Botticelli May 2016

Thread Games
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I remember the song. I’ve definitely heard the names. I don’t feel a bit bad about not bringing it around, and didn’t realize Carl Douglas was from the Caribbean. Good choice, EH!

I’m ready for D.

182

I just remember the chorus and never considered that there were other words.

183

OK, thanks. On we go to

D

184

IQs:

  1. Were you the French Impressionist whose work was most inspired by the new photography?
  2. Did you write The Idiot?
  3. Have you in recent years gone back to your original name of Kappelhoff?
185

IQ1: Did you call Monday Night Football with Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell?
IQ2: Did you set the NFL’s single-season rushing record in 1984?
IQ3: Did you win the Super Bowl 3 times, first as Tight End for the Dallas Cowboys, then as Assistant Coach for the Cowboys, and then as Head Coach for the Chicago Bears?

186

I’m not Degas or Dostoyevsky; dunno the last.

Not Frank DeFord, dunno, and not Mike Ditka.

187

Correct on #1 and #2. #3 is Doris Day.

DQ: Real?

188

Dandy Din Meredith, Eric Dickerson, correct

DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Last name starts with D?

189

IQs:

  1. Did you star opposite the Marx Brothers in a number of their films?
  2. Were you a French Gypsy jazz guitarist who was badly maimed in a fire as a young child?
  3. Were you a Union military officer who did NOT claim to have invented baseball?
190

IQ1: Are you currently the Defensive Coach for the Tennessee Titans, extending your years on the field to 57 (14 yrs with the Detroit Lions and 43 as s coach)?
IQ2: Are you the first African American head coach to win a Super Bowl (XLI)?
IQ3: Did you play for the Cardinals for 12 years, then spend the next 27 as an NFL commentator/analyst alongside Frank Gifford, Al Michaels, Dick Enberg, and Greg Gumbel?

191

Not Deborah Rutherford, dunno, and not Abner Doubleday.

Dunno x3.

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with D
192

#1 was Margaret Dumont. (Who is Deborah Rutherford?)
#2 was Django Reinhardt.
Correct on Abner.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for the Arts?
193

Dick Lebeau, Tony Dungee, Dan Dierdorf

holding 3 DQs

194

A wild-ass guess.

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with D
  4. living
  5. not known for the arts
195

IQs:

  1. Are you a 90-year old British broadcaster and naturalist?
  2. Did you have a hit with Calypso?
  3. Are you a character from Bette Midler’s stage show known as “the Toast of Chicago”?
196

DQ: Politics/government?

holding 2 DQs

197

Not David Attenborough, John Denver or “the Divine Miss M.”

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with D
  4. living
  5. not known for the arts
  6. politics/government
198

Correct on #1 and #2. The character referred to, however, was Delores Delago (she came out on stage as a mermaid in a wheelchair).

DQ: American?

199

IQs:

  1. Did your millionaire father cut you off without a cent when you married a flapper?
  2. Have you talked into your wristphone for the last 80 years?
  3. Did you keep a macaw as a pet in the White House?
200

Not Dagwood Bumstead, Dick Tracey or… Dwight D. Eisenhower?

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with D
  4. living
  5. not known for the arts
  6. politics/government
  7. American