Botticelli - August 2018

Thread Games
81

Correct, Wonder Warthog, and correct.

DQ: Real?

82

IQs:

  1. Did you compose Classical Gas and The Tomato Vendetta?
  2. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?
  3. Did you write All The King’s Men?
83

IQs:

  1. Is your maiden name Slaghoople?
  2. Did you write about eating the plums that were left in the icebox?
  3. Is your mom Joyce and your brother Jonathan?
84

Previous IQs:

Was your kingmaker and close friend later elected a U.S. senator in his own right? - William McKinley (the kingmaker was Marcus Hanna)
Did you see to it that an institution which you loved finally had a building all its own? - William Howard Taft, who as Chief Justice of the United States finally was able to move SCOTUS out of the Capitol basement
Did you joke about wearing Fat Boy jeans as a kid? - William J. Clinton

William x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with W?

IQs:

Were you the best-known person to hail from Auburn, N.Y.?
Were you the best-known non-painter American in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was dedicated?
Did you write the best-known letter to the mayor and city council of Atlanta?

85

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with W

Ask another DQ, EH. PP already asked the Real question.

86

I know the tunes but can’t remember his name, Pete Weir?, not Wimpy, DQ

87

#1 is Mason Williams.
Correct on J. Wellington Wimpy.
#3 was Robert Penn Warren.

DQ:

  1. Created by an American author or authors?
  2. Originally from a work of prose literature?
88

that sounds like Flintstones, so I’ll say not Wilma Flintstone, DQ, DQ

89

Welcome back, De La Rue!

IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist of Orwell’s 1984?
  2. Did Malcolm McDowell play you in Time After Time?
  3. Did the R.A.F. use your name in referring to a type of life jacket?
90

not Walter Mondale, not Walter Mitchell, not Sir Walter Scott

maybe one of those is right.

91

DQ, not HG Wells, DQ

92

DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Created by an American author or authors
  5. Not originally from a work of prose literature
93

#1 is Winston Smith.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Mae West. (It was an inflatable life jacket.)

DQs:

  1. Originally from a film or TV show?
  2. Created after 1950?
94

Previous IQs:

Were you the best-known person to hail from Auburn, N.Y.? - William H. Seward, Lincoln’s SECSTATE
Were you the best-known non-painter American in Paris when the Eiffel Tower was dedicated? - William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Did you write the best-known letter to the mayor and city council of Atlanta? - Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman (well worth a read): William Tecumseh Sherman to Atlanta : "War is Hell"

William x3 redux!

DQs (including the duplicate from earlier):

American character?
Ever appeared in a movie?
Heroine of her story?
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

Were you an expatriate American also in Paris at the time of the dedication of the Eiffel Tower?
Did Tom Hanks play your uncle in a TV skit?
Does the same actor traditionally play both your father and your nemesis?

95

Thanks, Prof.! Good to be back.

Previous IQs:

  1. Wilma Flintstone indeed (Is your maiden name Slaghoople?)
  2. Poet William Carlos Williams (Did you write about eating the plums that were left in the icebox?)
  3. Will Byers, from *Stranger Things * (Is your mom Joyce and your brother Jonathan?)

IQs:

  1. Did you marry a synthezoid?
  2. Are you the Good Little Witch?
  3. Did you sing “Anything Goes” in Mandarin?

DQs:
Name in title?
Appeared in different media?

96

Yes, I am Wanda Maximov, aka The Scarlet Witch.

Originally a villain in the comics, she later joined The Avengers and eventually married The Vision, the aforementioned synthezoid. Elizabeth Olsen plays her in the movies.

Welcome back De La Rue. You are now the host.

97

Wow! Good job, De La Rue!

98

Huh, this is now the second time I’ve guessed a W person correctly.

Belated IQs follow-up: Harvey Comics’ Wendy (Are you the Good Little Witch?) and Willie Scott, of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Did you sing “Anything Goes” in Mandarin?)

I am C.

99

IQs:

  1. Are you the transgender experimental classical musician who composed the score to Clockwork Orange?
  2. Did you write the song Suzanne?
  3. Did you introduce the song Suzanne to the world, along with its songwriter?
100

IQ1: Are you a fictional Chinese detective once portrayed by Peter Ustinov to much consternation?
IQ2: Are you an alter ego of DC’s The Spectre?
IQ3: Are you another alter ego of DC’s The Spectre?