Botticelli - August 2017

Thread Games
221

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
222

Take 3 DQs. I know #3, but the name isn’t coming around.

223

IQ1: Were you a fullback for the Miami Dolphins during their early 70’s Superbowl years and considered one of the toughest players in the NFL?
IQ2: Did you defeat Muhammed Ali for the undisputed heavyweight championship in 1978 in what was considered one of the greatest upsets in boxing history?
IQ3: Did you host CNN’s Money Line in 1980, rename it after you in 2003, then take your show to FOX Business in 2011?

224

#2. I am not Leon Spinks.
Take 2 DQs.

225

Larry Csonka, correct, Lou Dobbs

DQ: Last name start with L?
DQ: Alive?

226

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. Dead
227

Previous IQs:

Did you die not long after your return to America from a trip to Europe? - Tad Lincoln
Did you die, probably of typhoid, while a party was going on downstairs? - Willie Lincoln, his brother, in the White House
Did you help Gary Seven? - Roberta Lincoln, on Star Trek

Lincoln x3 redux!

DQs:

American?
Born since 1950?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Did you help King George VI with his speech problems?
Did you live at 22 Twain?
Were you George and Weezie’s son?

228

IQ1: Did you cover the Guess Who’s American Woman in 2002?
IQ2: Are you a comedian who was convicted of obscenity in 1964 and pardoned in 2003 by Governor Pataki?
IQ3: Are you a former MLB player for the Philadelphia Phillies who became a financial guru that would spend three years in prison for fraud?

229

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Known for the Arts
230

I saw The King’s Speech but don’t recall the name. I never watched The Jeffersons.

Take 3 DQs.

231
  1. I am not Lenny Kravitz.
  2. I am not Lenny Bruce.
    Take a DQ for the third Lenny.
232

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with L; well-known nickname’s first name also starts with L
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Known for the Arts

Revised #3 for clarity.

233

IQ1: Were you Itchy Brother’s brother?
IQ2: Did you hang out with a hyaena?
IQ3: Were you the star of a show that was basically a long commercial for Post cereals?

234
  1. I am not King Leonardo.
  2. I am not Lena the Hyena from Li’l Abner. (?)
    Take a DQ for #3.
235

Correct.
Lippy the Lion.
Linus the Lionhearted.
DQ1: Known for the performing arts?
DQ2: Died before 1900?

236

Previous IQs:

Did you help King George VI with his speech problems? - Lionel Logue
Did you live at 22 Twain? - Lionel Twain, in Murder by Death
Were you George and Weezie’s son? - Lionel Jefferson

Lionel x3!

DQs:

Won a top award in his field?
White?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you die leading your troops at Thermopylae?
Were you the Emperor of Humanity in The Mote in God’s Eye?
Did Patrick Stewart play you in Excalibur?

237

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with L; well-known nickname’s first name also starts with L
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Known for the performing arts
  9. Died after 1900
  10. Did not win a top award in his field
  11. Black
238
  1. I am not Leonidas.
    Take a DQ for 2.
  2. I am not Leondegrance.
239

Lenny Dykstra

DQ: Musician?

240

IQ1: Were you a jazz vibraphonist who frequently played with Bennie Goodman?
IQ2: Did you have a hit with “Tutti Frutti” in 1955?
IQ3: Were you a trumpeter nicknamed “Satchmo”?