Botticelli - May 2014

Thread Games
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  1. Klaatu, alien visitor played by Michael Rennie in the sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still, and by Keanu Reeves in the not-so-classic remake.
  2. Allen Klein, scumbag and former manager of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles. After swindling the Stones out the publishing rights to their pre-1970 material (AKA the good stuff), he licensed a sample of an orchestral version of “The Last Time” to The Verve for their 90s hit “Bittersweet Symphony”. After the song became a hit, he claimed they sampled more than they should have, sued to get a Jagger/Richards cowriting credit, and settled for 100% of the royalties from the song. He then licensed the Verve’s song to Nike to pocket even more money.

DQ1: Did your creative works appear in print?
DQ2: Died after 1985?

IQ1: Did you create The Fantastic Four and The Hulk along with many other classic Marvel characters?
IQ2: Were you a real pissant who was very rarely stable?
IQ3: Did you play in the band Fecal Matter?

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IQs;

  1. Did you write Metamorphosis?
  2. Did you write Critique of Pure Reason?
  3. Did you write Either/Or?
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ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness wins! The mystery guest was Jack Kirby!

Apologies for the cheats, but once you guys established visual arts, it was only a matter of time.

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Way to go, Chock!

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Cool.

To catch up, my other two IQs were Immanuel Kant and Kurt Cobain.

Next up…

A

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IQs:

  1. Were you an actress who starred in Queen of the Damned and died young?
  2. Were you Skeeve’s Pervect mentor?
  3. Are you Patrick Jane’s new boss?
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  1. Not Aaliyah
    Take 2 DQs
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  1. Did you have a hit with Goody Two Shoes?
  2. Are you a lawyer who defended Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, and Jim Bakker?
  3. Are you an Archangel of Death?
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Right on Aaliyah. #2 was Aahz from Robert Asprin’s Myth Adventures series. #3 is FBI Director Abbott.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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All right, ChockFull! Way to go.

Previous IQs:

Was your boss resentful of an award you got? - Richard Nixon was resentful of Henry Kissinger’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Did you write that Queen Elizabeth (the later Queen Mother) had been artificially inseminated? - Gossipmonger Kitty Kelley.
Were you the owner of Fallingwater? - Edgar Kaufmann Sr.

On to A…

IQs:

Are you mistakenly credited with inventing baseball?
Are you a former Federal judge who served as White House Counsel?
Was your mom Gilraen?

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Well done, ChockFull!

Questions for A:

IQ1: Did you fill in as governor of California between acting gigs?
IQ2: Are you an English comic strip character who drinks too much?
IQ3: Are you the subject of a novel by Edgar Allan Poe?

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1: Not Adam Ant
Take 2 DQs

Yes and Yes

1: Not Abner Doubleday
2: Not Alberto Gonzales
3: Take a DQ

1: Not Arnold Schwarznegger
2: Not Andy Capp
3: Not Annabel Lee

Summary:
A

  1. Real
  2. Male
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Argh! Brain Fart!! Annabel Lee was a poem, not a novel. Take a DQ, Spoons.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Pet Detective?
  2. Is your secret identity Warren Worthington III?
  3. Did you write Pineapple Princess for your girlfriend to sing?
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1: Not Ace Ventura
Take 2 DQs

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Thanks! You’re correct, of course, that “Annabel Lee” was a poem, and I was looking for Arthur Gordon Pym. the subject of Poe’s only novel. Correct also, by the way, on Arnold Schwarzeneggar and Andy Capp.

DQ: Last name start with A?

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2 is Alan Dershowitz
3 is Azrael

DQ1: Alive?
DQ2: Author?

(couldn’t help but ask questions beginning with A)

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Righto on Mr. Ventura. #2 is Angel (or Archangel) of the X-Men. #3 was written by Paul Anka for Annette Funicello.

2 DQs reserved for the moment.

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Previous IQs:

Are you mistakenly credited with inventing baseball? - Yes, Abner Doubleday.
Are you a former Federal judge who served as White House Counsel? - Alberto Gonzales was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court, but never a Federal judge. I was thinking of Abner Mikva.
Was your mom Gilraen? - 'Twas Aragorn, son of Arathorn.

DQs:

American?
Born since 1940?

IQs:

Are you a noted writer whose birthday is today?
Did you joke about your Irish birth and stables?
Did Faulkner use your name in a title?

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Yes

Yes
Yes, although that’s not what I’m best known for

DQs: Yes and No
IQs:
3) Not Absalom. Take DQs for the other 2

Summary:
A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with A
  4. Alive
  5. Author, but not what I’m best known for
  6. American
  7. Not born since 1940