Botticelli - July, 2014

Thread Games
101

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you routinely report that Franco was still dead?
  2. Are you also known as Selina Kyle?
  3. Did you hang around with Spinner and Paddlefoot?
102

Cleveland Brown

Cicely Tyson
DQ: From literature?

103

IQ1: Are you the rock star Wayne Campbell crushed on, and his friend Garth described as “if she were president, she’d be Babe-raham Lincoln”?
IQ2: Are you the actress who played her?
IQ3: Are you the actual rock star Wayne and Garth met backstage and genuflected to?

104

Not Chevy Chase.
Not Catwoman.
Not Clutch Cargo.
C

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Female
  4. Not from the movies
  5. Not from literature
105

Haven’t the faintest idea what you’re referring to, so take three DQs.

106

From the movie Wayne’s World! Wayne’s World! Wayne’s World! /air guitar riff

  1. Cassandra
  2. Tia Carrere
  3. Alice Cooper

DQ: from the comics?

reserving 2 DQs

107

IQ: Were you the 1st love of someone whose grown-up voice sounded suspiciously like one of the “Wet Bandits”?

108

Correct on all 3 again.

IQs:

  1. Are you an ancient scholar one of whose quotes is: “Big book, big evil”?
  2. Did you solve mysteries with your number one son?
  3. Were you the Jewish high priest who served as Jesus’s main antagonist in the New Testament?
109

Previous IQs:

Were you an aristocratic but sneaky Tory politico in Jeffrey Archer’s thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour
Did you record “letters” to your sister back in Boston? - Charles Winchester, on MASH
Did you serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and once run for President? - Charles Evans Hughes, who lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916

DQs:

Would be alive today, if real?
American?
First appeared since 1900?

IQs:

Did you give your horse a top government post?
Did you write a book about your experiences playing Richard III?
Did you fund the expedition that found the Confederate submarine Hunley?

110

DQ. And welcome back!

Not … Confucius?
Not Charlie Chan.
Not Caiaphas.

Not Caligula.
DQ.
Not Clive Cussler.
C

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Female
  4. Not from the movies
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not from the comics
  7. Might be alive today, if real, but unlikely
  8. American
  9. First appeared after 1900
111

#1 was Callimachus. Correct on 2 and 3.

DQ: From TV?

112

IQs:

  1. Did you repeatedly intone “Cathage must be destroyed”?
  2. Are you married to Rachel Weisz?
  3. Are you the actor currently playing Superman in the movies?
113

DQ: From a song?

1 DQ in reserve

114

Not Cato the Elder.
DQ.
DQ.
C

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Female
  4. Not from the movies
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not from the comics
  7. Might be alive today, if real, but unlikely
  8. American
  9. First appeared after 1900
  10. Not from TV
  11. Not from a song
115

That was Winnie Cooper

DQ: From the stage? (I.e. a play)

116

Cato’s correct.
Daniel Craig (the latest 007) is married to Rachel Weisz.
Henry Cavill played Superman in Man of Steel.

2 DQs reserved for the moment.

117

DQ 2 of 2: From an expression?

118

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Female
  4. Not from the movies
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not from the comics
  7. Might be alive today, if real, but unlikely
  8. American
  9. First appeared after 1900
  10. Not from TV
  11. Not from a song
  12. Not from the stage
  13. Not from an expression
119

DQ: From the depths of your imagination?

JK, don’t have DQs left.

IQ1: Did you direct Cleopatra (1934 version)?
IQ2: Did you star as Cleopatra in the same film?
IQ3: Did Warren William star as you in the same film?

120

DQ.
DQ.
Not Julius Caesar. (At least, he’s the obvious male role in a movie about Cleopatra…)