Botticelli - March 2013

Thread Games
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#1 is from ‘Firefly’ - in the episode ‘Jaynestown’, Jayne Cobb discovers that the ceramic miners, ‘mudders’, have built a statue of him, and revere him as a Robin Hood-esque folk hero.
#2. is Josquin des Prez, better known as simply ‘Josquin’. A Franco-Flemish composer of the late 15th/early 16th centuries. He wrote secular love songs, but he is best remembered for his nearly 200 settings of the mass.
#3 - Well, actually, there are several - Sir John A. MacDonald was the first Prime Minister of Canada.

DQ1 - Were you born before 1950?
DQ2 - Are you known for your contributions to The Arts, broadly defined?
DQ3 - Are you European?

102

John Adams.
Jerome K Jerome, author of Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog).
Joy Adamson.
Three DQs reserved pending answers to those already asked.

103

There is a very popular rock quartet, where 3 of the 4 members have names which begin with ‘J’.
Are you the three members of this band?

104

Ministre-I’m a non European born after 1950. Not known for my contributions to the Arts as we define that term.

I’m not in that band (unsure if this earns a DQ)

105

Johannes Gutenberg, Jeanne Calment and Jules Verne respectively.

DQ1: Are you involved in politics?
DQ2: Are you from the American continent?
DQ3: Born after 1980?

106

I’m not a politician
I’m not from the New World (North and South America+Carribean)
I was born after 1980

107

Hey etv, can you keep up the list of answered DQs?

IQ1: Are you the author of a trilogy of novels set in Chamisaville County, New Mexico?
IQ2: Are you the president of a fictional California outlaw motorcycle gang?
IQ3: Did God totally fuck up your life on a bet?

108

DQ1: Sports?
DQ2: Asian?

One DQ still reserved.

109

“Jeremiah was a bullfrog / was a good friend of mine…”
I’ll rephrase this one below.
John Brown wasn’t from Maryland; I was thinking of Johns Hopkins.

Two DQs reserved, pending answers to the others already asked.

IQs:

Were you a man mocked by Bryant Gumbel?
Did you serve as an aide to your famous father, and as a diplomat, before achieving a top job?
Did you lie about funding an opposition newspaper until the editor ratted you out?

110

Nerd and EH-3 DQs each!

I’m not from Asia, and I’m not an athlete

Review of known info

111

Known info

1.Real
2.Not American
3.Living
4.1st name begins “J”
5.Not European
6.Born after 1950 (superseeded below)
7.Not in Arts
8.Not a politician
9.Not from New World (i.e. the Americas)
10.Born after 1980
11.Not from Asia
12.Not an athlete

112

added gender

113

I’ll put it a better way…

IQ1: Are you the guitarist of an extremely popular rock band?
IQ2: Are you the drummer of the same extremely popular rock band?
IQ3: Are you a multi-instrumentalist of the same extremely popular rock band?

114

IQ1: Did you carry a bow and a broadsword into combat during WW II?
IQ2: Were you born in Angola after your parents were marooned there following a mutiny aboard the ship on which they were passengers?
IQ3: Were you the Swedish nightingale?

115

Thanks for the summary.

  1. John Nichols
  2. Jax Teller (Sons of Anarchy)
  3. Job

DQ: Are you African?
DQ: Are you a media figure?

Third DQ reserved.

116

Jerry Seinfeld, in the “puffy shirt” episode.
John Quincy Adams.
Thomas Jefferson, while serving as Secretary of State in Washington’s Cabinet.

Three DQs reserved.

117

Min and SC-3 DQs each
Nerd-Not African, not a journalist

118

IQ1: Were you Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda?
IQ2: Were you a famous Catalan sculptor?
IQ3: Did you direct the film Breathless, one of the most influential of the French New Wave?

119

So…

  1. Real
  2. Not American
  3. Living
  4. Female
  5. First name begins “J”
  6. Not European
  7. Born after 1950 (superceded below)
  8. Not in Arts
  9. Not a politician
  10. Not from New World (i.e. the Americas)
  11. Born after 1980
  12. Not from Asia
  13. Not an athlete
  14. Not African
  15. Not a journalist

Hmm. My DQs:

Famous for a single incident?
From the Pacific Ocean region?
Winner of a well-known prize of any kind?

120

The band in question is Led Zeppelin, and the musicians are Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones, respectively.

I’ll reserve my DQs until we hear about Elendil’s Heir’s most recent answers.