Botticelli, February 2014

Thread Games
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Mad’s Sergio Aragones and Prohias are known to me. The others, no.

IQs:

  1. Did you write From Here To Eternity?
  2. Did you write Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
  3. Are you Superman’s Pal?
462

Three DQs. (I know you’ve used the first one before, but I can never remember it…)

Not … James Michener?
Not James Joyce.
Not Jimmy Olsen.

463

Those were:
Jarah Mariano
Billy Joel
John Mellencamp

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Living?
DQ3: Male?

464

IQ: Will you be the US flag bearer at tonight’s closing ceremony?

465

#1 was James Jones.

DQ: Is J the initial of your first name?

466

IQs:

  1. Did you create Moose & Squirrel?
  2. Did you play the Beaver?
  3. Were you Superman’s dad?
467

DQ.

Not Jay Ward, Jerry Mathers, or Jor-El.

J.

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. J is initial of first name
468

IQs:

  1. Did you appear in TV commercials with Superman?
  2. Did you prophesy a plague of locusts and a severe drought?
  3. Were you the leading lady on Northern Exposure?
469

That’s Julie Chu

DQ: Died after 1900?

470

IQ: Did you found Hull House?

471

IQ: Did you want the Lord to buy you a Mercedes Benz?

472

I only knew the first person for sure, the Mad magazine cartoonist. Is the second guy the Dennis Weaver rural-cop character? Dunno the third. Is the fourth Cortez’s top lieutenant?

J it is.

IQs:

Were you a dude married on Hammersmith Farm?
Were you his bride?
Did you see that Sarah Hughes got an important job?

473

I know Scott McCloud, but none of the others

IQ1: Is your name often combined with the description “painted”?
IQ2: Were you the Maid of Orleans?
IQ3: Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives?

474

I know who Aragones, McCloud, and Prohias are, but not the last one.

IQ1: Did you write The Death and Life of Great American Cities?
IQ2: Did you love Chachi?
IQ3: Were you married to Ward?

475

DQ.
Not Joseph.
DQ.

Not Jane Addams.

Not … Janis Joplin?

Three DQs.

Not Jezebel.
Not Jeanne d’Arc.
Not Jane Seymour.

DQ.
Not Joanie Cunningham.
Not June Cleaver.
Sergio Aragonés draws the cartoons that appear in the margins of Mad magazine. (I came thaaaaat close to using him for this game, but had second thoughts.)
Scott McCloud, AKA “Space Angel,” was the star of the '60s cartoon series of that name.
Antonio Prohias is another Mad artist; he draws “Spy vs Spy.”
Cabeza de Vaca, one of the survivors of a disastrous 16th-century Spanish expedition to Florida, walked from there to Mexico - took him eight years.

476

J.

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. J is initial of first name
  5. Died after 1900
477

Previous IQs:

Were you a dude married on Hammersmith Farm? - John F. Kennedy
Were you his bride? - Jacqueline Kennedy
Did you see that Sarah Hughes got an important job? - Lyndon Johnson asked that Hughes be appointed to a U.S. district court judgeship in Dallas by JFK; she was later the one to swear LBJ into office as President on Air Force One.

DQs:

American?
Died after 1950?
Best known for the creative arts, as typically defined here?

IQs:

Are you a leading character in Stranger in a Strange Land?
Did you play an Assistant DA on Law and Order?
Was your last movie This is It?

478

Correct on Joanie Cunningham and June Cleaver. The author is Jane Jacobs.

DQ reserved pending replies to EH’s.

479

IQ1: Are you the drummer of what Rolling Stone called (at the time) the world’s loudest band?
IQ2: Are you the guitarist of the aforementioned band?
IQ3: Are you the bassist, keyboardist and every other instrument as required player for the aforementioned band?

480

#1 was Jerry Seinfeld. #2 was Joel, not Joseph (Joe predicted drought but not locusts.) #3 was Janine Turner.

I should have remembered de Vaca, as I’ve often told the tale of Panfilo Narvaez and his poor judgment and navigational skills.

I’ll wait on my DQs until EH’s questions are answered.