Botticelli - March 2015

Thread Games
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  1. Billy Gilbert was a character actor known for his comic sneezing. He voiced Sneezy in Disney’s Snow White.
  2. Shel Silverstein wrote and recorded a comic poem: “Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout”.

DQ: Died after 1900?

1 DQ reserved.

102

Previous IQs:

Did Sam Kinnison joke that you were obsessed with fellatio? - Richard Simmons
Were you the top drillmaster of George Washington’s troops? - Yes, von Steuben
Are you arguably the second-best-known person to come from the town named after him? - Dean Martin is the best-known, you’re right; Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s SecWar, is arguably the second.

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you the female lead of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth?
Did you write Travels with Charley?
Did Sherlock Holmes pretend to be this Scandinavian explorer?

103

You answered my DQs (9 and 10), but not my IQs:

104

Not Levi Strauss or Max Shreck.

Take a DQ for #2

105

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. European
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Not involved in politics
  9. Died well after 1700
  10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  11. Not known for science or technology
  12. Died after 1900
106

Not Sabina or John Steinbeck.

I SHOULD know Holmes trivia, but don’t remember this alias (I will as soon as you tell me).

Take a DQ for #3

107

Originally Posted by SCAdian
IQ1: Were you a Nazi Party member who was financially supported by Jews after WW II?
IQ2: Were you the Young Pretender?
IQ3: Did you write about the Houyhnhnms?

Not Oskar Schindler?
Not Bonny Prince Charlie Stuart

Not Jonathan Swift

108

IQs:

  1. Have you been a member of the Seven Soldiers of Victory, the Justice Society of America and the Knights of the Round Table?
  2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s sidekick?
  3. Were you a Kirby superhero, aka Garrett Sanford?
109

Not Stripesy.

Take a DQ for 1 and 3

110

Previous IQs:

Were you the female lead of Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth? - Yes, Sabina
Did you write Travels with Charley? - Yes, John Steinbeck
Did Sherlock Holmes pretend to be this Scandinavian explorer? - Sigerson, during the “Great Hiatus” (while Holmes was thought to have been killed by Moriarty).

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or south of Vienna?
Best known as a businessman/tycoon?

IQs:

Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Were you the Tory hero of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals?
Are you a newscaster with a hard first name?

111

#1 was the Shining Knight. Correct on Stripesy. #3 was a laughably bad character called the Sandman.

2 DQs reserved.

112

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. European
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Not involved in politics
  9. Died well after 1700
  10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  11. Not known for science or technology
  12. Died after 1900
  13. Not a businessman
  14. Born far west and well north of Vienna
113

Did you write a book about the experience of playing Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Were you the Tory hero of Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals?
Are you a newscaster with a hard first name?

Take 3 DQs

114

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with SA-to-SK?
  2. Known for military reasons?
115

Arthur Schopenhauer

holding a DQ

IQ1: Were you executed at Nuremberg for performing harmful experiments on human subjects at Dachau?
IQ2: Are you a gay call-in show DJ in Doonesbury?
IQ3: Did you win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for your philosophy of Reverence for Life?

116

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Did you report having found channels on Mars?
IQ2: Were you a noted Arctic explorer from Canada?
IQ3: Were you one of the designers of the Great Panjandrum?

117

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. European
  7. Not involved in the arts
  8. Not involved in politics
  9. Died well after 1700
  10. Spoke a language that was Germanic in origin
  11. Not known for science or technology
  12. Died after 1900
  13. Not a businessman
  14. Born far west and well north of Vienna
  15. Last name starts with SO-SZ
  16. Not a military figure
118

Not Mark Slackmeyer

Take two DQs for the others

119

Three DQs for you

120

IQs:

  1. Were you the character that promoted Julie Newmar to stardom?
  2. Did Cliff Robertson portray you on Batman?
  3. Were you co-creator of Captain America with Jack Kirby?