Botticelli - July 2021

Thread Games
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Correct (nitpick: it’s Chuck E.)
Kurt Cobain - a friend wrote “Kurt smells like Teen Spirit” on his wall
Charles Manson - for which GnR took a lot of well-deserved shit.

DQ1: From movies or television?
DQ2: Created after 1960?

22

Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Russ Columbo, who died early in his career.

DQ: Created by an American or Americans?

23

IQs:

  1. Did you play Holly Martins in The Thin Man?
  2. Did you write Lord Jim?
  3. Was Pepe LePew’s character based on your movie persona?
24

Dunno, not Clarence Darrow (in Inherit the Wind) and dunno.

Not Joseph Cotten (and I think you mean The Third Man), not Joseph Conrad and not Maurice Chevalier.

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C
  4. not from prose
  5. not American
  6. not from a genre
  7. from movies or television
  8. created after 1960
  9. created by an American or Americans
25

#1 is Correct (and autocorrect changed Third to Thin).
#2 is Correct.
#3 was Charles Boyer, as he appeared in the movie Algiers.

DQ: Created after 1990?

26

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C
  4. not from prose
  5. not American
  6. not from a genre
  7. from movies or television
  8. created after 1960
  9. created by an American or Americans
  10. created before 1990
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  1. Did you marry Xavier Cugat in 1966?
  2. Did you play Frederic in the 1982 movie The Pirate Movie?
  3. Are you a fictional TV ventriloquist who has a dummy named Bob?
28

Dunno, not Rex C. Smith and dunno.

29

Charo, Christopher Atkins, Chuck on Soap.

3 DQs reserved.

30

1 was John Cleese (in Meetings, Bloody Meetings); 3 was Cameron Diaz.

DQs:
1. from movies?
2. created after 1975?

31

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C
  4. not from prose
  5. not American
  6. not from a genre
  7. from movies or television
  8. created after 1960
  9. created by an American or Americans
  10. created before 1990
  11. not from movies
  12. created before 1975
32

IQ1: Do you frequently obtain defective products from the Acme corporation?
IQ2: Did you increase your company’s sales to underage smokers by $400 million in 4 years?
IQ3: Were you the show-runner for the first two seasons of the original Star Trek?

33

IQs

  1. Were you frequently paired with Deadpool and Domino?
  2. Are you #1’s father?
  3. Are you an extraordinarily large mutant also having been affiliated with X-Force?
34

IQs:
1. Were you a plumber and engineer who invented the floating ballcock and U-bend?
2. Were you the Twelfth Doctor?
3. Was the theme to the gameshow about you sung a capella?

35

IQs:

  1. Did you invent a confection that doubles as a dog whistle?
  2. Were you an entertainer known as “Banjo Eyes”?
  3. Are you a friend of Donald Duck’s from Brazil?
36

Not Wile E. Coyote, dunno and not Gene Coon.

Not Colossus, dunno and also not Colossus.

Not Crapper, Peter Capaldi and dunno.

Not Caractacus Potts, dunno and dunno.

37

Correct on Mr. Potts.
#2 was Eddie Cantor.
#3 is Jose Carioca.

2 DQs reserved.

38

Yes, mascot Joe Camel, yes

DQ: From a live-action television series?

39

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name, as he’s nicknamed (and the only name by which he’s known), begins with C
  4. not from prose
  5. not American
  6. not from a genre
  7. from movies or television
  8. created after 1960
  9. created by an American or Americans
  10. created before 1990
  11. not from movies
  12. created before 1975
  13. from a live-action television series
40

Correct on Thomas Crapper and Capaldi; 3 (a capella theme) is Carmen Sandiego.

DQ: main character?