Botticelli - February 2020

Thread Games
141

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
142

IQs:

Were you a Vietnam War-era general who later got a tank named after him?
Were you shot and killed in the opening scene of Life After Life?
Did you write that novel?

143

Take 3 DQs.

144

Previous IQs:

Were you a Vietnam War-era general who later got a tank named after him? - Creighton Abrams
Were you shot and killed in the opening scene of Life After Life? - Adolf Hitler, in a Munich pastry shop in Nov. 1930
Did you write that novel? - Kate Atkinson

DQs:

Living?
European?
First name starts with A?

IQs:

Did you defend the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre?
Were you that person’s wife?
Were you their son?

145

Nice job on Marian Paroo. I was clueless during that entire sequence.

IQs:

  1. Did you write the “Just for Variety” column for the Variety trade newspaper for nearly 50 years?
  2. Did you play Maigret in the recent British television series of the same name?
  3. Were you a Greek shipping magnate who married a former American first lady?
146

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with A
147

I am not John, Abigail or John Quincy Adams.

Take a DQ for #1.
#2. I am not Rowan Atkinson, who is very impressive in that role.
#3. I am not Aristotle Onassis.

148

Swept me, as I knew you would!

IQs:

Were you JFK’s Solicitor General, even more famous for what he did later?
Were you a noted writer about the sinking of the Titanic?
Did your dad have the family dog stuffed after it died?

149

And swept me back! Take 3 DQs.

150

Previous IQs:

Were you JFK’s Solicitor General, even more famous for what he did later? - Archibald Cox, later the Watergate special counsel
Were you a noted writer about the sinking of the Titanic? - Archibald Gracie
Did your dad have the family dog stuffed after it died? - Alan Alda

DQs:

From the British Isles?
Died since 1900?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did you never provide the first name of a government official about whom you often wrote?
Did your new wife confide to her diary how rapturously in love with you she was?
Were you compared by a foe to a dangerously mesmerizing snake in a zoo?

151

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with A
  7. Not from the British Isles
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not political/military
152

Take 3 more DQs.

153

Previous IQs:

Did you never provide the first name of a government official about whom you often wrote? - Arthur Conan Doyle only gave us Scotland Yard Insp. Lestrade’s first initial, “G”
Did your new wife confide to her diary how rapturously in love with you she was? - Queen Victoria wrote this of Prince Albert
Were you compared by a foe to a dangerously mesmerizing snake in a zoo? - The title character of Conan Doyle’s short story “Charles Augustus Milverton”

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Native speaker of a Romance language?
Died before 1800?

IQs:

Did Richard Harris play you in 2000?
Did Russell Crowe play you in a movie which the filmmakers hoped would be the first of a series?
Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine?

154

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with A
  7. Not from the British Isles
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not political/military
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Died before 1800
155
  1. I am not King Arthur (??)
  2. I would guess that’s Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde, but those aren’t A’s. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
156

Previous IQs:

Did Richard Harris play you in 2000? - Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in Gladiator
Did Russell Crowe play you in a movie which the filmmakers hoped would be the first of a series? - Capt. John “Lucky Jack” Aubrey, in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Were you the first CO of the 20th Maine? - Col. Adelbert Ames, later a Carpetbagger governor of Mississippi

DQs:

Died before 1700?
Best known for a single incident?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher?
Are you a noted American legal scholar and reformer?
Were you Lincoln’s Minister to the Court of St. James’s?

157

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with A
  7. Not from the British Isles
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not political/military
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Died before 1800
  13. Died before 1700
  14. Not best known for a single incident
158
  1. I am not St. Augustine.
    Take 2 DQs.
159

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher? - I’ll rephrase
Are you a noted American legal scholar and reformer? - Bryan Adamson
Were you Lincoln’s Minister to the Court of St. James’s? - Charles Francis Adams

DQs:

Died before 1000?
Best known as a philosopher/thinker?

IQs:

You are not St. Augustine. Were you a noted Christian theologian and philosopher?
Was your mother Gilraen?
Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?

160

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
  5. European
  6. Last name starts with A
  7. Not from the British Isles
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not political/military
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Died before 1800
  13. Died before 1700
  14. Not best known for a single incident
  15. Died after 1000
  16. Best known as a philosopher/thinker