Botticelli - March 2020

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Were you slain by an archer sparrow?
  2. Were you apprenticed to Seth Pecksniff?
  3. Are you J.K. Rowling’s noir detective. written under the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith?
122

Dunno, not noted Arctic explorer Yukon Cornelius, and dunno.

Dunno x3.

123

#1 was Eleanor Cameron
Correct for #2
#3 was John Dickson Carr

2 DQs:

  1. From a book?
  2. European?
124

#1. "I, said the sparrow,/with my bow and arrow,/“I slew Cock Robin.”
#2 was Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit.
#3 is Cormoran Strike.

DQ: Created after 1899?

2 DQs reserved.

125

IQs

  1. Were you Smooth with Rob Thomas?
  2. Did you pitch Starkist?
  3. Were you a famous Indian fighter from Monroe, Michigan?
126

Not Carlos Santana, not Charlie the Tuna, and not George Armstrong Custer (although he was born in New Rumley, Ohio)

C.

  1. fictional
  2. not male
  3. first name starts with C
  4. from a book
  5. European
  6. created after 1899
127

Ran the table!

IQs

  1. Did you pen Almost Famous?
  2. Were you the first manager of the New York Mets?
  3. Were you played by Ben Murphy in Alias Smith and Jones?
128

Dunno, dunno, and not Charles Bronson.

129

DQs:

  1. Created after 1959?
  2. Protagonist?
130

C.

  1. fictional
  2. not male
  3. first name starts with C
  4. from a book
  5. European
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1959
  8. arguably the protagonist
131

IQs:

  1. Did you write the teen/young adult bookJane-Emily?
  2. Were you a pioneer girl in Wisconsin whose story was written by her granddaughter and whose name was the name of the book?
  3. Are you an FBI agent who managed to fascinate a noted cannibalistic serial killer and they end up disappearing together to live happily ever after?
132

IQs:

  1. Were you Bertha Broadfoot’s best known child?
  2. Did Ukulele Ike voice your character?
  3. Did you play the title role in the UK debut of ALW’s Phantom of the Opera?
133

Not Beverly Cleary, dunno, and not Clarice Starling (in one universe, anyway).

Dunno, dunno, and not Colm Wilkinson (whom I saw in the role in late '85 - magnificent!).

134

#1 was Patricia Clapp
#2 was Caddie Woodlawn, by Carol Ryrie Brink
#3 is correct

DQs:

1.Were you ever in a movie?
2. Created after 1979?

135

#1 was Charlemagne.
#2 was Jiminy Cricket, voiced by Cliff Edwards aka Ukulele Ike.
#3 was Michael Crawford.

DQ: Created by a British or Irish author or authors?

2 DQs reserved.

136

Dear god, Bertha Broadfoot was a real person?! I figured she was a comic strip character.

137

Yep. She married Pepin the Short.

138

Medieval French historians can be so cruel.

C.

  1. fictional
  2. not male
  3. first name starts with C
  4. from a book
  5. European
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1959
  8. arguably the protagonist
  9. was in a movie
  10. created before 1979
  11. created by a British or Irish author or authors
139

DQs:

  1. From a work of mainstream fiction (not science fiction, fantasy, western, mystery or horror)?
  2. First name starts with Ca-to-Ci?
140

IQs:

  1. Did you play the lead male role in Jurassic World?
  2. Did you voice Rocket in the Marvel Cinema Universe movies?
  3. Did you play the lead male role in Men In Black: International?