Botticelli, March 2014

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Occasionally male.
  3. Only name starts with G.
  4. Apparently somehow still alive.
  5. Not American, but character created by Americans.
  6. First appeared after 1950.
  7. First appeared in a movie.
  8. Not human, but occasionally humanoid.
102

I’m not Gretel?
Take DQs for the other 2.

103

Number 1 is looking for Ray Garrity, from “The Long Walk.” Number 2 is Gorgar, a popular pinball machine back in the 1980s. Number 3 is Gig Young.

Three DQs reserved for now–this is going to take some thinking about.

104

Garrity was the answer in a previous Botticelli round, wasn’t he?

Previous IQs:

Were you charged with trespassing, theft and damage of property in a children’s trial? - Gretel is a good guess, but this was Goldilocks, in an Ohio State Bar Assoc. educational program.
Were you a French admiral in the right place at the right time? - Comte de Grasse, during the 1781 Yorktown campaign, helped bottle up Cornwallis’s army.
Did you publish The Liberator? - Hell-for-leather abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.

DQs:

Alien?
Appeared in more than one movie?

IQs:

Did your family die during a performance?
Were you the confidante of a young secret agent?
Did the same actor play you, a corrupt politician and a nightclub entertainer?

105

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Occasionally male.
  3. Only name starts with G.
  4. Apparently somehow still alive.
  5. Not American, but character created by Americans.
  6. First appeared after 1950.
  7. First appeared in a movie.
  8. Not human, but occasionally humanoid.
  9. Alien (well, from another dimension)
  10. Only appeared in one movie, but also appeared in movie-related video-game and cartoon
106

I am not Dick Grayson (of the Flying Graysons).
Take DQs for the last 2.

107

Previous IQs:

Did your family die during a performance? - Yes, Dick Grayson/Robin.
Were you the confidante of a young secret agent? - Ol’ Golly in Harriet the Spy.
Did the same actor play you, a corrupt politician and a nightclub entertainer? - British actor Colin Jeavons played G. Lestrade (Conan Doyle never gave us his first name) in the Granada TV The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes films with Jeremy Brett; Tim Stamper in House of Cards, and Max Quordlepleen in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

DQs:

First appeared after 1980?
Movie set mostly or entirely in the U.S.?

IQs:

Were you a supernatural being who came to New York City in the Eighties?
Did you and your wife tear at each other in the presence of a younger married couple?
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?

108

*Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you! *

Yes, I am Gozer the Gozerian!

Well done, EH!

109

Very nice! Was thinking Ghostbusters, couldn’t think of appropriate character.

110

Good one, Prof. P., and thanks. I thought that might the guy, er, gal, er… thing.

Other previous IQs:

Did you and your wife tear at each other in the presence of a younger married couple? - George and Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - George Henry Thomas, a Civil War general and hero of mine.

Lemme think a little on the next name.

111

And our next letter is

S

112

IQ: Were you a pioneering Greek writer?

113

Not Socrates.

114

That was Sophocles.

Socrates was a philosopher.

DQ: Real?

115

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Odd Couple?
  2. Did you play Gloria Stivic on TV?
  3. Did you have a hit with These Boots Are Made For Walking?
116

Not Neil Simon, Sally Struthers or Nancy Sinatra.

S.

  1. not real
117

IQs:

  1. Were you one of Grover’s VP’s?
  2. Did you trade birthdays with a little girl?
  3. Did you host The Tonight Show?
118

Not Adlai Stevenson, dunno, and not… Steve Martin (he was a guest host, right?).

119

Adlai’s right.
#2 was Robert Lewis Stevenson (Her birthday was on Christmas, and he changed with her so she could get presents twice a year like other children.)
#3 was Steve Allen, first host of The Tonight Show. Steve Martin did guest-host for Johnny once or twice, but, hey, who didn’t?.

DQ: Male?

120

Oh, and thanks for updating the letters used list again, EH! Looks like I’ll be thinking of ones for K and F.

IQs:

  1. Did you kill Bobby Kennedy?
  2. Did you compose Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District?
  3. Were you probably the first notable jazz saxophonist?