Botticelli - April 2018

Thread Games
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Claude Rains (The Invisible Man), Che Guevara, Clay Aikden

holding 3 DQs

22

IQs:

  1. Were you removed from Lincoln’s Cabinet under charges of corruption and abuse of patronage?
  2. Did you create the superhero Plastic Man?
  3. Were you an emancipationist known as the “Lion of White Hall”?
23

Not Simon Cameron, dunno and dunno.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
24

Correct on Chris Cornell (I like the song, too!), the third one is Carter Pewterschmidt, Peter Griffin’s father-in-law in Family Guy. For the first I was going for Carl Lewis with his wind-assisted 8.91m jump, but I phrased the question incorrectly - it actually beat Beamon’s record (but was not considered a record due to wind assistance), but then lost to Mike Powell’s 8.95m. It could also be argued that being wind-assisted, it wasn’t the best achievement ever. So I’ll withdraw that one.

DQ: Known for science?

IQ: Are you the current leader of the UK Labour Party?
IQ: Were you one half of one of the great American sports rivalries of the 1980s?
IQ: Are you a well-known Country singer with a (childishly) amusing name?

25

I can picture the guy but can’t remember his name; dunno and dunno.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
26

DQ: Known for a business or product?

holding 2 DQs

27

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
  10. not known for a business or product
28

Correct on Cameron.
#2 was Jack Cole.
#3 was Cassius M. Clay.

DQs:

  1. Known for politics or the military?
  2. Born after 1800?
29

Jeremy Corbyn, Jimmy Connors, and Conway Twitty (hmm, maybe “Twitty” is only amusing in British English - is “twit” a (very mild) insult across the pond?).

DQ: Born in Europe?

2 DQs reserved.

30

“Twit” is known in the U.S. only as a British insult, I’d say. I suspect most Americans who know it, know it from Monty Python.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
  10. not known for a business or product
  11. known for politics or the military, in a way
  12. born after 1800
  13. not born in Europe
31

“Twit” might get confused with “twat” in the US.

DQ: Primarily known for a single event?

holding a DQ

32

IQs:

  1. Were you PM of the UK during WWII?
  2. Did you write The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody?
  3. Did you write The Well of Souls series of books?
33

I am not the great Winston Churchill, Will Cuppy or… dunno.

I think of “twat” as being more of a Britishism, as well, at least in my circles.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
  10. not known for a business or product
  11. known for politics or the military, in a way
  12. born after 1800
  13. not born in Europe
  14. not primarily known for a single event
34

DQ: Primarily known from the Civil War?

0 DQ left

35

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
  10. not known for a business or product
  11. known for politics or the military, in a way
  12. born after 1800
  13. not born in Europe
  14. not primarily known for a single event
  15. not primarily known from the Civil War
36

Correct, correct, and Jack L. Chalker.

DQ: Known for politics?

37

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
  10. not known for a business or product
  11. known for politics or the military, in a way
  12. born after 1800
  13. not born in Europe
  14. not primarily known for a single event
  15. not primarily known from the Civil War
  16. known for politics, in a way
38

DQ: something to do with a protest movement?

Still got one in reserve.

39

IQs:

  1. Did Antonio Banderas portray you in Evita?
  2. Did grave robbers try to ransom your corpse to your widow for $600,000?
  3. Were you the Jewish high priest in Jerusalem circa 30 A.D.?
40

Not Che, Charlie Chaplin or Caiphas.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with C
  5. died after 1800
  6. naturalized American
  7. born before 1900
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. not known for science
  10. not known for a business or product
  11. known for politics or the military, in a way
  12. born after 1800
  13. not born in Europe
  14. not primarily known for a single event
  15. not primarily known from the Civil War
  16. known for politics, in a way
  17. sorta kinda had something to do with a protest movement