Botticelli - December 2018

Thread Games
121

Not John Carter, dunno, and not John Jakes.

122

Correct on John Carter.
Winchell’s main puppet was Jerry Mahoney.
James Jones wrote From Here To Eternity.

DQs:

  1. Created by an English author?
  2. From a novel (or novels)?
123

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
  8. created by an English author
  9. not from a novel (or novels)
124

2 was J. Wellington Wimpy. 3 was in fact Justin Bieber.

IQs:

  1. Are you a valet, not a butler, but according to your employer can “buttle with the best of them”?
  2. Were you the first African-American world heavyweight boxing champion?
  3. Did you star in a late 90s teen drama, with the last word of the title rhyming with the last word of your name?
    DQ: first name begins with J?
125

IQs:

  1. Did you kiss me when me met, jumping from the chair you sat in?
  2. Are you a reformed safecracker from a tale by O. Henry?
  3. Are you the original Yankee Doodle Boy?
126

Not Reginald Jeeves, Jack Johnson and dunno.

Dunno, dunno and not Jimmy Cagney.

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
  8. created by an English author
  9. not from a novel (or novels)
  10. first name begins with J
127

#1 was Jenny, from the poem of that name by Leigh Hunt.
#2 was Jimmy Valentine.
#3 is correct, but I was thinking of the role he and Cohan played, Little Jimmy Jones. But #3 is still correct.

DQs:

  1. From a play?
  2. First name James or John or some variation on them?
128

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
  8. created by an English author
  9. not from a novel (or novels)
  10. first name begins with J
  11. not from a play
  12. first name not James or John or some variation on them
129

IQs:

  1. Are you Sherlock Holmes’ companion?
  2. Are you Sherlock Holmes’ archenemy?
  3. Have you played a pirate, a transvestite filmmaker and a barber?
130

Not Dr. John Watson, Prof. James Moriarty or Johnny Depp (which was the barber role?).

131

Sweeney Todd. All correct.

IQs:

  1. Did you create the film Avatar?
  2. Are you a frontiersman played on film by Robert Redford?
  3. Are you the voice of Olaf in Frozen?
132

Ah, yes. I forgot he was in Sweeney Todd.

Not James Cameron, not Jeremiah Johnson, and dunno.

133

Correct x2. #3 is Josh Gad.

DQ: Protagonist?

134

3 was James Van Der Beek (star of Dawson’s Creek).

IQs:

  1. Did you record the world’s best-selling album, which includes Vincent Price rapping?
  2. Were you a noted British beer expert, author of The World Guide to Beer?
  3. Did you and Brad take refuge at the Frankenstein place?
    DQ: from a short story?
135

Not Quincy Jones, dunno, and not Janet.

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
  8. created by an English author
  9. not from a novel (or novels)
  10. first name begins with J
  11. not from a play
  12. first name not James or John or some variation on them
  13. not the protagonist
  14. from a short story
136

IQs:

  1. Did Arthur Godfrey fire you on the air?
  2. Are you married to Beyonce?
  3. Did you play Miss Marple on the BBC TV series of that name?
137

1 was Michael Jackson (Jones produced Thriller, Jackson recorded it). 2 was (another) Michael Jackson.

IQs:

  1. Were you the son of Zebedee?
  2. Are you Silent Bob’s hetero life-mate?
  3. Were you the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court?
    DQs:
    From a short story published after 1875?
    From a series of short stories?
138

Dunno, not Jay-Z, and dunno.

Not Jethro, Jay, and not John Jay (nitpick: it’s “Chief Justice of the United States”).

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
  8. created by an English author
  9. not from a novel (or novels)
  10. first name begins with J
  11. not from a play
  12. first name not James or John or some variation on them
  13. not the protagonist
  14. from a short story
  15. from a short story published after 1875
  16. from a series of short stories
139

#1 was Julius LaRosa. Correct on Jay-Z. #3 was Joan Hickson.

DQ: From the Sherlock Holmes stories?

1 DQ reserved.

140

1 was the apostle John.

IQs:

  1. Are you Rick’s son-in-law and Morty’s father?
  2. Did you write Farmer Giles of Ham?
  3. Did Art and Paul ask where you had gone?
    DQ: antagonist?