Botticelli February 2024

Thread Games
41

Paul Newman, correct and correct (in Robert Lawson’s Mr. Revere and I). Paul x3!

And congrats, SunUp!

42

Congratulations, SunUp! Good guess!

43

Well done, SunUp!
and a very nice choice, DLR. I didn’t know Paul’s middle name was Valentine.

44

Thanks, folks! That was a fun round. I didn’t know about Paul’s middle name being Valentine before - good selection!

So for this round, I am

A

We are open for IQs!

45

IQs:

  1. Do you not live here anymore?

  2. Did you write The Frogs?

  3. Did Paul Simon say I could call you this name?

46

IQs:

  1. Did you hang around with Spanky & Buckwheat?
  2. Did you write Fables In Slang?
  3. Were you a 20th Century American Black tennis player?
47

IQs:
1. Were you Jesse on Breaking Bad?
2. Give you a lever long enough and a place to stand, and you’ll move the world?
3. Were you a Nickelodeon channel star who appeared in Big Fat Liar with Paul Giamatti?

48

IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s predecessor as colonel of the 20th Maine?
Were you a master blackmailer who tangled with Sherlock Holmes?
Were you a Harry Truman SECSTATE?

49

Congrats!

  1. Do you play The Hacker on Leverage?
  2. Are you that hacker on Leverage?
  3. Did you found glaciology and do you have a glacial lake named after you?
50

I am not Alice.
Don’t know. Take a DQ
I am not Al.

I am not Alfalfa.
Don’t know. Take a DQ.
I am not Arthur Ashe.

I am not Aaron Paul.
I am not Archimedes.
I am not… Ariana Grande?

Question on rules: If I can think of two people who fit as the answer to an IQ, is it legal to say I am neither of them? e.g. if the letter was B and the IQ was “Were you in the cast of Saturday Night Live?” would it be kosher to say “I am neither John Belushi nor Bill Hader”?

Also: I can tell who was doing a lot of research on Paul Giamatti… :smiley:

51

I think it best to give just one answer to an IQ, even if there are two (or more) which come to mind.

52

3 was Amanda Bynes.

DQ: real?

No, I didn’t need any research to remember Big Fat Liar (that and Planet of the Apes were where I first became aware of him). It did take me a second to recall Bynes.

53

Argh, I knew that… but for some reason I could only think of Hilary Duff, who was Frankie Muniz’s costar in Agent Cody Banks. Good IQ!

DQs:

  1. Real
54

Correct, George Ade, and Correct.

DQ: Male?

55

IQs:

  1. Do some of the earliest accounts of your life have you advised by a Druid named Myrwhydden?
  2. Are you the first of the Twelve Minor Prophets?
  3. Are you the title character of a novel by J. P. Marquand?
56

IQs:
1. Did you sing “God is a Woman”?
2. Did you play God in Dogma?
3. Are you the current Secretary General of the United Nations?

57

Correct on 1 and 3. 2 was Aristophanes.

DQ: Living?

IQs:

  1. Were you a scion of an extremely wealthy American family, and the richest person to die on the Titanic?

  2. Did you run your criminal empire from the Hawthorne Hotel in Cicero, Illinois?

  3. Were you the last of the “rightly guided caliphs”, and the first imam of Shi’ism?

58

Ahem.

59

Sorry. I think this ninja’ed me.

And also swept me. Take 3 DQs.

60

I am not King Arthur.
I am not Amos.
Take a DQ.

I am (still) not Ariana Grande.
I am not Alanis Morissette.
Dang it, take a DQ.

I am not John Jacob Astor.
I am not Al Capone.
Take a DQ.