Botticelli - June 2018

Thread Games
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Previously-reserved DQ:

Was knighted or ennobled?

182

DQs:

  1. Born before 1950
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Male
  5. Not American
  6. Dead
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Not known from film
  9. British
  10. Known from the Arts
  11. Not best known for the visual arts
  12. Born before 1900
  13. Not known from a TV series
  14. Known for music, but not as a musician
  15. Did not win a top award as we would think of it, but received many honors
  16. Not known as a performer
  17. Born before 1800
  18. Known for writing
  19. Not known as a composer of music, but as a songwriter
  20. Born before 1700
  21. Born after 1600
  22. Surname of two or less syllables
  23. Several songs he wrote are still being sung today, usually on Sundays, and especially one at Christmas
  24. Never knighted or ennobled
183

Still drawing a blank.

184

IQ:

Were you a prominent British abolitionist?

185

DQs:

  1. Born before 1950
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Male
  5. Not American
  6. Dead
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Not known from film
  9. British
  10. Known from the Arts
  11. Not best known for the visual arts
  12. Born before 1900
  13. Not known from a TV series
  14. Known for music, but not as a musician
  15. Did not win a top award as we would think of it, but received many posthumous honors
  16. Not known as a performer
  17. Born before 1800
  18. Known for writing
  19. Not known as a composer of music, but as a songwriter
  20. Born before 1700
  21. Born after 1600
  22. Surname of two or less syllables
  23. Several songs he wrote are still being sung today, usually on Sundays, and especially one at Christmas
  24. Never knighted or ennobled
  25. Not a prominent abolitionist

That’s 25, and I’m calling it closed. Ask your final DQ’s in the form of “Are you FirstName LastName?” by 10pm EDT today, please.

186

Can we ask even if we don’t have a previous DQ?

187

I concede. If it’s not John or Charles Wesley, I don’t know who it is.

188

If you earned any DQ in this round (which you did, DLR), yes, you can.

My DQ:

Are you Wickliffe?

189

Okay then:

Are you Isaac Watts?

190

Ding, ding, ding! Yes, I am the Godfather of English Hymnody, Isaac Watts! Well done, De La Rue! You host the next round.

Watts’s better known hymns (from among his thousands) include:
*
Alas! and did my Saviour bleed
I sing the mighty power of God
O God, our help in ages past
When I survey the wondrous cross*

and the hymn he wrote for Easter, but which gets sung at Christmas:

Joy to the World, the Lord is come.

191

I know “Joy to the World,” but not Isaac Watts. Good job, DLR!

192

(Belated correction: I did know that I earned a DQ; I should have said “previous unclaimed DQ.”)

I am B.

193

IQs

  1. Were you Max Fleischer’s sexy female cartoon?
  2. Are you Popeye’s nemesis?
  3. Are you the “baddest man in the whole damn town?”
  4. Were you the “Lion of the Blues”?
194

3 IQs at a time, MM

Grats DLR!

IQ1: Did you have a hit with “Loser” in 1994?
IQ2: Do you advise angered people not to give birth to a bovine?
IQ3: Did you make heads turn with your portrayal of a possessed teenager?

195

Scratch #4

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  1. I am not Betty Boop.
  2. I am not Bluto.
  3. I am not Leroy Brown.
  1. I am not Beck.
  2. I am not Bart Simpson.
  3. I am not Linda Blair.
197

Heheheheh.

B it is.

IQs:

Did you write Enemy Mine?
Did you write “Love’s Theme”?
Did you write “Ballad of the Green Berets”?

198

IQs:

  1. Did you write Sonnets from the Portuguese?
  2. Did you write To a Louse?
  3. Did you write The Pilgrim’s Progress?
199

on we go

200

IQ1: Were you the Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers from 1992-2007?
IQ2: Are you currently QB for the New Orleans Saints?
IQ3: Are you currently QB for the Jacksonville Jaguars?