Botticelli - May 2014

Thread Games
201

DQs:

  1. Known for the performing arts?

1 DQ reserved for now.

202

Previous IQs:

Are you a noted writer whose birthday is today? - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Did you joke about your Irish birth and stables? - Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was born in Ireland of English parents. When asked if that didn’t make him Irish, he replied, “Just because one is born in a stable does not make one a horse.”
Did Faulkner use your name in a title? - Yes, Absalom.

DQs:

Born since 1920?
Born east of the Miss. River?

IQs:

Did you make a jeweled flag for your sweetie?
Was your catchphrase “Keep the faith, baby”?
Did a then-presidential candidate play a musical instrument on your show?

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No, but I have acted in cameo roles.

DQs: Yes and Yes
IQs
3) Not Arsenio Hall
Take 2 more DQs

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
  8. Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
  9. Born since 1920
  10. Born east of the Mississippi River
204

DQ: Known for Science?

IQs:

  1. Were you Miriam’s better-speaking brother?
  2. Did you have a hit with Genie In A Bottle?
  3. Were you a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher?
205

IQs

  1. Did you direct The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou?
  2. Did you play Kris Kringle in the remake of Miracle on 34th Street?
  3. Are you a superhero whose name is also Zonker’s nickname for B.D. in Doonesbury?
206

From the ‘K’ game:

Correct on Kim and Sky King.
Athelstan King, from Talbot Mundy’s King of the Khyber Rifles. I should probably have said “…in what is now Pakistan,” though…

207

As phrased, I’ll say yes.

1: Take a DQ
2: Not Christina Aguilera (sp?)
3: Take another DQ. Aristotle came after Socrates, so you don’t mean him.

1: Not Wes Anderson
2: Take a DQ
3: Not Captain America

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
  8. Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
  9. Born since 1920
  10. Born east of the Mississippi River
  11. Known for science
208

IQ1: Are you the wheelchair-bound character on “Glee”?
IQ2: Were you half of a pair of famous sisters who happened to be advice columnists?
IQ2: Were you the other half?

209

1: Take a DQ
2: Not Ann Landers
3: Not Abigail Van Buren (Dear Abby)

210

Correct on Ann and Abby. The “Glee” character is Artie Abrams.

DQ: Born north of the Mason-Dixon line?

211

#1 is Aaron, first high priest and brother to Miriam and the stammering Moses. #2 is correct. #3 is either Anaxagoras or Anaximander, take your pick.

DQ:
Known for biology or medicine?

1 DQ reserved.

212

Whoops, Prof beat me to my DQ

213

DQ: Science of Physics?

214

Yes

No

Related field, but I’ll say no. None of my degrees are in physics, but my doctorate is in a related field.

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
  8. Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
  9. Born since 1920
  10. Born east of the Mississippi River
  11. Known for science
  12. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Not known for biology or medicine
  14. Not known for physics specifically, but a related field
215

IQ: Are you the author of Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies?

216

DQ: Nobel Prize winner?

217

Take a DQ

No

While I feel “known for science” is true, it may be more precise to say “known for a scientific achievement”

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
  8. Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
  9. Born since 1920
  10. Born east of the Mississippi River
  11. Known for a scientific achievement
  12. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Not known for biology or medicine
  14. Not known for physics specifically, but a related field
  15. Not a Nobel Prize winner
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Previous IQs:

Did you make a jeweled flag for your sweetie? - Arwen, future bride of Aragorn
Was your catchphrase “Keep the faith, baby”? - Longtime Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell
Did a then-presidential candidate play a musical instrument on your show? - Yes, Arsenio Hall; Bill Clinton played the sax on his show in 1992: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-muKLVrOoPvA/T8thmsxYqJI/AAAAAAAAQoY/eODwhfpj9cg/s800/Arsenio-Hall-and-Bill-Clinton.jpg

DQs:

Now in academia?
Known as a popularizer of science?

IQs:

Did you succeed Westmoreland?
Were you a creepy lady from a Lovecraft story?
Did you die violently before you could see your son become a very important guy?

219

Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies was written by Halton Arp.

1 DQ reserved.

220

DQs:
No
If you mean someone like Carl Sagan/Bill Nye/Neil Degrasse Tyson who is best known to the general public for explaining scientific concepts, then no. If you mean someone who uses their name recognition for a scientific achievement to endorse educational games and pro-science rap videos, then yes.

IQs: Take 3 DQs

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
  8. Not known for the performing arts, although I have acted.
  9. Born since 1920
  10. Born east of the Mississippi River
  11. Known for a scientific achievement
  12. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  13. Not known for biology or medicine
  14. Not known for physics specifically, but a related field
  15. Not a Nobel Prize winner
  16. Not now in academia
  17. –see above for answer to “popularizer of science”