Botticelli - July 2024

Thread Games
201

IQs:
1. Are you the author of the Bridgerton books, and other romance novels?
2. Did you rebel against Antiochus?
3. Were you a Doc Savage-esque super-scientist and awful father to Rusty on The Venture Bros.?

202

I am not Captain Jack Sparrow, the worst pirate I ever heard of; nor am I Johnny Depp; nor am I Janet Jackson.

Take a DQ.
I am not… Judas Maccabeus?
Take another DQ.

203

DQs:

J.

  1. Real
  2. Female.
  3. First name starts with J.
204

1 was Julia Quinn; 2 was correct; 3 was Dr. Jonas Venture.

DQs:
1. living?
2. American?

205

Good guess, SunUp!

IQs:

  1. Were you the short, fatter half of the comic duo that starred in what’s considered the first daily comic strip?
  2. Were you famously one of the worst singers to ever perform live, nevertheless earning fans like Cole Porter and Enrico Caruso?
  3. Were you the founder of one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, who gave his people their name?
206

Take a DQ.
Take another DQ.
I am not Judah (ben Jacob).

207

DQs:

J.

  1. Real
  2. Female.
  3. First name starts with J.
  4. Dead.
  5. Not American.
208

Correct, correct, but it was Latoya Jackson who posed for Playboy.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

209

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with (What If God Was) One Of Us?
  2. Did you have a hit with Clouds?
  3. Are you the supreme god in one form of Hinduism whose name, in a commonly altered form, was used for a Marvel comics villain?
210

IQs:
1. Did you say that all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players?
2. Were you chased by the Hovitos in South America, 1936?
3. Did you play Francesca in The Masque of the Red Death?

211

The original Mutt-and-Jeff pair was, well, Mutt and Jeff. Jeff was the short one. The famously bad opera singer was Florence Foster Jenkins. Correct on Judah.

DQs:

  1. Last name begins A - M?
  2. European?

IQs:

  1. Were you a jazzman whose real name was Ferdinand de Menthe?
  2. Did alleged mistreatment of you precipitate a war between England and Spain?
  3. Have you been played by Alan Tudyk and Joaquin Phoenix?
212

I am not Joan Osborne.
Take 2 DQs.

I am not… Juliet Capulet?
Take 2 DQs. (Probably 3)

Take a DQ.
I am not Jenkins (or his ear).
Take another DQ.

213

J.

  1. Real
  2. Female.
  3. First name starts with J.
  4. Dead.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not know for the Arts.
  7. Last name begins A-M.
  8. European.
214

1 (“All the world’s a stage…”) was Jacques, in As You Like It; 2 (Hovitos) was Indiana Jones; 3 (Francesca) was Jane Asher.

DQs:
1. died after 1900?
2. known for politics/royalty?
3. from mainland Europe?

Saw As You Like It in the park on Thursday. Raiders of the Lost Ark was Friday. The Masque of the Red Death was last night.

215

J.

  1. Real
  2. Female.
  3. First name starts with J.
  4. Dead.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not know for the Arts.
  7. Last name begins A-M.
  8. European.
  9. Died before 1900.
  10. Known for politics/royalty.
  11. Not from mainland Europe.
216

Ferdinand de Menthe played jazz piano under the name “Jelly Roll Morton”. Correct on Robert Jenkins. Alan Tudyk and Joaquin Phoenix, along with Mark Hamill, Jack Nicholson, and Heath Ledger, have all played the Joker.

DQs:

  1. Continental European (as opposed to British or Icelandic)?
  2. Politician?

IQs:

  1. Were you the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
  2. Are you the subject of a children’s song, whose name is my name, too?
  3. Were you the star of an 80s sitcom, who raised awareness by waging a very public fight against your breast cancer, including a biopic filmed both before and after your double mastectomy?
217

IQs:
1. Was your friend Leroy Smith chosen for your high school varsity basketball team over you, which led you to train more and, well, do better?
2. Did you voice Dipper in Gravity Falls?
3. Were you a former child star noted for singing “I’ve Written a Letter to Daddy”?

218

Correct on Joan.
#2 was Judy Collins.
#3 is Jagganatha (aka Juggernaut).

DQ: Died before 1800?

1 DQ reserved.

219

I am not John Jay.
I am not John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt.
I am not Ann Jillian.

Take 2 DQs.
I am not… Jackie Cooper?

220

J.

  1. Real
  2. Female.
  3. First name starts with J.
  4. Dead.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not know for the Arts.
  7. Last name begins A-M.
  8. European.
  9. Died before 1900.
  10. Known for politics/royalty.
  11. Not from mainland/continental Europe.
  12. Not a poltician.
  13. Died before 1800.