Botticelli - July 2024

Thread Games
141

Well, I’ve heard of the show, but not him specifically.

142

Me, too. But IMO, he meets the criteria for notability, so I’d say you earned another round.

143

Oh, my sister’s a big fan of the show, and I have heard of him.

144

I know of the show but don’t think I’ve ever heard of him.

145

Given that at least one person here has heard of Keoghan, yes.

146

Agreed. Take it away, kitap!

147

Okay, I am

E

As in elephant, erudite and Easter.

148

IQs:

  1. Are you a small, annoying, red Muppet?
  2. Are you the VPOTUS’s husband?
  3. Are you the King of Ev?
149

IQs:

  1. Were you a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles?
  2. Are you the lead singer of the Lemonheads?
  3. Did Stevie Wonder write a tribute song about you?
150

IQs:

  1. Did Morgan Freeman play you on a children’s show?
  2. Were you a founding member of N.W.A?
  3. Did you sit at the window, wearing a face that you kept in a jar by the door?
151

IQs:
1. Did you (well, your company) film the electrocution of an elephant?
2. Were you an erudite paleobotanist in Jurassic Park?
3. Do you briefly appear in The Nightmare Before Christmas (though you’re not associated with Halloween or Christmas, but a different spring holiday altogether)?

152

IQs:

Were you Henry VIII’s only son to take the throne?
Were you Victoria’s only son to take the throne?
Were you his grandson, who reigned for less than a year?

153

I am not Elmo. I am not Emhoff. I am not Evrin? Or take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs

Take a DQ, take another and I am not Eleanor Rigby.

I am not Edison, I am not Ellie Sattler, I am not The Easter Bunny.

Take 3 DQs because while they are all Edwards I don’t know their numbers.

154

Morgan Freeman played Easy Reader in the 70s children’s show The Electric Company. Eric Robert Wright was a founding member of N.W.A., under his rap name Eazy-E. Correct about Eleanor Rigby.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?

IQs:

  1. Did Katherine Hepburn play you, opposite Peter O’Toole, who was playing the same character he had in an earlier movie with Richard Burton?
  2. Are you a former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, who was the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 2004?
  3. Are you an English composer whose most famous work is commonly heard around May and June?
155

Correct, Correct, and Evoldo.

DQ: First name starts with E?

156

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you in a Spanish study group at a Community college?
2. Are you a cast member of Saturday Night Live, known for characters like Lisa from Temecula?
3. Were you the Communist leader of Albania?

157

IQs:

  1. Are you the famous championship-level lovable stupid idiot on the highly acclaimed, freshly polished, unpolarized, all-Kodiak 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Are you one of Martin Short’s better known characters?
  3. Did you end up with Mr. Darcy?
158

Earl Weaver, Evan Dando and Duke Ellington (the same song also namechecks Ella Fitzgerald!)

3 DQs reserved.

159

I am not Eleanor of Aquitaine, John Edwards or Elgar.

Take a DQ, take another and I am not Enver Hoxha.

Take a DQ, I am not Ed Grimly, I am not Elizabeth Bennett.

160

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not behgin with E.