Botticelli - April 2021

Thread Games
281

I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
  6. My last name starts with C
  7. I did not die before 1950
  8. I am known for the performing arts
  9. I did not die before 1990
282

IQs:

  1. Were you a mustachioed, big-mouthed comic who often appeared with Bob Hope?
  2. Were you paired with David Brinkley to bring the evening news on TV?
  3. Were you a long-time female panelist on To Tell The Truth?
283
  1. DQ
  2. I am not Chet Huntley
  3. DQ
284

2 was the Cat in the Hat; 3 was Hawley Crippen.

DQs:
1. known for acting?
2. died after 2000?

285

#1 was Jerry Colonna.
Correct on Chet.
#3 was Kitty Carlisle.

2 DQs reserved.

286

I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
  6. My last name starts with C
  7. I did not die before 1950
  8. I am known for the performing arts
  9. I did not die before 1990
  10. I am known for acting
  11. I did die after 2000
287

DQs:

  1. Best known from movies?
  2. Best known for comedy?
288

I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
  6. My last name starts with C
  7. I did not die before 1950
  8. I am known for the performing arts
  9. I did not die before 1990
  10. I am known for acting
  11. I did die after 2000
  12. I am not best known from movies
  13. I am best known for comedy
289

Previous IQs:

Where you the criminal mastermind behind the Red-Headed League? - The bank robber John Clay, in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story of the same name
Were you London’s most notorious blackmailer, killed by one of his victims? - Charles Augustus Milverton, in Conan Doyle’s “The Master Blackmailer”
Did you die of a heart attack after seeing a monstrous hound near your estate? - Sir Charles Baskerville, in another Conan Doyle story of some repute

DQs:

Lead actor in a sitcom?
Won an Emmy?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you record “letters” for your sister in Boston?
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals?
Is your country place called Highgrove?

290

I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
  6. My last name starts with C
  7. I did not die before 1950
  8. I am known for the performing arts
  9. I did not die before 1990
  10. I am known for acting
  11. I did die after 2000
  12. I am not best known from movies
  13. I am best known for comedy
  14. I was the lead actor in a sitcom
  15. I have never won an Emmy Award
291

DQ
DQ
DQ

292

Previous IQs:

Did you record “letters” for your sister in Boston? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on MASH
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour
Is your country place called Highgrove? - Prince Charles

Charles x3!

DQs:

Sitcom last aired in or before 2000?
Sitcom set in NYC or LA?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you also bear the laughable name Teleporno?
Were you AKA Sharkey?
Was your daughter Elanor the Fair?

293

I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
  6. My last name starts with C
  7. I did not die before 1950
  8. I am known for the performing arts
  9. I did not die before 1990
  10. I am known for acting
  11. I did die after 2000
  12. I am not best known from movies
  13. I am best known for comedy
  14. I was the lead actor in a sitcom
  15. I have never won an Emmy Award
  16. My sitcom last aired before 2000
  17. My sitcom was set in NYC
294

DQ
DQ
DQ

295

IQs:
1. Did you play lead guitar for the Grass Roots, and also worked for a paper company in Scranton?
2. Were you CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
3. Did you assassinate William McKinley?

296

IQs:

  1. Were you a lady cow who appeared in some Mickey Mouse cartoons?
  2. Did you ask “Where’s the beef?” in old Wendy’s commercials?
  3. Did the narrator of a poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson say that he wished you could be you?
297

Previous IQs:

Did you also bear the laughable name Teleporno? - Celeborn, husband of Galadriel, in LOTR
Were you AKA Sharkey? - Curunir AKA Saruman, ditto
Was your daughter Elanor the Fair? - Rosie Cotton LKA Rosie Gamgee, ditto

DQs:

Sitcom last aired before 1980?
Played a married man?

Two DQs reserved.

298
  1. I am not Creed Bratton
  2. DQ
  3. I am not Leo Czolgoz (sp?)
299
  1. I am not Clarabell
  2. I am not Clara Peller
  3. DQ
300

Correct x2, and Richard Cory.

1 DQ reserved.