Botticelli - June 2018

Thread Games
201

Take three DQs.

  1. I am not Elizabeth Barret-Browning.
  2. I am not Robert Burns.
  3. I am not John Bunyan.

Take three DQs.

202

Brett Favre, Drew Brees, Blake Bortles

DQ: Real?
DQ: Male?
DQ: Last name start with B?

203

IQ1: Did you perform the Halftime show for Super Bowls XLVII and L?
IQ2: Did you cover “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” in 1971?
IQ3: Did you have a hit with “Love Is a Battlefield” in 1983?

204

Yes (but might be thought of as fictional), yes, yes

IQ3: I am not Pat Benatar. Take two DQs.

205

DLR, please put your DQ answers in a numbered list, and update it as we go; have a look at previous rounds to see how. For instance:

B.

  1. real (might be thought of as fictional)
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B

Previous IQs:

Did you write Enemy Mine? - Barry Longyear
Did you write “Love’s Theme”? - Barry White
Did you write “Ballad of the Green Berets”? - SSgt. Barry Sadler

Barry x3!

DQs:

American?
Born since 1800?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did the mob in Jerusalem want you freed and not Jesus?
Was Pegasus your steed?
Did you improbably befriend Sen. Jesse Helms?

206

EH: Helms took his grandchildren to see IQ3 in concert. I believe it was the most surreal thing I’ve ever seen in a local newspaper.

Beyonce, Joan Baez, correct

DQ: Alive?

holding a DQ

207

Oh, right.

  1. Real (might be thought of as fictional)
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with B
  4. American (naturalized)
  5. Born since 1800
208

I am not Barabbas.
I am not Bellerophon.
Take a DQ.

209
  1. Real (might be thought of as fictional)
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with B
  4. American (naturalized)
  5. Born since 1800
  6. Dead
210

I’d prefer you not give any hints about my IQs (such as the fact that he’s a musician) until after the GM has answered. Thanks!

Previous IQs:

Did the mob in Jerusalem want you freed and not Jesus? - Yes, Barrabas
Was Pegasus your steed? - Yes, Bellerophon
Did you improbably befriend Sen. Jesse Helms? - Bono, of U2

DQ:

Born since 1950?

IQs:

Have you played a concierge, a prosecutor, a network executive and a computer genius?
Does your wife have to button your top shirt button for you?
Did you fake an assassination attempt against yourself to win an election?

211

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Were you a 20th Century Hungarian composer and pianist?
  2. Were you a 1st Century Celtic warrior queen?
  3. Are you Lady Felicia’s niece on the TV series Father Brown?
212

IQ1: Did you portray Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon in 1980?
IQ2: Did Rowan Atkinson portray you in a multi-period comedy series?
IQ3: Were you IQ2’s cunning lackey, portrayed by Tony Robinson?

213
  1. I am not Bob Balaban.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Bullworth.
  1. I am not Bela Bartok.
  2. I am not Boadicea.
  3. Take a DQ.

IQ1: I am not Brian Blessed.
IQ2: I am not Blackadder.
IQ3: I am not Baldrick.

214

DQs:

  1. Real (might be thought of as fictional)
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with B
  4. American (naturalized)
  5. Born since 1800
  6. Dead
    7: Born before 1950
215

Previous IQs:

Have you played a concierge, a prosecutor, a network executive and a computer genius? - Yes, Bob Balaban, in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Absence of Malice, Seinfeld and 2010: The Year We Make Contact
Does your wife have to button your top shirt button for you? - Bob Dole, due to his WWII injuries
Did you fake an assassination attempt against yourself to win an election? - Not Bullworth (although he had other issues), but the title character in Bob Roberts

Bob x3!

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Born before 1875?

IQs:

Did you once tell your supporters to “ride towards the sound of the guns”?
Were you that person’s sister, who served as Treasurer of the United States?
Did you command the ironclad CSS Virginia?

216

IQ1: Did you portray Daniel Simpson “D-Day” Day in Animal House?
IQ2: Was your first movie role as a fraternity pledge getting spanked in Animal House?
IQ3: Did you play a role in Animal House that had the same nickname as a Popeye villain?

217

Take three DQs.

IQ1: I am not Bruce McGill.
IQ2: I am not Kevin Bacon.
IQ3: I am not John Belushi.

218
  1. Real (might be thought of as fictional)
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with B
  4. American (naturalized)
  5. Born since 1800
  6. Dead
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Not known for the arts
  9. Born after 1875
219

Correct, Correct, and Bunty Windermere.

DQ: Known for politics or military?

220

IQ1: Were you running back for the Detroit Lions from 1989 - 1998?
IQ2: Are you a deep-voiced R&B crooner who had a hit with “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe”?
IQ3: Did you serve as head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners for 16 seasons and the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys for 4 seasons?