Botticelli - January 2022

Thread Games
101

Correct, Correct, and Nelson Eddy.

DQ: Died before 1900?

102

N

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with N
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Died before 1900
103

IQs:

  1. Are you the central character in the highly esteemed 1950’s all-leather BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Were you Abraham Lincoln’s stepmother?
  3. Were you the lead singer for Herman’s Hermits?
104

Take 2 DQs
Not Peter Noone

105

#1 is the incomparable Welshman Neddy Seagoon! (wild applause)
#2 was Nancy Hanks.
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. European?
  2. Died before 1700?
106

N

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with N
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Died before 1900
  7. Not European
  8. Died after 1700
107

IQs:

  1. Are you a nefarious Australian bushranger?
  2. Were you a master of deadpan humor in 1930’s Hollywood movies?
  3. Are your famous these days for saying “Sluggo is lit”?
108

Previous IQs:

Were you the put-upon wife of Carl Bernstein? - Yes, Nora Ephron
Were you often misquoted as having said “Get there fustest with the mostest”? - Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Were you FDR’s first VP? - John Nance Garner

DQs:

From the Northern Hemisphere?
Political/military?

IQs:

Were you Amelia Earhart’s navigator?
Was your dad mayor of Baltimore long before you went into politics?
Were you a prominent African leader who met with JFK?

109

(In reverse order)
Not Nancy, dunno, but
Yes, I am Ned Kelly

That went a lot quicker than I thought it would. Congratulations, Prof

110

I think we’ve had him before, but he’s a good choice.

I am

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.58a9b83ab0c904f4adf9c26ce47678ee?rik=2KJYY3FR4Wpt6A&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

111

IQ1: Were you a bullfrog that always had some mighty fine wine?
IQ2: Were you the voice actress for Rocky J Squirrel, among others?
IQ3: Did you create Rocky and Bullwinkle?

112

#1. I am not Jeremiah.
#2. I am not June Foray.
#3. I am not Jay Ward.

113

Good job, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Were you Amelia Earhart’s navigator? - Fred Noonan
Was your dad mayor of Baltimore long before you went into politics? - Nancy Pelosi
Were you a prominent African leader who met with JFK? - Kwame Nkrumah

On to J!

IQs:

Were you one of Lincoln’s senior aides, who lived in the White House?
Were you the other?
Was Dave Barry scornful of your attempt, through a flunky, to cut in line at a ski resort?

114
  1. I am not John Hay. I don’t remember the other.

Take 2 DQs.

115

Swept me

IQ1: Did you complain about your older sister by famously repeating her name three times?
IQ2: Do you ain’t got time to bleed?
IQ3: Did you, an author, having been born in the 19th century in the United States of America, develop a habit, or perhaps a proclivity, as one might, for composing sentences of great length and containing what some, in a wrong-headed reductionist approach to literature, would consider to be an excessive number of subordinate clauses?

116
  1. That’s one of the Bradys. I didn’t watch them. Take a DQ.
  2. That’s probably from Predator. It’s been too long. Take a DQ.
  3. Well, it’s not James Thurber. Take a DQ.
117

Yep , Jan Brady
Jesse Ventura, yes, originally a line from Predator, and later used as the title of his autobiography.
Henry James

DQs:
Real?
Male?
First name starts with J?

118

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
119

IQ1: Are you a member of rock’s “27 Club” who drowned in your swimming pool shortly after leaving your band?
IQ2: Are you a member of the “27 Club” who died of heart failure in Paris shortly after releasing your band’s 6th album?
IQ3: Are you a member of the “27 Club” who died of a heroin overdose shortly before the release of what turned out to be the best-selling album of your career?

120
  1. I am not Jimi Hendrix.
  2. I am not Jim Morrison.
  3. I am not Janis Joplin.

Take a DQ for any I got wrong.