Botticelli March 2023

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did Annette sing about you in her hit single Tall Paul?
  2. Did you have a hit with I Can’t Dance?
  3. Were you a 20th Century Creole jazz clarinet player?
122

IQs:
1. Is your feast day in nine days?
2. Were you one of the inventors of television, which you came to dislike, saying nothing worthwhile was on it?
3. Are you Birdie Jay’s long-suffering assistant, and my favorite character in Glass Onion?

123

You got them backwards.

Paul Stookey
Peter Yarrow
Pierre Boulle


DQ: Caucasian?
Four DQs reserved.

124

Take 3 DQs.

Take a DQ, I am not Phil Collins, take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs

125

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian

126

Paul Kantner
Paco de Lucia
Paul Westerberg

Holding 4 DQs

127

DQ: Known for singing rock?

128

#1 was Paul Anka.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Pete Fountain.

DQs:

  1. First name starts with PA -to- PE?
  2. Best known as part of a group?

2 DQs reserved.

129

Previous IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, in the works of Isaac Asimov
Did you play a crime boss’s henchman, a dangerous florist and an aging tycoon? - Pete Postlethwaite, in The Usual Suspects, The Town and Inception
Did you light a big firework while still under a tent? - Peregrin “Pippin” Took, in LOTR

DQ:

Has won a Grammy?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you win the Battle of Lake Erie?
Are you the lead character of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War?
Are you an unlikely spy who often goes up against Dr. Doofenschmirtz?

130

Take 3_DQs.

131

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian
16. Not known for singing rock.
17. First name begins with PA- to PE-.
18. Probably equally well known for singing in a group and for solitary singing.

No more IQs, please.

Please asdk all DQs by 7 PM Tucson time Thursday.

132

1 was St. Patrick; 2 was Philo Farnsworth; 3 was Peg.

DQ: known for singing pop?

2 DQs reserved.

133

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian
16. Not known for singing rock.
17. First name begins with PA- to PE-.
18. Probably equally well known for singing in a group and for solitary singing.
19. Not known for pop music.

By the way, I misread that at “feast lasting 9 days” for reasons unknown.

134

DQ: Known for country/western music?
DQ: Also played an instrument?

Holding one DQ

135

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian
16. Not known for singing rock.
17. First name begins with PA- to PE-.
18. Probably equally well known for singing in a group and for solitary singing.
19. Not known for pop music
20. Not known for Country-Western music
21. Also played an instrument.

By the way, I misread that at “feast lasting 9 days” for reasons unknown.

136

DQ: Last name begins with A-M?
Three DQs reserved.

137

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian
16. Not known for singing rock.
17. First name begins with PA- to PE-.
18. Probably equally well known for singing in a group and for solitary singing.
19. Not known for pop music
20. Not known for Country-Western music
21. Also played an instrument
22. Last name does not start with A to MZ.

By the way, I misread that at “feast lasting 9 days” for reasons unknown.

138

Last DQ: Known for jazz/big band/swing music?

139

Last DQs:

  1. Won a Grammy?
  2. Last name starts with S to Z?
140

Thanks, this would be useful. Where is it? I must not be looking in the right places.