Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
441

IQ2: Did you write about Queequeg?
IQ2: Did you write a play about Abigail Williams, Rebecca Nurse, Tituba, and others?

442

DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?

holding 2 DQs

443

IQ1: Are you the Roman goddess of wisdom and sponsor of arts, trade, and strategy?
IQ2: Are you the Roman god of commerce, eloquence, communication, travelers, luck, trickery and thieves?
IQ3: Are you a Persian/Greek god in the Roman pantheon who is frequently depicted slaying a bull?

444

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with M
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Best known for the arts
  7. Born before 1900
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Born east of the Mississippi
  10. Writer of various sorts, among other things
445

I am not Groucho, nor Chico, nor Harp o Marx.

446

I am not James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

447

Take a DQ.
I am not Charles Manson.
I am not Maria Hill.

448

I I am not Herman Melville.
I am not Arthur Miller.

449

I am not Minerva, Mercury or Mithras.

450

DQ: Known from TV?

holding a DQ

451

IQ1: Are you regarded as one of the three Magi who gave gifts to Christ at his birth?
IQ2: Were you a right fielder for the NY Giants for 21 seasons and the first NL player to top 500 home runs?
IQ3: Were you Alice Hyatt’s boss in Alice?

452

Correct on the Marx brothers.

DQ: Born before 1800?

453

Previous IQs:

Did your theories on naval power influence Theodore Roosevelt, among others? - Alfred Thayer Mahan.
Are you arguably the best-known inmate on California’s Death Row? - Yes, Charles Manson.
Did you work for SHIELD and then Tony Stark? - Yes, Maria Hill.

DQ:

Best known for your fiction writing?

IQs:

Did a journalist spoof letters from your husband to a friend of your husband’s?
Were you hurt by fire in an on-set sfx accident?
Did you fall in love with an RAF vet but marry a photographer?

454

Correct on all three.

455

IQ1: Did you write about a cockroach and a cat?
IQ2: Did you write Spoon River Anthology?

456

Reconsider this DQ please, as he died before 1950.

457

I am not Melchior.
Take a DQ for 2.
I am not Mel.

458

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Michael Jackson.
I am not Princess Margaret.

459

I am neither Don Marquis nor Edgar Lee Masters.

460

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with M
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Best known for the arts
  7. Born before 1900
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Born east of the Mississippi
  10. Writer of various sorts, among other things
  11. Born after 1800
  12. Best known for his writing, though not literature.