Botticelli - August 2024

Thread Games
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Correct, except it was Stephen Mnuchin. I’m not taking a DQ there.

22

Not Stephen Spielberg, not Shari Lewis and dunno.

23

3 was Stan Musial.

DQ: died after 1900?

24

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1970
  8. died after 1900
25

IQs:

  1. Is your most famous song inspired by the works of Lewis Carroll?
  2. Did you appear in the movie version of Lil’ Abner as Appasionata von Climax?
  3. Did you write and star in an adaptation of a Cyrano de Bergerac classic?

Now if you’ll excuse me I need to bone up on my Goon Show trivia so I can be somewhat competitive around here…

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IQs:
1. Do you voice the parent of your sister’s character on American Dad?
2. Did you voice the parent of your sister’s character on BoJack Horseman?
3. Are you a current US senator from Maine?

27

IQs:

  1. Did you compose The Liberty Bell March?
  2. Did you compose The Carnival of the Animals?
  3. Did you compose Petrouchka?
28

Dunno, not Susan St. James and not Steve Martin.

Dunno, dunno and not Susan Collins.

Not Sousa, Saint-Saens (sp?) or Sergei Prokofiev.

29

1 was Seth MacFarlane; 2 was David Sedaris.

DQs:
1. died after 1940?
2. known for politics?

30

IQs:
1. Were you US ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia?
2. Did you write The Orchid Thief, and sort-of appear in the sort-of adaptation?
3. Did you visit a starship in the short story “Visit to a Weird Planet, Revisited”?

31

Dunno, not Susan Orlean, and not William Shatner.

I’m a big David Sedaris fan, and had no idea he did a voice for BoJack Horseman! Huh.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1970
  8. died after 1900
  9. died before 1940
  10. not known for politics
32

1 was Shirley Temple Black.

DQ: known for something named after her?

33

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1970
  8. died after 1900
  9. died before 1940
  10. not known for politics
  11. not known for something named after her
34

Correct, Correct and Stravinsky.

DQ: Known for being part of a movement?

IQs:

  1. Were you one of the founders of the National Women’s Suffrage Association?
  2. Were you an abolitionist, a founder of the Woman’s Journal, and another noted American suffragette?
  3. Are you Warren Beatty’s sister?
35

Not Susan B. Anthony, not Lucy Stone and not Shirley MacLaine.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1970
  8. died after 1900
  9. died before 1940
  10. not known for politics
  11. not known for something named after her
  12. kinda sorta known for being part of a movement
36

Swept me.

IQ: You are not Susan B. Anthony. Are you one of the founders of the National Women’s Suffrage Association?

37

Hmm, other than those two, I don’t know of any other such S women. Take a DQ.

38

That was Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1 DQ reserved.

39

D’oh, of course!

40

1 was Deke Slayton. Correct on Shelley. 3 was another Shelly, Sheldon Cooper - Armitage plays him on Young Sheldon.

DQs:

  1. Known for crime?
  2. First name starts A - M?

IQs:

  1. Did you play a mathematician from the planet of Traken on Doctor Who?
  2. Did you end your days keeping bees on the Sussex Downs?
  3. Did a sudden attack of blindness make you change your name and completely alter your life?