Botticelli - January 2013

Thread Games
181

IQs:

Are you a former SNL cast member now with a show of your own?
Did you copy lines from a Greek poem before leaping to your death?
Were you a Truman poker buddy who became Chief Justice of the United States?

182

I am not Tina Fey
DQ
DQ

183

Correct on Dian (no ‘E’) Fossey.
Genie Francis played Laura Webber Spencer on General Hospital.
Hans Frank.

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Artist(e)?

IQ1: Do you live in a world full of wonder, flying there under the sea?
IQ2: Are you a bear who tells terrible jokes?
IQ3: Did you write about your old Kentucky home?

184

I am not Flipper
I am not Fozzie The Bear
I am not Stephen Foster
The letter is F

  1. I am female
  2. I am real
  3. I am not an artist (I am not sure what your definition of artist is, if you’re using it as painter / sculptor / creative person in that vein… no)
185

Quite right about Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli.

  1. is Feste, the Fool from Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’. In his first conversation with the disguised Viola, he tells her that he lives by the church, which she takes to mean that he is a holy man, until he explains ‘I live in my house, and my house stands by the church’.

  2. is John Falstaff - From Verdi’s opera ‘Falstaff’. ‘When I was a page to the Duke of Norfolk, I was skinny’ is the opening English line of his aria that he sings to seduce Alice Ford. I’m sorry, I don’t remember its Shakespearean source…
    DQ 1: Is ‘F’ the initial of your last name?

DQ 2: Are you American?
For this game, we’ve been using a definition of ‘artist’ that includes visual artists, actors, dancers, musicians, singers, writers, poets, directors, playwrights, performance artists - anything that involves human creativity. I don’t know if that might change your earlier answer.

186

Okay, I will amend my answer based on Le Ministre’s clarification:

The letter is F

  1. I am female
  2. I am real
  3. I am an artist as outlined in the definition above
  4. My last name begins with F
  5. I am American
187

IQ1: Are you someone’s horsey friend?
IQ2: Are you a Victoria Cross recipient who invented an automatic revolver?
IQ3: Are you an artist known for paintings and sculptures of cowboys and Indians?

188

I am not Flicka
DQ
DQ

189

IQ1: Are you best known for your door-slamming farces?

IQ2: Did Jean Valjean save you from being crushed by a runaway cart?

IQ3: Are you the mother of Cosette?

190

Not Tina Fey; I’ll rephrase.
James Forrestal, the first U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Fred Vinson.

DQs:

Living?
Actress?

IQs:

Are you a male former SNL cast member now with a show of your own?
Were you a noteworthy Irish nobleman who supported Irish independence?
Did a magazine profile of you, oddly enough, describe you stripping down for a swim in NYC?

191

IQ1: Do you have a bad reputation that’s more than just talk?
IQ2: Did your challenge to MLB’s reserve clause end in the Supreme Court?
IQ3: Was your nomination to Chief Justice sunk by a filibuster?

192

Correct on Flicka.
George Fosbery VC.
Frederic Remington.

DQs reserved until I see the answers to EH’s…

193

Bear with me, I’m on my Kindle…

The letter is F

  1. I am female
  2. I am real
  3. I am an artist as defined above
  4. My last name begins with F
  5. I am Americam
  6. I am deceased
  7. I am not an actress
194

I am not Feydeau (?)
DQ
I am not Fantine

195

I am not Jimmy Fallon
DQ
DQ

DQ
DQ
DQ

196

Quite right about Georges Feydeau and Fantine. #2 was M. Fauchelevant, whom Jean Valjean saves from under a runaway cart. Monsieur Fauchelevant later saves Jean Valjean - he becomes the factotum of the convent into which Jean Valjean stumbles in his flight to Paris, and passes Jean Valjean off as his brother, while Cosette is educated by the nuns.

DQ - Are you a writer of any kind, including novels, short stories, poetry, plays or scripts?

197
  1. Freedy Johnston
  2. Curt Flood
  3. Abe Fortas

DQ: Did you die before 1980?

2 DQs reserved

198

The letter is F

  1. I am female
  2. I am real
  3. I am an artist as defined above
  4. My last name begins with F
  5. I am Americam
  6. I am deceased
  7. I am not an actress
  8. I am a writer of some kind
  9. I died before 1980
199

DQ1: Were you born before 1900?
DQ2: Were you a poet?

IQ1: Did Gavrilo Princip shoot your nephew, who was your heir?
IQ2: Are you that nephew?
IQ3: Did you play the mother of three and the stepmother of three?

200

The letter is F

  1. I am female
  2. I am real
  3. I am an artist as defined above
  4. My last name begins with F
  5. I am Americam
  6. I am deceased
  7. I am not an actress
  8. I am a writer of some kind
  9. I died before 1980
  10. I was born before 1900
  11. I am not a poet