Botticelli - May 2014

Thread Games
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Not Helen Keller
Not Professor Kapp
Not Dallas McKennon

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with K
  5. Known for the arts, performing or creative
  6. American
  7. Born before 1925
  8. Died after 1960
162

IQs:

  1. Did Mr. Moose bombard you with ping-pong balls?
  2. Did you have a hit with Rock & Roll Waltz?
  3. In the Discworld novels, are you known as “The King of the Golden River”?
163

Correct as to Helen Keller, on (IIRC) the Alabama quarter. Who are the other two, and was that a recent movie, as I asked?

164
  1. Uh… Kupka?
  2. Not Kay Starr
  3. Not Harry King
165

Friend of Gumby and voice of Gumby and Kapp.

1995 recent enough?

166

Oh, good, a Terry Pratchett fan. #1 was Captain Kangaroo. Correct on #2 and #3.

DQ: Known as performing artist rather than a creative artist?

167

IQ1: Were you an orphan involved in the Great Game?
IQ2: Were you a British spy in Pakistan?
IQ3: Were you a rancher with an airplane?

168

Damn straight!

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with K
  5. Known for the arts, performing or creative
  6. American
  7. Born before 1925
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Creative artist
169
  1. Not Kim
  2. dunno
  3. Not Sky King
170

IQs:

  1. Did you originate the hobo clown Weary Willie?
  2. Were you the author of Pogo?
  3. Were you an Austrian artist known for your expressionistic portraits?
171

Well, I don’t think 19 years ago counts as “recent,” but I’ll rephrase.

IQs:

Are you the pal of a famous plaything?
Are you the actor who voiced him in a movie since 1995?
Did you and Briand have a famous agreement?

172
  1. Not Emmet Kelly
  2. Not Walt Kelly
  3. Not Oskar Kokoschka
173

I can’t get past Gumby, so dunno 1 & 2.
Not Frank B. Kellogg

174

Okay, I’m impressed you got Kokoschka. Correct on all 3.

IQs:

  1. Did you and your brother Fritz make life hard for Der Inspector?
  2. Did your sons receive instructions in a number of the Psalms?
  3. Did some of your “paintings” involve public displays of nude women rolling around in blue paint and then lying on a canvas?
175

Yeah, like I’m not using google. :slight_smile:

  1. Not the Katzenjammer kids
  2. Dunno
  3. Not Yves Klein
176

Umm, Google’s off limits here. You can only use Google to verify information about your selected person, and not check on other’s guesses. I made the same mistake myself the first time I hosted, so it’s not a biggie, but you only get to use the data crammed in your very own cranium

Correct on 1 and 3. #2 is Korah (leader of the High Temple in David’s time).

DQ: Painter?

177

IQ1: When visiting Earth, did you use the alias Mr. Carpenter?
IQ2: Did you sue The Verve out of 100% of the royalties to their biggest hit?
IQ3: Do you have some followers in Texas that are awaiting your resurrection?

178

I actually didn’t at first, but then I didn’t want to look like too much of an idiot. :slight_smile:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with K
  5. Known for the arts, performing or creative
  6. American
  7. Born before 1925
  8. Died after 1960
  9. Creative artist
  10. Not a painter
179
  1. dunno
  2. dunno
  3. not David Korresh
180

Quite so. It’s a game of memory, not research skills.

Previous IQs:

Are you the pal of a famous plaything? - Ken, Barbie’s pal.
Are you the actor who voiced him in a movie since 1995? - Michael Keaton, in Toy Story 3.
Did you and Briand have a famous agreement? - Yes, U.S. SecState Frank Kellogg.

DQs:

Best known for the visual arts?
Has won a major award?

IQs:

Was your boss resentful of an award you got?
Did you write that Queen Elizabeth (the later Queen Mother) had been artificially inseminated?
Were you the owner of Fallingwater?