Botticelli - July, 2014

Thread Games
401

IQs:

  1. Are you a noted news photographer whose middle name is Bartholomew?
  2. Were you a comic who routinely traveled with Bob Hope on his USO tours?
  3. Were you a singer who got his big break when you followed Enrico Caruso on a variety show bill?
402

IQ: Did you write about an endangered Native American tribe?

403

IQ1: Was your name originally Dzhugashvili?
IQ2: Did they call you Vinegar" Joe?
IQ3: Was your life allegedly saved by a young girl who later married John Rolfe?

404

dunno, not Jack Benny, not Joni Mitchell

405

All right, Knowed Out!

Previous IQs:

Do you like to photograph your Weimaraners? - Yes, William Wegman
Were you noted for your pictures of the Thirties New York street scene? - This was Weegee: weegee - Google Search
Were you a top Nazi general? - Yes, Wilhelm Keitel

I’d already asked about William Howard Taft in post 368.

J it is.

IQs:

Did you illustrate Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy Cat with a Caribbean theme?
Were you to hold a summit meeting with Hitler in the Robert Harris alt-hist masterpiece Fatherland?
Did you write Why England Slept?

406

can’t even guess this one

407

Strike one, strike two, strike three

408

Not Jack Davis, not Josef Stalin, not John Cleese

409

James Fennimore Cooper

DQ: Real?

410

#1 is James “Jimmy” Olsen of the Daily Planet.
#2 was Jerry Colonna. As far as I know, Benny never traveled with Hope’s tour.
#3 was Al Jolson. After following the man known as the Greatest Singer In The World, he was able to start his career by telling the crowd: “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” and breaking into a ragtime number that brought the house down.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name start with J?

1 DQ reserved.

411

Josef Stalin.
Gen Joseph Stilwell.
John Smith. (The girl, of course, was Pocahontas.)
DQ1: Real?
DQ2a: (If real) American?
DQ2b: (If fictional) From an American source?
One DQ reserved.
DQ1: Were you and Mitchie gettin’ kind of itchy?
DQ2: Did you write “The Thunderer”?
DQ3: Were you the US commander in Europe during WW I?

412
  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with J
  4. American
  5. From an American source
413

dunno, dunno, not John Pershing

414

That was meant to be one question, not two. :frowning:

John Phillips of The Mamas and the Papas, according to the first line of “Creeque Alley.”
John Philip Sousa.
Correct on John J Pershing.
DQ1: From literature?
DQ2: Created after 1950?
IQ1: Were you called “Dingus”?
IQ2: Are you Fenton’s son, and Frank’s brother?
IQ3: Were you the father of Ephraim and Manasseh?

415

OK, revised DQ list:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with J
  4. American
  5. Not from literature
  6. Created after 1950
416

I can only think of Hank Venture, which doesn’t qualify
Not James T. Kirk
Not Joseph

417

IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist in The Nightmare Before Christmas?
  2. Are you the protagonist in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean series?
  3. Are you the protagonist in Big Trouble In Little China?
418

Not Jack-O-Lantern, not Jack Sparrow, not Jack Burton

419

#1 is actually Jack Skellington. Correct on the other two.

DQ: from movies?

420

None of those, sorry.

Jan Brett: The Owl and the Pussycat: Edward Lear, Jan Brett: 9780399231933: Amazon.com: Books
Joseph Kennedy Sr.
JFK

DQs:

First appeared on TV?
Created after 1990?
Generally considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Did you once serve under a Capt. Garrovick?
Did a man named Vargo do you no favors?
Are you the next-to-most-recent President of Iraq?