Botticelli - December 2021

Thread Games
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Dunno, not the Dread Pirate Roberts and not D’oyly Carte (sp?).

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950
  11. known for music
  12. known for singing
  13. award winner
  14. best known as a solo act (as opposed to singer in a group)
  15. arguably best known for rock genre
  16. arguably most famous in the Eighties
  17. not Caucasian
42

#1 was Don Ameche.
#2 was D’Artagnan.
Correct on Richard D’Oyly Carte.

3 DQs reserved.

43

DQs:

  1. Did you win a Grammy?
  2. Did you have a #1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100?
  3. Known for music videos?
44

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950
  11. known for music
  12. known for singing
  13. award winner
  14. best known as a solo act (as opposed to singer in a group)
  15. arguably best known for rock genre
  16. arguably most famous in the Eighties
  17. not Caucasian
  18. won four Grammys
  19. had two #1 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100
  20. not particularly known for music videos, as far as I know

No more IQs, please. Please ask any earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

45

Final DQ: African-American?

46

D.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name starts with D
  4. living
  5. American
  6. known for the Arts
  7. born before 1965
  8. known for the performing arts
  9. not best known as an actress
  10. born after 1950
  11. known for music
  12. known for singing
  13. award winner
  14. best known as a solo act (as opposed to singer in a group)
  15. arguably best known for rock genre
  16. arguably most famous in the Eighties
  17. not Caucasian
  18. won four Grammys
  19. had two #1 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100
  20. not particularly known for music videos, as far as I know
  21. African American

Tawk amongst yourselves, and please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST Sunday.

47

Well, it’s not Diana Ross or Dionne Warwicke…

48

Are you Denice Williams of “Let’s Here it for the Boy” fame?

49

Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed

Deniece Williams

Well done, kitap!

50

Well done, kitap. Everyone I could think of was either too old (like Prof’s mentions) or too young. Heck, I even saw Ms. Williams in person when she sang for the pope at his Los Angeles mass. Should have remembered her. (And no, she did not sing “Let’s Hear It For the Pope” like several of us joked she would.)

51

Good one, kitap!

52

I had help…Let’s Hear it for the Boy is on my work playlist and it was playing… I see I spelled her name wrong, though.

I am

G!

53

IQs

  1. Did you portray a very naughty boy?
  2. Were you actually a very naughty boy, who planned to take out your wife’s competitor?
  3. Did a very special kind of hat once belong to you?
54

Congrats, kitap! I suspected Williams, but was thrown off by the mention of “arguably best known for rock”.

IQs:
1. Did you famously laugh in Ninotchka (and were you willingly in the company of other people)?
2. Did you have a last stand at Little Bighorn?
3. Have you written the Doom Patrol, Animal Man, Superman, and Batman?

55

I am not Graham Chapman, I am not Jeff Gillooly, take a DQ.

I am not Greta Garbo, I am not George Custer, take a DQ.

56

IQ1: Are you a bad banana with a greasy black peel?
IQ2: Did you lead an attack on Nakatomi Plaza?
IQ3: Did you get run over by a reindeer?

57

IQs:

  1. Were you a co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons?
  2. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi?
  3. Did you tell Mary about her pregnancy?
58

1 and 2 were correct. 3 was Grant Morrison.

DQ: real?

59

I am not The Grinch, I am not Hans Gruber, I am not Grandma.

I am not Gary Gygax, take a DQ, I am not Gabriel. Or take a DQ.

60

Correct, Gamaliel, Correct.

DQ: Last name begins with G?