Botticelli February 2025

Thread Games
187

IQs:

  1. Have you “got a baby elephant vacuum cleaner”?
  2. Were you a heroine in the 25th century?
  3. Did your character retire and open a HulkaBurger franchise?
188

Previous IQs:

Did you capture Vincennes and Kaskaskia? - Withdrawn; this was George Rogers Clark, not his younger brother William (of Lewis & Clark fame)
Were you arguably the best-known American to visit Paris when the Eiffel Tower was opened? - William “Buffalo Bill” Cody
Did James Cagney, who looked quite a bit like you, play you in a late-career biopic? - Adm. William Halsey, in The Gallant Hours

William x3 redux!

DQs:

Best known for business/commerce?
Died after 2000?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did a friend say the biggest laugh he ever saw you enjoy was when your dog made off with an entire ham from the kitchen?
Did you command the ironclad USS Monitor in her famous 1862 battle with the CSS Virginia?
Are you the best-known person buried at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.?

189

IQ1: Were you the general commanding US forces in Vietnam?
IQ2: Were you the head of the OSS?

190
  1. I am not Wilma Flintstone
  2. I am not Wilma Deering
  3. I am not Warren Oates (“Lighten up, Francis” is one of my favorite lines)
191

Take 3 DQs

  1. I am not Gen Westmoreland?
  2. I am not Gen “Wild Bill” Donovan
192

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Not known for arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Last name starts N-Z
  9. Died after 1980
  10. I am known for business and commerce
  11. Died before 2000
193

Previous IQs:

Did a friend say the biggest laugh he ever saw you enjoy was when your dog made off with an entire ham from the kitchen? - George Washington
Did you command the ironclad USS Monitor in her famous 1862 battle with the CSS Virginia? - Lt. John Worden
Are you the best-known person buried at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.? - Woodrow Wilson

DQs:

A notable CEO?
Had a product or service named after him?
Greatest fame before 1970?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Does a big horizontal sign on a steep hill overlooking Pittsburgh show multiple logos of the corporation named after you?
Are you “the Sage of Omaha”?
Did you found Western Union?

194

correct
correct

Four DQs reserved.

195

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Not known for arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Last name starts N-Z
  9. Died after 1980
  10. I am known for business and commerce
  11. Died before 2000
  12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise
  13. Did not have a product or service named after him
  14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970
196
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Warren Buffett
  3. Take a DQ
197

IQs:

  1. Were you the chair of Citibank who helped keep New York from going bankrupt?
  2. Were you the president of the New York Giants?
  3. Were you a pro football player who wrote the dissent in Roe v. Wade?
198

Take 3 DQs

199

Walter Wriston, Wellington Mara, and Byron “Whizzer” White.

DQs:

Media mogul?
Died before 1990?

One DQ reserved.

200

Previous IQs:

Does a big horizontal sign on a steep hill overlooking Pittsburgh show multiple logos of the corporation named after you? - George Westinghouse
Are you “the Sage of Omaha”? - Yes, Warren Buffett
Did you found Western Union? - Jeptha Wade

Four DQs reserved.

201

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Not known for arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Last name starts N-Z
  9. Died after 1980
  10. I am known for business and commerce
  11. Died before 2000
  12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise
  13. Did not have a product or service named after him
  14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970
  15. Not a media mogul, although his enterprise expanded after his death
  16. Died after 1990
202

Last DQ: From a famous family?

203

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Not known for arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Last name starts N-Z
  9. Died after 1980
  10. I am known for business and commerce
  11. Died before 2000
  12. Not a CEO but in charge of his enterprise
  13. Did not have a product or service named after him
  14. Was well known prior to 1970 but greatest fame came after 1970
  15. Not a media mogul, although his enterprise expanded after his death
  16. Died after 1990
  17. Not from a famous family
204

bump.

205

Seems like @SCAdian and @Elendil_s_Heir have a lot of DQs to go. I’ve still got one, but I’m hoping someone asks a question that jogs my memory, as I have really no clue here.

206

DQ: Did your enterprise involve making physical objects?
Three DQs reserved.