Botticelli -- June 2020

Thread Games
101

Brian Keith (Family Affair, The Wind and the Lion, and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming).
Correct.
Karen (from the TV show Karen).
DQ: Originally from prose fiction?
One DQ reserved.

102

Swept me with the Kennedys!

IQs:

Were you portrayed (perhaps unfairly) as the bad guy in Breaker Morant?
Were you a US Ambassador to Japan since 1988?
Was every scene but one in which you appeared cut from a major movie, and in that one, you played a corpse?

103
  1. Was your epitaph “It was beauty killed the beast”?
  2. Are you the former host of ABC’s “Nightline”?
  3. Were you killed by terrorists on the Achille Lauro?
104

#1 was Kratos.
Correct on Dean.
#3 was Helen Keller.

2 DQs reserved.

105

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Kevin Bacon.

  1. I am not King Kong.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
  4. fictional
  5. male
  6. last name starts with K
  7. not originally from prose fiction
106

DQs:

  1. Created by an American or Americans?
  2. Created after 1899?
107

See posts 95 and 96.

108

Right. Disregard my DQ2.

109
  1. Correct
  2. Ted Koppel
  3. Leon Klinghoffer

DQs:

  1. Originally from Film?
  2. Created after 1950?
110
  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with K
  4. not originally from prose fiction
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. not originally from film
  7. created after 1950
111

Previous IQs:

Were you portrayed (perhaps unfairly) as the bad guy in Breaker Morant? - Lord Kitchener
Were you a US Ambassador to Japan since 1988? - Caroline Kennedy
Was every scene but one in which you appeared cut from a major movie, and in that one, you played a corpse? - Not Kevin Bacon. What movie was that? I’ll rephrase.

DQs:

American character?
Would be alive now, if real?

IQs:

You are not Kevin Bacon. Was every scene but one in which you appeared cut from a major movie, and in that one, you played a corpse?
Were you briefly King of Wakanda?
Did Queen namecheck you in a popular song?

112

IQs:

  1. Were you one of the main characters on Seinfeld?
  2. Were you known as “the Boop Oop a Doop Girl”?
  3. Did you play Tootsie on The Facts of Life?
113

Respectively:
Okay, regarding my previous answer, I guessed you were referring to The Big Chill, and thought “The guy who plays the corpse is Kevin Bacon, right?” but it turns out that was Kevin COSTNER, not Bacon. You have a DQ.
I am not Eric Killmonger.
Take a DQ.

  1. I am not Cosmo Kramer.
  2. I am not Helen Kane.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with K
  4. not originally from prose fiction
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. not originally from film
  7. created after 1950
  8. American character
  9. it is possible this character could be alive today, if real
114

Thanks, DLR.

Previous IQs:

You are not Kevin Bacon. Was every scene but one in which you appeared cut from a major movie, and in that one, you played a corpse? - Yes, Kevin Costner, in The Big Chill
Were you briefly King of Wakanda? - Yes, Killmonger
Did Queen namecheck you in a popular song? - Nikita Khrushchev (from “Killer Queen”: “A built-in remedy / For Khrushchev and Kennedy / At anytime an invitation / You can’t decline…”)

DQs:

Bad guy?
First appeared in song?

IQs:

Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?
Have Jonathan Pryce and Donald Sutherland both played your dad?
Were you Emma Woodhouse’s childhood friend and eventual husband?

115

IQ1: Were you Dobie’s beatnik friend?
IQ2: Were you Jack’s son who only lived two days?
IQ3: Were you you in a '60s group with Bruce and Athol?

116

You rang? I am indeed like Maynard G. Krebs, big daddy!

Next game goes to SCAdian.

(I’ve been watching a lot of Dobie Gillis lately.)

117

Good one. Good job, SCAdian!

118

EH’s list shows this hasn’t been used since last June, so …
I am Q!

119

Good job, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning? - Lt. Col. Kilgore in* Apocalypse Now*
Have Jonathan Pryce and Donald Sutherland both played your dad? - Keira Knightley, in Pirates of the Caribbean and Pride & Prejudice
Were you Emma Woodhouse’s childhood friend and eventual husband? - George Knightley, in Jane Austen’s Emma

Q it is.

IQs:

Were you a California medical examiner played by Jack Klugman, doc?
Did you help 007 in Jamaica, mon?
Did you spend some time in Chino for inappropriate contact with eight-year-olds, Dude?

120

IQs:

  1. Does one of your movies open with the dictionary definition of “pulp”?
  2. Did you claim in a debate to have as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy did when he sought the presidency?
  3. Are you the journalist who solves crimes with your cats Koko and Yum Yum?