Botticelli - June 2021

Thread Games
361

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Died since 2000
  9. Black
  10. Not best known for TV
  11. Died before 2010
  12. Known primarily for music
  13. Born before 1940
  14. Not known for playing an instrument
  15. Not known for pop genre (though there were a few crossovers into pop)
362

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted portrayer of Sherlock Holmes before 1980? - Yes, Basil Rathbone
Were you “the Butcher of Prague”? - Yes, Reinhard (sic) Heydrich
Were you a loathed teacher on PBS’s Arthur? - Mr. Ratburn

DQ:

Best known as a solo artist?

IQs:

Are you a deep-voiced singer who shares a first name with a French assassin?
Are you a pop artist known for bold use of color, sometimes monochromatic, and often in large squares or rectangles?
Did Capek write about your factory?

363

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DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Died since 2000
  9. Black
  10. Not best known for TV
  11. Died before 2010
  12. Known primarily for music
  13. Born before 1940
  14. Not known for playing an instrument
  15. Not known for pop genre (though there were a few crossovers into pop)
  16. Best known as a solo artist
364

Take 2 DQs.
#3. I am not Rossum.

365

Previous IQs:

Are you a deep-voiced singer who shares a first name with a French assassin? - Leon Redbone (and the title character from Leon: The Professional)
Are you a pop artist known for bold use of color, sometimes monochromatic, and often in large squares or rectangles? - Mark Rothko
Did Capek write about your factory? - Yes, the proprietor of Rossum’s Universal Robots in the play R.U.R.

DQs:

Best known as a blues or R&B musician?
Won a Grammy?

IQs:

Are you a black musician with the same first name as a Persian emperor?
Did you create King Friday XIII?
Were you a legendary radio sportscaster who often appeared on NPR?

366

IQs:
1. Did you play an irate New York taxi driver in an SNL sketch, upset with various changes the mayor had brought to the city such as cleaning up Times Square and raising prices on taxi driver medallions—punctuating each complaint with “Friggin’ Giuliani!” ?
2. Are you currently dating the Beetle?
3. Did you lead the Arkestra?

367

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DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Died since 2000
  9. Black
  10. Not best known for TV
  11. Died before 2010
  12. Known primarily for music
  13. Born before 1940
  14. Not known for playing an instrument
  15. Not known for pop genre (though there were a few crossovers into pop)
  16. Best known as a solo artist
  17. Best known as a blues or R&B musician
  18. Won Grammys
368

#2. I am not Fred Rogers.

Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

That puts us over 20 DQs, so no more IQs , please.

369

Previous IQs:

Are you a black musician with the same first name as a Persian emperor? - Darius Rucker
Did you create King Friday XIII? - Yes, Fred Rogers
Were you a legendary radio sportscaster who often appeared on NPR? - Red Barber

Two DQ reserved. Can’t come up with anyone yet who fits these clues. Think think think…

370

1 was Rudy Giuliani; 2 was Randy Robertson, in Amazing Spider-man; 3 was Sun Ra.

DQs:
1. singer?
2. most famous in the 1970s?

One DQ reserved (or someone else can take it).

371

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Died since 2000
  9. Black
  10. Not best known for TV
  11. Died before 2010
  12. Known primarily for music
  13. Born before 1940
  14. Not known for playing an instrument
  15. Not known for pop genre (though there were a few crossovers into pop)
  16. Best known as a solo artist
  17. Best known as a blues or R&B musician
  18. Won Grammys
  19. Singer
  20. Most famous in the 1970s
372

Oh!
“You’ll never find… another love like mine…”?

373

Congrats, MissTake!

Yes, I am

Lou Rawls!

374

Ah, good. I remember him, of course, but probably never would have come up with his name. Well done, MissTake!

375

Looks like a good letter:

I am N

376

Congrats!

  1. Were you a fictional housewife who stumbled into murders and solved them with their friend Lt. Weigand in NYC?
  2. Were you #1’s publisher spouse?
  3. Are you one of the hosts of NBC’s Making It?
377

Huh. So that’s who sings that. Congrats!

IQs:
1. Were you presumably very disappointed because of the result of something in 1960, but a lot happier after a different result in 1968?
2. Did your father hide your name in his drawings?
3. Were you a Sherlock Holmes who consulted Sigmund Freud?

378

IQs:

  1. Did you play Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman?
  2. Did you go around the world in 72 days?
  3. Were you the frontman for Herman’s Hermits?
379

IQs:

Did you sorta kinda win the Battle of Guilford Courthouse?
Was this your name in a movie, an improvement over the slightly-ridiculous name you had in the original book?
Did you earn the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”?

380

I’m not Nora or Nick Charles?
I’m not Nick Offerman

I’m not Richard Nixon
DQ
DQ

DQ
I am not Nellie Bly
DQ

DQ, DQ, DQ