Botticelli - July 2022

Thread Games
121

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you a very proactive temperance activist?
2. Are you (along with Mugman) the protagonist of a recent video game with hand-drawn animation, modeled after 1930s cartoons?
3. Can Scooby-Doo do, but you are smarter?

122

#1. I am not Carrie Nation.
#2. I am not Cuphead.
#3. Take a DQ.

123

Previous IQs:

Did you design a noted line of wooden motorboats? -Christopher Columbus Smith, founder of Chris-Craft
Did Malcolm McDowell play you in a historic porno? - Yes, Caligula
Was it said that, like a rotten mackerel by moonlight, you both shined and stank? - This was said of Henry Clay, who, a political foe said, was both brilliant and corrupt

DQs:

Actor?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Are you the current Duke of Cornwall?
Were you a master blackmailer in Victorian London?
Did you dictate “letters” to your sister back in Boston?

124

3 was Jimmy Carter (as Homer says while trying to be witty in the Simpsons episode “A Star is Burns”).

1 DQ reserved.

125

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
126
  1. I am not Prince Charles (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
127

DQ: known for music?

128

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
  15. Known for music
129

IQs:

1. Have you been very busy in the world of comics over the past few years–writing Howard the Duck, Daredevil, and Spider-Man: Life Story for Marvel, drawing Sex Criminals and writing Stillwater and Public Domain for Image, and writing Batman: The Knight and just now the main Batman title for DC (plus writing and sometimes drawing Spectacular Spider-Man, plus several humorous Marvel how-to-draw variant covers)?
2. Did you theorize about the survival of the fittest?
3. Did you star in the sitcom All-American Girl?

130

#2. I am not Charles Darwin.
Take 2 DQs.

131

1 was Chip Zdarsky; 3 was Margaret Cho.

DQs:
1. known for rock/pop?
2. Caucasian?

132

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
  15. Known for music
  16. Not known for pop/rock.
  17. Not Caucasian.
133

IQ: did you hit the road, Jack in a 1994 ad, driving a Peugeot on salt flats (something you normally didn’t do, for obvious reasons)?

134

I bet you’ve got it. And ironically…

Previous IQs:

Are you the current Duke of Cornwall? - Yes, Prince Charles
Were you a master blackmailer in Victorian London? - Charles Augustus Milverton, in a Sherlock Holmes story
Did you dictate “letters” to your sister back in Boston? - Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester, on MASH

Charles x3!

DQs:

Black?
Singer?

Just in case:

IQs:

Did Jamie Foxx play you in a biopic?

135

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
  15. Known for music
  16. Not known for pop/rock.
  17. Not Caucasian.
  18. Singer
  19. Black

I am not Ray Charles.

136

Oh, hell. I forgot Charles died after 2000.

Well…

IQs:
1. Were you an evangelist who predicted the Rapture would happen in 2011?
2. Speaking of the apocalypse, did you cause “Weirdmageddon” in Gravity Falls, Oregon?
3. Parker, Davis, Nixon, you?

137

Take 3 DQs.

That puts us over 20 DQs. Please ask all remaining DQs by 12 EDT tomorrow, Sunday, July 24, 2022 A.D.

138

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Last name started with C
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Known for the Arts
  9. Died after 1975
  10. Died after 1990
  11. Not known from writing
  12. Best known for the performing arts
  13. Won numerous awards, including top awards in his field
  14. Has acted, but generally only played himself, and really not best remembered for that.
  15. Known for music
  16. Not known for pop/rock.
  17. Not Caucasian.
  18. Singer and bandleader
  19. Black
139

He didn’t say the first name didn’t start with “C”…

(I’d make a guess, but my time on the board varies, and it wouldn’t be fair to the players)

140

1 (evangelist) was Harold Camping; 2 (Weirdmageddon) was Bill Cipher; 3 (Parker, Davis…) was Kim Cattrall (completing the Sex and the City quartet).

DQs:
1. known for jazz/blues?
2. associated with signature song?

One DQ reserved.