Botticelli - April 2026

Thread Games
141

Concur.

142

Anyone else?

W.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not known for the Arts
143

I agree the question was directed to the role, not the actor.

144

IQs:

  1. Did you receive a patent for a rotary steam engine at 19?
  2. In the book (and movie) The Odessa File, did you inform the protagonist of a secret organization for former members of the SS called ODESSA?
  3. Are you also known as “Tater Salad”?
145

OK, SunUp, take another DQ.

Not Watt, not Wiesenthal and dunno.

146

IQs:

  1. Are you the best known person from Elwood, Indiana?
  2. Were you the Commander on Apollo 7?
  3. Were you Bob Elliott’s best known character?
147

DQ: Known for politics/military?

148

Wanda Wizowski McPherson, Rhonda Wizowski, Agatha Woosmoss.

3 DQs reserved

149

Dunno, not White and not Wally.

W.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. known for politics/military, and more
150

1 was Wendell L. Willkie.
2 was Wally Schirra.
3 is correct, Wally Ballou.

DQs

  1. Died after 1950?
  2. American?
151
  1. George Westinghouse
  2. Correct
  3. Ron White (He does a joke where he’s asked if he has any aliases, and he answers, “Tater Salad.”)

DQs:

  1. Held elected office?
  2. First name begins with W?
152

IQs:

  1. Were you crowned King of England but spent most of your life living in continental Europe?
  2. Did you serve as a US representative from California from 1975 to 2015?
  3. Were you one of the best-known American artists of the middle 20th century?
153

Not William the Conqueror, dunno, and not any of the Wyeths.

W.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. known for politics/military, and more
  6. died before 1950
  7. American
  8. never held elective office
  9. first name begins with W
154

Correct
Henry Waxman
Correct (Andrew Wyeth)

1 DQ reserved

155

IQs:

  1. Was Harry S Truman picked over you for VPOTUS?
  2. Was your wife referred to as “the first female POTUS”?
  3. Were you a Vaudeville performer before becoming a columnist and commentator?
156

IQs:

  1. Did you work a menial job in Dilbert’s office?
  2. Is your most famous role a character modeled on Muhummad Ali?
  3. Did you character light up a cigar just before being incinerated in a nuclear blast?
157

Not George Wallace, Woodrow Wilson or… Walter Winchell?

Not the inventively slothful Wally (whom I love most of all the Dilbert characters), not Will Smith and dunno.

158

So close!

  1. Wendell Wilkie
  2. Correct
  3. Correct

WW x3!

DQs:

Died before 1900?
Commissioned officer?

159

IQs:

  1. Did you paint a portrait of your mother?
  2. Was your adopted brother Perry the focus of your eponymous comic strip?
  3. Are you colorfully nicknamed “hog of steel”?
160

Hmmm, I’ll give you Wally, but I was thinking of Willy the mailboy.
#2 was Carl Weathers - Apollo Creed was modeled on Ali.
#3 was William Schallert, who played the CIA Director in Colossus: The Forbin Project.

DQs:

Also known for business?
Died before 1875?