Botticelli - January 2020

Thread Games
1

Happy New Year!

I am D!

Last month’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22054150#post22054150

2
  1. Are you one of the mormon brothers that turned Leonard Cohen’s brilliant Halleluja into a shitty Christmas song?
  2. Did you perform with The Moody Blues and Wings?
  3. In two different movies that you directed, did you have contentious relations with your mother and your daughter?
3

Take 3 DQs.

4

Well I didn’t think it would be that easy…

Donny Osmond (thought mormon would have given that to you), Denny Laine, Danny DeVito (Throw Mama From the Train, Mitilda)

Real?

2 DQs reserved

5

I try not to think of the Osmonds…

DQ

  1. Real
6

2 more DQs

Living?
Male?

7

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
8

  1. Are you named in one half of an effect where people think they’re more competent than they actually are? (as in this example of trying to form a comprehensible question)

  2. Did you allegedly cheat the boxers you represented?

  3. Did Peter O’Toole play you in a movie musical?

9
  1. I am not Dunning of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Don Quixote (??)

Take 1 or 2 DQs.

10

Don King, right on the others.

Known for the performing arts?

11

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Known for the Performing Arts
    Happy New Year!
12

D it is.

IQs:

Are you a notable Oberlin alum in showbiz?
Are you a notable former Oberlin faculty member who’s a NYT-bestselling author?
Were you a noted non-royal Victorian who married his first cousin?

All the best to all my Doper friends for a happy, healthy New Year!

13

HAPPY NEW YEEEEAR

  1. Were you born on a mountaintop in Tennessee?
  2. Were you BoJack Horseman’s ghostwriter?
  3. Did you play Jim Stark?
14

#3. I am not Charles Dickens (???)
Take 2 or 3 DQs.

15

#1. I am not Davy Crockett.
Take 2 DQs.

16

2 was Diane Nguyen (from BoJack Horseman); 3 was James Dean.

DQs:

  1. first name begins with D?
  2. died after 1900?
    IQs:
  3. Are you the Warner sister?
  4. Aside from playing James Bond’s boss, do you appear as Old Deuteronomy in the current film version of Cats?
  5. Did you say that you had never been lost, but you were once bewildered for three days?
17

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Known for the Performing Arts
  5. Last name starts with D
  6. Died after 1900
18
  1. I am not Dot.
  2. I am not Dame Judi Dench.
  3. I am not Daniel Boone.
19

Previous IQs:

Are you a notable Oberlin alum in showbiz? - Lena Dunham of Girls
Are you a notable former Oberlin faculty member who’s a NYT-bestselling author? - Dan Chaon
Were you a noted non-royal Victorian who married his first cousin? - Yes, Charles Darwin

DQs:

American?
Actress?

IQs:

Did Halle Berry play you in a tragic biopic?
Were you often the Marx Brothers’ comedic nemesis?
Have you played a spy, an astronaut, a different astronaut, a genius and a showman’s lover?

20

A clean sweep!

IQs:

  1. Does a man named Tony live in your finger?
  2. Did you play the above person?
  3. Were you a Cynical Greek philosopher?