Botticelli - March 2017

Thread Games
101

Dunno, not Yoko Ono, and still not the Yellow Kid.

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. did not first appear in text
  4. last name begins with Y
  5. created by an American(s)
  6. from a movie or movies
  7. not a protagonist
  8. created before 1990
  9. set in the present day (for when the movie was made) in the real world
  10. created after 1950
  11. movie is partly a comedy
  12. kinda sorta the antagonist
  13. set before 1970
  14. nationality not certain but may be naturalized U.S. citizen
  15. not in crime genre
  16. middle age or older (actor was 41 when movie came out)
  17. not a war film
102

#1 was Yma Sumac. Correct x2.

DQ: Did the film win any Oscars?

103

IQ1: Are you a dog in a film with Fess Parker?
IQ2: Are you a QB who led the NY Giants to 3 straight NFL championship games in the early 60’s?
IQ3: Were you the MLB American League MVP in 1967?

104

Still not Old Yeller, dunno and dunno.

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. did not first appear in text
  4. last name begins with Y
  5. created by an American(s)
  6. from a movie or movies
  7. not a protagonist
  8. created before 1990
  9. set in the present day (for when the movie was made) in the real world
  10. created after 1950
  11. movie is partly a comedy
  12. kinda sorta the antagonist
  13. set before 1970
  14. nationality not certain but may be naturalized U.S. citizen
  15. not in crime genre
  16. middle age or older (actor was 41 when movie came out)
  17. not a war film
  18. film won two Oscars
105

…not coming up with anything yet…
IQs:

  1. Was your brother Cole Younger?
  2. Was your brother also Cole Younger?
  3. Was your brother also also Cole Younger?
106

Not Younger, Younger or Younger.

Or, in other words, take 3 DQs.

107

John, Jim and Bob Younger.

3 DQs reserved.

108

correct, Y. A. Tittle, Carl Yazstremski

DQ: Romance genre?

holding 2 DQs

109

DQs:

  1. Created in the 1960’s?
  2. Musical?
110

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. did not first appear in text
  4. last name begins with Y
  5. created by an American(s)
  6. from a movie or movies
  7. not a protagonist
  8. created before 1990
  9. set in the present day (for when the movie was made) in the real world
  10. created after 1950
  11. movie is partly a comedy
  12. kinda sorta the antagonist
  13. set before 1970
  14. nationality not certain but may be naturalized U.S. citizen
  15. not in crime genre
  16. middle age or older (actor was 41 when movie came out)
  17. not a war film
  18. film won two Oscars
  19. mostly in romance genre
  20. created in the 1960s
  21. not a musical

That’s 20, plus a bonus question. Discuss amongst yourselves, and please ask your earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by, let’s say, 5pm EST Friday.

111

Antagonistic character from a 1960’s sort-of-comedy (not a romance, musical, war or crime) movie that won 2 Oscars, set in the present day. Did not first appear in text.

I’m not coming up with anyone at the moment. Time to wake up and then think.

112

Or not.

DQ: Are you Mr. Yunioshi (as played by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s)?

113

Damn, you’re good! Right out of the gate. Yes, I am the extraordinarily un-P.C.

I. Y. Yunioshi

(Mis)played by Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s: I. Y. Yunioshi - Wikipedia

And see: Yunioshi - Wikipedia

Yet again, well done, Prof. P.!

114

The middle-aged nature of the character and the dubious nationality helped.

So, having consulted EH’s list,

I am T!

115

IQs:

Were you called “Old Pap” by some?
Did Joseph Ellis refer to you as the “American Sphinx”?
Are you a White House correspondent whose career ended in controversy?

116

Take 3 DQs.

117

Previous IQs:

Were you called “Old Pap” by some? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas of the American Civil War (better known as “the Rock of Chickamauga”)
Did Joseph Ellis refer to you as the “American Sphinx”? - Thomas Jefferson
Are you a White House correspondent whose career ended in controversy? - Helen Thomas

Thomas x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with T?

IQs:

Were you, a Vermonter who moved to Pennsylvania, played by a Texan in a recent movie?
Are you that Texan?
Did you and your younger wife notoriously have vials of each others’ blood?

118

DQ:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T
119

Take three more DQs.

120

Never heard of him… At least Prof P saved me the trouble of having to pass. :smiley:
IQ1: Were you the insomniac hero of a series by Lawrence Block?
IQ2: Were you Carthoris’s mother?
IQ3: Were you Carthoris’s wife?