Botticelli - June 2018

Thread Games
381

Previous IQs:

Was your daughter a recent U.S. ambassador in Asia? - JFK; Caroline was ambassador to Japan
Was your second husband a big fan of Winston Churchill’s, and often entertained him late in the former PM’s life? - Jacqueline Kennedy; Aristotle Onassis wined and dined the elderly Churchill and even took him cruising on his yacht
Did you die in the same plane crash as your wife and her sister? - JFK Jr.

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with J?

IQs:

Did your teacher, partner and later rival have the first name Gilbert?
Were you a Confederate general defeated at the Battle of Cedar Creek?
Were you a bad guy on Firefly of the same name?

382

Julius Peppers, Jasper Sitwell, correct

holding 2 DQs

IQ1: Are you the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer?
IQ2: Were you the lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company?
IQ3: Was your first #1 hit “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me”?

383

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
384

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Al Jolson.
  2. I am not Janis Joplin.
  3. I am not Billy Joel.
385

Previous IQs:

Did your teacher, partner and later rival have the first name Gilbert? - The first dude named in the title of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Were you a Confederate general defeated at the Battle of Cedar Creek? - Jubal Early
Were you a bad guy on Firefly of the same name? - Ditto

DQs:

American?
Living?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Did you play the sap to the Red-Headed League?
Were you a well-known early American potter west of the Appalachians?
Were you the plucky lawyer and hack writer in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land?

Heading out of town - my Internet access may be spotty for the next few days.

And BTW, whoever starts the next round should start a new thread for July!

386

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
387

#1. I am not Dr. John Watson (???)
#2. I am not Jabez Vodrey.
Take a DQ for #3.

At this point, we might as well wait and start a new one for August.

388

See what you made me do? I have to go back to sports again.

IQ1: Are you the current owner and former QB of the Denver Broncos?
IQ2: Are you QB for the Baltimore Ravens?
IQ3: Are you QB for the San Francisco 49ers?

DQ: European?
DQ: Died before 1900?

389

Take 3 DQs, of course.

390

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Died after 1900
391

John Elway, Joe Flacco, Jimmy Garapolo

DQ: From the UK?

holding 2 DQs

392

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not from the U.K.
393

DQ: Politics/royalty?

1 DQ in tow

394

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not from the U.K.
  10. Not known for politics/royalty
395

DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?

IQ1: Were you a French peasant girl who convinced the Dauphin to renew attacking the occupying English forces?
IQ2: Did you write “The two treatises of the government”?
IQ3: Did you famously come, see, and conquer?

396

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not from the U.K.
  10. Not known for politics/royalty
  11. I had to check, but not a native speaker of a Romance language
397
  1. I am not Joan of Arc.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Julius Caesar.
398

John Locke

DQ: Known for business or product?

399

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with J
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not from the U.K.
  10. Not known for politics/royalty
  11. I had to check, but not a native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Not known for business or a product
400

I’m back!

Previous IQs:

Did you play the sap to the Red-Headed League? - Not Dr. Watson, but Jabez Wilson
Were you a well-known early American potter west of the Appalachians? - Yes, Jabez Vodrey - very good!
Were you the plucky lawyer and hack writer in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land? - Jubal Harshaw

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Were you a top Nazi general with a last name four letters long?
Were you the Nazi propaganda minister?
Was your death the subject of a recent black comedy?