Botticelli - January 2018

Thread Games
161

IQ1: Are you a Brazilian footballer whose real name is Edson Arantes do Nascimento?
IQ2: Are you the lead singer of Jane’s Addiction?
IQ3: Are you a longtime RCA recording artist and TV personality known for wearing cardigan sweaters?

162

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with P
  5. From literature
  6. European
  7. British
  8. First appeared before 1950
163

Take 3 DQs.

164
  1. I am not Pele.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Perry Como.
165

Previous IQs:

Were you Bowman’s shipmate? - Poole, in 2001: A Space Odyssey
Were you Arthur’s puppy? - Pal, in the PBS kids’ cartoon series Arthur
Were you Brett’s boss? - Parker, in Alien

DQs:

Good guy?
First appeared before 1900?
In a contemporary setting at the time he first appeared?

IQs:

Have you been played several times recently on TV by an actor who also appeared in The Hobbit movies?
Were you a violently over-the-top fictional British criminal since 1950?
Were you his even crazier brother?

166

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with P
  5. From literature
  6. European
  7. British
  8. First appeared before 1950
  9. Good guy
  10. First appeared after 1900
  11. Did not in a setting contemporary with publication
167
  1. I am not Phil Rask.
    2-3) I am neither Doug nor Dinsdale Piranha. At least, not today.
168

Perry Farrell

DQ: Adapted to film and/or TV?

169

IQ1: Did you usually segue your broadcasts with “and now, the rest of the story”?
IQ2: Did you partner with Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff?
IQ3: When asked “Why do Hell’s Angels wear leather?” did you respond “Because chiffon wrinkles too easily”?

170

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with P
  5. From literature
  6. European
  7. British
  8. First appeared before 1950
  9. Good guy
  10. First appeared after 1900
  11. Did not in a setting contemporary with publication
  12. Has been adapted to film and TV
171
  1. I am not Paul Harvey, good day.
  2. I am not Paul Winchell.
  3. I am not Paul Lynde. (That’s a guess.)
172

Previous IQs:

Have you been played several times recently on TV by an actor who also appeared in The Hobbit movies? - I’ll rephrase.
Were you a violently over-the-top fictional British criminal since 1950? - Yes, Doug…
Were you his even crazier brother? - … or Dinsdale Piranha.

IQs:

You are not Phil Rask. Have you been played several times recently on TV by an actor who also appeared in The Hobbit movies?
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules?
Did Dame Judi Dench play you, a kindly Irishwoman, in a recent movie?

173

nm

174

Take a DQ for #1.
#2. I am not Philoctetes.
Take a DQ for #3.

175

Correct x3. Lynde said it on Hollywood Squares.

IQ1: Are you an American record producer who was convicted of murder in 2009?
IQ2: Is a line of guitars named after you?
IQ3: Are you the drummer for Lynyrd Skynyrd?

176
  1. I am not Phil Spector.
  2. I am not Les Paul.
    Take a DQ for #3.
177

Artemus Pyle

DQ: Fantasy/Sci-fi genre?

178

IQ1: Did you masquerade as your enemy Gorlois and sleep with his wife?
IQ2: Did you hunt for the Questing Beast?
IQ3: Did you accompany Galahad in the quest for the Holy Grail?

179

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with P
  5. From literature
  6. European
  7. British
  8. First appeared before 1950
  9. Good guy
  10. First appeared after 1900
  11. Did not in a setting contemporary with publication
  12. Has been adapted to film and TV
  13. Not of the fantasy/sci-fi genres
180
  1. I am not Uther Pendragon.
  2. I am not King Pellinore.
  3. I am not Sir Percival/Parsifal.