Botticelli - January 2023

Thread Games
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Correct, Correct, and James Montgomery.

DQ: Born after 1960?

262

IQs:

  1. Did Alan Rickman play you in Dogma?
  2. Does Eddie Izzard usually do an impression of your voice when he’s talking for God in his stage show?
  3. Are you Maxwell Crandall’s latest superhero handle?
263

1. I am not the Metatron.
2. I am not James Mason.
3. I am not Max Mercury.

DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with M
  4. living
  5. known from the arts
  6. known for the performing arts
  7. known partly for acting
  8. American
  9. Caucasian
  10. worked in TV, not best known from it
  11. spouse was famous also
  12. born before 1960
264
  1. Are you “of Chincoteague”?
  2. Did you play Castiel on Supernatural?
  3. Were you a writer who best known pseudonym was Elizabeth Peters?
265

1. I am not Misty.
2. I am not Mischa Collins.
3. Take a DQ.

266

Correct, correct, Barbara Mertz (who also wrote as Barbara Michaels) - she wrote, as Mertz, a pair of non-fiction books on Ancient Egypt (she had a PhD in Egyptology).

267

Swept yet again! :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:

IQs:

  1. Did Tommy Kirk play you in a Disney movie about your misadventures?
  2. Did Claude Monet basically force the Musee d’Orsay to buy your works at very high prices from your widow?
  3. Did you have hits on records with a number of songs by George M. Cohan?
268

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Edouard Manet.
3. Take a DQ.

269

#1 was Merlin Jones.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Billy Murray.

DQs:

  1. Born before 1950?
  2. Known as a singer or musician?
270

Swept me

IQ1: Were you frequently disappointed by the lack of an Earth-shattering Ka-boom?
IQ2: Are you a paranoid android?
IQ3: Did you wonder what’s going on?

271

IQ1: Were you Trixie Belden’s “almost-twin” brother?
IQ2: Were you 86?
IQ3: Are you Marmaduke Mason’s girlfriend?

272

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with The Twelfth of Never?
  2. Were you Moses’s sister?
  3. Did you create the periodic table of the elements?
273

IQ1: I am not Marvin the Martian.
IQ2: I am not Marvin (from Hitchhiker’s Guide).
IQ3: I am not Marvin Gaye.

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not Maxwell Smart.
IQ3: I am not Midge.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Miriam.
3. I am not Dmitri Mendeleev.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. first name starts with M
4. living
5. known from the arts
6. known for the performing arts
7. known partly for acting
8. American
9. Caucasian
10. worked in TV, not best known from it
11. spouse was famous also
12. born before 1960
13. born before 1950
14. has written songs

274

Ah. The penny dropped.

IQ: Did you sing the title song to High Anxiety, was married to Anne Bancroft, have a hit with The Producers twice, and are currently working on The History of the World, Part II?

Johnny Mathis performed The Twelfth of Never, so 1 DQ reserved if I’m wrong on Mel.

275

I am indeed the one…the only…Mel Brooks!

Next game and thread go to the Prof. (It’s good to be the Prof.)

276

Pfui.

277

Sorry, SCA!

Here’s the link to February: Botticelli - February 2023