Botticelli - February 2017

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
  4. Has been in movies, but not exclusively known from them
  5. Not American
  6. Wouldn’t be alive today, if real
  7. European
  8. First appeared before 1964
  9. Considered a good guy
  10. Not from the crime/mystery genre
  11. From the UK
  12. First appeared before 1864
  13. Did not first appear in print, though he did appear in print very early on
  14. Not a Victorian-era character
  15. Not first known from theater/stage performance, but from another form of performance
  16. Character from British folklore
  17. Did not appear in any Shakespearean play, although he was mentioned in passing
  18. Has appeared in at least one opera
  19. I am a character from a number of songs, originally, and other story formats later on.
102
  1. I am not Spring-heeled Jack.
  2. I am not Sacajawea.
  3. I am not Stack-a-lee.
103

IQ: Were you an inhabitant of Sherwood Forest whose name was a colour?

104

Yes! I am Will Scarlet, nephew (or cousin or brother, whatever) of Robin Hood.

Once again, good job SCAdian!

105

Way to go, SCAdian! I was a long way off yet from guessing any Robin Hood characters.

Previous IQs:

Did Mike Myers play you as a little English boy in a bathtub? - Simon
Were you a fictional Tory leader in Jeffrey Archer’s novel First Among Equals? - Simon Keslake (great book, too)
Did you write a book about your experiences playing Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow

Simon x3!

106

I am F.

107

IQs:

  1. Did you star in Rebecca?
  2. Did you write To Your Scattered Bodies Go?
  3. Are you a notable singer who announced her retirement this week?
108

DQ.
Not Philip Jose Farmer.
DQ.

109

IQ1: Are you a rapper whose stage name is a variation of the name of a US State?
IQ2: Are you a police offer who exposed corruption in the NYPD and on whom a movie and TV series was based?
IQ3: Did you direct It’s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?

110

#1 was Joan Fontaine.
Correct on #2.
#3 is Aretha Franklin.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
111

DQ.
Not Frank Serpico.
DQ.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
112

Flo Rida, correct, Frank Capra

DQ: Alive?
DQ: American?

113

IQ1: Are you the potato-based member of Aqua Teen Hunger Force?
IQ2: Did you star with Jack Albertson in Chico and the Man?
IQ3: Did you write the Swords series of books?

114

IQs:

Did your coworkers watch a home movie of your wedding and mock it as they did?
Did your girlfriend call you “Pizza Man”?
Did you love watching another man lip-synch “The Candy-Colored Clown”?

115

I should know #3 (though I haven’t read them), and I don’t think I want to know #1. :smiley: Three DQs.

I know you’ve asked the first one before, and possibly the others as well… Three DQs for you, too.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
116

IQ1: Did you leave your estate 20%/20%/30%/30% to your four children?
IQ2: Did you design a stove?
IQ3: Was a county in Washington State (that is now second-most populous) named in your honor, possibly in an attempt to curry your favor?

117

Frylock, Freddie Prinz, Fred Saberhagen

DQ: Best known for politics/government?
DQ: Died before 1950?
DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?

118

IQs:

  1. Did you write the Kent Montana series?
  2. Did Jackie Coogan play you on The Addams Family?
  3. Were you the 13th POTUS?
119

Welcome back!

Not … Frank Zappa?
Not Benjamin Franklin.
Not … Franklin Pierce?

DQ.
Not Uncle Fester.
Not … Franklin Pierce?

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Not best known for politics/government
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
120

#1 was Lionel Fenn. Correct on #2. #3 was Millard Fillmore.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with F?
  2. Died before 1850?