Botticelli - August 2017

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you die leading your troops at Thermopylae? - Yes, Leonidas
Were you the Emperor of Humanity in The Mote in God’s Eye? - A much later but still royal Leonidas
Did Patrick Stewart play you in Excalibur? - Yes, Leondegrance (or Leodegrance in some tellings of Arthurian legend)

DQ:

Considered handsome?

IQs:

Did you create the original Battlestar Galactica?
Did you have a species of owl lice named after you?
Were you the second and most famous CO of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry?

242

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
  12. Musician
  13. Not considered handsome
243
  1. I am not Lionel Hampton.
  2. I am not Little Richard.
  3. I am not Louis Armstrong.
244
  1. I am not Glen A. Larson.
    Take 2 DQs.
245

IQ1: Did you discover Zinjanthropus boisei?
IQ2: Are you #1’s son, who is famous for working in the same discipline?
IQ3: Are you #2’s wife, who is famous for working in the same discipline?

246
  1. I am not Louis Leakey.
  2. I am not Louis Leakey, Jr. (?)
  3. I am not Mary Leakey.
247

Previous IQs:

Did you create the original Battlestar Galactica? - Yes, Glen Larson
Did you have a species of owl lice named after you? - Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson: Strigiphilus garylarsoni - Wikipedia
Were you the second and most famous CO of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

DQs:

Singer?
R&B artist?

IQs:

Were you portrayed with all-white eyes in a recent issue of The Atlantic magazine?
Are you the head of the United Negro College Fund?
Are you a prominent liberal legal scholar who’s been mentioned as a possible SCOTUS appointee?

248

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
  12. Musician
  13. Not considered handsome
  14. Singer
  15. Blues singer
249

Take 3 DQs.

250

Mary Leakey (Louis’s wife).
Richard Leakey.
Maeve Leakey.
DQ1: Second letter of last name is A or E?
DQ2: Born south of the Mason-Dixon line?
One DQ reserved.

251

Previous IQs:

Were you portrayed with all-white eyes in a recent issue of The Atlantic magazine? - Twin Peaks creator David Lynch
Are you the head of the United Negro College Fund? - Michael Lennox
Are you a prominent liberal legal scholar who’s been mentioned as a possible SCOTUS appointee? - Laurence Tribe

Three DQs reserved.

Hmm. I don’t know of any blues singers fitting these clues.

252

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
  12. Musician
  13. Not considered handsome
  14. Singer
  15. Blues singer
  16. Second letter of last name is “a” or “e”.
  17. Born south of the Mason-Dixon line.
253

Still drawing a blank. I release my DQs, one apiece, to anyone who’d like to use 'em.

254

IQ: Did you popularize the song Midnight Special, about a train that shines its light on a prison cell?

255

Why, yes. I am that Lead Belly, Huddie Ledbetter.

Good job, KO!

256

I used to stay up late to watch that show. I thought CCR was the artist for the theme song, then found out years later they were covering Leadbelly.

Next letter is M!

257

Ah, shoulda thought of him! Nice job.

On to M…

IQs:

Were you the model for the military-academy superintendent in Pat Conroy’s The Lords of Discipline?
Were you the patron saint of Venice?
Have you played a police officer, a dumb bodybuilder and a rental-car company drone?

258

DQ, DQ, not Michael Chiklis?

259

IQs:

  1. Did you write the songs for The Music Man?
  2. Did you and another guy go on a long hike with Sacagawea?
  3. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick?
260

DQ, not Meriwether Lewis, DQ