Botticelli - February 2017

Thread Games
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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
  8. Last name starts with F
  9. Did not die before 1850
122

IQs:

  1. Were you a Confederate general whose nickname was “Swet”?
  2. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg?
  3. Were you a Confederate general who was wounded and captured in Pickett’s Charge?
123

That’s a sweep, in spite of the ellipsis!

IQ1: Were you a Mississippi riverboat man who was known for brawling?
IQ2: Did you design the Nautilus?
IQ3: Is an allotrope of carbon named after you?

124

Three DQs. (Unless, of course, #3 is a reworded version of #2 posted by mistake, in which case you only get two. :D)

Not Mike Fink.
Not Robert Fulton.
DQ.

125

IQ1: Are you the only winner for the Nobel Prize in literature born in Mississippi?
IQ2: Are you a violinist who performed works ascribed to more famous composers like Vivaldi, but turned out to be your own?
IQ3: Were you one of the Foggy Mountain Boys with Earl Scruggs?

126

#1 was Winfield Scott Featherston.
#2 was William H. Forney.
#3 was Birkett D. Fry.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

2 DQs reserved.

127

Not … Faulkner?
DQ.
Not Lester Flatt

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
  8. Last name starts with F
  9. Did not die before 1850
  10. Not known for the Arts
128

DQ: Known for the military?

129

Previous IQs:

Did your coworkers watch a home movie of your wedding and mock it as they did? - Frank Burns, on MASH* (one of the funniest scenes in the show, I think)
Did your girlfriend call you “Pizza Man”? - Frank Furillo, on Hill Street Blues
Did you love watching another man lip-synch “The Candy-Colored Clown”? - Frank Booth, in Blue Velvet

Frank x3!

DQs:

Died before 1900?
Best known for a single incident or achievement?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you the only black kid in a comic strip?
Did you command the CSS Virginia?
Have you been played by Ralph Bellamy, Jon Voight and Bill Murray?

130

Not Franklin (Peanuts).
DQ.
DQ.

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
  8. Last name starts with F
  9. Did not die before 1850
  10. Not known for the Arts
  11. Not known for the military
  12. Did not die before 1900
  13. Not best known for a single incident or achievement
131

DQ: Known for science and/or technology?

132

IQs:

  1. Did you play Bilbo Baggins in the recent Hobbit movies?
  2. Were you Eisenhower’s Secretary of State?
  3. Did you play Charlie on Charlie’s Angels?
133

Fritz Kreisler

holding a DQ

IQ1: Did you create the first nuclear reactor and known as the “father of the nuclear age”?
IQ2: Are you an American zoologist buried in a gorilla cemetery in Rwanda, Africa?
IQ3: Are you an American theoretical physicist and hero to Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory?

134

Two correct, and Buckminster Fuller had buckminsterfullerenes (a.k.a. Buckyballs) named for him.

Holding a DQ.

IQ1: Were you, the son of a famous American Revolutionary, a Loyalist who lived in London after the war?
IQ2: Did you design Fallingwater?
IQ3: Did the sitting President ceremonially ‘give the bride away’ for your wedding?

135

Three DQs.

Not Enrico Fermi.
Not Diane Fossey.
Not … Richard Feynman?

Presumably Benjamin Franklin’s son, the “Royal Governor of New Jersey” referred to in 1776, but I’ve no idea what his first name was so take a DQ.
Not Frank Lloyd Wright.
DQ.

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
  8. Last name starts with F
  9. Did not die before 1850
  10. Not known for the Arts
  11. Not known for the military
  12. Did not die before 1900
  13. Not best known for a single incident or achievement
  14. Not known for science and/or technology
136

#1 was Martin Freeman.
#2 was John Foster Dulles.
#3 was John Forsythe.

3 DQs reserved.

137

Yep, it was William Franklin, correct, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s bride Eleanor was given away by her uncle Theodore Roosevelt.

DQ: known for business or commerce?

holding a DQ.

138

IQ1: Are you Howard Stern’s longtime sound man and sketch writer?
IQ2: Is one of your characters motivational speaker Matt Foley?
IQ3: Was Ebenezer Scrooge your apprentice?

139

Previous IQs:

Were you the only black kid in a comic strip? - Yes, Franklin in Peanuts
Did you command the CSS Virginia? - Franklin Buchanan, during the American Civil War
Have you been played by Ralph Bellamy, Jon Voight and Bill Murray? - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin x3!

DQs:

Won a top prize in his field?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you exclaim, “Frog left!”
Did you play the bad guy in Star Trek: Insurrection?
Were you president of Oberlin College beginning in 1983?

140

DQ.
DQ.
Not Fezziwig.

Not Fozzie.
DQ.
DQ.

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
  8. Last name starts with F
  9. Did not die before 1850
  10. Not known for the Arts
  11. Not known for the military
  12. Did not die before 1900
  13. Not best known for a single incident or achievement
  14. Not known for science and/or technology
  15. Not known for business or commerce
  16. Won a top prize in his field
  17. Not born north of the Mason-Dixon Line