Botticelli - December 2023

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Do you spend all your life livin’ in the gangsta’s paradise?
  2. Are you a Manhattan-born Jewish singer-songwriter whose songs have been covered by Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, and Grand Funk Railroad, as well as sung by yourself on one of the top-selling albums of all time?
  3. Were you the “C” of TLC?

Did you mean, first name starts with H - M?

82

IQs:
1. Did you represent John Scopes?
2. Were you Peter Parker’s girlfriend?
3. Were you a titular 70s TV role played by John Forsythe?
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who also played the ghost of Frank’s old boss Lew Hayward in Scrooged?

83

DQ: Known for country or folk music?


IQs:
1. Did you often throw your briefcase out the train window on your way home from work?
2. Did you and your congregation sing the theme song for a comedy war movie?
3. Were you an engineer whose nickname derived from the name of the town where you lived when you were young?

84

DQ:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Alive
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with C
  6. American
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Known for the performing arts.
  9. First name starts with A-M.
  10. Born after 1945
  11. Not known as an actress, though she did try disastrously
  12. Mixed race
  13. Considered a beauty
  14. Known as a singer/songwriter
  15. Born after 1960
  16. First name starts with H-M
  17. Not known for country or folk music
85
  1. I am not Coolio.
  2. I am not Carole King.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Clarence Darrow.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Charlie.

Take 3 DQs.

86

3 was Carlie Cooper.

DQ: known for Christmas music?

87

Mad Jack Churchill (He was throwing it into his back yard so he wouldn’t have to carry it home from the train station.)
Mike Curb (“Burning Bridges”)
Casey Jones.


Three DQs reserved.



#17 means I may never have heard of her…

88

DQ: Best known as a member of a group?
Two DQs reserved.

89

1 and 2 correct. 3 was Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas.

DQs (one earned and one reserved)

  1. Known for a five-octave range?
  2. Had a hit song called “All I Want For Christmas Is You”?
90

Yes! I am “the Queen of Christmas”:

Mariah Carey!

Festive cheers to you, SMV!

91

No idea what she sings, but I have heard of her.

92

Thank you! I think I stole this from DLR, though.

This being the season of peace and charity, I will not post a link to that execrable earworm.

93

Allow me!: James Corden - carpool karaoke of "All I Want for Christmas" with a BUNCH of famous singers

Good job, SMV.

Previous IQs:

Did you write O Pioneers? - Yes, Willa Cather
Do you demand that others respect your authoritah? - Yes, Cartman, from South Park
Was Lincoln warned, in a funny way, of your political corruption? - Simon Cameron, who served (badly) as Lincoln’s first Secretary of War. When Lincoln asked a more honest Pennsylvania politician just how crooked Cameron was, the man thought for a moment and said, “Well, I don’t suppose he’d steal a hot stove…”

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Thanks, all!

I am

95

IQs:

  1. When Satan found you weeping for a Tannenbaum, did he declare it Christmas Time In Hell?
  2. Was #1 above part of a series of cartoons hosted by you?
  3. Are you Hagar the Horrible’s wife?
96

Congrats, Vehicle!

IQs:
1. Did you say history is bunk, which means you probably wouldn’t do well in this game?
2. Were you one of the celebrity parents caught fixing their children’s SAT results in Operation Varsity Blues?
3. Were you born Araminta Ross?

97
  1. DQ.
  2. DQ.
  3. I am not Helga.
  1. I am not Henry Ford.
  2. I am not…Felicity Huffman?
  3. I am not Harriet Tubman.
98

IQs:

  1. Did you invent “The Think System” for learning to play musical instruments?
  2. Did you serve non-consecutive terms as Senator from Minnesota?
  3. Did a character you played once get fired for saying “Booger”?
99
  1. DQ.
  2. I am not Hubert Humphrey.
  3. I am not Howard “Doctor Johnny Fever” Hessman.
100

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you secretary of state under Barrack Obama?
2. Were you that person’s deputy chief of staff?
3. Did you create Curious George?