Botticelli - March 2015

Thread Games
361

Correct on Ken and Buster. #3 was Kathleen Nolan.

DQ: Known for a criminal act or acts?

362

IQs:

  1. Did you have to choose between the River of the Arrow and the Great Game?
  2. Are you considered by many to have been the major Protestant theologian of the 20th Century?
  3. Did you write Either/Or?
363

Not Kipling’s Kim (Kimball O’Hara) or Karl Barth.

Take a DQfor 3

364

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Born before 1900
  6. First name starts with K
  7. Died between 1900 and 1950
  8. Not involved in any of the arts
  9. I did hold a prominent political office… but that’s not what I’m best known for (this is a huge hint)
  10. Closely connected to famous criminal acts, but I never committed any crimes myself
365

Correct on Kim and Karl.
#3 was Soren Kierkegaard.

DQ: Common first name?

366

IQs:

  1. Did you supposedly “break the internet”?
  2. Did you clown around with Betty Boop?
  3. Were you “the Last Boy on Earth”?
367

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Born before 1900
  6. First name starts with K
  7. Died between 1900 and 1950
  8. Not involved in any of the arts
  9. I did hold a prominent political office… but that’s not what I’m best known for (this is a huge hint)
  10. Closely connected to famous criminal acts, but I never committed any crimes myself
  11. Extremely uncommon first name- can’t think of anyone else who ever had it.
368

Not Kim Kardashian or Kamandi

Take a DQ for #2

369

Right on Kim and Kamandi. #2 was Koko the Clown.

IQ: Were you the first Major League Baseball commissioner?

370

YESSSSSS! I am Kenesaw Mountain Landis, federal judge and, in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, the first man selected to clean up corruption as commissioner of the major leagues.

Well done, Professor~

371

Thank you! I am W.

372

Grats perfesser!

IQ1: Is your real name Travis Morgan, and do you fight for the freedom of the people of Skartaris?
IQ2: Are you a longtime enemy of The Flash who summons tornadoes and hailstorms?
IQ3: Are you the original Sandman, a crime fighter from the 30’s?

373

I am not the Warlord. I am not the Weather Wizard. I am not Wesley Dodds.

374

astorian and Prof. Pepperwinkle, get out of my head.

IQ1: Are you an Inferior Five member who’s a superb archer if he thinks nobody is watching?
IQ2: Are you one of the Legion of Super Heroes, originally an astroengineer who got your powers as a result of an anti-matter blast from a propulsion system?
IQ3: Are you Plastic Man’s inept sidekick?

375

[Move over, astorian, there’s precious little room here on the cerebral cortex as it is.]

I am not White Feather. I am not Wildfire. I am not Woozy Winks.

376

IQ1: Were you chief of the OKW during WW II?
IQ2: According to a song, did you say “Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department”?
IQ3: Were you an architect who married, and then divorced, a composer’s widow?

377

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Werner von Braun.
I am not Frank Lloyd Wright.

378

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.
Correct.
Walter Gropius, who married Gustav Mahler’s widow. (I figured this one would be a little too obvious, coming right after another Tom Lehrer reference…)
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Female?
IQ1: Were you a European ruler whose left arm was six inches shorter than his right?
IQ2: Were you that person’s grandfather?
IQ3: Are you an RAF officer whose personalised mug was labeled “Big Willy”?

379

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
380

…and take 3 DQs.