Botticelli - Feb. 2016

Thread Games
201

DQ: known for law enforcement?

202

Charles Hamilton Houston

DQ: Athlete?

holding a DQ

203

“The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” (around 2:10).

204

Thanks for the link, SCAdian.

Not Caroline Kennedy, Judge Crater or… Chaucer?

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. died after 1900
  7. not known for the arts
  8. not military
  9. died before 1980
  10. not particularly known for science, business or politics
  11. born before 1900
  12. best known for one specific event, or several closely-related events
  13. not mainly regarded as a criminal
  14. known for law enforcement
  15. not an athlete
205

Aha! This looks like a job for Eliot Cness.

IQs:

  1. Did you portray a Hong Kong police officer, a Chinese guard and Passepartout?
  2. Did you perform on the soundtrack for When Harry Met Sally?
  3. Did you play Cary Grant’s ghost wife in Topper?
206

IQ1: Did you lead sailors and dockworkers against the British in protest in 1770, resulting in your death in the Boston Massacre?
IQ2: Are you the first black woman to be elected to the US Senate in 1982?
IQ3: Are you the first black woman to be elected to the US Congress in 1968, and the first black major party candidate to run for POTUS?

DQ: Police?

holding 1 DQ

'(thanks for the earworm, SCAdian)

207

Correct on all three.

208

Not Jackie Chan, Harry Connick Jr. or… Cyd Cherisse?

Not Crispus Attucks, Carol Moseley-Braun (sp?) or Shirley Chisholm.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. died after 1900
  7. not known for the arts
  8. not military
  9. died before 1980
  10. not particularly known for science, business or politics
  11. born before 1900
  12. best known for one specific event, or several closely-related events
  13. not mainly regarded as a criminal
  14. known for law enforcement
  15. not an athlete
  16. not police
209

Correct, correct, and Constance Bennett.

1 DQ reserved.

210

Any time. :smiley: It’s one of the most easily caught earworms I know.

211

IQ: Were you a western gunslinger and lawman also known as Josiah Horner?

212

Not… Ike Clanton?

213

That was Frank M. Canton, an Indiana-born fellow who became an Oklahoma marshall.

214

IQ1: Were you a power running back for the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints from 1978-1985, primarily because of your 34-inch thighs?
IQ2: Were you nominated for an Oscar as the heroic hotel manager who sheltered refugees in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda?
IQ3: Did you lead the band Parliament-Funkadelic?

215

In fact, all I had to do was read KO’s question and answer it, and I was stuck with the song for the next two hours… :mad:
IQ1: Did you star with Owen Wilson in a film about a sheriff and his partner who travel to London?
IQ2: Were you #1’s character in that film?
IQ3: Were you CO of the American Volunteer Group?

216

Dunno, not Don Cheadle, and not George Clinton.

Lemme check… no, still not Jackie Chan. Dunno #2. Not Gen. Chennault.

217

Earl Campbell

DQ: Judge?

holding 1 DQ

218

IQ: Did your disappearance in the 1930’s have you dubbed “the Missingest Man in New York”?

219

Still not Judge Crater.

C.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. died after 1900
  7. not known for the arts
  8. not military
  9. died before 1980
  10. not particularly known for science, business or politics
  11. born before 1900
  12. best known for one specific event, or several closely-related events
  13. not mainly regarded as a criminal
  14. known for law enforcement
  15. not an athlete
  16. not police
  17. not a judge
220

Correct.
Chon Wang.
Correct.
DQ: Fed (FBI/Secret Service/Border Patrol/US Marshal/whatever)?
Two DQs reserved.