Botticelli - April 2021

Thread Games
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DQs
1. real
2. male
3. last name doesn’t start with L
4. living
5. American
6. known for the Arts
7. born before 1979
8. best known for the performing arts
9. known as an actor
10. not best known for movies
11. born before 1960
12. best known for TV shows
13. has won a (Daytime) Emmy
14. greatest fame after 1980
15. most prominent person on a show
16. won for a show in a broad category (not sci-fi/fantasy/horror or anything otherwise fantastical, although indirectly connected)
17. show is not still in production
18. appeared on show as self
19. from a network TV show
20. not host of or personality on talk show
21. uncommon first name
22. became famous and is most associated with shows before 1999
23. not associated with a game show

Note the minor clarification to #16. The show the person won an Emmy for was not technically fantastical, though its episodes could concern fantasy/sci-fi material.

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OK. I’m going out on a limb here. If I carefully parse the DQ answers, nothing excludes this possibility. We may have gotten sidetracked by the daytime Emmy answer and are missing the bigger picture. #16 explicitly referred to the Emmy-winning show and not anything else.

My Are You? question:

Are you LeVar Burton, who I believe won multiple daytime Emmys for hosting and producing Reading Rainbow?

None of the other answers rule out Roots and Star Trek: The Next Generation
(Of course, if he gets the Jeopardy gig, then the answer to #23 changes)

143

I am indeed LeVar Burton! Next game goes to Chock.

144

Great job, Chock!

145

Way to go, CFOHG!

(I think answer 16 rules out ST:TNG, though).

146

This inspired me to look it up. Fun trivia: All 4 best lead actor Emmy nominees for 1977 were from Roots - LeVar Burton (young Kunta Kinte), Ben Vereen (Chicken George), John Amos (old Kunta Kinte), and the winner Lou Gossett Jr. (Fiddler)

Next up…

I am K

147

IQs:

  1. Are you the last son of Krypton?
  2. Are you #1’s pet pooch?
  3. Are you his cousin?
148

IQ1: Were you a Navy officer who was killed when a remotely piloted bomb exploded prematurely?
IQ2: Were you a time-travelling foe of the Avengers?
IQ3: Were you Mrs Peel’s replacement?

149

Congrats!

  1. Were you an Austrian zoologist who is considered one of the founders of modern ethology?
  2. Were you the author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies?
  3. Were you her drama critic husband?
150

Not Kal-El
Not Krypto
Take a DQ

Take 2 DQs
Not Tara King

Take 3 DQs

151

Joe Kennedy Jr.
Kang the Conqueror.
:white_check_mark:


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Female?


IQ1: Did your family call you “Kick”?
IQ2: Were you Kick’s youngest brother?
IQ3: Did you order the German surrender in WW II?

152

Konrad Lorenz, Jean Kerr, Walter Kerr

3 DQs reserved.

153

IQs:
1. In Xanadu did you a stately pleasure dome decree?
2. Did you think it might be fun to run a newspaper?
3. Do you write the Mary Russell mysteries?

154

Correct, Correct, and Kara (Supergirl).

DQ: Last name starts with K?

155

IQs:

  1. Did you compose Sabre Dance?
  2. Did you paint The Kiss and Farm Garden?
  3. Have you been played by both Fernando Lamas and Benedict Cumberbatch?
156

K

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
157

Take 3 DQs

Not Kubla Khan
Not Charles Foster Kane
Take a DQ

Not Katchaturian - I probably butchered the spelling, despite having to write a one-paragraph bio on him in high school
Take a DQ
Take another DQ - unless you meant Ricardo Montalban, in which case I am not KHAAAAANNN!!

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Correct on Khatchaturian. Spellings vary.
#2 was Gustav Klimt.
#3. (Facepalm). Yeah, I meant Ricardo Montalban and Khan.

DQ: Created by an American or Americans?

159

K

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. Created by an American or Americans
160

IQs:

Were you first officer of the USCSS Nostromo?
Have you played a soccer player, a codebreaker, a bounty hunter and a whistleblower?
Were you (perhaps unfairly) the bad guy in Breaker Morant?