Botticelli - December 2022

Thread Games
121

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not political/military
  7. Not known from the Arts
  8. Born after 1960
  9. Athlete
  10. Has won a top award in his field
  11. Not known from the Sciences
  12. Born after 1980
  13. Best known for a team sport
  14. Sport involves a ball
  15. Not known for football
  16. Not known for basketball
  17. Not Caucasian
  18. Known for baseball
  19. From a team east of the Mississippi
  20. Not a pitcher
  21. Not Latino

Unless I’ve missed something, that’s all the DQs.

Please ask your final “Are you FirstName LastName?” question by 6pm EST tomorrow.

122

Thinkthinkthink….

123

I didn’t expect to stump you guys.

I am

Aaron Judge!

who this last season broke Roger Maris’s 61-year standing record of most home runs with 62 runs in a single year. And last week he re-signed with the Yankees for $260 million.

124

I heard about him months ago, but then forgot. Good choice, Prof.

125

Thanks!

On to

Z!

126

Yes, good one, Prof. P.! Shoulda thought of him, given his recent coverage.

Z it is.

IQs:

Did you play the mom of doomed young women in two different series?
Did Spock fall in love with you far back in Sarpeidon’s past?
Does a western American mountain still bear your last name?

127

IQs:
1. Were you ruler of Albania?
2. Were you Eva’s sister?
3. Did you appear in The Front?

128

I’d heard of him vaguely.

  1. Did you win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921?
  2. Did you write the Green Sky trilogy?
  3. Did you write about The People in numerous short stories?
129

#3. I am not Zebulon Pike.
Take 2 DQs.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Zsa Zsa Gabor.
  3. I am not Zero Mostel.

It’s been a long time since I’ve read about The People.
Take 3 DQs.

130

1 was King Zog.

DQ: real?

131

DQ:

  1. Real
132

Previous IQs:

Did you play the mom of doomed young women in two different series? - Grace Zabriskie, on both Twin Peaks and Seinfeld
Did Spock fall in love with you far back in Sarpeidon’s past? - Zarabeth, in ST:TOS “All Our Yesterdays”
Does a western American mountain still bear your last name? - Yes, Zebulon Pike

DQs:

Living?
American?

IQs:

Were you a much-put-upon schlub of an alien on Babylon 5 who always referred to himself in the third person?
Did Michael Douglas’s future wife play your sweetheart?
Were you that future wife?

133

IQs:
1. Did you play spinster sleuth Hildegarde Withers?
2. Are you a fedora-wearing Egyptian archaeologist?
3. Originally the player in the football huddle with the weird multiple-starred helmet, did you go on to be lieutenant governor of American Samoa, a postman, the Viscount St. Austell-in-the-Moor Biggleswade-Brixham, a nanny, and a marijuana farmer? Far freakin’ out!

134

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
135

#3. I am not Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Take 2 DQs.

#1. I am not Zasu Pitts (??)
#2. Take a DQ/
#3. I am not Zonker Harris.

136

Previous IQs:

Were you a much-put-upon schlub of an alien on Babylon 5 who always referred to himself in the third person? - Zathras
Did Michael Douglas’s future wife play your sweetheart? - Zorro (Antonio Banderas)
Were you that future wife? - Yes, Catherine Zeta-Jones

DQs:

European?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did Rip Torn voice you in a Disney film?
Did Samuel Jackson play you in an action film?
Did you inherit the Grand Budapest Hotel?

137

1 was correct; 2 was Zahi Hawass; 3 was correct.

DQ: last name begins with Z?

IQs:
1. Did you testify before the PMRC?
2. Are you the daughter of the above person?
3. Did you recruit the Power Rangers?

138

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Not European
  5. Not political/military
  6. Only name begins with Z
139
  1. I am not Zed.
  2. I am not Zeus.
    Take a DQ for #3.
  1. I am not Zordon.
    My grandson loved the Power Rangers when he was a kid, and I watched way too many hours.

Take 2 DQs.

140

1 was Frank Zappa; 2 was Moon Zappa.

DQs:
1. Asian?
2. died before 1900?