Botticelli - June 2021

Thread Games
101

IQ1: Were you the eponymous hero of a TV western?
IQ2: Were you a rebel lad who got fightin’ mad?
IQ3: Did you play a WRAF section officer, a bank employee, and an alien mother?

102

Congrats, Chock! I was thinking Sergeant Lewis, from the Inspector Morse books/show, but then saw the answer “created before 1970” and got stymied.

IQs:
1. Did you direct Dogtooth and The Lobster?
2. Are you a recent candidate for US president, though you failed to get your party’s nomination?
3. Did you play Shirley, a student attending a Spanish study group at a Community college?

103

Aw, I forgot. A very belated IQ wrap-up:

3 (pinup photo used as computer test image) was Lena.

104

Take a DQ
Not Johnny Yuma
Take a DQ

Take a DQ
Not Andrew Yang
Take a DQ

105

Yancy Derringer.
:white_check_mark:
Susannah York (Battle of Britain, The Silent Partner, and Superman x3)


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Female?

106

Thanks. Never heard of her before: Lenna - Wikipedia

On to Y!

IQs:

Was your group mentioned, but not by name, in Inside Llewyn Davis?
Did you star in Witchblade?
Are you perhaps the best-known WWII soldier buried in Clyde, Ohio?

107

IQs:

  1. Are you the current Secretary of the Treasury?
  2. Are you the artist son of Victor Vasarely, the Father of Op Art?
  3. Were you a master of the shin-hanga style of print?
108

1 was Yorgos Lanthimos; 3 was Yvette Nicole Brown (on Community).

IQs:
1. Are you the most famous member of what Wookieepedia once called an “unidentified tridactyl species” (though a juvenile member of the same species has also recently become popular)?
2. Did Thomas Meehan have a weird dream in which he was introducing you at a party?
3. Are you known for the same kind of thing as Casey Stengel and Samuel Goldwyn?

DQ: first name starts with Y?

One DQ reserved.

109

DQs:
Y

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. Only known name starts with Y
110

Take a DQ
Not Yancy Butler
Take another DQ

Not Janet Yellin
Take 2 DQs

Not Yoda
Take a DQ
Not Yogi Berra? (Malapropisms?)

111

Correct on Janet.
#2 is Yvaral.
#3 was Hiroshi Yoshida.

DQs:

  1. Originally known from movies or TV?
  2. Protagonist?
112

Previous IQs:

Was your group mentioned, but not by name, in Inside Llewyn Davis? - Peter Yarrow’s Peter, Paul and Mary
Did you star in Witchblade? - Yes, Yancy Butler
Are you perhaps the best-known WWII soldier buried in Clyde, Ohio? - WWII hero Rodger Young, subject of a popular song and after whom a troopship was later named in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you kill everyone who was causing problems in a small 1860s Japanese village?
Did the same person play you who, in a different movie, played the offspring of a stressed-out judge who eventually ended up in that judge’s courtroom?
Were you a (now dead) fellow of (once) infinite jest?

113

1 is correct; 2 is Yma Sumac (in the New Yorker humor piece “Yma Dream”); 3 is correct.

2 DQs reserved.

114

DQs:
Y

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. Only known name starts with Y
  4. Not originally known from movies or TV
  5. Not a protagonist
  6. Not explicitly specified, but very likely American
  7. Could be alive today, if real, depending on access to medical care
115

Not Yojimbo
Take 2 DQs

116

Previous IQs:

Did you kill everyone who was causing problems in a small 1860s Japanese village? - Yes, the title character from the Kurosawa dark comedy Yojimbo
Did the same person play you who, in a different movie, played the offspring of a stressed-out judge who eventually ended up in that judge’s courtroom? - Yentl, played by Barbra Streisand, who was also in What’s Up, Doc?
Were you a (now dead) fellow of (once) infinite jest? - Alas, poor Yorick, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

DQs:

First appeared since 1950?
Created by American(s)?

IQs:

A beautiful woman, were Joey and Chandler shown to be fans of yours on Friends?
Did Gary Cooper play you in a B&W movie?
Were you the first man in space?

117

DQs:
Y

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. Only known name starts with Y
  4. Not originally known from movies or TV
  5. Not a protagonist
  6. Not explicitly specified, but very likely American
  7. Could be alive today, if real, depending on access to medical care
  8. First appeared since 1950
  9. Created by American(s)
118

Take a DQ
Not Sergeant York
Not Yuri Gargarin (sp?)

119

Previous IQs:

A beautiful woman, were Joey and Chandler shown to be fans of yours on Friends? - Yasmin Bleeth, on Baywatch
Did Gary Cooper play you in a B&W movie? - Yes, Sgt. York
Were you the first man in space? - Yes, Yuri Gagarin

DQ:

Lead character?

IQs:

Are you a New Age musician who was particularly popular in the Nineties?
Were you Gorbachev’s CPSU patron?
Did you know Major Major Major Major?

120

IQs:
1. Has your art included such works as Cut Piece, Ceiling Painting/Yes Painting, and various experimental films?
2. Were you often seen wearing a black-and-white fishnet-patterned keffiyeh, draped over one shoulder?
3. In Futurama were you the titular Beast with a Billion Backs?

DQs:
1. originally from prose?
2. first appeared after 1990?