Botticelli - December 2014

Thread Games
421

Take two DQs

422

Take a DQ

423

Not Steve Smith

Not Steve Gutenberg

Not… Steve Irwin?

424

Henry Morton Stanley (“…and Livingston”).
J E B Stuart.
Sheb Wooley.
DQ1: Known for the Arts?
Two DQs reserved pending answers to KO’s and EH’s DQs.

425

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with “S”
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Known for the arts, broadly defined
426

Previous IQs:

Did Mark Lenard play a Romulan, a Klingon, and you? - Yes, Sarek, Spock’s dad.
Did Mission Control play the perfect song for you one morning? - NASA played “Mustang Sally” (with its chorus “Ride, Sally, Ride”) for Sally Ride as her wakeup call on a shuttle mission.
Did Mr. Krabs make your name up on the spot, but later see your gravestone? - Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen, of course!: - YouTube (don’t know why that stuck in my head).

DQs:

Known for the performing arts?
Died since 1964?

IQs:

Were you the first head of the Peace Corps?
Were cameras set up to keep employees from defacing your portrait?
Were you JFK’s advisor and resident biographer?

427

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with “S”
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Known for the arts, broadly defined
  7. Died after 1964
  8. Widely known for a SORT of “performing art”… but that’s not all I’m known for.
428

Not Sargent Shriver or Ted Sorenson

Take a DQ for 2

429

DQ1: Born east of the Mississippi?
DQ2: Died after 2000?
IQ1: Did you play a farm hand, a police chief, and a Mexican outlaw?
IQ2: Were you a former paratrooper who hosted a TV show telling strange stories?
IQ3: Did you sing about a hick who met a girl in a bar, married her, and had a son?

430

I had someone else in mind for #1. I’ll re-ask.
#2. Burl Ives’s narrator character was Sam the Snowman.
#3 was the Littlest Snowman.

2 DQs reserved.

431

IQs:

  1. Did Rosemary Clooney sing about you in your “snow-white gown”?
  2. Are you also known as a Bumble?
  3. Are you Jack’s girlfriend in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
432

No idea on #1 or #3

Not the Abominable Snowmonster/Snowman

433

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with “S”
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Known for the arts, broadly defined
  7. Died after 1964
  8. Widely known for a SORT of “performing art”… but that’s not all I’m known for.
  9. Born East of the Mississippi
  10. Died before 2000 (but not much before)
434

Don’t know #1

Not Rod Serling

Can’t guess #3.

So, two DQs for you

435

Previous IQs:

Were you the first head of the Peace Corps? - Yes, Sargent Shriver.
Were cameras set up to keep employees from defacing your portrait? - Then-Director of Central Intelligence Stansfield Turner
Were you JFK’s advisor and resident biographer? - Yes, Ted Sorensen.

DQ:

Known for a kind of performing art that would be seen to be appreciated?

IQs:

Did you survey and report on historians’ opinions of the various U.S. Presidents?
Does a major financial industry reform bill bear your name?
Did Christopher Walken play this character’s laconic husband?

436

#1 is Suzy Snowflake. #3 is Sally.

4 DQs reserved.

437

DQs:

  1. Also known for sports?
  2. Does your last name begin with “SA-SM”?

2 DQs reserved.

438

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with “S”
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Known for the arts, broadly defined
  7. Died after 1964
  8. Widely known for a SORT of “performing art”… but that’s not all I’m known for.
  9. Born East of the Mississippi
  10. Died before 2000 (but not much before)
  11. Widely known for a performing art in which I was NOT seen
  12. Not connected to sports
  13. Last name starts with “SA-SM”
439

Not… Arthur Schlesinger?

Not Senator John Sherman (as in anti-trust act)

Take a DQ for #3

440

Steve O of Jackass

DQ: Author?

1 DQ in reserve