Botticelli April 2015

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Were you maybe a killer in Basic Instinct? - Catherine Trammell.
Were your products “more human than human”? - Mr. Tyrell, in Blade Runner.
Were you the subject of a pun in a Mel Brooks movie? - Yes, the Spanish Inquisition’s Torquemada, in The History of the World, Part 1.

DQs:

Singer?
Best known for pop or rock music?

IQs:

Did you produce the TV show Evening Shade?
Did you give your name to a noted British art museum?
Were you Woodrow Wilson’s VP?

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Correct.
Ernest Tubb.
Hank Thompson.
DQ: Best known as a solo performer?
One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with T
  6. Born before 1950
  7. American
  8. Known for the Performing Arts
  9. Born after 1900
  10. Not an actor
  11. Caucasian
  12. Not a writer
  13. Best known for musical performances
  14. Not a singer
  15. Not a pop or rock musician
  16. Not best known as a solo performer
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Take DQs for #1 and #3. I am not Sir Henry Tate.

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Rupert Thorne (is mid-70’s considered Silver Age?)

holding a DQ

IQ: Are you the first director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra?

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For DC comics the Silver Age is usually considered to have lasted until the Crisis in the early 1980’s.

Take a DQ.

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Thought I had it. Arturo Toscanini

DQ: Noted for playing an instrument?
DQ: Classical?

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nm

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Previous IQs:

Did you produce the TV show Evening Shade? - Linda Thomason.
Did you give your name to a noted British art museum? - Yes, Tate (I didn’t even know his first name)
Were you Woodrow Wilson’s VP? - Thomas Marshall

Two DQs reserved. Not too many left to ask. After Knowed Out’s, what would be especially useful to know?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with T
  6. Born before 1950
  7. American
  8. Known for the Performing Arts
  9. Born after 1900
  10. Not an actor
  11. Caucasian
  12. Not a writer
  13. Best known for musical performances
  14. Not a singer
  15. Not a pop or rock musician
  16. Not best known as a solo performer
  17. Noted for playing a particular instrument
  18. Not classical
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Originally Posted by astorian View Post
IQ1) Are you a Belgian widely considered the greatest harmonica player of all time?

IQ2) Were the Beatles (then the “beat Boys”) your backup band on recordings of “My Bonnie” and “Ain’t She Sweet”?

IQ3) Were you Doris Day’s son and, according to some authorities, the real target of the Manson Family murders?

Toots Thielemans, Tony Sheridan and Terry Melcher

DQ1) Jazz musician?

DQ2) Play keyboard instrument?

DQ3) Known as a bandleader?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with T
  6. Born before 1950
  7. American
  8. Known for the Performing Arts
  9. Born after 1900
  10. Not an actor
  11. Caucasian
  12. Not a writer
  13. Best known for musical performances
  14. Not a singer
  15. Not a pop or rock musician
  16. Not best known as a solo performer
  17. Noted for playing a particular instrument
  18. Not classical
  19. Jazz musician
  20. Did not play a keyboard instrument
  21. Was a bandleader, but better known as a bandmember
    And that’s 20+. All participants have until 5pm tomorrow to ask one question in the standard “Are you Firstname Lastname?” format. Good luck.
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Are you Jack Teagarden?

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Are you Billy Tipton?

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Yes! I am the King of the Jazz Trombone, Jack Teagarden! Well done, KO!

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No, but that was a really good guess anyway.

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I realized after I posted it that he/she was a pianist, and thus wouldn’t qualify under answer #20.

Congrats, Knowed Out!

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Been really busy at work, so won’t be announcing the new letter til tonight.

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Somebody I’ve heard of this time, I hope… :slight_smile: