Botticelli February 2024

Thread Games
181

DQ: Last name starts with C?

IQs:

  1. Did you invent the concept of the communications satellite?
  2. Did you chart the same single at #1 each of the last five years?
  3. Did you play Seeker for Hufflepuff?
182

1. I am not Arthur C. Clark.
2. I am not Mariah Carey.
3. I am not Cho Chang?

DQs:
1. not real
2. male
3. not created by Americans
4. created before 1900
5. only name starts with C

183

1 & 2 are correct, but the Hufflepuff seeker was Cedric Diggory. (Cho played Seeker for Ravenclaw.)

DQ: Created by Asians?

184

IQs:

  1. Did you play a girl named Fred on Broadway?
  2. Was your cartoon created using the lamentable Syncro-Vox technology?
  3. Did Barbara Bain play you on Mission: Impossible?
185

Previous IQs:

Were you the Finches’ housemaid and cook? - Yes, Calpurnia, in To Kill a Mockingbird
Did you have arguably the silliest alternate name in all of Middle-earth? - Yes, Celeborn AKA Teleporno
Were you the first to fly across America, “crash by crash”? - Yes, Cal Ro[d]gers

Swept me!

IQs:

Did Tommy Lee Jones play you as an embittered retiree?
Did you say of TR, “You must always remember that the President is about six”?
Were you “Attorney General for the runaway slave”?

186

1. I am not Carol Burnett.
2. I am not Clutch Cargo.
3. I am not Cinnamon Carter.

Respectively:
I am not Clay Shaw.
I am not Calvin Coolidge.
I am not Cassius Clay.

DQs:
1. not real
2. male
3. not created by Americans
4. created before 1900
5. only name starts with C
6. not created by Asians

187

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Did you write Silent Spring?
  2. Did you write The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody?
  3. Did you paint The Wreck of the Medusa?
188

IQs:

  1. Were you once an announcer for an weekly NPR news quiz show?
  2. Are you an ex-Marine who once guest-hosted the same show?
  3. Did you once lose a primary election to someone who called your sister a thespian?
189

1. I am not Rachel Carson.
2. I am not Will Cuppy.
3. I know the last name, but not the first, so take a DQ.

1. I am not Carl Kassell.
2. I am not Drew Carey?
3. I am not Claude “Red” Pepper, and if I didn’t remember he was also given the nickname in an early example of anti-Communist fearmongering I wouldn’t have somehow retained his full name. Did you also see this in one of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers?

190

Correct, correct, and Gustave Courbet.

DQ: Created before 1800?

191

Wait a minute, Prof., The Raft of the Medusa is Gericault.

192

Previous IQs:

Did Tommy Lee Jones play you as an embittered retiree? - Jones’s Clay Shaw in JFK was neither embittered nor a retiree, IIRC - this was Ty Cobb
Did you say of TR, “You must always remember that the President is about six”? - The British ambassador to the US, Cecil Spring-Rice
Were you “Attorney General for the runaway slave”? - Salmon P. Chase, later Chief Justice of the United States

DQs:

First appeared in print?
First appeared in an English-language work?
A “good guy”?

IQs:

Was your wedding the social event of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War?
Did you play a character who was in the bathroom while, unbeknownst to her, someone else killed lots of bad guys nearby?
Were you very pleased to have some of Leonard Nimoy’s DNA?

193

You’re right. I misremembered.

194

Aw, hell. He would have been my other guess.

Respectively:
I am not Commodore Nutt.
I am not Jamie Lee Curtis.
I am not Chuck, Leonard Nimoy clone #214.

DQs:
1. not real
2. male
3. not created by Americans
4. created before 1900
5. only name starts with C
6. not created by Asians
7. did not first appear in print
8. did not appear in anything English-language
9. benevolent

195

IQs:

  1. Did your story originally having you lose a fur slipper?
  2. Were you known as Ukulele Ike?
  3. Were you Ukulele Ike’s best known movie role?
196

Swept again!

IQs:

  1. Are you the current Duke of Argyll? (Will accept surname only).

  2. Are you the Muse of epic poetry, the mother of Orpheus?

  3. Are you the Muse of history, whose name is used for advertising’s top award?

197

1. I am not Cinderella.
2. I am not Cliff Edwards.
3. I am not Jiminy Cricket.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Calliope.
3. I am not Clio.

198

Swept me! I heard the “thespian” thing on an old episode of Head of the Class, the show where a former burnout DJ gets a job teaching a class of gifted high school students, including Mike Tyson’s future wife.

IQs:

  1. Have you scored 64 goals and won two World Cups playing for your national soccer team?
  2. Did you get fired as manager of the only club you ever worked for after the major league squad started the season on a six game losing streak?
  3. Were you played by Robert Pattinson in the adaptations of a young adult book series?
199

Previous IQs:

Was your wedding the social event of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War? - Kate Chase, SECTREAS Salmon P.'s eldest daughter
Did you play a character who was in the bathroom while, unbeknownst to her, someone else killed lots of bad guys nearby? - Cameron Diaz, in Knight and Day
Were you very pleased to have some of Leonard Nimoy’s DNA? - Dr. Sheldon Cooper in BBT

DQs:

Character from mythology?
From Europe?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you record letters to your spinster sister in Boston?
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals?
Did Van Dyck paint a three-way portrait of you?

200

1. I am not Cristelo Ronaldo?
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Cedric Diggory (who you used before).

Respectively:
I am not Charles Emerson Winchester.
I am not Charles Seymour.
I am not Charles I.

DQs:
1. not real
2. male
3. not created by Americans
4. created before 1900
5. only name starts with C
6. not created by Asians
7. did not first appear in print
8. did not first appear in anything English-language
9. benevolent
10. from mythology
11. from Europe