Botticelli - April 2021

Thread Games
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#1 was Ivan Dixon.
#2 was William Inge.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with I?
  2. Living?
222

IQ1: Did you ask Sam to play “As Time Goes By”?
IQ2: Did you portray the answer to IQ1?
IQ3: Did you direct The Seventh Seal?

223

Swept me!

IQs:

A European, was a prominent American university named after you?
Were you Sid Caesar’s comedic sidekick?
Did you fall in love with King Arthur’s saddest knight?

224

IQ1: I am not Ilsa Lund.
IQ2: I am not Ingrid Bergman.
IQ3: I am not Ingmar Bergman.

Respectively:
I am not Ignatius of Loyola.
I am not Imogene Coca.
I am not Isolde?

DQs
1. real
2. female
3. last name does not start with I
4. dead

225

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Sea, The Sea and Under the Net?
  2. Did you write most of your lyrics to your brother’s melodies?
  3. Were you a “Man from U.N.C.L.E.”?
226

IQs

  1. Did you revolutionize dance in the early 20th century?
  2. Did you play Granny on a rags-to-riches show?
  3. Did you ‘move on up’?
227

I am not Iris Murdoch, Ira Gershwin, Ilya Kurakin, Irene Ryan, or Isabel Sanford, but I am indeed Isadora Duncan!

Next game goes to Miss Take.

228

Thank you!

Next up:
I am H

229

Swept me again, DLR, and good job, MT!

H it is.

IQs:

Were you FDR’s cadaverous, globe-trotting aide?
Did your antisemitic wife not allow your business partner into the house?
A hotel magnate, was your wife said to be the most hated woman in New York City?

230

Well done, Miss Take!

IQs:

  1. Were you LBJ’s VP?
  2. Were you born Eric Weisz?
  3. When Marcellus Washburn called you Greg, did you tell him you were using this name now?
231

IQs:
1. A recently deceased athlete, is there a proposal to change the name of your team to the Atlanta Hammers, after your nickname?
2. Did you play the Big Lebowski?
3. Did your husband leave you his second-best bed?

232

DQ
DQ
Whoever Leona Helmsley’s husband was.

I am not Hubert Humphrey
I am not Harry Houdini
Take a DQ

I am not Hank Aaron
DQ
DQ

233

Previous IQs:

Were you FDR’s cadaverous, globe-trotting aide? - Harry Hopkins
Did your antisemitic wife not allow your business partner into the house? - Harry Truman
A hotel magnate, was your wife said to be the most hated woman in New York City? - Harry Helmsley, Leona’s (by the end, doddering) husband

Harry x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with H?

IQs:

Were you “the Unspeakable” in the writings of a particular author?
Were you that author?
Were you William McKinley’s friend, advisor and kingmaker?

234

DQ
DQ
DQ

235

I am H

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name does not start with H
236

2 was David Huddleston; 3 was Anne Hathaway (the one married to Shakespeare).

DQs:
1. living?
2. known from the arts?

237

DOUBLE POST, sorry.

238

I am H

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name does not start with H
  4. Deceased
  5. Known for the Arts
239

Correct x2, and Prof. Harold Hill from The Music Man

DQ: Known as an actor?

240

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character in a book by Johanna Spyri?
  2. Do you have a long-running newspaper column giving housemakers helpful hints?
  3. Are you Batman and Catwoman’s daughter?