Botticelli March 2016

Thread Games
361

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known for the Arts
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Known for the Performing Arts
  7. Actress
  8. First name starts with K
  9. A beauty? Maybe. Pretty and cute, but not a sex bomb.
  10. Did movies, but better known from TV
  11. Not from a TV series currently airing
  12. Born before 1990
  13. Known for really light drama, though she did have a sitcom
362

DQ: Born before 1960?

363

IQ1: Did you play the title character in the TV series Felicity?
IQ2: Did you play Charlotte York in Sex and the City?
IQ3: Did you play Rudy Huxtable in The Cosby Show?

364

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known for the Arts
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Known for the Performing Arts
  7. Actress
  8. First name starts with K
  9. A beauty? Maybe. Pretty and cute, but not a sex bomb.
  10. Did movies, but better known from TV
  11. Not from a TV series currently airing
  12. Born before 1990
  13. Known for really light drama, though she did have a sitcom
  14. Born before 1960
365

I didn’t watch either Felicity or Sex and the City. Take 2 DQs.
I am not Keshia Knight Pulliam.

366

IQ1: Did you write Out of Africa?
IQ2: Are you best known for playing a schoolteacher on TV?
IQ3: Did your parents fight to turn off your life support?

367

I’m not Gabriel Kaplan, but I am Karen Valentine.

Good job, SCAdian!

368

She just popped into my mind while I was thinking of Karens. If I’d actually been trying to remember her name I’d still be working on it next week…
I am L.

369

All right, SCAdian! Good one.

Previous IQs:

Is a kids’ memory game named after you? - Kim’s Game: Kim's Game - Wikipedia.
Did you first write about that game? - Rudyard Kipling.
Has your best-known character been both a waitress and a pharma saleswoman? - Yes, Kaley Cuoco.

On to L…

IQs:

Did you send Simon Cameron to St. Petersburg?
Did the actress who played you have to drink disgusting milkshakes to put on weight for the role?
Were you a famous son who looked a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio in your youth?

370

Three DQs.

371

IQ1: Were your books Get Shorty, Out of Sight and 3:10 to Yuma made into movies?
IQ2: Did you defeat “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler for the World Boxing Council’s middleweight title in 1987?
IQ3: Did you compose West Side Story?

372

IQs:

  1. Did you and your orchestra accompany Bob Hope on many of his goodwill Christmas tours?
  2. Does Amy Adams play you in a movie that opens today?
  3. Did you play Catwoman in the 1960’s Batman movie?
373

Previous IQs:

Did you send Simon Cameron to St. Petersburg? - Abraham Lincoln sent his failed SECWAR overseas as Ambassador to Russia.
Did the actress who played you have to drink disgusting milkshakes to put on weight for the role? - So said Sally Field in an NPR interview when she was preparing to play Mary Todd Lincoln in Spielberg’s Lincoln.
Were you a famous son who looked a lot like Leonardo DiCaprio in your youth? - Robert Todd Lincoln: http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/images/people/lincoln/lincoln_rob_21.jpg

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with L?

IQs:

Did a Judean freedom-fighter want to be known by this name?
Were you a twin who wore a white cloak?
Were you his sister?

374

Not Elmore Leonard.
Not … Sugar Ray Leonard? A guess based on the other two Leonards…
Not Leonard Bernstein.

Not … Guy Lombardo?
DQ.
DQ (though I probably should know this).

Three DQs.

L

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does start with L, but I think you probably wouldn’t recognise it
375

#1 was Les Brown, with his Band of Renown.
#2 is Lois Lane, appearing in Superman vs. Batman: Dawn of Justice.
#3 was Lee Meriwether.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Known for the Arts?
  3. American?
376

L

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does start with L, but I think you probably wouldn’t recognise it
  4. Alive
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. American
377

IQ1: Are you the stage name of Joseph Pujol, French flatulist?
IQ2: Are you best known for playing Connor MacCloud in the *Highlander *movies?
IQ3: Were you married to IQ2 and currently playing Marth Kent in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?

378

IQs:

  1. Were you a pianist whose first name was Wladziu?
  2. Are you married to Chrissy Teigen?
  3. Is a cookie named after you, the protagonist of a novel by R. D. Blackmore?
379

Not Le Petomane.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Liberace.
Never heard of her. DQ.
Not … Lorna Doone?

380

#1 is correct.
#2 is John Legend.
#3 is correct.

DQ: Known for the performing arts?