Botticelli - January 2020

Thread Games
101

Now I know who this is… I think…

102
  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Known for the arts
  5. First and last name start with J
  6. American
  7. Actress
  8. Born after 1950
  9. Not usually brunette
  10. Considered conventionally attractive
  11. Born before 1979
  12. Known primarily from TV
  13. Has been in movies
  14. Not married
  15. Best known for one particular TV series
  16. Not noted for her love life
  17. Not best known for comedy
  18. Not exactly the lead of her best-known TV series, but a major role
  19. Series is not still airing new episodes
  20. Not best known from a police or detective TV series
  21. Not best known from a science fiction, fantasy, horror or superhero TV series (but was in a superhero movie)
  22. Best known from a show set several decades before it aired
  23. Last name is Jones
103

IQ:

Were you a lead actress on Mad Men?

104

I am indeed January Jones! Chosen because, well, it’s January.

Next game goes to EH.

105

Good one, EH.

106

Thanks! I’ve never actually seen a full episode of the show, but I’ve certainly heard of her.

Lessee… I think our next letter should be

O

107
  1. Were you originally orange in the first season of an iconic children’s show?
  2. Were you Linus Van Pelt’s favorite teacher?
  3. Did CCR listen to you while looking out their back door?
108

IQs:

  1. Did you, a senator, give the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, then go on to higher political office a few years later?
  2. Did you marry Charlie Chaplin?
  3. Were you a little round-headed boy seeking a point?
109

IQs:

  1. Are you noted for your large paintings of cow skulls?
  2. Did you invent the safety elevator?
  3. Are you the Earth-3 evil counterpart to Batman?
110

Not Oscar the Grouch, dunno, and not… Ophelia?

Not Barack Obama, Oona Chaplin or Obie.

Not Georgia O’Keeffe or Mr. Otis, and dunno.

111

1. Were you originally orange in the first season of an iconic children’s show?
2. Were you Linus Van Pelt’s favorite teacher?
3. Did CCR listen to you while looking out their back door?

Right on 1, 2 is Miss Othmar and 3 is Buck Owens.

Dinosaur Victrola listenin’ to Buck Owens
Doo, doo, doo, lookin’ out my backdoor

Real?
Male?

112

Correct on Georgia and James Otis. #3 is Owlman.

DQ: Last name starts with O?

113

3 was Oblio (in The Point).

IQs:

  1. Did you write Down and Out in Paris and London?
  2. Did you direct F for Fake?
  3. Was a photo of you taped to Dennis Nedry’s computer monitor?
    One DQ reserved.
114

Oblio in The Point was referred to as “little Obie,” DLR, but you can take a DQ if you want.

Dunno x3.

O.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with O
115
  1. Did you play Blossom’s friend?
  2. Are you the persona of Kate Micucci in a comedy music duo?
  3. Were you an overweight comic actor teamed with a skinny British comic actor?
116

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character of the best known poem by Ludovico Ariosto?
  2. Are you the protagonist of a series of books by Dean Koontz?
  3. Did you found the colony of Georgia?
117

1 (author of Down and Out in Paris and London) was George Orwell; 2 (director of F for Fake) was Orson Welles; 3 (photo on Nedry’s monitor) was Robert Oppenheimer (in Jurassic Park).

IQs:

  1. Do you try to arrest a mouse for throwing bricks at a cat?
  2. Did you pitch the ShamWow?
  3. Are you the Discworld’s crocodile god?
    DQs:
  4. living?
  5. American?
  6. known from the arts?

1 DQ reserved.

118

Dunno, dunno, and not Oliver “Another fine mess!” Hardy.

Dunno, dunno and not Oglethorpe.

Dunno, dunno, and not… Omnivorius?

119

#1. The poem is Orlando Furioso. Orlando is the Italianized version of Roland, Charlemagne’s premier paladin.
#2 is Odd Thomas.
Correct on James Oglethorpe.

2 DQ’s reserved.

120

1. Did you play Blossom’s friend?
2. Are you the persona of Kate Micucci in a comedy music duo?

Jenna Von Oy and Oates, of Garfunkel and Oates

2 DQs reserved