Botticelli May 2015

Thread Games
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Take a DQ for #1. (I’m pretty sure it’s Mortimer Something, though.)
I am not Mortimer Snerd.
I am not Mortimer Mouse.

462

Previous IQs:

Were you blamed for JFK’s death but were (you said) trying to save him? - Magneto, in the latest X-Men movie.
Does your painting hang in a fancy dining room along with someone whose last name starts with the same initial? - William Marbury, in the SCOTUS courthouse.
Are you that other person? - James Madison.

DQs:

Died since 1900?
Won a top award in her field?
Actress?

IQs:

Were you a noted early American financier?
Were you one of the last two survivors (maybe) of U.S. Antarctic Research Station 31?
Were you the heroine of The Pirates of Penzance?

463

Something Mortimer, actually - Col Douglas Mortimer (For a Few Dollars More).
Correct.
Correct.
One DQ reserved.
IQ: Did you sing “Pata Pata”??

464

IQ2: Did you try to kill a well-known consulting detective with an air rifle?
IQ3: Were you that person’s employer?

465

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with M
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not European
  8. Known for the performing arts
  9. Not from the Americas
  10. Died since 1900
  11. Received many honors, but no awards as such
  12. Not an actress
466

Take 2 DQs. I am not Mabel.

467

Take 2 DQs. I am not Prof. Moriarty.

468

South African singer Miriam Makeba.
Col Sebastian Moran.
Correct.
DQ1: Asian?
DQ2: Known for music?

469

IQ1) Are you an Aussie singer who adapted your home town into your stage name (and had a famous dessert named for you)?

IQ2) Did you compose the opera “Boris Godunov”?

IQ3) Did the speaking chimp in “Madagascar” sound a lot like you?

470

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted early American financier? - Robert Morris.
Were you one of the last two survivors (maybe) of U.S. Antarctic Research Station 31? - MacReady (Kurt Russell), in The Thing.
Were you the heroine of The Pirates of Penzance? - Yes, Mabel.

DQs:

Died since 1950?
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

You married a famous fictional person, but no one knows for sure when, or how long you then lived, or how many other wives your husband had. Who are you?
Were two of your sisters Elizabeth and Jane?
Did you play Insp. Dalglish many times?

471

IQ1: Do you ride around time and space in your Mobius Chair?
IQ2: Did you subject Batman to a drug to make him afraid of anything bat-shaped?
IQ3: Are you a Hawkman foe who employs the use of eyewear that kills?

472

Yes, I am Dame Nellie Melba. Well done again, astorian!

473

Cool… so my turn again.

I go with P

474

Ah, and Dame Nellie was on my mind not long ago due to her fictionalized appearance on Downton Abbey. Well done, astorian.

Previous IQs:

You married a famous fictional person, but no one knows for sure when, or how long you then lived, or how many other wives your husband had. Who are you? - Mary Morstan, wife of Dr. John H. Watson.
Were two of your sisters Elizabeth and Jane? - Mary Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice.
Did you play Insp. Dalglish many times? - British actor Roy Marsden.

On to P.

IQs:

Were you a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam?
Were you Brett’s buddy on the USCSS Nostromo?
Were you Hercules’s coach and trainer?

475

Not Phil Garner or Philoctetes (these sound very familiar).

Take a DQ for 2 (which I assume is from Alien)

476

IQs:

  1. Are you the founder of toxicology?
  2. Did you paint Guernica?
  3. Were you aka Saloth Sar?
477

Not Pablo Picasso

Take DQs for 1 and 3

478

grats astorian (again)

IQ1: Did you invent the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system?
IQ2: Is a method of reducing pathogens in food named after you?
IQ3: Did you co-found Google Inc. with Sergey Brin?

479

#1 is Paracelsus. #3 is Pol Pot (Saloth Sar was his name before he changed it.)

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
480

Previous IQs:

Were you a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player likened to Yosemite Sam? - Yes, Phil Garner (it’s funny how few new “P” questions come to mind!) again.
Were you Brett’s buddy on the USCSS Nostromo? - Parker (Yaphet Kotto), in Alien.
Were you Hercules’s coach and trainer? - Yes, Philoctetes.

DQ:

Last name start with P?

IQs:

Were you a U.S. Attorney General with the same last name as a noted general?
Although a famous warrior, did you die as a result of common car accident?
Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?