Botticelli - April 2022

Thread Games
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IQ:

Did you organize and host the Moondog Coronation Ball?

202

YES! I am Alan Freed!
Cleveland DJ credited with popularizing the term “rock and roll” in connection with the new type of music he was playing, and an early rock show promoter. Destroyed his career with the payola scandal and drank himself to an early grave.

Regarding #19, I had to phrase it as “credits to his name” as there is some dispute as to whether or not he actually wrote any songs. Chuck Berry successfully sued to have Freed’s name taken off of “Maybellene”. The deal was “give me a cowriting credit and I’ll play your song more often” which was an obvious conflict of interest, as the more often he played the song, the more royalties he collected.

Great job, EH!

203

Good one, Chock! Well done, EH!

204

Thanks - that was a good one! I’ve even seen the exhibit about Freed at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland.

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #92 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter is

S

205

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Vampire in Lore and Legend?
  2. According to The Babylonian Talmud, did the archangel Gabriel save your brothers and you from fire by making its flames cool?
  3. Were two main characters in The Big Bang Theory named after you?
206

Not Bram Stoker, Satan or Sheldon.

207

#1 was Montague Summers.
#2 was Shadrach (along with Meschach and Abednego in the book of Daniel).
#3 was Sheldon Leonard, so yes.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
208

S.

  1. real
  2. male
209

IQs:
1. Did you publish a book about dreams the same year another book came out, whose setting in a film adaption 39 years later is revealed at the end to be a dream?
2. Were you the eccentric leader of the Arkestra?
3. Were you Kaylee on Firefly?

210

Dunno x3, although I should know these!

211

1 was Sigmund Freud; 2 was Sun Ra; 3 was Jewel Staite.

DQs:
1. living?
2. first name begins with S?
3. American?

212

IQs:

  1. Were you the first Christian martyr?
  2. Were you condemned to roll a great boulder up a hill throughout eternity?
  3. Were you aka the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh?
213

IQs:
1. Are you a loa in Haitian Vodou, who shows up in Live and Let Die (among other things)?
2. Did you move from writing the comics humor column You’ll All Be Sorry! to a professional comics career, working on Agent X, the Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, and Plastic Man?
3. Were you a Roman Catholic cardinal who would greet visitors with “Welcome to the house of Sin”?

214

Not St. Stephen, not Sisyphus and dunno.

215

Not Baron Samudi, not Steve Lee and not Jaime Cardinal Sin.

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name begins with S
  5. not American
216

Correct, correct, and Dr. Syn.

DQ: Died before 1900?

217

Close enough on Baron Samedi; 2 was Gail Simone; 3 was correct.

DQ: European?

218

Come to think of it, I’ve seen Alan Freed’s jukebox-shaped tombstone in Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery, as well.

S.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name begins with S
  5. not American
  6. died before 1900
  7. European
219

IQs:

  1. Did you sing all the songs at the first MTV Awards show?
  2. In the comics, does Nancy think you’re lit?
  3. In the Rocky Horror Picture Show were you Brad & Janet’s high school science teacher?
220

IQs:
1. Were you Knack guitarist Doug Fieger’s girlfriend, and are now an LA realtor?
2. Were your last words about owing a cock to Asclepius?
3. To be fair, does one have to have a very high IQ to understand your show according to the copied-and-pasted meme?