Botticelli May 2016

Thread Games
101

Correct on Boris.
#2 was Bartok.
#3 is P.D.Q. Bach.

DQ: Famous before 1980?

1 DQ reserved.

102

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born before 1970
  7. Not known for the arts
  8. Known for a certain category of political issues, but not regarded as a politician, nor has she served in government
  9. Caucasian
  10. Not conservative
  11. Not identified with a particular social issue
  12. Does not have an equally-famous husband
  13. Not known from television
  14. Famous after 1980
103

Correct as to the first two (very good!). The third is Boromir, whose dad Denethor, Steward of Gondor, said that to his other son, Faramir.

DQ:

Famous after 2000?

IQs:

Have you played a concierge, an aggressive prosecutor, a network executive and an impresario?
Did George Washington serve as one of your aides-de-camp?
Did Holmes liken Watson to you?

104

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born before 1970
  7. Not known for the arts
  8. Known for a certain category of political issues, but not regarded as a politician, nor has she served in government
  9. Caucasian
  10. Not conservative
  11. Not identified with a particular social issue
  12. Does not have an equally-famous husband
  13. Not known from television
  14. Famous after 1980
  15. More famous on or before 2000
105

I used to draw pictures of Otho and Lobelia when I was a kid. Don’t know why. Maybe because they were the only hobbits that weren’t cute.

not Ned Beatty(?), not Benedict Arnold(?), don’t remember

106

IQs:

In Lewis Carroll’s poem The Hunting of the Snark:

  1. Are you the group’s leader?
  2. Are you what the group found?
  3. Did you “softly and suddenly” vanish away?
107

Enjoy your three DQs.

108

#1 was the Bellman (and what he says three times is true).
#2 was the Boojum!
#3 was the Baker, for the Snark WAS a Boojum, you see.

4 DQs reserved. Maybe tomorrow I’ll have thought of a better line of attack for the DQs.

109

Previous IQs:

Have you played a concierge, an aggressive prosecutor, a network executive and an impresario? - Bob Balaban, in The Grand Budapest Hotel, Absence of Malice, Seinfeld and A Mighty Wind.
Did George Washington serve as one of your aides-de-camp? - Gen. Edward Braddock, during the French and Indian War.
Did Holmes liken Watson to you? - Holmes refers to the good doctor as “my Boswell,” recalling the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson.

DQs:

Considered a liberal?
Associated with stereotypical “women’s issues”?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Julia Roberts play you, a real person, in a hit movie?
Are you a boy voiced by a woman?
Have you played a madman, a thief, an epidemiologist and a tank commander?

110

Yes, I am Erin Brockovich! I am an environmental activist portrayed in 2000 by Julia Roberts. Congrats EH!

111

Good one, EH!

112

Thanks! ISTR we did Erin B. in another Botticelli thread, but I can’t find it through a SDMB search.

My other two IQs:

Are you a boy voiced by a woman? - Bart Simpson.
Have you played a madman, a thief, an epidemiologist and a tank commander? - Brad Pitt, in 12 Monkeys, Thelma & Louise, World War Z and Fury.

Continuing our latest march through the alphabet, our next letter, of course, is

C

113

IQs:

  1. Are you the Lord of Lothlorien?
  2. Did you play #1 in the movie trilogy?
  3. Were you an exuberant, bushy-mustached comedian who used to tour with Bob Hope?
114

IQ1: Is your song “You’re So Vain” allegedly about Warren Beatty?
IQ2: Were you the QB for the Atlanta Falcons in their only Super Bowl appearance in 1998?
IQ3: Are you the star of numerous productions of Hello Dolly?

115

Not Celeborn, Martin Csokas (sp?) and dunno.

Not Carly Simon, dunno, and not Carol Channing.

116

Chris Chandler

DQ: Real?

117

Correct x2. #3 was Jerry Colonna.
DQ: Male?

118

IQs:

  1. Were you born William Claude Dukenfield?
  2. Did you write Martin Chuzzlewit?
  3. Were you an Italian Renaissance painter who, in your paining Salome with the Head of John the Baptist used your own head as a model for John’s?
119

IQ1: Were you Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter?
IQ2: Are you a country singer who was married to actress Renee Zellweger for 4 months?
IQ3: Are you an Irish mythological hero who was tricked into violating a geas by being offered dog meat?

120

Dunno, not Charles Dickens, and not Caravaggio (sp?).

Not Cyrus Vance, dunno, and not Culcuhan (sp?).

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male