Botticelli - July 2017

Thread Games
101

I’m going to go ahead and guess. Are you Big Bird?

102

Well, yes, indeedy! I am that 8’2" canary known as [COLOR=“Orange”]Big Bird![/COLOR]

Well done, KO! I thought I was gonna stump the band for a moment there.

103

I almost dismissed the Muppets, till I remembered they started on Sesame Street.

Next letter up, C!

104

IQ1: Were you a candy-loving engineer?
IQ2: Were an engineer who died in a Mississippi train wreck?
IQ3: Are you famous for cars and chili?

105

DQ, not Casey Jones, DQ

106

Choo-Choo Charlie.
Correct.
Carroll Shelby.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
IQ1: Were you a high-flying Air Force test pilot?
IQ2: Were you a naval officer best known for novels about a frontiersman?
IQ3: Were you an unknown man who vanished in the PacNorwest?

107

The State of the DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
108

DQ, DQ, not DB Cooper

109

IQs:

  1. Were you the female performer who appeared most often with Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
  2. Did you wind up with Dejah Thoris?
  3. Are you secretly Superman?
110

not Connie Booth, DQ, not Clark Kent

111
  1. Connie Booth was Mrs. John Cleese for a time and appeared with him on Fawlty Towers, but Carol Cleveland appeared on Monty Python.
    #2 is John Carter of Mars, from the series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
    Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Last name starts with C?
112

IQs:

  1. Do you stay crunchy even in milk?
  2. Were you Mr. Nice’s secret identity?
  3. Were you a 19th Century French Realist painter?
113

Gordon Cooper.
James Fenimore Cooper.
Correct.

Cooper x3!
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

114

The State of the DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. American
  6. Not known for the Arts
115

not Captain Crunch, DQ, not Claude Monet

116

#1. Correct on Cap’n Crunch.
#2 was Carter Nash.
#3. Claude Monet was the Arch-Impressionist, not a Realist. The founder of the Realist movement in France was Gustave Courbet.

DQs:

  1. Known for politics/military?
  2. Died before 1900?
117

It has been pointed out to me that Carter Nash was not Mr. Nice, but Captain Nice. Cancel DQ#2 above, please.

118

IQs:

  1. Were you a superhero that appeared in your own (back) feature in the pages of Action #1, and are not Superman?
  2. Were you Prime Minister of France during WWI?
  3. Were you the original voice of Donald Duck?
119

The State of the DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with C
  5. American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Known because of politics, but not a politician
120

DQ, DQ, not Carl Barks?