Botticelli, Aug. 2011

Thread Games
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Dunno. Ask a DQ.

Indeed I am.

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Not American
  4. “M” is the initial of my first name
  5. Movie character
  6. Alive
  7. Doesn’t appear in sci-fi movies
  8. Not the hero
  9. European
  10. Did not appear in multiple movies
  11. Doesn’t have companions, as such
  12. Not in an American Hollywood production
  13. Did not first appear before 1970
  14. British
62

Did Maurice Ravel adapt your most famous set of piano pieces for the orchestra?

63

Did you meet your show biz partner at a topless bar owned by your partner’s father?

64

IQ: Do you have two galaxies named after you?

65

No, I’m not Felix Mendelssohn.

Dunno. Ask a DQ.

No, I’m not Messnier (sp?).

66

  1. The composer I was looking for wasn’t Mendelssohn. Ravel adapted Modest Mussorgsky’s piano collection ***Pictures at an Exhibition ***for orchestra.

  2. In the Sixties, Richard “Cheech” Marin fled to British Columbia, Canada to escape the draft. He got a job as a busboy at a topless bar owned by Tommy Chong’s dad. Cheech and Chong met and started doing comedy bits at that bar.
    DQ1: Did you ever kill anyone?

DQ2: Was your movie made in the 21st century?

67

Nope, not Charles Messier. He catalogued most of the brighter galaxies, but none are named after him. The large and small Magellanic Clouds are named after Ferdinand Magellan.

68

Thinking about it, in a sense there are several galaxies named after Messier, but if you accept the objects in his catalogues are named after him there are about 40, not 2.

69
  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Not American
  4. “M” is the initial of my first name
  5. Movie character
  6. Alive
  7. Doesn’t appear in sci-fi movies
  8. Not the hero
  9. European
  10. Did not appear in multiple movies
  11. Doesn’t have companions, as such
  12. Not in an American Hollywood production
  13. Did not first appear before 1970
  14. British
  15. Never killed anyone (as far as I know)
  16. Movie not made in 21st century

No, that’s OK. You got me with Magellan. Ask a DQ.

70

Matagoger is the name of Don Quixote’s nemesis. To Don Quixote, the ogre is able to transform himself into a windmill and avoid justice. To Sancho Panza, his master is charging down hill to attack a windmill.

DQ: Are you a villain?

71

DQ: Are you over 40?

72

Again, not sure “Matagoger” passes the as-well-known-as-Botticelli test, but I’ll let it slide.

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Not American
  4. “M” is the initial of my first name
  5. Movie character
  6. Alive
  7. Doesn’t appear in sci-fi movies
  8. Not the hero
  9. European
  10. Did not appear in multiple movies
  11. Doesn’t have companions, as such
  12. Not in an American Hollywood production
  13. Did not first appear before 1970
  14. British
  15. Never killed anyone (as far as I know)
  16. Movie not made in 21st century
  17. Not a villain
  18. Age indeterminate (but probably over 40, I’d say)
73

IQ: Were you a visually impaired drummer for one of the most enduring jazz recordings of the last 60 years?

74

Molly Jones, in the song Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.

DQ: Are you in an animated film?

IQ: Were you a Mattel astronaut?

75

IQ: Were you disqualified from the 1997 Formula One Championship?

76

Dunno any of these three. Ask your DQs (even though it’ll take us past 20 questions, I’ll answer them all).

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Not American
  4. “M” is the initial of my first name
  5. Movie character
  6. Alive
  7. Doesn’t appear in sci-fi movies
  8. Not the hero
  9. European
  10. Did not appear in multiple movies
  11. Doesn’t have companions, as such
  12. Not in an American Hollywood production
  13. Did not first appear before 1970
  14. British
  15. Never killed anyone (as far as I know)
  16. Movie not made in 21st century
  17. Not a villain
  18. Age indeterminate (but probably over 40, I’d say)
  19. Not in an animated film
77

Were you absolutely livid when Norman Jewison gave a role you expected to play to Israeli actor Chaim Topol?

78

Sorry, astorian. Since we’re almost at the 20-question mark, I’ll answer no more IQs.

79

Thanks, I think we’ll need all 3 to have any chance. Mine was Michael Schumacher, who was disqualified for trying to punt Jaques Villeneuve off at the last race, with the championship at stake.

Sorry, still trying to think of a DQ…

80

Joe Morello, who was the drummer with the Dave Brubeck Quartet for the classic Time Out recording. Passed away within the last year - in addition to his outstanding work on ‘Take Five’, ‘Unsquare Dance’ and ‘Blue Rondo a la Turk’, he was well known as an educator and one of the best technical players around. During his time in the quartet, he could barely see - towards the end of his life, he was considered ‘legally blind’.

Let’s at least narrow the time frame a bit…

DQ: Was the film you were in produced between 1970 and 1985?