Botticelli May 2016

Thread Games
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No, I remember him. Good one! And thus I’ve earned my headsmack…

62

OK, doing the alphabet thing again, so next letter is B!

63

Yeah, good one. I don’t read Lovecraft, but I have heard of Alhazred.

IQs:

  1. Did you make a series of Road pictures with #2?
  2. Did you make a series of Road pictures with #1?
  3. According to legend, were you a king who brought the infant Christ a gift?
64

Not Bing Crosby, not Bob Hope, not Balthazaar

65

Right on all three. Have to get a bit tougher, here.

  1. Is your painting, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash one of the foremost examples of artistic Futurism?
  2. Did you write the poem To A Louse?
  3. Did you accompany Super Snooper in a series of Hanna-Barbara cartoons?
66

Really good! I was close(-ish). I was on to H.G. Wells…had I but known… :slight_smile:

But I only seem to recall (at least from the books) that his name was Abd Alhazred (and yes, I’ve read the wiki entry).

67

I was also looking in toward the end but not actively participating, and I had a somewhat similar thought. A science fiction-ish novel published in the first half of the twentieth century by a very prominent author… I was trying to remember A names of characters in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four when I realized he didn’t fit the American Author DQ response.

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IQ1: Were you also known as Timber Wolf?
IQ2: Did you write and direct Fritz the Cat?
IQ3: Were you called the Lucky Number?

69

[And, in a boxed board game called Swords & Sorcery one of the pre-rolled characters was an evil cleric named Unamit Ahazredit.]

70

DQ, not Percy Bryce Shelley(?), DQ

71

not Sitting Bull, not Ralph Bakshi, DQ

72

#1 is Giacomo Balla. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/f/futurist/dogleash.jpg
#2 was Robert Burns.
#3 was Blabber Mouse.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with B?
73

Hmm… I wasn’t aware Sitting Bull had that alias, but I’ll take your word for it and rephrase.
Correct on Bakshi, and Bilbo Baggins was lucky number fourteen.

Holding one DQ.

IQ1: Are you the real name of the superhero Timber Wolf?
IQ2: Did you write The Postman?
IQ3: Was your co-host Huntley? (And are you both difficult to rhyme with ‘contrapuntally’?)

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IQs:

Was your mom far more concerned about getting all of her daughters married off than was your dad?
Were you her elder (and supposedly prettier) sister?
Were you named after a much-less-well-known ornithologist?

75

IQs:

  1. Are you the God of the North Wind?
  2. Did you and Kratos chain Prometheus to a rock?
  3. Are you the Roman version of Dionysus?
76

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with B
77

DQ, DQ, not David Brinkley (or succinctly, Brinkley)

78

wag… not Charlotte Bronte, not Emily Bronte, not Harvey Birdman

79

DQ, DQ, not Bacchus

80

#1 was Boreas. #2 was Bia. Correct on Bacchus.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. American?