Botticelli - January 2022

Thread Games
161

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
162

1 was Tom Stoppard; 2 was William Shakespeare; 3 was Sarah Hughes.

DQs:
1. died after 2000?
2. known from the arts?

1 DQ reserved.

163

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
164

Well done, CFOHG!

A South Carolinian, were you Truman’s first SECSTATE? - James F. Byrnes
Did you muse that you were, at the moment, nothing, but that you could be everything? - John Adams, while Vice President
Did you command the Royal Navy’s fleet at Jutland? - Adm. John Jellicoe

On to S.

IQs:

Did your grandmother allegedly tell you to be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant?
Have you appeared in a recent miniseries with that person?
Were you a costar of Sideways?

165

IQs:
1. Are you a character in the 1968 Star Trek episode “Assignment: Earth” who feels like he’s from another show entirely–and since it was a “backdoor” pilot for an Assignment: Earth series, pretty much is?
2. Were you a Jewish LA Dodger?
3. Has your comic strip been celebrating its 40th anniversary this month, with an “anniversary special” that involves 1982 Greg Howard you going onward and meeting present-day Francesco Marciuliano you?

DQ: died after 1950?

166

Take 2 DQs
Not Sandra Oh

Not Gary Seven
Not Sandy Koufax?
Not Sally Forth

167

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
168

IQs:

  1. Did you play Hutch on a TV cop show?
  2. Are you Hutch’s partner?
  3. Did you play Hutch’s partner in the movie version?
169

Not David Soul
Not Starskey
Not Ben Stiller - that might be the last movie I saw on an airplane before personal seatback entertainment systems became standard. Back when there was one movie on the cabin screen.

170

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Did you play the lead in the movie Swashbuckler?
  2. Did you play the hero in the movie Wild Wild West?
  3. Did you play a dancing vampire in the movie From Dusk To Dawn?
171

Previous IQs:

Did your grandmother allegedly tell you to be obsequious, purple and clairvoyant? - This guy: Steve Martin - Grandmother's Song - YouTube
Have you appeared in a recent miniseries with that person? - Martin Short, on Only Murders in the Building
Were you a costar of Sideways? - Yes, Sandra Oh

DQs:

Political/military?
White?

IQs:

Were you Robert and Renly’s brother?
Did you refer to your dad as “the Gaffer”?
Did your dad tell you to leave home or you’d be killed in a “hunting accident”?

172

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
173

DQ
Not Will Smith
Not Salma Hayek

Take 3 DQs

174

Previous IQs:

Were you Robert and Renly’s brother? - Stannis Baratheon, in Game of Thrones
Did you refer to your dad as “the Gaffer”? - Samwise Gamgee, in LOTR
Did your dad tell you to leave home or you’d be killed in a “hunting accident”? - Samwell Tarly, in Game of Thrones

DQs:

Best known for a single incident?
Famous spouse?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States in 1864?
Did a bratty kid pour a malt into your pocket?
Did you call a truce for a foe’s wedding night?

175

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Speaking of Star Trek, were you a human character who never actually appeared on the show except in android form–first one, then 500?
2. Are you AKA the Swedish Murder Machine?
3. Were you the first American woman in space?

176

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
177

Not Salmon P. “$10,000 bill” Chase
Not Sarah Conner
Take a DQ

Not Stella Mudd
Take a DQ
Not Sally Ride

178

Previous IQs:

Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States in 1864? - Yes, Salmon P. Chase
Did a bratty kid pour a malt into your pocket? - Yes, Sarah Connor
Did you call a truce for a foe’s wedding night? - Saladin, during the Crusades

DQs:

Incident involved a crime?
Associated with NYC?

IQs:

Were you killed after reassuring your troops, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance”?
Did Robert Lawson depict you as a blowhard and a mooch?
Did you command the commerce raider CSS Alabama?

179

2 was Brock Samson, on The Venture Bros.

DQ: died after 1975?

180

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
  14. Incident involved a crime
  15. Not associated with NYC
  16. Died before 1975