Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
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IQ1) Did Gene Kelly play a fictionalized version of you in the movie Inherit the Wind?

IQ2) Are you a world famous gynecologist who married his research partner?

IQ3) Was your best known book’s title inspired by the time you and your brothers got drunk and lost the urn holding your dead mother’s remains?

462

Mel Ott

DQ: Poet?

holding 2 DQs

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I am not H. L. Mencken.
I am not Masters.
Take a DQ for 3

464

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
  13. Not a poet
465

Correct on both.

466

Previous IQs:

Did a journalist spoof letters from your husband to a friend of your husband’s? - Margaret Thatcher: Dear Bill - Wikipedia.
Were you hurt by fire in an on-set sfx accident? - I’ll rephrase.
Did you fall in love with an RAF vet but marry a photographer? - Yes, Princess Margaret.

DQ:

Best known as a songwriter?

IQs:

You are not Jacko. Were you hurt by fire in a pre-1970 on-set sfx accident?
Did Alex Kingston’s early career get a big boost by playing you?
Is your tomb only a block away from your birthplace?

467

Take 3 DQs.

468

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
  13. Not a poet
  14. Not a songwriter, nor known for music in any way
469

DQ: Best known for writing plays or screenplays?

1 DQ reserved.

470

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
  13. Not a poet
  14. Not a songwriter, nor known for music in any way
  15. Not known for writing plays or screenplays
471

DQ) Known as an essayist or critic?

472

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
  13. Not a poet
  14. Not a songwriter, nor known for music in any way
  15. Not known for writing plays or screenplays
  16. Not known as an essayist or critic
473

DC: Known for news/journalism?

1 DQ left

474

IQ1: Did you disable the Miracle Machine?
IQ2: Were you born with the name Wrynn?
IQ3: Did you betray your team, and did your much younger temporal duplicate have to deal with the ramifications of that?

475

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
  13. Not a poet
  14. Not a songwriter, nor known for music in any way
  15. Not known for writing plays or screenplays
  16. Not known as an essayist or critic
  17. Not known for news or journalism
476

Take DQs for 1 and 2. Congratulations on the level of obscurity reached.
#3: I am not Marvel Girl (Jean Gray). Of course, you may have had someone else in mind; in that case, rephrase and ask again.

477

All LSH trivia -

1 was Matter-Eater Lad, who defeated Omega by eating the otherwise absolutely invulnerable Miracle Machine that was powering him. (It did drive him insane, though.)
2 is better known as Mordru.
I’ll let 3 go, I had intended the answer to be Dirk Morgna (formerly Sun Boy) during the Five Year Gap, and his ‘temporal duplicate’ in the SW6 versions. Your answer is a good one too, though, with Marvel’s rehash of the SW6 plot.

478

DQ: Are you known for a journal or diary or an account of a witnessed event?

2 DQ reserved.

479

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
  13. Not a poet
  14. Not a songwriter, nor known for music in any way
  15. Not known for writing plays or screenplays
  16. Not known as an essayist or critic
  17. Not known for news or journalism
  18. Not known as a diarist of a witnessed event

Hint: He’s most famous for the creation of one fictional character.

480

Anyone more familiar than I am with early radio shows? It occurs to me that scripts for those haven’t been excluded. Also maybe a golden age comic book author who died quickly, or someone with a comic strip.