Botticelli -- Aug 2020

Thread Games
401

IQs:

Did you, in a Congressional speech not long ago, repeatedly say, “It’s not OK…” in listing things you found outrageous?
Were you a lunar AI in a Heinlein novel?
Did Roy Marsden long play you on British TV?

402
  1. I’m not Adam Schiff
  2. ?
  3. ?
403

Previous IQs:

Did you, in a Congressional speech not long ago, repeatedly say, “It’s not OK…” in listing things you found outrageous? - Yes, Congressman Adam Schiff
Were you a lunar AI in a Heinlein novel? - Adam Selene, in The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress
Did Roy Marsden long play you on British TV? - Insp. Adam Dalglish

Adam x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO?
Were you Gilraen’s husband?
Were you her son?

404

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 was Arthur Godfrey.

DQ: Last name starts with A?

405

3 (used the pseudonym “Carlos Danger”) was Anthony Wiener.

One DQ reserved.

IQs:
1. Were you a Philadelphia 76er nicknamed “the Answer”?
2. In Greek mythology, did you hold up the sky?
3. Did you write The Fountainhead, Anthem, and a book whose title references the above person?

406

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with A
  1. ?
    2 and 3. I’m not Aragorn? (I know one of them is, can’t remember which)
  1. ?
  2. I’m not Atlas
  3. I’m not Ayn Rand
407

IQs:

  1. Did you play Jeeves in a number of British comedies?
  2. Are you literally the first name in Finnish architects?
  3. Are you the king of Dictionopolis?
408
  1. I am not Arthur Treacher
  2. I am not Aino Aalto (thank you crossword puzzles!)
  3. ?
409

1 was Allen Iverson.

DQs:
1. living?
2. known from the Arts?

IQs:
1. Was there a novelty watch with a cartoon depiction of you (a real-life US politician) on it?
2. Were you the creation of Ross Bagdasarian and adopted son of his musical alter ego Dave Seville?
3. Responding to a question about the above person, did you note that a book by Norm N. Nite says “Bagdasarian ‘played the tape back at a faster speed to mimic the voices of tiny animals.’ From this we deduce that Norm N. Nite thinks tiny animals actually talk”?

410

Previous IQs:
Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO? - Adelbert Ames, later a Carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi
Were you Gilraen’s husband? - Arathorn
Were you her son? - Yes, this is Aragorn

DQs:

American?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Lorne Greene play you on TV and never wear a cowboy hat in the role?
Is your codename DUCHESS?
Are you that person’s mom?

411

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with A
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. American
  1. I’m not Spiro Agnew
  2. I’m not Alllllvvviiiiiinnnnnn
  3. I knew about the faster speed, but haven’t read the book, so take an IQ
  1. ?
  2. I’m not Sterling Archer
  3. I’m not Malory Archer
412

Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was King Azaz in Norton Juster’s The Phantom Tollbooth.

DQ: Died after 1949?

413

IQs:

  1. Were you a writer of comic prose and verse in the 1920’s and 1930’s who had a column called The Conning Tower?
  2. Did your mother call out your name at the start of every episode of your Old Time Radio program?
  3. Was your mother a co-author of the song Heartbreak Hotel?
414

For 3, the book is Nite’s Rock On: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock ‘N’ Roll, but the person talking about it is Cecil Adams. (I see that the quote is not part of the relevant column online, though it is in my copy of More of the Straight Dope and this Yahoo Answers question.)

DQ: known from writing?

415

DQ:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with A
  4. Deceased
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. Died after 1949
  8. Not primarily known for writing.
  1. ?
  2. I’m not Henry Aldrich (Our mother thought it funny to call our names like she did. It was not.)
  3. ? (Obviously not Gladys)
416

#1 was Franklin P. Adams.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Hoyt Axton, whose mother Mae was the co-author.

DQs:

  1. Known for the performing arts?
  2. Died after 1990?
417

IQs:
1. Representing New York’s 14th district, are you the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress?
2. Did you play Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris?
3. Were you beginning to get very tired of sitting by your sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice you had peeped into the book your sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ you thought ‘without pictures or conversation?’ (According to the first sentence of one of the children’s books about you.)

418

Previous IQs:

Did Lorne Greene play you on TV and never wear a cowboy hat in the role? - Cmdr. Adama, on the original Battlestar Galactica
Is your codename DUCHESS? - Yes, Sterling Archer, on Archer
Are you that person’s mom? - Yes, his mom, Malory Archer

DQs:

Won a top award in his field?
Associated with NYC?

IQs:

Did Robert Lawson depict you as a blowhard, a rabble-rouser and a mooch?
Did you write a book about rabbits that were not all that cute?
Did William Daniels play you in a movie set in Philadelphia?

419
  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with A
  4. Deceased
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. Died after 1949
  8. Not primarily known for writing
  9. Not primarily known for the performing arts
  10. Died before 1990
  11. He has won awards in his field
  12. Associated with NYC
  1. I’m not AOC
  2. ?
  3. I am not Alice in Wonderland

1.?
2. I am not Richard Adams
3. ?

420

IQs:

  1. Did you compose music for the operettas W. S. Gilbert wrote?
  2. Were you an actress who had leads in three Frank Capra classic films?
  3. Did you star opposite Richard Dreyfuss in The Competition?