Botticelli - April 2017

Thread Games
81

IQs:

  1. Did you star in Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Pimpernel?
  2. Are you one of the company of Dwarves from The Hobbit?
  3. Are you another of the company of Dwarves from The Hobbit?
82

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Last name does not start with O’
  7. American
  8. Born after 1950
  9. Not known for politics or military
  10. Born before 1970
  11. Born west of the Mississippi River
  12. Born south of the Mason-Dixon line
83

not Omarosa, DQ, DQ

84

DQ, not Oin, not Ofir(?)

85

#1 was Merle Oberon.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Ori.

DQ:

  1. Known for business?

1 DQ reserved.

86

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Last name does not start with O’
  7. American
  8. Born after 1950
  9. Not known for politics or military
  10. Born before 1970
  11. Born west of the Mississippi River
  12. Born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Runs a business, but primarily known for something else
87

Previous IQs:

Are you in charge of Trump Administration outreach to the black community? - Yes, Omarosa
Did you boss around the Fanucci brothers? - Sylvester Stallone as the title character in the Mafia comedy Oscar
In a recent book about you, are the last words we hear from your father “Higher… higher”? - Orville Wright in David McCullough’s The Wright Brothers, when he took up his elderly dad up in an airplane

DQs:

White?
Known for TV appearances?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you an Alsatian pastor considered by some the MLK or Gandhi of the 19th century?
Were you a noted bridge player as well as an actor?
Were you the longtime conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony?

88

DQ: Known for criminal activities?

89

Oliver Wendell Douglas, on Green Acres.
Sir Laurence Olivier – Henry V (nominated for Best Actor and – as producer – for Best Film) and Hamlet (same two awards, but this time received them).
Correct.

Two DQs reserved.

90

IQs:

  1. In James Thurber’s The Wonderful O, did you go into hiding in your house when the O went missing?
  2. Was it said of you, in Tom Lehrer’s words: “he loved his mother like no other”?
  3. Were you Oswald the Lucky Rabbit’s wife?
91

Correct on both. #2 was Vittorio Emanuele Orlando.

DQ reserved.

92

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Last name does not start with O’
  7. American
  8. Born after 1950
  9. Not known for politics or military
  10. Born before 1970
  11. Born west of the Mississippi River
  12. Born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Runs a business, but primarily known for something else
  14. White
  15. Known for TV appearances
  16. Not known for criminal activities
93

DQ, not Omar Sharif, not Eugene Ormandy

94

take 3 DQs

95

#1 was Ophelia Oliver. (Say it without the O’s.)
#2 was, well, “There once was a man named Oedipus Rex, you may have heard about his odd complex.”
#3 was Ortenzia. She was a cat marred to a rabbit.

DQ: Known from commercials?

2 DQs reserved.

96

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Last name does not start with O’
  7. American
  8. Born after 1950
  9. Not known for politics or military
  10. Born before 1970
  11. Born west of the Mississippi River
  12. Born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Runs a business, but primarily known for something else
  14. White
  15. Known for TV appearances
  16. Not known for criminal activities
  17. Not primarily known for commercials
97

DQ: Known from sports?

98

Previous IQs:

Were you an Alsatian pastor considered by some the MLK or Gandhi of the 19th century? - John Frederick Oberlin, a then-famous peacemaker after whom Oberlin College is named
Were you a noted bridge player as well as an actor? - Yes, Omar Sharif
Were you the longtime conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony? - Yes, Eugene Ormandy

Two DQs reserved.

99

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Last name does not start with O’
  7. American
  8. Born after 1950
  9. Not known for politics or military
  10. Born before 1970
  11. Born west of the Mississippi River
  12. Born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Runs a business, but primarily known for something else
  14. White
  15. Known for TV appearances
  16. Not known for criminal activities
  17. Not primarily known for commercials
  18. Not known for sports
100

DQ:

Best known for a single incident?

One DQ reserved.