Botticelli February 2015

Thread Games
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B’Wana Beast

Now I know a fancy word for big-breasted.

DQ: From the UK?
DQ: Associated with the arts?

holding a DQ

262

IQ1: Are you a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, real name Chuck Taine?
IQ2: Are you Hugh Hazzard’s robot?
IQ3: Do you gain your superpowers by saying the words “Kaji Dha”?

263

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Not from the UK
  7. Associated with the Arts
264

I am not Bouncing Boy.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not the Blue Beetle.

265

I already asked about Barney Frank in post 248.

Previous IQs:

Did you play a put-upon publisher in Cloud Atlas? - Jim Broadbent
Are you a semi-closeted gay servant at Downton Abbey? - Thomas Barrow
Were you a musical inspiration to Lisa Simpson? - Bleeding Gums Murphy

DQs:

French?
Best known for the performing arts?
Died since 1950?

IQs:

Did a clergyman of your acquaintance provide medical care to LBJ many years earlier?
Did you ship out on the Rand Ecliptic?
Did your wife sever your male reproductive organ?

266

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Not from the UK
  7. Associated with the Arts
  8. Not French
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Died before 1950
267

I am not John Bobbitt. Take 2 DQs for the others.

268

John Moses Browning.
William H Bonney (or Billy the Kid, if you prefer).
Correct.
DQ1: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
DQ2: Died before 1700?
IQ1: Were you one of a family of servants played by Tony Robinson?
IQ2: Were you one of the family who employed them?
IQ3: Were you a female servant also employed by one of them?

269

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Not from the UK
  7. Associated with the Arts
  8. Not French
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Not a native speaker of a Germanic language
  12. Died before 1700
270

I am not Baldric.
I am not Blackadder.
Take a DQ for #3.

271

Correct.
Correct.
Bob.
DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did you design the piazza in front of St Peter’s Cathedral, in the Vatican?
IQ2: Did you design the dome on the cathedral in Florence?
IQ3: Did you paint The Birth of Venus?

272

*Originally Posted by astorian View Post
IQ1) Did you succeed where Clement Haynsworth and G. Harold Carswell failed?

IQ2) Did you sail to “Hi-Brasil,” which a few historians think may have been America?

IQ3) Did you take advantage of a Cypriot place kicker’s ill-advised attempt at throwing a pass?*

Warren Burger was finbally confirmed as Chief Justice after the nominations of Haynsworth and Carswell stalled in the Senate.

St. Brendan the Navigator sailed across the Atlantic in seach of “Hi-Brasil.” Some historians think he may have reached America.

Mike Bass of the Redskins scored a touchdown in the Super Bowl after Garo Yepremian recovered a blocked kick and tried to throw a pass (Bass intercepted it and ran it all the way back).

DQ1) Last name start with B?

DQ2) Born before 1000 AD?

DQ3) Known as a writer of any kind?

273

correct, Bozo the Iron Man (!), correct

I think you’re probably the man for whom this game is named, and SCAdian already nailed it, so waiting to see.

274

IQ1) Were you the first Jewish mayor of Dublin?

IQ2) When told that Dublin now had a Jewish mayor, did you sagely reply, “Only in America”?

IQ3) Though officially a rhythm guitarist, did you play sitar, marimba and dulcimer on some of your band’s best known songs?

275

Take 2 DQs.
I am not Botticelli.

276

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Not American
  5. European
  6. Not from the UK
  7. Associated with the Arts
  8. Not French
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Died before 1950
  11. Not a native speaker of a Germanic language
  12. Died before 1700
  13. Last name starts with a B
  14. Born after 1000
  15. Known as a writer
277

Take 3 DQs.

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**Originally Posted by astorian
IQ1) Were you the first Jewish mayor of Dublin?

IQ2) When told that Dublin now had a Jewish mayor, did you sagely reply, “Only in America”?

IQ3) Though officially a rhythm guitarist, did you play sitar, marimba and dulcimer on some of your band’s best known songs? **

When Yogi Berra heard that a Jew, Robert Briscoe, had become mayor of Dublin, he said, “Only in America.”

Brian Jones played Sitar on the ROlling Stones “Paint It Black” and marimba on “Under My Thumb.”
DQ1) Did you write in a Romance language?

DQ2) Were you known as a poet?

DQ3) Are you regarded as a Renaissance artist?

279

IQ) DId you write The Decameron?

280

Yes! I am Giovanni Boccaccio, author of The Decameron.

Well done, astorian!