Botticelli: Late June, 2012

Thread Games
101

I misunderstood the arts clue so I will take my 3 DQ’s
DQ1: Did you die after 1950?
DQ2: Were you famous for athletic achievement?
DQ3: Was a film made about your life?

102
  1. I’m not Truman Capote.
  2. No idea, take a DQ.
  3. I’m not Tom Hanks from Castaway.

No idea, have a DQ.

DQ Summary

  1. I am male.
  2. I am currently dead.
  3. I was a real person.
  4. I am American.
  5. My last name does not begin with T.
  6. I died after 1900.
  7. I am not noted for my contribution to The Fine Arts.
  8. I died before 1950.
  9. I am not famous for athletic achievement.
  10. I am not aware of any film made about my life.
103

IQ2 was Thomas Kinkaide, “artist”.

DQ: Were you involved in politics?

104

DQ Summary

  1. I am male.
  2. I am currently dead.
  3. I was a real person.
  4. I am American.
  5. My last name does not begin with T.
  6. I died after 1900.
  7. I am not noted for my contribution to The Fine Arts.
  8. I died before 1950.
  9. I am not famous for athletic achievement.
  10. I am not aware of any film made about my life.
  11. I personally was not involved in politics, but some of my work was cited by political figures.
105

I was thinking Thurgood Marshall, who argued Brown at the SCOTUS.

DQ: Were you an academic?

106

DQ Summary

  1. I am male.
  2. I am currently dead.
  3. I was a real person.
  4. I am American.
  5. My last name does not begin with T.
  6. I died after 1900.
  7. I am not noted for my contribution to The Fine Arts.
  8. I died before 1950.
  9. I am not famous for athletic achievement.
  10. I am not aware of any film made about my life.
  11. I personally was not involved in politics, but some of my work was cited by political figures.
  12. I was noted for my academic work.
107

IQ1: Did your name become a verb for the act of an athlete praying?

IQ2: Did you, a computer researcher, loan your name to a test that shows whether a machine is thinking like a human?

IQ3: Did you and your friends (one of whom wore a knitted cap) have wacky TV adventures in the 1960s, in between making hit records?

108

Side question to fellow players: Am I the only one who mentally answers IQs?

109

  1. I’m not Tim Tebow.

  2. I’m not Alan Turing.

  3. I’m not Peter Tork of The Monkees.
    Edit: etv78, I also answer the IQs to myself when I’m guessing.

110

Correct on all. And I also answer the IQs.

111

IQ1: Was the reporter who interrupted the President’s speech on immigration in your employ?
IQ2: Did you and your wife star on L.A. Law?
IQ3: Was a movie made about your experience building cars?

112

  1. No idea. so a DQ.

  2. I’m not Mr. Jill Eikenberry - AKA Michael Tucker.

  3. I don’t know the first name of Mr. Tucker, the inventor of the Tucker Torpedo, so I’m not sure if that counts. Take a DQ if you feel like it.

113

IQ1: Was the reporter who interrupted the President’s speech on immigration in your employ?

  1. No idea. so a DQ.
    IQ1: Tucker Carlson
    DQ1: Was your work in hard sciences?
114

DQ Summary

  1. I am male.
  2. I am currently dead.
  3. I was a real person.
  4. I am American.
  5. My last name does not begin with T.
  6. I died after 1900.
  7. I am not noted for my contribution to The Fine Arts.
  8. I died before 1950.
  9. I am not famous for athletic achievement.
  10. I am not aware of any film made about my life.
  11. I personally was not involved in politics, but some of my work was cited by political figures.
  12. I was noted for my academic work.
  13. My work was not in the hard sciences, such as chemistry, physics, math, etc.
115

IQ1: Did you write “The Magnificent Ambersons?”
IQ2: Were you possibly the greatest British bridge player when you were caught cheating?
IQ3: Were you The New York Times bridge writer who was a witness to the cheating and who later wrote a book on the evnts that took place at a World Championship?

116

3 DQs.

117

IQ: Have you written books about how the Earth’s shape effects economics?

118

IQ1: Booth Tarkington
IQ2: Terrence Reese
IQ3: Alan Truscott

DQ1: Are you an economist?
DQ2: Was your work done for an Ivy League university?
DQ3: Did you die after 1920?

119

No idea, a DQ.

Edit: I don’t know what you are getting at here, could you be a little more specific? (Since it may impact the correctness/incorrectness of my answer).
Edit 2: Specifically, what do you mean by 'Earth’s shape"?

DQ Summary

  1. I am male.
  2. I am currently dead.
  3. I was a real person.
  4. I am American.
  5. My last name does not begin with T.
  6. I died after 1900.
  7. I am not noted for my contribution to The Fine Arts.
  8. I died before 1950.
  9. I am not famous for athletic achievement.
  10. I am not aware of any film made about my life.
  11. I personally was not involved in politics, but some of my work was cited by political figures.
  12. I was noted for my academic work.
  13. My work was not in the hard sciences, such as chemistry, physics, math, etc.
  14. I was not an economist.
  15. I was not associated with an Ivy League university, and I am unaware of any work done at such an institution.
  16. I died before 1920 (so, I died between 1900 and 1920).
120

I was going for Tom Friedman (The “Earth is Flat and Crowded” author)

DQ: Were you a political scientist?