Botticelli - January 2023

Thread Games
161

1 was Clark Kent; 2 was King Charles III; 3 was Charlaine Harris.

DQs:
1. died after 1970?
2. European?
3. known from the performing arts?

162

Claudia, Cecelia (Sorcery & Cecelia), Cimorene

DQs:

  1. Known for the performing arts?
  2. Died after 1970?

2 DQs reserved

163

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1970
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts

kitap take 2 more guesses. De_La_Rue already guessed those.

164

Previous IQs:

Have you played a President, a dentist, a judge and a high school teacher? - Bryan Cranston, in All the War, Seinfeld, Your Honor and Breaking Bad
Were you the first to fly across America, “crash by crash”? - Not “Wrong Way” Corrigan, but this guy: Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia
Was your middle name Muriel and you weren’t a transpondster? - Chandler Bing, on Friends

DQs:

Best known for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.)?
From the British Isles?
Died after 2000?

IQs:

Were you George III’s wife?
Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Did you edit a film while underwater?

165

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1970
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Known for the visual arts
  12. Not British
  13. Died before 2000
166
  1. I am not Charlotte (??)
  2. I am not Henry Clinton (??)
  3. I am not Jacques Cousteau (??)
167

Previous IQs:

Were you George III’s wife? - Yes, Queen Charlotte
Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron (about whom it was said he was so corrupt that he probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove)
Did you edit a film while underwater? - Cousteau would shoot a film underwater, yes, but not edit it there. This was James Cameron, during the shooting of The Abyss; he had an editing booth set up in the decompression chamber to put his time there to better use.

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Did you win in part due to an opponent’s crack about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”?
Did a city drop an “a” from your name in choosing its own?
Were you a mayor of the unnamed Midwestern city in Hill Street Blues?

168

DQ retries:

  1. Known for painting?
  2. Won a major award?
169

IQs:
1. Did the CIA come up with multiple plots against you, including drugging you with LSD and making your beard fall out?
2. Do people who put on the Ritz try hard to look like you?
3. Were you Peter Parker’s girlfriend?

170

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1970
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Known for the visual arts
  12. Not British
  13. Died before 2000
  14. Born east of Vienna
  15. Born north of Vienna
  16. Known for painting and other forms of art
  17. Won major awards and honors
171

De_La_Rue

  1. I am not Fidel Castro.
  2. I am not Gary Cooper.
  3. I am not Gwen Stacy, Mary Jane Watson or Felicia Hardy. Take a DQ for a C.
172

3 was Carlie Cooper (she worked in forensics for the NYPD).

1 DQ reserved.

173

Ahem.

174

IQs:
1. Were you a CEO of Hewlett-Packard and US political candidate?
2. Are you an English magician created by fellow English magician Alan Moore solely so Steve Bissette and John Totleben could draw somebody who looked like Sting?
3. Madame DeFarge: “We are so pooerr, we don’t even heff a lenguage! Joost a stupeed accent!”
Peasant Man: “She’s right! We all zound lahk” you?

1 DQ reserved.

175

Mea Culpa. Take 3 DQs.

176

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not John Constantine.
#3. I am not Maurice Chevalier (??)

177

Previous IQs:

Did you win in part due to an opponent’s crack about “Rum, Romanism and Rebellion”? - Grover Cleveland
Did a city drop an “a” from your name in choosing its own? - Moses Cleaveland, who surveyed the area; the legend is that the full name didn’t fit in a newspaper headline, so an editor dropped the first “a,” and the revised spelling stuck
Were you a mayor of the unnamed Midwestern city in Hill Street Blues? - Ozzie Cleveland

Cleveland x3!

DQs:

German/Austrian?

Two DQs reserved.

178

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1970
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Known for the visual arts
  12. Not British
  13. Died before 2000
  14. Born east of Vienna
  15. Born north of Vienna
  16. Known for painting and other forms of art
  17. Won major awards and honors
  18. Not German/Austrian
179

1 was Carly Fiorina; 2 was correct, guv; 3 was correct.

DQ: born in Russia or former Russian state?

1 DQ reserved.

180

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Died after 1970
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Known for the visual arts
  12. Not British
  13. Died before 2000
  14. Born east of Vienna
  15. Born north of Vienna
  16. Known for painting and other forms of art
  17. Won major awards and honors
  18. Not German/Austrian
  19. Born in Russia or former Russian state