Botticelli March 2023

Thread Games
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1 was Stranger Things’ Will Byers; 2 was William Howard Taft.

Two DQs reserved.

22

IQ1: Are you an electronic music pioneer who composed the score for A Clockwork Orange?
IQ2: Is the former Orange County Airport in Southern California now named after you, a star of western movies?
IQ3: Did the doctor say you wouldn’t have so many nosebleeds if you kept your finger out of there?

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IQs:

  1. Did Jackie Chan play you in Shanghai Noon?
  2. Were you Jackie’ co-star in that movie?
  3. Did you write The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test?
24

Tale a DQ, I am not John Wayne, take a DQ.

Take a DQ, I am not Owen Wilson, take a DQ.

25
  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with W.
  4. No longer alive.
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not known for the Performing Arts.
  7. American
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not known for the visual arts.
26

Wendy Carlos, originally credited to Walter Carlos
Correct
Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons

DQ: Known for writing?
DQ: Died after 1960?

27
  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with W.
  4. No longer alive.
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not known for the Performing Arts.
  7. American
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not known for the visual arts.
  10. Known for writing.
  11. Died after 1960.
28

IQ1: Are you better known as Murray Leinster?
IQ2: Did you and your wife write The Story of Civilization?
IQ3: Did you write about a famous day and an unrelated famous night?

29

Take a DQ, I am not Will Durrant?? Or take DQ , I am not Walter Lord. Or take a DQ.

30

Will F Jenkins
correct (Durant)
correct


DQ: Known for writing fiction?

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  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with W.
  4. No longer alive.
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not known for the Performing Arts.
  7. American
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not known for the visual arts.
  10. Known for writing.
  11. Died after 1960.
  12. Known for fiction.
32

#1 was Chon Wang.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Tom Wolfe.

DQs:

  1. Unusual first name?
  2. Died after 2000?
33

IQs:

  1. Are you a ventriloquist’s dummy who does impressions of American presidents?
  2. Were you the inventor of the first mechanical heart?
  3. Were you the prestigious announcer for the highly acclaimed bliss-inducing 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
34

IQ: Did you write Bring the Jubilee?

35

IQs:
1. Did Edward abdicate for you?
2. Did you play legendary music producer Bruce Dickinson, who over the course of an SNL sketch about the recording of Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear the Reaper” increasingly desires the sound of one specific instrument?
3. Were you a founding member of the Avengers?

36

IQ2: Were you First Lord of the Admiralty at the beginning of WW I?
IQ3: Did you and Newt Gingrich write an AH trilogy about the USCW?

37

Take 3 DQs.

Take a DQ. …Is that a song or a book? A poem?

Take a DQ, I am not Christopher “More cowbell!!” Walken, I am not Wanda, the Scarlet Witch. Or take a DQ.

38

Take 2 DQs.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with W.
  4. No longer alive.
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not known for the Performing Arts.
  7. American
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Not known for the visual arts.
  10. Known for writing.
  11. Died after 1960.
  12. Known for fiction.
  13. Common first name
  14. Died after 2000.

To clarify #12, known for fiction rather than non-fiction. Not straight fiction.

39

#1 is Walter, an old man puppet of Jeff Dunham’s, who has “portrayed” both Trump and Biden.
#2 was Paul Winchell, better known as a ventriloquist as well.
#3 was Wallace Greenslade.

DQs:

  1. Known for science fiction, fantasy or horror?
  2. First name starts with W -to- Wh?

One DQ reserved.

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1 (caused Edward to abdicate) was Wallis Simpson; 3 (Avengers founder) was the Wasp.

DQ: known for novels?

1 DQ reserved.