Botticelli, July 2023

Thread Games
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#1 is Kelly Clarkson.
#2 is Ken in the upcoming Barbie movie.
#3 is Kathy Kane. Selena’s Catwoman.

3 DQs reserved.

22

Correct on the last two, No. 1 was Kincaid, the Archive’s bodyguard from the Harry Dresden series. (It’s not really a spoiler, because he gets better.)

DQ: Known for the arts?

IQs:

  1. Are you a brown girl from Jersey City who does save the world, or parts of it, currently played by Iman Vellani?

  2. Did you play a secretly-gay music teacher, inadvertantly outed in a former student’s Oscar speech?

  3. Are you an iconic Australian folk hero, who met his death at the hands of the police in a homemade suit of armor?

23

Kaliko in the Oz series, Kiron, Kim Richards.

DQ: Still living?

2 DQs reserved

24

Dunno, not Kevin Kline (I thought he played a drama teacher in In & Out?), and not Ned Kelly.

K.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name starts with K
  4. known for the Arts
  5. still living
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DQs:

  1. Actress?
  2. Born before 1970?
  3. American?

IQs:

  1. Did Captain Jack Sparrow ask your character why the rum was gone?
  2. Are you married to Doug Emhoff?
  3. Did you write Please Don’t Eat The Daisies?
26

Correct on Kevin Kline and Ned Kelly. I can’t remember if Kline played a drama teacher or music teacher, but In & Out was indeed the role of which I was thinking. (And drama teacher does seem to make more sense for the plot.) No. 1 was Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel.

1 DQ reserved.

IQs :

  1. Were you bitterly disappointed that you didn’t get to go to Disneyland in 1959?

  2. Did you modify the work of Copernicus to show that the planets’ orbits were elliptical, rather than perfectly circular?

  3. Were you the director of research for GM, whose name is memorialized in one of the preeminent cancer-treating hospitals in the world? (Last name is sufficient).

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IQ:

  1. Were you literally kneecapped by your rival’s boyfriend?
  2. Are you possibly Dr. Doom’s decedent from hundreds of years in the future?
  3. Did your vision of a healthy life include abstinence, cold showers and lots of enemas?
28

Not Killian, Vice President Kamala Harris or Kilgore Trout.

Not Dr. Henry Kissinger, dunno, and not Dr. Kettering.

Not Nancy Kerrigan, not Katastrophe (do you mean “descendant”?), and not Dr. K. Graham.

K.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name starts with K
  4. known for the Arts
  5. still living
  6. actress
  7. born before 1970
  8. American
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  1. Correct
  2. I don’t think so, I don’t know a marvel character named Katastrophe was thinking of Kang the conqueror.
  3. Perhaps you are thinking of Sylvester Graham, but I was thinking of John Kellogg who was influenced by Graham ideas, but has a name beginning with K, and preferred flakes to crackers.

DQ

  1. usually appears blond?
  2. known primarily as a movie actress?

! DQ still reserved.

30

K.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name starts with K
  4. known for the Arts
  5. still living
  6. actress
  7. born before 1970
  8. American
  9. per a Google Images search, she doesn’t usually appear blonde
  10. YMMV, but I wouldn’t say she’s known primarily as a movie actress
31

Right on Charles Kettering, although he wasn’t a doctor; he was a General Motors vice president and director of research, who agreed to oversee the creation of a cancer research institute “on industrial principles”, funded by a donation from his boss Alfred Sloan. No. 1 was Nikita Krushchev, and No. 2 was Johannes Kepler.

DQs:

  1. Primarily known for comedic roles?

  2. Primarily known for TV?

  3. Considered a beauty?

Damn, I was planning on using Nancy Kerrigan for my next series of IQs!

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#1. Who’s Killian? Capt. Jack asked that question of Elizabeth Swann, played by Keira Knightley.
#2. Correct.
#3 was Jean Kerr.

DQs:

  1. Born before 1950?
  2. Still active?
33

Killian is Captain Jack Aubrey’s steward, in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels. I suspect that’s who EH had in mind.

34

That’s Preserved Killick, not Killian. I thought the hard-drinking pirate with prodigious muttonchop side-whiskers in the POTC movies was Killian.

K.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name starts with K
  4. known for the Arts
  5. still living
  6. actress
  7. born before 1970
  8. American
  9. per a Google Images search, she doesn’t usually appear blonde
  10. not known primarily as a movie actress
  11. primarily known for comedic roles
  12. primarily known for TV
  13. not considered a beauty
  14. born before 1950
  15. still active

10-13 are all YMMV.

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Jane Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies?
  2. Are you the voice of Marge Simpson on The Simpsons?
  3. Did you write a number of hit pop songs with Gerry Goffin?

Did you mean Sparrow’s mate Mr. Gibbs?

36

Dunno, dunno (although I should know that) and dunno.

Yes! Gibbs it is. Thanks.

37

You’re absolutely right, and I’m as embarrassed as a debauched sloth to have misremembered

38

Think no more of it, my dear fellow. Now come, the bottle stands by you, sir!

39

#1 was Nancy Kulp.
#2 is Julie Kavner. (I thought for sure that was it.)
#3 is Carole King.

3 DQs reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Are you one of a number of people famous for no one really knowing why you’re famous? (Multiple answers accepted)

  2. Have you appeared in two documentaries, one in your capacity as a historian, and the other in your capacity as a Red Sox fan?

  3. Are you the filmmaker who made those documentaries?