Botticelli - July 2015

Thread Games
81

IQs:

  1. Were you accused (at least in literature) of having assassinated Mozart?
  2. Were you the Waltz King?
  3. Did you compose Finlandia?
82

Sherry (by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons).
Sheila (by Tommy Roe).
Correct.
DQ1: Native speaker of a Romance language?
DQ2: Born west of Berlin?

83

IQ1: Are you considered to have been the greatest luthier?
IQ2: Did you write 555 keyboard sonatas?
IQ3: Were you a composer who has been portrayed as a rival, and even an enemy, of Mozart?

84

Not Antonio Salieri, Johann Strauss or Jean Sibelius

85

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”
  8. Best known for contributions in music
  9. Not British
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Spoke a Romance language
  12. Born West of Berlin
86

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you compose Carnival of the Animals?
  2. Did you compose The Firebird?
  3. Did you compose Gymnopedies?
87

Joss Stone

holding a DQ

88

Previous IQs:

After Robert, were you the eldest Baratheon male? - Yes, Stannis.
Were you his daughter? - Yes, the sweet, doomed Shireen.
Were you a psychopathic AI played by Russell Crowe? - SID (“Sadistic, intelligent, dangerous”) 6.7 in Virtuosity.

DQ:

Born north of Berlin?

IQs:

Did FDR appoint you Chief Justice?
Did you look through binoculars so intently that you broke them?
Were you Andrew Lloyd Webber’s longtime muse?

89

IQ1: Are you an Austrian composer who died at age 31 of typhoid fever?
IQ2: Are you an Austrian composer noted for your waltzes and polkas?
IQ3: Are you a German composer who left studying law to become a concert pianist, then became a composer when your hand was injured?

90

Take a DQ for 1

Not Domenico Scarlatti or Antoinio Salieri

91

Not Camille Saint-Saens or Igor Stravinsky

Take a DQ for 3

92

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”
  8. Best known for contributions in music
  9. Not British
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Spoke a Romance language
  12. Born West of Berlin
  13. Born north of Berlin
93

Not Harlan Stone or Sarah Brightman
Take a DQ for #2

94

Not Franz Schubert or Johann Strauss II

Take a DQ for #3

95

Just remember folks, there are multiple ways to interpret statement #8

96

Correct on the first two. #3 was Erik Satie.

DQ: Died before 1800?

97

IQs:

  1. Are you remembered for making extremely fine violins?
  2. Did you create over 500 sonatas for keyboards?
  3. Are you #2’s son, who also created keyboard sonatas?
98

Robert Schumann

holding 2 DQs while waiting for Prof P’s answers

99

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Involved in the arts
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Last name starts with “S”
  8. Best known for contributions in music
  9. Not British
  10. Died before 1900
  11. Spoke a Romance language
  12. Born West of Berlin
  13. Born north of Berlin
  14. Died after 1800
100

Not Antonio Stradavari, still not Scarlatti…
But take a DQ for #3, since I don’t know the son’s first name.