Botticelli - December 2014

Thread Games
441

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”
  14. Well known as an author, as well as for my “performing art”
442

IQs:

  1. Did you invent the Cherokee syllabary?
  2. Do you sleep on top of your doghouse?
  3. Were you the first Christian martyr?
443

IQ1: Did you write the *Illuminatus *trilogy with Robert Anton Wilson?
IQ2: Did the write The Jungle?
IQ3: Did you write The Catcher in the Rye?

444

Rod Steiger (Oklahoma!, In the Heat of the Night, and Duck, You Sucker!).
Correct on Rod Serling.
Cal Smith (“Country Bumpkin”).
Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Did you write a classic history of Nazi Germany?
IQ2: Was King Solomon’s Mines written as the result of a wager as to whether its author could write a book as good as yours?
IQ3: Did Barbra Streisand star in a movie based on one of your short stories?

445

Not Sequoia, Snoopy or St. Stephen

I did briefly consider using St. Stephem since the day after Xmas is St. Stepehn’s Day

446

Not Upton Sinclair or JD Salinger. Take a DQ for #1

447

Not William Shirer or Isaac Bashevis (Yentl) Singer.

I don’t know who H. Rider Haggard made a bet with, so take a DQ for #2

448

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you play Hazel on the TV series of that name?
  2. Were you the original choice to play Dorothy in the movie The Wizard of Oz?
  3. Are you Warren Beatty’s famous sister?
449

I AM serious- and don’t call me Shirley Booth, Shirley Temple or Shirley Maclaine.

450

Previous IQs:

Did you survey and report on historians’ opinions of the various U.S. Presidents? - Yes, Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Does a major financial industry reform bill bear your name? - The Sherman Antitrust Act did not reform the financial industry, as such; I was thinking of Sarbanes-Oxley, named in part after Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.)
Did Christopher Walken play this character’s laconic husband? - In the TV movie Sarah, Plain and Tall (Glenn Close played Sarah).

DQs:

Did voiceover work?
Wrote fiction?

IQs:

Did you write “The SantaLand Diaries”?
Did John Belushi play you in a spoof last episode of a beloved TV show?
Did you write Swimming to Cambodia?

451

Correct.
Haggard made a bet with his brother as to whether he could write a book as good as Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Correct.
DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw?
IQ2: Were you really Ross Bagdasarian?
IQ3: Did you write a well-known song with Bagdasarian, who was your cousin?

452

Correct again, right down to the punchline.

IQs:

  1. Did you direct Rosewater?
  2. Did you play a man who got the chance to see what life would be like if he had never been born?
  3. Were you a mouse who was adopted into a human family?
453

Robert Shea

2 DQs reserved

454

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”
  14. Well known as an author, as well as for my “performing art”
  15. A writer of reality-based fiction
  16. I’ve never voiced cartoon characters, but my speaking voice is well-known from several media
455

Not SPalding GRay

Take two DQs for#1 and #2

456

Not David Seville or William Saroyan

Take a DQ for #1

457

Not Jon Stewart, Jimmy Stewart or Stuart Little

458

Again, all correct.

IQs:

  1. Did you co-write Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!?
  2. Did you co-write Winter Wonderland?
  3. Did you co-write Frosty the Snowman?
459

Not Sammy Cahn or Jule Styne.

Take two DQs for #2 and #3

460

DQ: Associated with news broadcasting/opinion?

1 DQ left