Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
101

correct, Walder Frey, correct (Wayland Flowers)

DQ: Alive?

102

IQ1: Were you a radio broadcaster who also narrated the TV series The Untouchables?
IQ2: Did you discover that Yellow Fever is transmitted by mosquito bite?
IQ3: Are you an NFL running back who held the most yards rushed in a career until Emmitt Smith broke it?

103

DQ.
DQ.
Not Winston Churchill.

Not … Walter Winchell?
Not Walter Reed.
DQ.

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with W
  4. American
  5. Alive
104

IQ1. Did local law enforcement know you as Heisenberg?
IQ2. Did you figure out that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes?
IQ3. Did you come between South Pacific and Joe DiMaggio?

105

correct x2, Walter Payton

Baffle, I already asked about Walter Reed, so ask another IQ.

DQ: Known for the arts?

106

IQ1: Were you invited to invade England and replace your unpopular Catholic father-in-law as king?
IQ2: Are you a novelist who created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County?
IQ3: Are you one of the founding members of the Black Eyed Peas?

107

DQ.
Still not Walter Reed.
DQ.

Not William III of Orange (aka William III of England, aka William II of Scotland).
Not William Faulkner.
DQ.

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with W
  4. American
  5. Alive
  6. Not known for the Arts
108

correct x2, will.i.am

DQ: Known for a single historical event?

109

Previous IQs:

Were you the only one in a large group of men to wear military uniform at an important meeting in the Western Hemisphere between 1600-1800? - George Washington, in the Continental Congress in 1775.
Did you do more than anyone to see that the Dead Sea Scrolls were available for wide study? - William A. Moffett of the Huntington Library.
Did you refer to your recurring bouts of depression as “the black dog”? - Yes, Winston Churchill.

DQs:

Political/military?
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Were you state attorney general and a failed Congressional candidate before being elected governor?
Was your husband frustrated by how young people reacted to his presence?
Was Thurlow Weed a key advisor of yours?

110

IQ1: Did you play Kristen Wiig’s roommate in Bridesmaids?
IQ2: Did you play a paper salesman with an acute paranoia of robots?
IQ3: Are you the starting QB for the Seattle Seahawks?

111

:smack:

Three DQs.

And three for you as well.

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with W
  4. American
  5. Alive
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Known for a single historical event
  8. Political/military
  9. Not born after 1950
112

You also asked about Walter Winchell, who came between South Pacific and Joe Dimaggio in We Didn’t Start The Fire. :smack:

IQ1. Did local law enforcement know you as Heisenberg? Walter White, from Breaking Bad.
IQ2. Did you figure out that yellow fever was transmitted by mosquitoes? Walter Reed, as mentioned.
IQ3. Did you come between South Pacific and Joe DiMaggio? Walter Winchell, as previously asked.

DQ. Historical event occurred during wartime?

IQ1. Were you the only person convicted after the My Lai massacre?
IQ2. Did you come up with the law of parismony?
IQ3. Did you start as a stock boy in a general store, and later put your name on the tallest building in the world?

113

Correct on Woody. #2 was Dinah Washington. #3 was Sheb Wooley, best known for his novelty hit The Purple People Eater, but who was also a character actor in a number of westerns, and whose brief cry when he was shot off his horse in one movie lives on through countless films as the Wilhelm Scream.

2 DQs reserved.

114

Rebel Wilson, Rainn Wilson (as Dwight Schrute in The Office), Russell Wilson

DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?

holding 2 DQs

115

DQ: Common first name?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Were you Emmett Kelly’s clown persona?
  2. Did you voice the bad guy in the perennial season favorite Frosty the Snowman?
  3. Did you compose and record I’ve Heard That Tear-Stained Monologue You Do There By The Door Before You Go?
116

Well, that didn’t take long…

Yes! I am 1st Lt William Laws Calley Jr, about whom I suppose nothing more needs to be said.

117

WTG, Baffle!

118

All right, Baffle!

Previous IQs:

Were you state attorney general and a failed Congressional candidate before being elected governor? - William J. Clinton.
Was your husband frustrated by how young people reacted to his presence? - Martha Washington; George didn’t like how young people clammed up and stifled their high spirits whenever he came near.
Was Thurlow Weed a key advisor of yours? - William Seward, Lincoln’s SecState.

119

Woohoo! Other answers were William of Ockham and F. W. Woolworth.

To get the ball rolling… I am K.

120

wtg Baffle!

IQ1: Did you found Death Row Records with Dr. Dre?
IQ2: Are you going to be with him on that midnight train to Georgia?
IQ3: Are the former chair-slinging coach of Indiana Hoosiers basketball?