Botticelli - June 2024

Thread Games
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O

  1. Real
  2. Male
182

Previous IQs:

Did you supposedly say, “Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never see either made”? - Otto von Bismarck
Were you a fictional South African minister of justice? - Otto in A Fish Called Wanda
Did your head turn entirely around when you got excited? - Otto the Autopilot in Airplane!

Otto x3!

DQs:

Living?
American?
Last name begins with O?

IQs:

Were you Mork’s boss from Ork?
Did you provide Bilbo’s voice in a cartoon?
Were you a descendant of Lincoln’s SECNAV?

183

And there I was, wondering what Linda Blair’s character in The Exorcist was called. Otto (x3), of course.

I am not Orson.
I am not Orson Bean.
I am not Orson Welles. (I did not know that!)

184

O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. First name begins with O
185

You swept me - Orson x3! I should have said, the film director claimed to have been a descendant of Gideon Welles, but he probably wasn’t.

IQs:

Were you a noted creator of Broadway hits?
Did you ask for more gruel?
Were you the young hero of The Point?

186

DQ: Died before 1950?

IQs:

  1. Did you break Ursula Andress’s arm while you were her boyfriend?
  2. Did you draw The Little King comic strip?
  3. Are you currently drawing Popeye on Sundays only?
187

I am not Oscar Hammerstein II, nor am I Oliver Twist.
Take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

188

O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. First name begins with O
  6. Died since 1950
189

#1 was Ryan O’Neal.
#2 was Otto Soglow.
#3 is Bruce Ozella.

DQs:

  1. Died after 2000?
  2. Known for the Arts?

1 DQ reserved.

190

O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. First name begins with O
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Partly but not primarily known for the arts
191

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted creator of Broadway hits? - Yes, Oscar Hammerstein II
Did you ask for more gruel? - Yes, Oliver Twist
Were you the young hero of The Point? - Oblio (“Little Obie”) in that heartwarming TV movie

DQ:

Political/military?

IQs:

An Alsatian minister, were you the Gandhi of your day?
Did you pretend to appear nude from the waist down on SNL?
Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown?

192

IQs:

  1. Did Shelley write a poem about your legs?
  2. Were you a paleontologist who named the generas Allosaurus and Brontosaurus, and had a nasty rivalry with Edward Drinker Cope?
  3. Was your partner always getting you into fine messes?
193

And that’s a sweep. Take 3 DQs.

Take 2 DQs.
I am not Oliver Hardy.

194

O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. First name begins with O
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Partly but not primarily known for the arts
  9. Not known for politics / military
195

DQ: Known for Sports?

  1. Are you a baseball player of note who died this last week?
  2. Are you the central character of a series of books by Dean Koontz?
  3. Did you go crazy when your lover killed your dad?
196

I am not Orlando Cepeda.
Take a DQ.
I am not Oedipus.

197

O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. First name begins with O
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Partly but not primarily known for the arts
  9. Not known for politics / military
  10. Known initially for sports, but probably not the main source of fame now
198

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . .

  1. was Ozymandias, king of kings. 2. was Othniel Charles Marsh, whose vitriolic rivalry with fellow fossil-hunter Edwin Drinker Cope led to the discovery of dozens of species of dinosaurs. Correct on Oliver Hardy.

DQs:

  1. (American) football player?
  2. Last name begins A - M?
199

O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. First name begins with O
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Partly but not primarily known for the arts
  9. Not known for politics / military
  10. Known initially for sports, but probably not the main source of fame now
  11. Football player
  12. Last name begins N-Z
200

IQs:

  1. Were you a musician of surpassing skill, who was torn apart by drunken women?
  2. According to a ditty, are you baloney?
  3. Are you the Buffalo Bills’ greatest, yet most-disgraced player?