Botticelli - August 2017

Thread Games
421

Never heard of Braugher or the show, either…

Umm … football?
Three DQs.
P

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Did not die after 2000
  5. Last name starts with P
  6. Not American
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not an actress
  10. Died after 1950
422

Correct on all three.

  1. Are you returning to Earth after spending over 9 months in space?
  2. Did Groucho Marx play you in The Story of Mankind?
  3. Did you play the Devil in The Story of Mankind?
423

Okay, fine, you can have three DQs, too.

424

Musician?

holding a DQ

425

IQ1: Did you run for president 6 times with the slogan “Just a common, ordinary, simple savior of America’s destiny?”
IQ2: Are you a stand-up comic who delivers lines in a paraprosdokian manner?
IQ3: Are you one of the main animators of South Park?

426

#1 is astronaut Peggy Whitson.
#2 was Peter Minuit.
#3 was Vincent Price.

DQ: British or Irish?

2 DQs reserved.

427

And three DQs for you, as well.

P

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Did not die after 2000
  5. Last name starts with P
  6. Not American
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not an actress
  10. Died after 1950
  11. Not a musician
  12. British or Irish
428

DQ: Known for the visual arts?

1 DQ reserved.

429

Pat Paulsen, Emo Phillips, Trey Parker

Holding 4 DQs

430

:smack: I think of him every election…

P

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Did not die after 2000
  5. Last name starts with P
  6. Not American
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not an actress
  10. Died after 1950
  11. Not a musician
  12. British or Irish
  13. Not known for the visual arts (as defined by Wikipedia: “including drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, and sculpting”)
431

Just to cover all bases, known for the performing arts?

holding 3 DQs

432

P

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Did not die after 2000
  5. Last name starts with P
  6. Not American
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. European
  9. Not an actress
  10. Died after 1950
  11. Not a musician
  12. British or Irish
  13. Not known for the visual arts (as defined by Wikipedia: “including drawing, painting, photography, ceramics, and sculpting”)
  14. Not known for the performing arts
433

Culinary arts?

holding 2 DQs

434

IQs:

  1. Did you write about Peter Cottontail?
  2. Did you write about Brother Cadfael?
  3. Were you noted for writing on the subject of etiquette?
435

Previous IQs:

Were you a teammate of Willie Stargell? - Dave Parker, on the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team in the late Seventies
Were you another? - Phil Garner
Were you Arthur’s adorable puppy on PBS? - Pal

DQs:

Won a top award in her field?
Knighted?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

When you were told not to talk about your salaries, did you and your coworkers wear signs around your necks which revealed them at a party?
Were you Brett’s boss on the Nostromo?
Was your love of chicken mentioned in La La Land?

436

It’s early and I have a headache, so if you’ll pardon me I’ll just answer the one important question here:

Yes, I am Edith Pargeter OBE BEM, better known as Ellis Peters, former Wren and author of over twenty books and short stories about Welsh soldier-and-sailor-turned-monk Brother Cadfael.

437

Hooray! I’ll start a September thread this evening or tomorrow with my Q.

438

Here it is: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20458623#post20458623

439

I’ve heard of Cadfael, but not his author. Good job, Prof. P.

Previous IQs:

When you were told not to talk about your salaries, did you and your coworkers wear signs around your necks which revealed them at a party? - Dorothy Parker
Were you Brett’s boss on the Nostromo? - Parker, in the movie Alien
Was your love of chicken mentioned in La La Land? - Charlie “Yardbird” (or “Bird”) Parker

Parker x3!