Botticelli - April 2020

Thread Games
101

IQs:

  1. Did people question your right to be POTUS due to your nationality?
  2. Are you Elendil’s heir?
  3. Was your father one of the co-editors of the best known lexicon of Classical Greek?
102

Alexander Burr, Arwen and Bulfinch?

Take at least 1 DQ

103

IQs:

Were you Worf’s son?
Did you inspire The Man Who Came to Dinner?
Did you meet Lincoln at Hampton Roads in early 1865?

104

Not Alexander
Not Alexander Woolcot. Wollcot? Woolcott?
Take a DQ

105

#1 was Charles A. Arthur; there was a rumor he was born in Canada.
#2 is Aragorn.
#3 was Alice Liddell (the Alice of Alice in Wonderland), whose father was co-author of the Liddell & Scott Greek English Lexicon.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with A?
106

I like the question about my namesake,** Prof. P.**! But I think you mean Chester A. Arthur.

Previous IQs:

Were you Worf’s son? - Yes, Alexander
Did you inspire The Man Who Came to Dinner? - Yes, Alexander Woollcott
Did you meet Lincoln at Hampton Roads in early 1865? - Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens

Alexander x3!

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Were you Gilraen’s husband?
Did you adopt Kevin, a little British boy, and name him your heir?
Did Edward James Olmos play you in an sf series?

107

IQs:

  1. Did you found Famous Monsters of Filmland?
  2. Was Fred Noonan your also-vanished navigator?
  3. Aside from your acting career, did you write the children’s book The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles?
108

Yeah, Chester.

IQs:

  1. Is your number 6.022 (approximately) x 10^23?
  2. Did you write the Black Widowers mystery series?
  3. Did you order the creation of the Volkswagen?
109
  1. Real
  2. Make
  3. Last name starts with A
  4. American.
110

Okay, this is going to be sloppy!

Elendil’s Heir:

  1. Don’t know
  2. Don’t know
  3. Not Adama

Take 2 DQs.

De La Rue

  1. Not Forrest Ackerman
  2. Not Amelia Earhart
  3. Not Julie Andrews (Edwards)

Prof. Pepperwinkle

  1. Not Avogadro
  2. Not Isaac Asimov
  3. Not Adopt Hitler
111

A clean sweep!

IQs:

  1. Is your eternal dilemma to choose between Cooper and Lodge?
  2. Did you use the pseudonym “Carlos Danger”?
  3. Did you play an Ontario cop in Canadian Bacon?
112

And two clean sweeps!

  1. Are you a character on Bones who was born Pookie Noodlin?
  2. Did you write Fables in Slang?
  3. Are you an internationally renowned pet detective?
113

1 Don’t know
2 Don’t know
3 Andrea Martin?

Take 2_if not 3 DQs

1 Not Angela
2 Don’t know
3 Not Ace Ventura

Take one DQ

115

1 (must choose between Cooper and Lodge) is Archie Andrews; 2 (used the pseudonym “Carlos Danger”) was Anthony Weiner; 3 (played an Ontario cop in Canadian Bacon) was Dan Aykroyd (though Andrea Martin is a plausible guess).

IQs:

  1. Were you nicknamed “Little Sure Shot” by a fellow member of a traveling Wild West show?
  2. In your first appearance in 1940 on a comic book cover, are you depicted punching out Hitler?
  3. Were you the daughter of Lord Byron, best known in a field highly different from poetry?
    DQs:
  4. living?
  5. known from the arts?

One DQ reserved.

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116
  1. Not Annie Oakley (I saw her grave!)
  2. Not Captain America
  3. Not Ada. Was her last name Lovelace?

DQs:

  1. Dead
  2. Not known from the arts.
117

kitap, please answer DQs cumulatively, so:

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with A
  4. American
  5. dead
  6. not known from the arts

Thanks!

Previous IQs:

Were you Gilraen’s husband? - Arathorn; they were Aragorn’s parents
Did you adopt Kevin, a little British boy, and name him your heir? - Agamemnon (Sean Connery, a small but great role), in Time Bandits
Did Edward James Olmos play you in an sf series? - Yes, Adama, in the second Battlestar Galactica

DQs:

Best known for politics/military?
Died since 1950?

IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first C.O.?
Did you like to go around the house barefoot, to let your “feet breathe”?
Did Maren Jensen play you in a Seventies drama?

118

It was not, though she’s commonly referred to as Ada Lovelace.* Another clean sweep!

IQs:

  1. Are you Batman’s batman?
  2. Were you George W. Bush’s second attorney general?
  3. Did you voice Hollyhock on BoJack Horseman?
    One DQ reserved.

*For what it’s worth, her full married name was Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace.

119

Correct, George Ade, Correct.

1 DQ reserved.

120
  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with A
  4. American
  5. dead
  6. not known from the arts
  7. Not known for politics/military
    8.Died after 1950

1.Don’t know
2 Don’t know
3 Not Athena

Take 2 DQs

  1. Not Alfred
    2 Don’t know
    3Don’t know

Take two DQs.

121

DQ: Died after 1990?