Botticelli - January 2022

Thread Games
121

The first was Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. Hendrix choked on his own vomit. (presumably, you can’t really dust for vomit)
Correct on the other two.

DQ: Alive?

122

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
123

Previous IQs:

Were you one of Lincoln’s senior aides, who lived in the White House? - Yes, John Hay, later SECSTATE for McKinley and T.R.
Were you the other? - John Nicolay
Was Dave Barry scornful of your attempt, through a flunky, to cut in line at a ski resort? - John Kerry

John x3!

DQs:

American?
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Did you own the Victura?
Did you put Cindy Crawford on the cover of the first issue of your new magazine?
Did you say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”?

124

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
125

Take 3 DQs.

126

John F. Kennedy (it was his small sailboat), JFK Jr. (on the cover of George) and British economist John Maynard Keynes.

John x3!

DQs:

Born after 1975?
Political/military?
White?

IQs:

Were you Caractacus Potts’s son?
Were you his daughter?
Did you recently ask fans not to discuss your weight?

127

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Not Political/military
  9. White
128

I am not Jeremy or Jemima.
Take a DQ for #3.

129

Correct, correct, and Jonah Hill.

DQ:

Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Did a movie critic suggest that Sharon Stone should, as a job description, simply refer to you?
Did you learn how to Tune and thus defeat the Strangers?
Will you someday be born in Riverside, Iowa, by some accounts?

130

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Not Political/military
  9. White
  10. Not known for the Arts
131

#3. I am not James T. Kirk.
Take 2 DQs.

132

IQ1: Did a White House recording capture you requesting Haggar slacks with enough room around the bunghole to let your nuts hang?
IQ2: Do you own the Dallas Cowboys?
IQ3: Have you played bass with the Rolling Stones since 1993, despite never being made an official member of the band?

133

Previous IQs:

Did a movie critic suggest that Sharon Stone should, as a job description, simply refer to you? - Jezebel
Did you learn how to Tune and thus defeat the Strangers? - John Murdoch, in Dark City
Will you someday be born in Riverside, Iowa, by some accounts? - Yes, James T. Kirk

DQs:

Best known for business/entrepreneurship?
Famous spouse?

IQs:

Were you relieved of command when you couldn’t offer persuasive assurances that you wouldn’t surrender Atlanta in 1864?
Did you replace him?
Did you relieve the first and appoint the second above?

134

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Not Political/military
  9. White
  10. Not known for the Arts
  11. Not best known for business/entepreneurship
  12. Famous spouse, but not as famous as he is
135

#1. I am not Lyndon B. Johnson (??? It sounds like him.)
Take 2 DQs.

#3. I am not Jefferson Davis (??)
Take at least 2 DQs.

136

Correct on LBJ - my paraphrase does not do justice to the original audio, especially his mid-sentence belch.
Jerry Jones
Darryl Jones

DQ: Known for athletics?

Holding one DQ

137

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Not Political/military
  9. White
  10. Not known for the Arts
  11. Not best known for business/entepreneurship
  12. Famous spouse, but not as famous as he is
  13. Known for athletics/sports
138

Held DQ: Known for a team sport? (Football,baseball,basketball etc. as opposed to an individual sport such as golf, tennis, track)

139

Previous IQs:

Were you relieved of command when you couldn’t offer persuasive assurances that you wouldn’t surrender Atlanta in 1864? - Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston
Did you replace him? - Gen. John Bell Hood
Did you relieve the first and appoint the second above? - Yes, President Jefferson Davis

DQs:

Olympic athlete?
Best known for a sport involving a ball?

IQs:

A South Carolinian, were you Truman’s first SECSTATE?
Did you muse that you were, at the moment, nothing, but that you could be everything?
Did you command the Royal Navy’s fleet at Jutland?

140

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Born before 1975
  8. Not Political/military
  9. White
  10. Not known for the Arts
  11. Not best known for business/entepreneurship
  12. Famous spouse, but not as famous as he is
  13. Known for athletics/sports
  14. Known for a team sport
  15. Known for a sport involving a ball
  16. Not an Olympic athlete