Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
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Roald Amundsen.
Robert Falcon Scott.
Randolph Scott.
DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: Born east of the Mississippi?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were “How Blue” and “Whoever’s in New England” #1 hits for you?
IQ2: Were you an ecdysiast who appeared in Stage Door Canteen?
IQ3: Was “Killing Me Softly with His Song” a #1 hit for you?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a British statesman who wrote biographies of both Gladstone and Churchill? - Roy Jenkins.
Did you never visit your son at school despite his heartbreaking notes begging you to? - Lord Randolph Churchill, cold-as-ice father of Winston Churchill.
Did you and Jim Baker swap jobs in 1985? - Yes, Donald Regan.

DQs:

Born since 1975?
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

Are you Howard Stern’s retired-military sidekick?
Were you the second Saavik?
Did you ruefully observe that it can be hard getting your pay from a dead king?

323

#1 was Charlotte Rae.
#2 was Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer in the Rankin Bass holiday perennial.
#3 was Rowlf the Dog, in the early days of Jim Henson’s muppeteering.

3 DQs reserved.

324
  1. Nolan Ryan
  2. Reginald Maudling
  3. J.I. Rodale

Holding 3 DQs

325

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Female
  4. First name starts with R
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  8. Born since 1975
  9. Not known for beauty
326

dunno x2, not Roberta Flack

327

not Robin Quivers, the 2nd Saavik sucked and I don’t remember her name, dunno

328

DQ: Known for Sports?

329

Reba McEntire.
Gypsy Rose Lee.
Correct.
IQ: Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?
Two DQs reserved.

330

Previous IQs:

Are you Howard Stern’s retired-military sidekick? - Yes, Robin Quivers.
Were you the second Saavik? - Robin Curtis (not nearly as good as Kirstie A. in the role, I agree).
Did you ruefully observe that it can be hard getting your pay from a dead king? - Robin Hood, in the Russell Crowe version.

Robin x3!

DQs:

Best known for a single incident?
Won a top award in her field?

IQs:

Did you write Joseph Anton?
Were you a very bad untitled man in Westeros?
Were you the youngest marsupial about whom A.A. Milne wrote?

331

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Female
  4. First name starts with R
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  8. Born since 1975
  9. Not known for beauty
  10. Not known for sports
  11. Born north of Mason-Dixon line
  12. Best known for single incident
  13. Has not won a top award in her field
332

dunno, not Mance Rayder(?), not Roo

333

DQ: Best known for a criminal act?

1 DQ reserved.

334

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Female
  4. First name starts with R
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  8. Born since 1975
  9. Not known for beauty
  10. Not known for sports
  11. Born north of Mason-Dixon line
  12. Best known for single incident
  13. Has not won a top award in her field
  14. Incident may be regarded as criminal, but prosecution has yet to occur
335

Previous IQs:

Did you write Joseph Anton? - Salman Rushdie, about his time in hiding after the Satanic Verses fatwa was announced. It was his pseudonym, after Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov, writers whom he loved.
Were you a very bad untitled man in Westeros? - I’ll rephrase.
Were you the youngest marsupial about whom A.A. Milne wrote? - Yes, Roo.

DQ:

If prosecuted, would probably be on Federal charge(s)?

IQs:

Were you a very bad untitled man in Westeros who hung out with Biter?
Was Gendry one of your bastards?
Did you appear in a cola ad with a pop starlet and a dog?

336

I’m revising DQ 14. EH, you can ask another DQ if you wish.

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Female
  4. First name starts with R
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  8. Born since 1975
  9. Not known for beauty
  10. Not known for sports
  11. Born north of Mason-Dixon line
  12. Best known for single incident
  13. Has not won a top award in her field
  14. While perhaps not a criminal act, incident could be subject to lawsuit
337

Hmmm.

DQ:

Lawsuit likely to be filed in Federal court?

And from before:

IQs:

Were you a very bad untitled man in Westeros who hung out with Biter?
Was Gendry one of your bastards?
Did you appear in a cola ad with a pop starlet and a dog?

338

DQ: Incident happen in 2010 or later?

IQs:

  1. Did you hang with Yank, Doodle, Dan and Dee?
  2. Did you hang with Droop-a-Long?
  3. Are you the Pharaoh to whom Moses probably said “Let my people go!”?
339

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Female
  4. First name starts with R
  5. American
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  8. Born since 1975
  9. Not known for beauty
  10. Not known for sports
  11. Born north of Mason-Dixon line
  12. Best known for single incident
  13. Has not won a top award in her field
  14. While perhaps not a criminal act, incident could be subject to lawsuit
  15. Potential lawsuit most likely not federal in nature
  16. Incident happened in 2010 or later
340

dunno, not Robert Baratheon, not Roger Clemens(?)