Botticelli - August 2017

Thread Games
61

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Political/military, but NOT best known for it
  8. Died before 1950
62
  1. I am not Georgette Baxter. (They married, if I remember correctly.)
  2. I am not Gawain.
  3. I am not Groucho Marx.
63

Graham Ingles

DQ: Known for a single event?

64

IQ1: Are you a rock star whose stage name is “The Demon”?
IQ2: Were you the featured dancer in the film An American in Paris?
IQ3: Are you an entertainer known as “The Singing Cowboy”?

65

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Political/military, but NOT best known for it
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Known for a single event
66
  1. I am not Gene Simmons.
  2. I am still not Gene Kelly.
  3. I am not Gene Autry.
67

IQ1: Were you founder and editor of the New-York Tribune?
IQ2: Did you publish *MAD *magazine for over 40 years?
IQ3: Are you a comic book writer who introduced the concept of the Multiverse to DC Comics in the 1961 story “Flash of Two Worlds!”?

68

Take a DQ for #1.
2) I am not William Gaines.
3) I am not Gardner Fox.

69

You swept all three of mine (although I’ve usually seen the knight’s name spelled “Gawaine”).

IQs:

Did Johnny Depp play you in a recent prequel?
Did your husband have an unfortunate alternative name?
Were you from New Concord, Ohio and married a very shy girl named Annie?

70

Take 3 DQs. I’m sure Depp’s in the “Fantastic Beasts” movie, but I haven’t seen it yet.

71

Horace Greeley

DQ: Caucasian?

72

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Political/military, but NOT best known for it
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Known for a single event
  10. Caucasian
73

Previous IQs:

Did Johnny Depp play you in a recent prequel? - Gellert Grindelwald in, yes, Fantastic Beasts
Did your husband have an unfortunate alternative name? - Galadriel’s husband Celeborn was AKA Teleporno
Were you from New Concord, Ohio and married a very shy girl named Annie? - Astronaut and American hero John Glenn

DQs:

Businessman/entrepreneur?
Greatest fame before 1900?
Associated with NYC?

IQs:

Did Mark Twain help get your memoirs published, greatly aiding your family financially?
Did you play the designer of the Titanic?
Were you a Pittsburgh Pirate often compared to Yosemite Sam?

74

DQ: Died before 1875?
IQ1: Is your wife a bigfoot?
IQ2: Were you lead singer for the Playboys?
IQ3: Were you half of Chesterbelloc?

75

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Political/military, but NOT best known for it
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Known for a single event
  10. Caucasian
  11. Not a businessman/entrepreneur
  12. Greatest fame before 1900
  13. Not associated with NYC
  14. Died after 1875
76

I know I know the first one, but it’s not coming around.
Take 3 DQs.

77

#2. I am not Gary Lewis.
#3. I am not G. K. Chesterton. (?)
Take a DQ for #1.

78

IQ1: Are you a Canadian singer-songwriter who sang The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald?
IQ2: Are you an acerbic Scottish TV chef?
IQ3: Were you chief operative in the White House Plumbers?

79

Gordons, eh?

  1. I am not Mr. Lightfoot.
  2. I am not Mr. Ramsay.
  3. I am not Mr. Liddy.
80

Grrrrr…

IQ1: Did you compose the *Water Music *suite?
IQ2: Are you a Bohemian Jewish composer whose music was banned during the Nazi regime?
IQ3: Are you an Italian composer who wrote the opera La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny)?