Botticelli - Aug. 2021

Thread Games
261

DQ: Died before 1900?

262

IQ1: Did you write Badfinger’s first hit Come and Get It?
IQ2: Are you one of four US Presidents to be assassinated while in office?
IQ3: Are you Sponge Bob’s favorite superhero?

263

IQs:
1. Are you Mel Brooks’ son?
2. Are you John Landis’s son?
3. Are you Steven Spielberg’s son?

264

Dunno, not William McKinley or Mermaidman (probably the only time those two have ever been mentioned in the same sentence)!

Not Max “World War Z” Brooks, not Max Landis and not Max Spielberg.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics
  10. died after 1900
265

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Did you turn down a million-dollar deal to endorse Beanee Weenee (saying “How can I stand in front of a camera and say I’ll eat Beanee Weenees?” in a later interview)?
2. Were you the half-Vulcan youngest lieutenant in Starfleet, only 15 and a half years old, from an influential 1973 fan zine story?
3. Do you appear on a cooking show that features a sentient mochi and a half-waffle half-yeti creature?

266

Not Mark Wahlberg, Masok or Mike Douglas.

267

DQ: Known for criminal activity?

268

IQs:

  1. Were you known as “the Say Hey Kid”?
  2. Did you bombard Captain Kangaroo with ping-pong balls?
  3. Did Macbeth tell you to “lay on”?
269

Not Willie Mays, not Marabelle and not MacDuff.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics
  10. died after 1900
  11. not known for criminal activity
270

1 was Michael Jordan; 2 was Lt. Mary Sue; 3 was Michelle Obama.

DQ: died after 1925?

Two DQs reserved.

271

Correct, Mr. Moose and correct.

1 DQ reserved.

272

Mary Sue! Of course. Patron saint of Bad Fanfic.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics
  10. died after 1900
  11. not known for criminal activity
  12. died before 1925
273

DQ: Known for business?

1 DQ reserved.

274

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics
  10. died after 1900
  11. not known for criminal activity
  12. died before 1925
  13. not known for business
275

DQ: known for science?

1 DQ reserved.

276

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics
  10. died after 1900
  11. not known for criminal activity
  12. died before 1925
  13. not known for business
  14. not known for science
277

IQs

  1. Were you one of the “White House Gunfighters”?
  2. Was Doug Jones tapped to play the main character in a remake of one of your films?
  3. Did you own the first home in NYC with electricity?
278

DQ: Known from the military?

279

DQs:

  1. Died in WW1?
  2. Caucasian?
  3. Died in an accident?
280

Not Ed Meese, Martin Scorsese or Michael Rockfeller.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics
  10. died after 1900
  11. not known for criminal activity
  12. died before 1925
  13. not known for business
  14. not known for science
  15. known, in part, from the military
  16. died during WWI
  17. Caucasian
  18. did not die in an accident

No more IQs, and please ask all earned DQs by noon EST Thursday.