Botticelli February 2015

Thread Games
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Not Mark Gastineau or Marty Lyons(or Abdul Salaam or Joe Klecko) or Michael Strahan (you won’t get me with NY football questions!)

162

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with M
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for involvement in the arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not a politician or military figure… but had some political significance
  8. Born slightly before 1970
  9. European
    10 Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  10. Not from anywhere in the UK
  11. Not known for science
  12. Not involved in sports or games
163

Too late, I remembered Marko Ramius! Take another DQ (figures I’d remember the wrong sub captain from a Tom Clancy book!)

164

DQ: Known for business?

165

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with M
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for involvement in the arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not a politician or military figure… but had some political significance
  8. Born slightly before 1970
  9. European
    10 Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  10. Not from anywhere in the UK
  11. Not known for science
  12. Not involved in sports or games
  13. Not known as a businessman or entrepreneur of any kind
166

IQs:

  1. Were you Morgan le Fay’s son?
  2. Did Groucho Marx play you in The History of Mankind?
  3. Was a type of toast named after you?
167

Previous IQs:

Were your theories on naval power very influential on T.R.? - Alfred Thayer Mahan
Did you command Red October? - You got Marko Ramius before I came back, so you’re good.
Did you serve in the U.S. Army in South Korea and later run for President? - I’ll rephrase.

DQ:

Best-known for a single incident?

IQs:

Did you serve in the U.S. Army in South Korea as a noncom and later run for President?
Were you a knockout, jazz-loving, French-speaking hologram?
Did Jon Stewart bestow this nickname on VPOTUS?

168

DQ: Native speaker of a Germanic language (German, Dutch, Danish, &c)?
2 DQs reserved.

169

IQ1: Are you a DC superhero who fled from Apokolips and assumed the identity of a circus escape artist?
IQ2: Are you the motley-attired leader of DC’s* Inferior Five*?
IQ3: Are you a DC superhero, aka The Element Man, who got his powers from the Orb of Ra?

170

Not Mordred or Nellie Melba

Take a DQ for #2

171

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with M
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for involvement in the arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not a politician or military figure… but had some political significance
  8. Born slightly before 1970
  9. European
    10 Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  10. Not from anywhere in the UK
  11. Not known for science
  12. Not involved in sports or games
  13. Not known as a businessman or entrepreneur of any kind
  14. Best known for just one famous incident\
  15. Speaks a Germanic language
172

Not… Michael Dukakis?

Take a DQ for #2 and #3

173

DOn’t know any of these- take 3 DQs

174

I’m going to put these in spoiler tags and let Prof. Pepperwinkle take a shot at them.

Mister Miracle, Merryman, Metamorpho

DQ: Did the incident involve breaking a record of some kind?

holding 2 DQs

175

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with M
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for involvement in the arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not a politician or military figure… but had some political significance
  8. Born slightly before 1970
  9. European
    10 Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  10. Not from anywhere in the UK
  11. Not known for science
  12. Not involved in sports or games
  13. Not known as a businessman or entrepreneur of any kind
  14. Best known for just one famous incident\
  15. Speaks a Germanic language
    17 ) The incident I’m known for was one of a kind, but not a “record”
176

DQ: Was the incident criminal in nature?

1 DQ left

177

Correct on both. #2 was Peter Minuit.

1 DQ reserved.

178

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with M
  4. Alive
  5. Not known for involvement in the arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not a politician or military figure… but had some political significance
  8. Born slightly before 1970
  9. European
    10 Not from a country that speaks a Romance language
  10. Not from anywhere in the UK
  11. Not known for science
  12. Not involved in sports or games
  13. Not known as a businessman or entrepreneur of any kind
  14. Best known for just one famous incident
  15. Speaks a Germanic language
    17 ) The incident I’m known for was one of a kind, but not a “record”
  16. The incident was not evil, but it was illegal and he was arrested for it.
179

DQ: Did the incident happen after 1999?

180

IQ1: Are you an AI from 1984 who had frequent bandwidth problems?
IQ2: Are you the actor who portrayed him?
IQ3: Are you the primary protagonist from the Gears of War video game series?

DQ: Was the incident an act of civil disobedience?