Botticelli - July 2015

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Were you the uncrowned leader of the Wildlings? - Mance Rayder, in Game of Thrones.
Were you the last leader of the Jedi Council? - Yes, Mace Windu.
Were you a theorist of naval power? - Yes, Alfred Thayer Mahan.

DQ:

Inspired or had a work of art named after her?

IQs:

Were you a 1970s conservative politico who was likened to a fish by a TV comedy?
Did a newspaper column spoof your spouse’s fictional correspondence?
Did you notably write about JFK’s assassination and funeral?

142

Three DQs.

M

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Last name starts with M
  5. Not American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Not known for the Arts (though there is a connexion)
  8. Not European
  9. Died before 1800
  10. Inspired or had a work of art named after me
143

correct, Morley Safer, Morton Downey Jr.
Mor x3

DQ: Asian?

holding a DQ

144

IQ1: Are you a Hawaiian golfer who won the US Women’s Open in 2014?
IQ2: Are you a daughter of Hong Kong immigrants, who won the world championship of figure skating 5 times, but had to withdraw from the 2006 Olympics due to a severely strained groin?
IQ3: Did you play Catwoman in Batman Returns?

145

IQs:

  1. Were you the wife of Cheops (aka Khufu)?
  2. Did Botticelli use your face as a model for the infant Jesus in his Our Lady of the Magnificat?
  3. Is Penfold your sidekick?
146

DQ.
Not Michelle Kwan.
DQ.

DQ.
Not … Catherine de’ Medici?
DQ.

M

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. Last name starts with M
  5. Not American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Not known for the Arts (though there is a connexion)
  8. Not European
  9. Died before 1800
  10. Inspired or had a work of art named after me
  11. Asian
147

#1 was Meritites.
#2 was Lucrezia de Medici (close).
#3 is Danger Mouse.

DQs:

  1. Died before 1400?
  2. Chinese?

1 DQ reserved.

148

IQ: Was the Taj Mahal built as a memorial for you?

149

No.
No.

Yes! I am Mumtaz Mahal, favourite wife of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and mother of fourteen of his children; the Taj Mahal was built to be my tomb, and he and I are both buried there.
Well, that didn’t take nearly as long as I expected it to…

150

That “Inspired or had a work of art named after me” was my clue. Meritites, IIRC, was buried in the Great Pyramid.
Gotta think of a good 'un. Back later.

151

OK, I am V!

152

IQ1: Did your grandfather invent baking powder?
IQ2: Did you first appear in issue 5 of The Fantastic Four?
IQ3: Are you the eponymous hero of a newspaper strip that’s been running since the late '30s?

153

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not the Vanisher.
I am not Prince Valiant.

154

Grats Perfesser!

IQ1: Are you aka the Karate Kid, Legion of Super Heroes member?
IQ2: Are you a comrade of Superman modeled after a character Sean Connery played in a cheesy sci-fi movie?
IQ3: Are you aka Atom Girl, a shrinker from Imsk?

155
  1. I am not Val Armorr.
  2. I am not Joe Vartax. (or was it Vartaxx?) [Zardoz isn’t just cheesy, it’s downright unwatchable.]
    3, I am not Shrinking Violet.
156

Vincent Price.
Victor von Doom.
Correct.

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

157

Congrats to you both. That was a good one.

Previous IQs:

Were you a 1970s conservative politico who was likened to a fish by a TV comedy? - Reginald Maudling, by Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Did a newspaper column spoof your spouse’s fictional correspondence? - Margaret Thatcher: Dear Bill - Wikipedia.
Did you notably write about JFK’s assassination and funeral? - William Manchester.

On to V…

IQs:

Did Kim Basinger play you in the first Michael Keaton Batman movie?
Were you CINC of one side at the time of the Masada incident?
Did an actor and his nephew play you at different ages?

158

IQ1: Is the unit of electric potential named after you?
IQ2: Were you a 19th-century multimillionaire known as “Commodore”?
IQ3: Did you play a US Navy lieutenant, a small-town minister, and a security guard?

159

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
160

I am not Vikki Vale.
Take 2 DQs for the others.