Botticelli July 2016

Thread Games
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  1. Male.
  2. Real.
  3. Last name starts with L.
  4. Living.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for government/politics/the military.
  7. Best known for the arts.
  8. Born before 1980.
  9. Born before 1960.
  10. Known for music.
  11. Not best known as a singer.
  12. Not European.
  13. Never won a Grammy.
  14. Born in the Northern Hemisphere.
  15. A bit difficult to quantify, but I’ll go with not known as a composer.
  16. Born in the Western Hemisphere.
  17. Instrumentalist.
  18. English is his primary language.
  19. Had solo projects, but is far better known for his affiliation with a group.
  20. Rock genre.
  21. Canadian.
  22. Guitarist.

OK, I’ll give it till midnight board time Friday night/Saturday morning, or until everyone gives up, whichever is sooner. But so you don’t go off in a completely mystified haze…one of the IQ’s was really close to the correct answer. :slight_smile:

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DQ: Are you Alex Lifeson of Rush?

63

Ding ding ding ding ding!

He’s one of my guitar heroes, in large part because he’s almost completely self-taught like me (and I wish I could play half as well as he can).

He’s of Serbian ancestry, and his birth name is Alexandar Zivojinovich, but he’s better known as

Alex Lifeson!

Congrats!

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Well, the only other “L” Canadian artists I was coming up with were Gordon Lightfoot and Avril Lavigne, and I knew it wasn’t them.
I will ponder and get back with an M.

65

I’m back, and I’m…
M

66

Good job, Prof. I could only name one person in Rush, and Lee was the one.

On to M.

IQs:

Were your theories on naval power influential with T.R.?
Were you the victor at Gettysburg?
Were you Sauron’s boss?

67

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Gen. Meade.
I am not Melkor.

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Previous IQs:

Were your theories on naval power influential with T.R.? - Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Were you the victor at Gettysburg? - Yes, George G. Meade.
Were you Sauron’s boss? - Yes, Melkor AKA Morgoth.

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did you make a short documentary film about the JFK assassination?
Were you an orange tabby pitchcat?
Did you advise Bill Clinton on “triangulation”?

69

DQs:

  1. Real
70

#2: I’m not Morris the Cat.
Take 2 DQs.

71

IQ1) Did the pilot of a popular television show you starred in revolve partially around your character falling off a bicycle?
IQ2) Did you spend several years trapped on a spaceship shaped like a dog bone?
IQ3) Did you portray one half of the McKenzie Brothers?

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Previous IQs:

Did you make a short documentary film about the JFK assassination? - Errol Morris
Were you an orange tabby pitchcat? - Yes, Morris.
Did you advise Bill Clinton on “triangulation”? - Dick Morris.

Morris x3!

DQs:

Alive?
Male?

IQs:

Were you a European nobleman known for his far-out stories?
Were you a noted German architect?
Were you Frasier’s sister-in-law?

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IQ’s:

Are you the longtime bassist for the band Genesis?
Are you a documentarian who worked for Mother Jones before your more famous career began?
Were you Larry Csonka’s backfield running mate for the Miami Dolphins, who led the NFL in rushing touchdowns in 1972?

74

#3) I am not Rick Moranis. Take 2 DQs.

75

I am not Baron von Munchaussen.
I am not Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Take a DQ for the third one.

76

I am not Mike Rotherford.
I am not Michael Moore. (If that’s wrong, take a DQ.)
Take a DQ for #3.

77

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
78

It’s Rutherford, but close enough.
Yes, it’s Michael Moore.
And the last is Mercury Morris.

DQ: Last name starts with M?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with M
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Previous IQs:

Were you a European nobleman known for his far-out stories? - Correct, Baron von Munchausen
Were you a noted German architect? - Yes, Mies van der Rohe
Were you Frasier’s sister-in-law? - The perennially spoken-of-but-unseen Maris Crane, wife of Niles

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Are you a sf TV character with the middle name of “Edward”?
Were you the nebbishy producer of FYI?
Were you an early American colonist who was famously in a romantic triangle?