Botticelli - Dec. 2016

Thread Games
121

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Did not win a major award in his field
  9. European
  10. Not known for the visual arts (theater, TV, film, photography, painting, sculpture, dance, etc.)
  11. Died before 1964
  12. Not a musician
  13. Born West of Vienna
  14. Born North of Vienna
  15. Author
  16. British
122

Swept all three of mine.

IQs:

A British author, did Malcolm McDowell play you in a movie?
Did you play the bad guy in that movie?
An American writer, did you share the same unusual first name as a popular singer?

123

Time After Time is a perennial favorite.

  1. I am not H. G. Wells.
  2. I am not David Warner.
    Take a DQ for #3.
124

Correct on the first two (I love that movie, too - saw it quite a bit in the late Seventies when it was on heavy rotation on HBO). The third is Tennessee Williams/Tennessee Ernie Ford.

DQs:

Best known for fiction?
Greatest fame before 1939?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you and Nicholas Katzenbach once face off?
Did Mel Gibson portray you in a VERY historically inaccurate movie?
Did you die in the White House in 1862?

125

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Did not win a major award in his field
  9. European
  10. Not known for the visual arts (theater, TV, film, photography, painting, sculpture, dance, etc.)
  11. Died before 1964
  12. Not a musician
  13. Born West of Vienna
  14. Born North of Vienna
  15. Author
  16. British
  17. Best known for fiction
  18. Greatest fame from about 1937 onward
126

#2. I am not William Wallace, from that epic film Brainfart, er, Braveheart.
#3. I am not Willie Lincoln.

Take 1 DQ.

127

Previous IQs:

Did you and Nicholas Katzenbach once face off? - George Wallace: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2012/05/10/us/KATZENBACH1-obit/KATZENBACH1-obit-jumbo.jpg. Katzenbach was a top DOJ official at the time, and later Attorney General.
Did Mel Gibson portray you in a VERY historically inaccurate movie? - Yes, William Wallace.
Did you die in the White House in 1862? - Yes, William “Willie” Wallace Lincoln.

Wallace x3!

DQ:

Novelist?

One DQ still reserved.

IQs:

Were you a British writer whose first name is usually considered a woman’s first name?
Did you write about Lincoln’s 1864 reelection?
Did you play Commodore Matt Decker?

128

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Did not win a major award in his field
  9. European
  10. Not known for the visual arts (theater, TV, film, photography, painting, sculpture, dance, etc.)
  11. Died before 1964
  12. Not a musician
  13. Born West of Vienna
  14. Born North of Vienna
  15. Author
  16. British
  17. Best known for fiction
  18. Greatest fame from about 1937 onward
  19. Novelist
129
  1. I am not Evelyn Waugh.
    Take 2 DQs.
130

Previous IQs:

Were you a British writer whose first name is usually considered a woman’s first name? - Yes, Evelyn Waugh.
Did you write about Lincoln’s 1864 reelection? - American historian Joseph Waugh.
Did you play Commodore Matt Decker? - William Windom, on the original Star Trek.

I now have three DQs. I release them, one per customer, to other players. (Thought for sure Evelyn Waugh was the guy!)

131

I can only think of one man, and I’m pretty sure he died after 1964.

132

Might as well phrase it as an IQ, if you’re only “pretty sure.”

133

IQ: Did you write about the Drones Club?

134

I am not P. G. Wodehouse.

135

IQ:

Did you write The Once and Future King?

136

I am not T. H. White.

137

Aw, fudge. Thought I had it.

Merry Christmas to all my fellow Dopers celebrating it!

138

DQ (borrowed from EH): Best known for genre fiction? (Mysteries, SF, westerns, spy novels…)

139

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Did not win a major award in his field
  9. European
  10. Not known for the visual arts (theater, TV, film, photography, painting, sculpture, dance, etc.)
  11. Died before 1964
  12. Not a musician
  13. Born West of Vienna
  14. Born North of Vienna
  15. Author
  16. British
  17. Best known for fiction
  18. Greatest fame from about 1937 onward
  19. Novelist
  20. Best known for fantasy genre
    And, as usual, those who earned a DQ this round can now play the “Are you Firstname Lastname?” final question. You have until noon EST on Tuesday, Dec. 27th. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays!
140

Stumped. There was a British fantasy/horror writer who inspired H.P. Lovecraft, but I can’t remember his name, and it would’ve been well before 1937, I think.