Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
161

Correct; correct, Karl Urban (he played Eomer in the LOTR trilogy); and Pope Urban VIII

Urban x3!

2 DQs reserved

162

And swept me again!

IQs:

  1. Did you win the Indianapolis 500 four times?
  2. Were you #1’s brother, who won the Indianapolis 500 three times?
  3. Are you #1’s son, who won the Indianapolis 500 twice?
163

DQs:

Best known from movies/TV?
First name begins A-M?

164

IQs:

  1. Were you executive director of the NFLPA until your death?
  2. Are you the namesake founder of a premium Cuban cigar brand?
  3. Do magicians consider you a fraud because you claim to have psychic powers?
165

Not Al Unser or the other two Unsers.

Dunno x3.

U.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with U
  5. not known from prose
  6. alive after 1950
  7. American
  8. alive after 2000
  9. known from the arts
  10. best known from movies/TV
  11. first name doesn’t begin with A-M
166
  1. Gene Upshaw
  2. H. Upmann
  3. Uri Geller

3 DQs reserved

167

DQs:

Alive after 2015?
Known for fantasy/scifi?

1 DQ reserved

168

U.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with U
  5. not known from prose
  6. alive after 1950
  7. American
  8. alive after 2000
  9. known from the arts
  10. best known from movies/TV
  11. first name doesn’t begin with A-M
  12. died before 2015
  13. not known for fantasy/scifi
169

IQs:

  1. Did you play Dan Tanna?
  2. Were you a Secretary of the Interior?
  3. Were you his US Representative from Arizona brother?
170

Correct on the Unsers: Al, Bobby, and Al Jr.

IQs:

  1. Did you write Romanov and Juliet?
  2. Were you a late 19th century artist best known for your Parisian street scenes?
  3. Were you one of the best known ukiyo-e (Japanese color woodblock print) artists of the early 20th Century?
171

I am neither of the Udalls, but yes, I am indeed

Robert Urich

I especially liked him on Spenser: For Hire. Gone too soon, and may he rest in peace. For more: Robert Urich - Wikipedia

Good job, kitap!

172

Good one, kitap!

173

I thought it might be him, after I saw the Vegas character. Also SWAT.

Good job kitap!

174

Thanks. I remember him in Vegas the best.

Now…

Onto

M

As in mushrooms, mop and midnight.

175

IQ1: Were you called “King Philip”?
IQ2: Did you tell your mother not to go down to the end of the town without you?
IQ3: Were you a Jewish tax collector?

176

Good one, @kitap !

On to M:

  1. Did you have the highest starting salary of all UNC geography graduates in 1986?
  2. According to Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, did you write a parody of one of Al’s original songs?
  3. Were you introduced by saying the phrase “Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!”?
177

IQs:

  1. Were you, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, memorialized at your funeral by JFK?
  2. Did you skip college and “go pro” out of high school?
  3. Are you a revered figure among many world religions?
178

I am not Metacomet and take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs

Take a DQ, I am not Michael Jordan and I am not Mohammad.

179
  1. Grandma Moses
  2. Moses Malone
  3. Moses, but I’ll give you that one

Moses x3!

180

DQs:

Real?
Male?