Botticelli May 2015

Thread Games
141

Radiation Roy, correct x2

DQ: Known from politics?

142

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. While briefly held political office, not best known for that
143

IQ1: Are you the pharaoh that served as the basis of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Ozymandias?”
IQ2: Were you the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1985 to 1995?
IQ3: Are you Richie Cunningham’s red-haired pal?

144

I am not Theodore, nor Franklin D., nor Eleanor Roosevelt.

145
  1. I am not Ramses the Great
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Ralph Malph.
146

Well done, Prof P!

IQ1. Are you the Walkin’ Dude?
IQ2. Are you responsible for the Micrographia and the law of restoring force?
IQ3. Were you known as the Coeur de Lion?

147

Previous Qs:

Did you dream of a unicorn? - Rick Deckard, in Blade Runner.
Were you that person’s lover? - Rachael.
Are you the best-known person to come from Dixon, Ill.? - Yes, Ronald Reagan.

DQs:

Born since 1900?
Born east of Miss. River?

IQs:

Is your grave marked by an obelisk in Cleveland’s Lakeview Cemetery?
Did you expire in the presence of your mistress and have your body moved by aides before your death was reported?
Did an exasperated Pilate order your welease, er, release?

148

Randall Cunningham

DQ: Known for a historical event?

149

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. While briefly held political office, not best known for that
  8. Born before 1900
  9. Born east of the Mississippi River
  10. Known for a historical event
150

Take DQs for the first two. I am not Richard the Lionhearted.

151

Take a DQ for #1.
I am still not F.D.R.
#3 is most probably from Life of Brian, but take a DQ, 'cause I can’t think of the name.

152

IQ1: Are you associated with the phrase “Believe It or Not!”
IQ2: Is the first analog synthesizer named after you?
IQ3: Are you the crack cocaine-smoking mayor of Toronto?

153
  1. I am not Robert Ripley.
  2. I am not Robert Moog.
  3. I am not Rob Ford.
154

IQ1: Are you the deputy sheriff of Conniption?
IQ2: Did you play a detective, a jungle guide, and a boxing trainer?
IQ3: Did a raging river keep you from being with the one you loved?

155

IQ1: Did you write the detective novels The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye?
IQ2: Did you star as one of IQ1’s protagonists in Farewell, My Lovely?
IQ3: Did you direct the movie version of The Long Goodbye in 1973?

156

I am not Running Bear. Take 2 DQs for the first two.

157
  1. I am not Raymond Chandler.
  2. I am not Robert Mitchum.
  3. Take a DQ.
158

Rick O’Shay.
Richard Roundtree (Shaft, George of the Jungle, Joe and Max).
Correct.
DQ1: Died before 1900?
DQ2: Historical event took place in wartime?
IQ1: Did you sing “Forever and Ever, Amen”?
IQ2: Did you star in Tammy and the Bachelor?
IQ3: Did pre-rolled cigarettes make you the richest man in North Carolina?

159

Previous IQs:

Is your grave marked by an obelisk in Cleveland’s Lakeview Cemetery? - John D. Rockefeller: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Rockefeller_grave_2.JPG
Did you expire in the presence of your mistress and have your body moved by aides before your death was reported? - FDR was with his mistress, but his body wasn’t moved. This was Nelson Rockefeller.
Did an exasperated Pilate order your welease, er, release? - “Welease Wodewick!” (Roderick) at 2:35 here: Monty Python's Life of Brian - I shall release Brian - YouTube

DQs:

Born before 1800?
Best known for a single event?
Best known as a businssman?

IQs:

Much to your surprise were you, although young, named to command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur?
Do you have a medical degree but not an undergraduate degree?
Were you a British politico who wrote bios of both Gladstone and Churchill?

160

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Not known for the arts
  7. While briefly held political office, not best known for that
  8. Born before 1900
  9. Born east of the Mississippi River
  10. Known for a historical event
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Historical event took place during wartime, at least according to some historians
  13. Born after 1800
  14. Not known as a businessman

EH, take another DQ, as #10 already answers one of your DQs.