Botticelli - Feb. 2016

Thread Games
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IQ1: Are you a retired NBA power forward who considered running for governor of Alabama in 2014?
IQ2: Are you an American singer, dancer and actress who assisted the French Resistance during WWII?
IQ3: Are you a Calypso artist famous for singing The Banana Boat Song?

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DQ.
DQ (though I think I’m going to kick myself when I hear the answer).
Not Harry Belafonte.
B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. Not originally American
123

Previous IQs:

Did you become King of Westeros after the Mad King was killed? - Robert Baratheon, in Game of Thrones
Were you his humorless next-younger brother? - Stannis Baratheon
Were you his maybe-gay youngest brother? - Renly Baratheon

DQs:

Died since 1964?
Best known for the arts?
Born in Europe?

IQs:

Were you an actor and comic who got a ship named after him?
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kans.?
Did you fake your own assassination attempt?

124

Not Bob Hope.
DQ.
DQ (though I’ve heard this one before).
B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. Not originally American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Born in Europe
125

IQs:

  1. Were you Howdy Doody’s puppeteer?
  2. Did you create Beany & Cecil?
  3. Are you a comic strip character who is once more running for president?
126

Charles Barkley, Josephine Baker, correct

DQ: Known for performing arts?

holding a DQ

127

IQ1: Were you an American graffiti artist portrayed in film by Jeffrey Wright, along with the late David Bowie playing Andy Warhol?
IQ2: Did you portray Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space 9?
IQ3: Are you another ST alum who played the young Kunta Kinte in the TV miniseries Roots?

128

Not Buffalo Bob Smith.
DQ.
Snoopy and Pogo are the only ones I can think of, so DQ.

Three DQs.
B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. Not originally American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Born in Europe
  9. Not known for the performing arts
129

Correct on #1.
#2 was Bob Clampett.
#3 is Bill the Cat from the recently resuscitated Bloom County.

DQs:

  1. Known for the creative arts?
  2. Died since 2000?
130

B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. Not originally American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Born in Europe
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Known for the creative arts
  11. Did not die after 2000
131

IQs:

  1. Did you write the Oz books?
  2. Were you a British Art Nouveau illustrator known for your scandalous black ink drawings?
  3. Were you a 19th Century French composer who created Symphonie fantastique?
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Previous IQs:

Were you an actor and comic who got a ship named after him? - Yes, Bob Hope: USNS Bob Hope - Wikipedia
Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kans.? - Bob Dole
Did you fake your own assassination attempt? - The title character in the political satire Bob Roberts.

Bob x3!

DQs:

Born in Great Britain?
Writer?

IQs:

Was your 111th birthday a big deal in your hometown?
Was your heir there to celebrate with you?
Was Ecthelion an ancestor of yours?

133

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Avery Brooks, LeVar Burton

holding 3 DQs

134

Not L Frank Baum.
DQ.
Not Hector Berlioz.

Not Bilbo Baggins.
I’m going to assume you meant “Were you that person’s heir, there to join the celebration?” and say: Not Frodo Baggins. (DQ otherwise.)
Not … Boromir?
B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. Not originally American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Born in Europe
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Known for the creative arts
  11. Did not die after 2000
  12. Not born in Great Britain
  13. Not a writer
135

Correct. Aubrey Beardsley. Correct.

DQ: Composer or songwriter?

136

IQs:

  1. Does your body “lie a-moulderin’ in the grave”?
  2. Is a large breed of dog named for you?
  3. Did Christopher Hewett play you, the title character in an '80’s sitcom?
137

B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. Not originally American
  6. Died since 1964
  7. Best known for the arts
  8. Born in Europe
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Known for the creative arts
  11. Did not die after 2000
  12. Not born in Great Britain
  13. Not a writer
  14. Not a composer or songwriter
138

DQ: Artist?
DQ: From a Romance language country?

holding 1 DQ

139

IQ1: Did you co-found the Black Panther party with Huey Newton?
IQ2: Are you a jazz bandleader known for standards like One O’Clock Jump and April in Paris?
IQ3: Did you sing in IQ2’s orchestra and become known for singing Summertime from Porgy and Bess?

140

You swept mine. Well done.

IQs:

Were you a Civil War governor of Ohio who died in office?
Were you a modern governor of Indiana who later went to the U.S. Senate?
Did you sing of a geometric shape in a granular medium?