you controversially sacked due to an incident involving a late lunch?

555

#1 was Jimmy Durante. #2 was Jerry Lewis. Correct on Jolly Green.

2 DQs reserved.

556

IQs:

  1. Are you the creator of Knights of the Dinner Table?
  2. Did you write Born Free?
  3. Did you write Leaf By Niggle?
557

A sweep of the John L’s.

IQ1: Were you The Tall Guy?
IQ2: Were you pulled over and ticketed for speeding while Chris Rock was your passenger?
IQ3: Do you sing with Kyle Gass?

558

Previous IQs:

Did you love to sail in the Victura? - John F. Kennedy: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/0VB9As8Dd0Cgfh8OnhAOrg.aspx
Did you chair the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in the 1980s? - Joe Biden.
Are you that person’s current spouse? - Jill Biden.

DQs:

Actor?
Has won a top prize?
Born east of the Miss. River?

IQs:

Were you born and raised not far from a notorious POW camp?
Were you the plaintiff in a landmark case permitting lawyer advertising?
In a Harlan Ellison short story, were you a kid who never grew up?

559

Jerry Jeff Walker.
Johnny Lee.
Joe Diffie.

(Which one did you have in mind for Robert Johnson, or was that just a WAG?)
DQs reserved.

560

WAG. It sounded like the type of song he’d sing.

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. First name starts with J
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Known for the performing arts
  9. Not a singer or musician
  10. Caucasian
  11. Was not born after 1960
  12. Actor
  13. Has won a top prize
  14. Born east of the Mississippi