Botticelli, Feb. 2012

Thread Games
81

Puddn’head Wilson, from the Twain story of the same name.

Correct as to Chekov.

Avery Brooks has often played actor/singer/activist Paul Robeson.

DQs:

Alive in 1950?
Entertainer? (singer, songwriter, actor, director, writer, etc.)

IQs:

Did you once wear a card with your salary around your neck?

Were you and two other guys from your country often grouped together?

Aaaaand are you another guy from among these three?

82
  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
  8. Not at all a political figure
  9. Born East of the Mississippi, lived a long time West of it, became famous and died East of it again.
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Best known as either a singer, songwriter, actor, director or writer
83

I don’t know any of these, so I guess you have 3 DQs coming

84

Dorothy Parker, when she and her magazine colleagues were forbidden by the boss to talk about their salaries, went to a party in which they all wrote them down on placards instead.

Luciano Pavoratti and Placido Domingo were two of The Three Tenors.

DQs:

Best known as a musician?
Other two DQs reserved for now. Any suggestions, folks?

IQs:

Did Clint Eastwood direct a movie about your life?

Did Jackie Gleason play you in the sequel to The Sting?

Were you a Laker Girl before you went on to musical and TV fame?

85

Not Charlie Parker, not Paul Newman, and not Paula Abdul.

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
  8. Not at all a political figure
  9. Born East of the Mississippi, lived a long time West of it, became famous and died East of it again.
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Best known as either a singer, songwriter, actor, director or writer
  12. Not involved in music
86

Pavarotti is from Modena, Italy. Placido Domingo is from Madrid, Spain and Jose Carreras is from Barcelona, Spain.

87

Correct for the first and third. But Jackie Gleason played a character named Trevor Plantagenet.

DQs:

Were you involved in movies?
Was your greatest fame before WWII?

Due to my mixup on the Three Tenors’ origins, I’ll relinquish my remaining DQ.

IQs:

Did you seek a high office just four years after another person of the same party, ethnic origin and state?

Did you make daily progress and then, purposefully, undo it?

Did you and Frasier Crane supposedly share an agent?

88
  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
  8. Not at all a political figure
  9. Born East of the Mississippi, lived a long time West of it, became famous and died East of it again.
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Best known as either a singer, songwriter, actor, director or writer
  12. Not involved in music
  13. Never personally involved in movie making
  14. I did all my best-known work before WW2
89

For Frasier Crane… not Dr. Phil McGraw?
Take two DQs for the other questions (3 if Dr. Phil is wrong)

90

Paul Tsongas was a Democrat of Greek ancestry from Mass., just as Mike Dukakis was.

Penelope, Odysseus’s wife, every night undid the tapestry she’d worked on during the day, to stall her many suitors.

Correct as to Dr. Phil.

DQ:

Were you best known as an author?

Other DQ reserved for now.

91
  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
  8. Not at all a political figure
  9. Born East of the Mississippi, lived a long time West of it, became famous and died East of it again.
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Best known as either a singer, songwriter, actor, director or writer
  12. Not involved in music
  13. Never personally involved in movie making
  14. I did all my best-known work before WW2
  15. Best known as an author
92

Le Ministre, ChockFull, Stink Fish, anyone else - get in the game!

DQ:

Novelist?

IQs:

Were you impregnated by a self-proclaimed god?

Did you admit that your best friend scared you a little?

Did you fire on a former teacher?

93
  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. No longer alive
  4. American
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1800
  7. Last name starts with “P”
  8. Not at all a political figure
  9. Born East of the Mississippi, lived a long time West of it, became famous and died East of it again.
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Best known as either a singer, songwriter, actor, director or writer
  12. Not involved in music
  13. Never personally involved in movie making
  14. I did all my best-known work before WW2
  15. Best known as an author
  16. Not a novelist
94

Well, we may be up to nearly 20 questions before anyone else gets i nthe game. I have no idea of any of these.

So, 3 more DQs.

95

Lt. Carolyn Palamas, briefly lover of “Apollo” in the Star Trek original series episode “Who Mourns For Adonais?”

Norm Peterson, asked by Alex Trebek about Cliff Clavin in the Jeopardy! episode of Cheers.

Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, who in April 1861 ordered Confederate batteries in the Charleston, S.C. harbor to fire on Ft. Sumter, commanded by his old West Point artillery instructor, Maj. Robert Anderson.

Hmmm. The only non-political, non-novelist pre-WWII American authors I can think of are Thomas Paine (too early), Horace McGuffey and Horatio Alger (neither are "P"s). Any thoughts, folks?

96

General thoughts…I noticed the wording change on #13 to “not personally involved” in movie-making, which makes me think something of his was adapted to the screen, which, since he’s not a novelist, points to short story writer or playwright.

I’m stumped. Edgar Allan Poe comes close, except for #9. Poe spent his entire life on the East Coast.
I’ll see if I can think of a helpful DQ and earn it.

97

I thought of Ernie Pyle, too, but he fails under #14. More a journalist than an author, too.

98

Don’t read too much into my answer to #13. Suffice it to say, the person I’m thinking of had absolutely no connection to the movie business in any way (though several of his works have been adapted for TV and movies).

99

Still pondering. Here’s an IQ in the meantime:

Are you an author whose full name includes a number?

100

No idea… another DQ for you.