Botticelli - July, 2014

Thread Games
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IQ1: Did you duet with Paul Anka in the hit Having My Baby?
IQ2: Are you the lead vocalist for the band Yeah Yeah Yeahs?
IQ3: Do Dopers say hi to you a lot?

DQ2: Jazz singer?

82

You swept my three previous IQs, all named Oscar.

IQs:

Did you play the babe in the Tron sequel?
Were you a noted Eastern Bloc gymnast?
Were you JBK’s favorite designer?

83

I am not Oberon. Take 2 DQs for the others.

84

Take 2 DQs for the first two.
I am not Opal.

85

Well, this time you get 3 DQs.

86

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Dead.
  4. American.
  5. Known for the Arts.
  6. First name starts with O.
  7. Known for the performing arts.
  8. Not an actress.
  9. Died after 1964.
  10. Singer.
  11. Not Caucasian.
  12. Winner of a number of awards, but, though nominated, never a Grammy
  13. Died after 1990.
  14. Not remembered as a jazz singer, but she did sing a little jazz in her time.
87

Correct on Oberon.
Odetta.
Oliver “Babe” Hardy.
DQ: Black?
IQ1: Are you the chief adviser to the king of Bongo Congo?
IQ2: Are you a menhir deliveryman?
IQ3: Are we down on our knees because no one wants a fellow with a social disease?

88

Oops, missed an important question there.

I am “the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement”, Odetta. Good job, SCAdian!

89

That’s actually about the only thing I know about Odetta - and that only because I spent a good chunk of a day listening to Harry Belafonte on YouTube a while back…

Have we done C lately? I am C.

90

IQs:

  1. Was your image as a family man tarnished by a book written by your son?
  2. Were you played by both Peter O’Toole and David Tennant in a mini-series?
  3. Did you pal around with Tennessee Tuxedo?
91

DQ.
DQ.
Not Chumley. (That was one of my favourite cartoons when I was a kid.)

92

SCAdian beat me to it. I held back for some reason and thought it might be somebody else. I hate this game sometimes.

C C Ceeeee…

IQ1: Did you star in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman?
IQ2: Are you a musical heavyweight, rumored to have increased your vocal range by three notes after a piece of copper tubing bonked you on the head?
IQ3: Are you a sea monster that takes the form of a whirlpool?

93

DQ.
Not Cass Elliott.
Not Charybdis.

94

#1 was Bing Crosby. #2 was Giacomo Casanova.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with C?
95

Good job, SCAdian!

My previous IQs:

Did you play the babe in the Tron sequel? - Olivia Wilde. Le sigh: http://www.pompeiad.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/olivia-wilde-tron-legacy-couch.jpg
Were you a noted Eastern Bloc gymnast? - Olga Korbut
Were you JBK’s favorite designer? - Jackie Kennedy loved Oleg Cassini’s couture.

When in doubt, have a look here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=648663

C it is.

IQs:

Were you an aristocratic but sneaky Tory politico in Jeffrey Archer’s thriller First Among Equals?
Did you record “letters” to your sister back in Boston?
Did you serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and once run for President?

96

IQs:

  1. Were you a TV detective who kept coming back to ask “just one more thing”?
  2. Are you the protagonist of Bizet’s best known work?
  3. Did you play Winona Ryder’s sister in Mermaids?
97

Three DQs.

Not Columbo.
Not Carmen.
DQ.
C

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with C
98

Christina Ricci was the younger sister in Mermaids.

DQ: Male?

IQs:

  1. Did you create the comic strip Blondie?
  2. Are you the best known turtle in the Okefenokee Swamp?
  3. Did you sometimes write under the pen-name Boz?
99

DQ: From the movies?

IQ1: Are you a cartoon character voiced by Mike Henry?
IQ2: Did you defend Ulster single-handedly against the armies of queen Medb of Connacht?
IQ3: Were you the Human Torch’s girlfriend before you married Quicksilver?

100

Not Chic Young.
Not Churchy La Femme.
Not … Charles Dickens?

DQ.
Not … Cuchulain?
Not Crystal.

Who was the one I didn’t identify from your first lot (Miss Jane Pittman)?
C

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Female
  4. Not from the movies