Botticelli - December 2023

Thread Games
141

IQs:

  1. Are you the pipe-smoking prophet of the Church of the Subgenius?
  2. Were you the commander of rebel troops in Charleston, S.C. at the beginning of the Civil War? (You’re a big Civil War guy, so I thought I’d throw you a softball).
  3. Did you call your favorite instrument “Lucille”?
142

IQs:
1. Are you the musical guest on tomorrow’s episode of Saturday Night Live?
2. Did you in fact raise your daughter Deborah in an air crib, and did she turn out just fine?
3. Are you a porn actress (and title character?) in Brian de Palma’s Body Double?

143
  1. Are you a critter, who we are told, “bounced” to explain how he survived a big fall?
  2. Did you play Clara Topper in the 1937 movie Topper?
  3. Did you play veterinarian Mitch Morgan in the CBS series Zoo?
144

IQs:

  1. Did Bob Hope refer to you as “the Old Groaner”?
  2. Are you a British major whose eructations and moans were an integral portion of the highly acclaimed, mistletoe-and-holly-laminated, giraffe-approved 1950’s British radio series The Goon Show?
  3. Are you arguably the most famous person with the middle name of Robinette?
145

I’m not Bob, Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (hands down the best name of the Civil War) or B.B. King.

146

Dunno x3.

147

I’m not Bumble; dunno x2.

148

Dunno x2; not Joe Biden.

149

Correct, Billie Burke and Billy Burke.

DQs:

  1. Female?
  2. Alive?

IQs:

  1. Were you the Queen of the Iceni?
  2. Did you marry fellow gymnast Nadia Comaneci?
  3. Did you play The Phantom in a 1996 movie?
150

1 was Billie Eilish; 2 was B.F. Skinner; 3 was Holly Body.

DQ: first name begins with B?

2 DQs reserved.

151

Swept me!

  1. Are you an pop singer of, unusually, Albanian descent?
  2. Did you win an Emmy portraying a Boston psychiatrist who seduced her future husband when she let down her tightly wound bun?
  3. Are you a gospel and R&B singer who released seven albums with your similarly-named sister?
152

Not Boadicea/Boudicca, dunno, and not Billy Zane.

153

Dunno x3.

B.

  1. female
  2. deceased
  3. first name begins with B
154

1 was Bebe Rexha. 2 was Bebe Neuwirth, who played Lilith on Cheers and Frasier. 3 was BeBe Winans, who sang with his sister CeCe. Bebe x 3!

DQs:

American?
Known for politics/military?
Surname begins M - Z?

155

B.

  1. female
  2. deceased
  3. first name begins with B
  4. not American
  5. not political/military
  6. surname unknown
156

Correct, Bart Conner, correct.

One,DQ held.

157

#1 was Bing Crosby.
#2 was Major Bloodnok.
#3 is correct.

DQ: Real?

1 DQ reserved.

158

B.

  1. female
  2. deceased
  3. first name begins with B
  4. not American
  5. not political/military
  6. surname unknown
  7. fictional
159

DQ: From a Christmas-related work?

IQs:

  1. Did Scrooge lose you because he loved gold more?
  2. Were your last words a call to God to bless your executioner?
  3. Were you the star of Sea Hunt?
160

IQs

  1. Was your real name George Herman, though universally known by a nickname?
  2. Did you produce and film large, elaborate song and dance productions?
  3. Was your song “Wake Me Up When September Ends” inspired by your father’s death?