Botticelli Feb. 2022

Thread Games
101

Previous IQs:

Did you carry the world on your shoulders? - Yes, Atlas
Did you kill your very large, evil grandfather when he tried to grab you? - Alia Atreides, in Dune
The last we saw you, were you headed out to sea, a young but deadly woman on a sailing ship? - Arya Stark, on Game of Thrones

DQs:

Song written by a woman?
Song ever widely played on radio?

IQs:

Was Bedivere the last person to help you before you went away?
Were you married to Gilraen?
Were you her son?

102

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American (presumably)
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not originally from a book or short story
  6. First appeared before 1950
  7. First name starts with A
  8. Not from a filmed dramatic work
  9. Main character
  10. Created by an American
  11. First appeared before 1900
  12. An admirable character
  13. From a poem or song
  14. First appeared after 1850
  15. From a song
  16. Song written by a man (well, words by one man, music by another man)
  17. Song not widely played on the radio, except for that time in the 1940’s when there was musician’s strike and the only songs being played were old, out-of-copyright songs.
103

#1. I am not King Arthur.
#2. I am not Arathorn.
#3. I am not Aragorn.

104

Swept me!

IQs:

Did you surrender Ft. Sumter in 1861 and, four years later to the day, raise the same flag again over the fort in victory?
Was Pat Lucey of Wisconsin your running mate?
Did you play Gen. George G. Meade in Gettysburg?

105

IQs:
1. What you wanna do? I thiiiiiink I could stay with you, for a while, maybe longer, if I dooooo according to Pure Prairie League?
2. Did you have a comedy routine of doing obvious, unimpressive magic tricks?
3. Did your father say he could do one of two things, he could be President of the United States or he could control you–he could not possibly do both?

106
  1. I am not Robert Anderson(?).
    Take 2 DQs.

#1. I am not Amie.
#2. I can see him. I can hear him. (da-da-DAH-da). But take a DQ.
#3. I am not Alice Roosevelt (“If you can’t say anything nice about someone, come sit next to me.”) Longworth.

107

IQ1: Were you the romantic lead in Purple Rain?
IQ2: Did Igor say you provided the brain for Frederick Frankenstein’s creation?
IQ3: Did you stepdaughter “give [you] forty whacks”?

108

#2. I am not Abby Normal.
Take 2 DQs.

109

2 was Art Metrano.

1 DQ reserved.

110

Apollonia
Correct
Abby Borden (Lizzie’s stepmother)

Holding 2 DQs

111

DQ: Name part of song’s title?

Holding one DQ

112

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American (presumably)
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not originally from a book or short story
  6. First appeared before 1950
  7. First name starts with A
  8. Not from a filmed dramatic work
  9. Main character
  10. Created by an American
  11. First appeared before 1900
  12. An admirable character
  13. From a poem or song
  14. First appeared after 1850
  15. From a song
  16. Song written by a man (well, words by one man, music by another man)
  17. Song not widely played on the radio, except for that time in the 1940’s when there was musician’s strike and the only songs being played were old, out-of-copyright songs.
  18. Name is the title of the song
113

Previous IQs:

Did you surrender Ft. Sumter in 1861 and, four years later to the day, raise the same flag again over the fort in victory? - Yes, Robert Anderson: Charleston 1861: The Other Star-Spangled Banner – The Cleveland Civil War Roundtable
Was Pat Lucey of Wisconsin your running mate? - John Anderson, in the 1980 presidential election
Did you play Gen. George G. Meade in Gettysburg? - Richard Anderson

Anderson x3!

Two DQs reserved. Think think think…

114

DQ: Song associated with American Civil War?

115

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American (presumably)
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not originally from a book or short story
  6. First appeared before 1950
  7. First name starts with A
  8. Not from a filmed dramatic work
  9. Main character
  10. Created by an American
  11. First appeared before 1900
  12. An admirable character
  13. From a poem or song
  14. First appeared after 1850
  15. From a song
  16. Song written by a man (well, words by one man, music by another man)
  17. Song not widely played on the radio, except for that time in the 1940’s when there was musician’s strike and the only songs being played were old, out-of-copyright songs.
  18. Name is the title of the song
  19. The song is not associated with the Civil War.

Please halt all IQs as we have more than 20 DQs with the outstanding earned ones.

Please ask all remaining DQs by 6pm EST tomorrow.

116

Final DQ: first name is Ann (or a variation)?

117

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American (presumably)
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not originally from a book or short story
  6. First appeared before 1950
  7. First name starts with A
  8. Not from a filmed dramatic work
  9. Main character
  10. Created by an American
  11. First appeared before 1900
  12. An admirable character
  13. From a poem or song
  14. First appeared after 1850
  15. From a song
  16. Song written by a man (well, words by one man, music by another man)
  17. Song not widely played on the radio, except for that time in the 1940’s when there was musician’s strike and the only songs being played were old, out-of-copyright songs.*
  18. Name is the title of the song
  19. The song is not associated with the Civil War.
  20. First name is not Ann or a variant.
  • A song using the same tune as this one but different lyrics did get a lot of radio airplay and charted in the Billboard Top 40.
118

No more DQs.
Please have your final “Are you FirstName LastName?” questions in by 6pm tomorrow.

119

Wow. I didn’t expect that to be a stumper.

Stanza 1:

When the blackbird in the Spring,
On the willow tree,
Sat and rocked, I heard him sing,
Singing Aura Lea.
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Maid with golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.
Chorus:
Aura Lea, Aura Lea,
Maid with golden hair;
Sunshine came along with thee,
And swallows in the air.

Published in 1861. It’s Civil War era, but was sung by both sides around campfires, and doesn’t refer to the war at all.

Elvis used the tune in Love Me Tender.

120

Now I remember it. Dr. Demento used to play a Tom Lehrer song that mentioned talking your medicine “orally”. It was to the tune of what I recognized as Love Me Tender. Dr. D even played a snippet of an old Aura Lea recording to help us with the joke.

Good one.