Botticelli, June 2011

Thread Games
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I strongly encourage you to keep updating this list of answered DQs:

  1. A real person
  2. Born in the 20th century
  3. Female
  4. Born in the U.S.
  5. Alive in 2011
  6. Not involved in politics
  7. Not an athlete
  8. Not an author

The person whose dad had remarkable mechanical abilities was Jemima Potts, the little girl from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

DQ: An entertainer (actress, singer, songwriter, playwright, etc.)?

IQ: Did you take a tour of Vermont with your political mentor, both for politics and for love of science?

562

She has never toured Vermont, and is only cursorly involved in the “arts”.

563

IQ: Are you known for your mastery of French cooking?

564

James Madison toured Vermont with Thomas Jefferson in 1791, just after it became a U.S. state. They went as naturalists, but also to assess the political situation in the state.

= Sigh =

J is:

  1. A real person
  2. Born in the 20th century
  3. Female
  4. Born in the U.S.
  5. Alive in 2011
  6. Not involved in politics
  7. Not an athlete
  8. Not an author
  9. Only cursorily involved in the “arts”

DQ: Last name begins with J?

IQ: When you had some personal difficulties, was your part rewritten for your “brother”?

565

Were you the quarterback of the last all-white team to win the NCAA Division 1 college football championship?

566

IQ: Are you known as The Hedgehog?

567

I am not Julia Child or Ron Jeremy (my mom would kill me for knowing who Ron is) BTW, “J” is my 1st initial.

568

Elendil and astorian-DQ please.

569

IQ: Are you a Catalan painter who lived to be 90?

570

I am not Pablo Picasso

571

Picasso conspicuously lacks a ‘J’ for an initial. Also, he was not Catalan, he was Spanish.

572

IQ: Are you the Father of the American Navy?

573

I am not John Paul Jones

574

This refers to Jennifer Grey, whose father Joel changed the family surname.

DQ: Do you generally appear on television, as opposed to film, the stage, etc.?

IQ: Are you a woman who pleads to “cry me a river”?

575

I’ve appeared in film/TV b4 (thanx imdb!) but it is not my bread and butter.
I don’t expect you to “cry me a river”.

576

Joan Miró is the Catalan painter who lived to be 90. I’d like to ask you another DQ.

So far -

  1. A real person
  2. Born in the 20th century
  3. Female
  4. Born in the U.S.
  5. Alive in 2011
  6. Not involved in politics
  7. Not an athlete
  8. Not an author
  9. Only cursorily involved in the “arts”
  10. Has appeared in film/TV before but it is not my bread and butter.
  11. J may be a first or last initial; answer pending.

DQ: Are you a scientist?

577

I am not a scientist. I’ve already mentioned: “J” is my 1st initial. (see post #564)

578

When actor Jeremy Brett was wrestling with some personal demons, some scenes of the Granada TV production of Sherlock Holmes were rewritten for Charles Gray, who played his brother, Mycroft Holmes.

  1. A real person
  2. Born in the 20th century
  3. Female
  4. Born in the U.S.
  5. Alive in 2011
  6. Not involved in politics
  7. Not an athlete
  8. Not an author
  9. Only cursorily involved in the “arts”
  10. Has appeared in film/TV before but it is not my bread and butter
  11. “J” is my first initial

DQ: Married to someone who’s famous in his own right?

IQ: Were you once told you couldn’t use a phone which you were actually entitled to use?

579

IQ: Were you the Warrior Pope?

580

Did you record a Top Ten bubblegum song, and later bring the rock band Genesis to America?