Botticelli - March 2019

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Was your fleet defeated at the Battle of Salamis? - Yes, Xerxes
Did you play a turncoat Secret Service agent? - This was also Xander Berkeley, in Air Force One, so I’ll withdraw it
Were you Luna Lovegood’s papa? - Yes, Xenophilius Lovegood

IQs:

Were you Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Eighties?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you a noted Boston politico who later got a courthouse named after him?

82

correct, Xochitl, Xenophon

holding 2 DQs

83

We done Xenophon!

84

Bah, holding 1 DQ then.

85

Take three DQs.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. only name starts with X
86

IQs:

  1. Are you a 20th Century Greek/French modernist classical composer?
  2. Are you a furry Titan who fought the Hulk and other Marvel heroes?
  3. Are you a Brazilian talk show host and singer?
87

Previous IQs:

Were you Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps in the Eighties? - Paul X. Kelley
Did you command Hill Street Station? - Francis X. Furillo, on Hill Street Blues
Were you a noted Boston politico who later got a courthouse named after him? - Francis X. Morrissey

We’ve allowed “X.” middle names before, given the relative paucity of people with the letter in their names, and I hope that’s still OK.

DQs:

Human?
American?
Born since 1970?

IQs:

Were you intended to be Cmdr. Spock’s replacement?
Were you the Olmec war god depicted on a giant stone head given by Mr. Burns to the Simpsons?
Did many blame you for the Tiananmen Square massacre?

88
  1. I am not Xenakis.
  2. I am not Xemnu.
  3. I am not Xuxa.

Respectively:
I am not Xon.
I am not…well, my vague memory is that the name is something like “Xahupocapetl”.
I am not Deng Xiaoping.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. only name starts with X
  5. human
  6. American
  7. born after 1970
89

IQ1: Are you Socrates’s wife?
IQ2: Are you a rapper who hosts Pimp My Ride?
IQ3: Are you a Wolverine foe who scars himself for every kill he commits?

DQ: Known for the Arts>?

90

I am not Xanthippe or Mr. X, but I am indeed Xzibit! Next round goes to Knowed Out.

91

Good one, KO!

I never heard of the guy, myself.

92

OK, Y is next.

93

IQs:

  1. Are you smarter than the average bear?
  2. When Mr. Rogers called you to let you know he was going to die, did you play him a work by Bach over the telephone?
  3. Did you have a hit with Guitars, Cadillacs?
94

not Yogi, DQ DQ

95

I hadn’t heard of him, either, but it’s just as well, because I think I’d just about exhausted my trove of “X” names. Good job, KO!

Correct: Xon | Memory Beta, non-canon Star Trek Wiki | Fandom
Very good, and close enough: Olmec head | Simpsons Wiki | Fandom
Correct.

On to Y…

IQs:

Did Hamlet know you, a man of infinite jest?
Were you the only man to survive a disaster that killed all of Earth’s men?
Were you a costar of Baywatch?

96

IQs:

  1. Did you claim “I really didn’t say everything I said"?
  2. Did you play Basil Exposition, Hibbing Goodhue, Tybalt, and Logan?
  3. Were you the first man in space?
97

not poor Yorick, not Y the Last Man, not Yasmine Bleeth

98

not Yogi Berra, DQ, not Yuri somebody - take a DQ

99

Swept me!

IQs:

Were you the only former KGB Chairman to rise to the leadership of the USSR?
Are you a Russian standup comic?
Was your group alluded to, but not mentioned by name, in the Coen Bros. movie* Inside Llewyn Davis*?

100

not Yuri Andropov, not Yakhov Smirnoff, DQ