Botticelli - August 2024

Thread Games
221

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
222

3 (“Graduation”) was Vitamin C.

DQ: first name begins with V?

223

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with V
224

Pretty good guess work, then. Correct on Liberty Vallance and Veronica. 1 was Vlad “the Impaler” Dracul, parts of whose story Bram Stoker took to create Dracula.

DQ:

Alive?

IQs:
Were you the first European person known to be born in North America?
Did you write a famous letter to the editor of the New York Sun in 1897?
Did you ride on the Danville train, 'til so much cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again?

225

IQs:

  1. Were you married to Eddie Van Halen?
  2. Did you play Miss Teschmacher in Superman?
  3. Did you star opposite Danny Kaye in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty?
226

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with V
  4. Dead
227
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not the “Yes, Virginia” person
  3. I am not Virgil Kane
228
  1. I am not Valerie Bertinelli (but would I love to meet her)
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Virginia Mayo
229

Correct, Valerie Perrine, correct.

DQ: American?

230

IQs:
1. Were you AKA Maila Nurmi?
2. Were you an Atlanta Falcons player busted for dogfighting, who then joined the Philadelphia Eagles?
3. Did Ogden Nash say you needed a kick in the pance?

231
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Michael Vick
  3. Take a DQ
232

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with V
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
233

1 was Vampira; 3 was Philo Vance.

DQs:
1. European?
2. died after 1924?

234

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with V
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Was European
  7. Died after 1924
235

Welcome, knoodler, and congrats!

Edward Heath actually was known for the Arts as well as for politics - he was a talented classical pianist.

Previous IQs:

Did President Carter fumble your name at the Democratic National Convention in 1980? - Yes, Hubert Humphrey (Carter referred to him in an introduction, building to a crescendo, as “Hubert Horatio Hornblower!”)
Did the same man who wrote about you, also write about a failed German invasion of Great Britain during WWII? - Horatio Hornblower himself; C.S. Forester was the author
Did you win at Saratoga but lose at Camden? - Gen. Horatio Gates of the Continental Army

Horatio x3!

On to V:

Did you escape from Larkhill detention center?
Were you one of the early ship-kings of Gondor?
Were you a friend of “Stinky” Mahmoud?

236

IQs:
1. Did you create Philo Vance?
2. Did you refuse to appear nude for Ahasuerus and his guests?
3. Did you name Venezuela?

237

IQs:

  1. Are you a killer ferret in a short story by Saki?
  2. Are you a reformed thief in a short story by O. Henry?
  3. Are you “Posh Spice”?
238

Good lord! Take 3 DQs

239
  1. Take a DQ
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Amerigo Vespucci (?)
240
  1. I am not… Riki Tiki Tavi (?)
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Victoria Beckham