Botticelli - December 2018

Thread Games
101

Woohoo! Thanks, Prof. P. I knew she was a star of some kind in her day, but didn’t remember that she was a dancer.

Our next letter is, of course,

J

Best holiday wishes to you all!

102

Congrats, EH!

Belated IQ wrap-up: 3 (from the Old Spice ad) was Isaiah Mustafa.
IQs:

  1. Did you publish the Daily Bugle?
  2. Did you play the “great, great actor” Joseph Tura (and the violin)?
  3. Are you a comedian from Atlanta known for your “you might be a redneck” routine?
103

IQs:

  1. Did you and your partner start a studio which produced “Animagic” features?
  2. Are you the latest previous Chief of Staff of the current POTUS?
  3. Did you write the play Volpone?
104

Not J. Jonah Jameson, Jon Lovitz or Jeff Foxworthy.

Dunno, not John Kelly, and not Jorvendiere (sp?).

105

#1 was Jules Bass, of Rankin-Bass.
Correct on John Kelly.
#3 was Ben Jonson.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
106

IQs:

  1. Are you Superman’s Kryptonian father?
  2. Are you Superman’s son?
  3. Are you Superman’s pal?
107

2 was Jack Benny, in To Be or Not to Be.

DQ: American?
IQs:

  1. Did you enjoy eating steak cut in the shape of Texas?
  2. Did you write and direct Get Out?
  3. Aside from being a burlesque dancer who wore a skirt of bananas, did you aid the French Resistance during World War II?
108

Not Jor-El, not James Kent, and not Jimmy Olsen.

Dunno, not Jordan Peele and not Josephine Baker.

J.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not American
109

Correct on 1 and 3. Superman’s son is Jonathan Kent.

DQ: Created after 1900?

110

1 was Lyndon B. Johnson.

IQs:

  1. Were you the hardest working man in show business?
  2. Did you co-found Wikipedia?
  3. Is your name my name too?
    DQ: from literature (prose/theater)?
111

Not James Brown, dunno, and not John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.

J.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not American
  4. created before 1900
  5. from literature (prose/theater)
112

IQs:

  1. Are you Ebenezer Scrooge’s deceased partner?
  2. Are you a character in four of Shakespeare’s plays?
  3. Are you the protagonist in Les Miserables?
113

Not Jacob Marley, Sir John Falstaff or Jean Valjean.

114

2 was Jimmy Wales.

IQs:

  1. Did you write “The Blue Danube”?
  2. Does Riverside, Iowa, claim to be your future birthplace?
  3. Were you asked Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?
    DQ: created after 1800?
115

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you sing When You Wish Upon A Star?
  2. Did you write Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
  3. Did Eusebius record that Polycarp, disciple of John the Apostle, that your birthday occurred on May 22, 6 B.C. (as translated from the Greek, and adjusting from the Hebrew calendar)?
116

Not Johann Strauss, James T. Kirk or “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy.

Not Jiminy Cricket, dunno, and not Jesus Christ.

J.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not American
  4. created before 1900
  5. from literature (prose/theater)
  6. created after 1800
117

IQs:

  1. Are you Archie’s hamburger-loving friend?
  2. Are you Popeye’s hamburger-loving friend?
  3. Are you a pop singer with such top ten hits as “Baby”, “What Do You Mean”, and “Love Yourself”?
118

Correct, James Joyce, Correct.

DQ: Created by a European author?

119

Not Jughead Jones, not Wimpy Jones, and not Justin Timberlake.

J.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. not American
  4. created before 1900
  5. from literature (prose/theater)
  6. created after 1800
  7. created by a European author
120

IQs:

  1. Did you travel from Earth to Barsoom?
  2. Were you one of Paul Winchell’s puppets?
  3. Did you write From Here To Eternity?