Botticelli - August 2018

Thread Games
61

Tank McNamara, correct, Gil Thorpe

DQ: Primarily known for politics?
DQ: Died before 1960?

62

IQ1: Are you a golfer who describes his ethnicity as “Caublanasian”?
IQ2: Did you play the mumbling Fred Fenster in The Usual Suspects?
IQ3: Are you a professional skateboarder who retired after becoming the only one to successfully perform “The 900” in competition?

63

#1 is Tim Benzedrine.
#2 is from the opera Hansel & Gretel & Ted & Alice.
#3 was Tara King.

3 DQs reserved.

64

Not Tiger Wood, Benecio Del Toro or… dunno.

T.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. not primarily known for politics
  7. died before 1960
65

Tony Hawk

animal names x 3!

DQ: Known for the Arts?

66

DQ: Died before 1900?

2 DQs reserved.

67

IQ1: Were you manager for the LA Dodgers for 20 seasons?
IQ2: Are you a recording artist whose voice has been described as sounding “like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car.”?
IQ3: Did you portray the 4th incarnation of Doctor Who?

68

Not Tommy LaSorda, Thurl Ravenscroft or Tom Baker.

T.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. not primarily known for politics
  7. died before 1960
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. died after 1900
69

correct, Tom Waits, correct

Tom x 3!

DQ: Known for a business or product?

70

IQs:

  1. Are you the host of Jeopardy?
  2. Do you and Magneto appear in a Paul McCartney song?
  3. Does George R. R. Martin credit your writing with being the cause of his emotional elimination of characters in his novels?
71

Not Alex Trebek, Tom Swift or Trollope (the last two are guesses).

72

T.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. not primarily known for politics
  7. died before 1960
  8. not known for the Arts
  9. died after 1900
  10. known for a business or product
73

IQ1: Are you an English actor who loaned your name to a seafood restaurant chain?
IQ2: Is a submachine gun named after you?
IQ3: Is an electrical resonant transformer circuit named after you?

74

Not Arthur Treacher or Tesla (?), but yes, I am

John T. Thompson

Inventor of the Tommy gun: John T. Thompson - Wikipedia

Good job, KO! You got that on relatively few clues.

75

Correct on Trebek.
#2 is Titanium Man (in the song Magneto and Titanium Man).
#3 Martin said 'twas Gandalf’s death in LOTR that so impressed him, ergo, J. R. R. Tolkein.
And, great job, KO! I’m not sure I would have guessed that one.

76

I thought there was no way that could be the answer, but sometimes a stopped clock is right.

Let’s see if this one is another short game. The new letter is W!

77

IQs:

  1. Did Gal Gadot play you in recent movies?
  2. Are you secretly Philbert Desanex?
  3. Were you a pioneer of the five-and-dime stores?
78

IQs:

Was your kingmaker and close friend later elected a U.S. senator in his own right?
Did you see to it that an institution which you loved finally had a building all its own?
Did you joke about wearing Fat Boy jeans as a kid?

79

not Wonder Woman, DQ, not Woolworth

80

not Woodrow Wilson?, DQ, DQ