Botticelli - May 2017

Thread Games
181

Dunno, not Zero Mostel, and dunno

Dunno x2; not Zebulon Pike

Not Zane Grey, Zippy the Pinhead or Ziggy Stardust

Z.

  1. real
182

#1 was L. L. Zamenhof.
Correct on Zero.
#3 was Miklos Zsolnay. It’s some nice stuff.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
183

Zorro.
Zeke. (JJ’s first husband was Mike Doonesbury.)
Correct.
DQ1: American?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

184

IQs:

  1. Were you the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland?
  2. Were you a Russian-American engineer who has been called “the Father of Television”?
  3. Did you climb up into a sycamore tree to see Jesus?
185

Yes, it is - thanks!

Not Zwingli, Zarkoff or Zacharias.
Z.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. living
  4. American
  5. known for the Arts
186

IQ1: In 1981, did you win both a Golden Globe award for New Star of the Year and a Golden Raspberries Award for Worst New Star?
IQ2: Did Terrence Stamp play you in two Superman movies?
IQ3: Are you a comic strip magician who speaks backwards to cast spells?

187

Correct on Zwingli.
#2 was Zworykin.
#3 was Zacchaeus.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with Z?
  2. Actress?
188

IQs:

  1. Have you portrayed a cosmic assassin, a communications officer and a beautiful native woman?
  2. Did you have your leg amputated in 2011?
  3. Did you star on Remington Steele?
189

Not Pia Zadora or General Zod; dunno the last.

Not Zoe Sevigny, dunno, and not Stephanie Zimbalist.

Z.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. living
  4. American
  5. known for the Arts
  6. last name starts with Z
  7. actress
190

#1 is Zoe Saldana.
#2 was Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Correct on Stephanie.

DQs:

  1. Known primarily from movies?
  2. Born after 1977?
191

IQs:

  1. Did you star in Chicago?
  2. Did you also star in Chicago?
  3. Were you the princess in Spaceballs?
192

Zatara

holding a DQ

193

It’s been ages since I’ve played this here. Apologies in advance if I mess up the protocol…

IQ1) Were you a hot-headed Cubs pitcher who was good with the bat?
IQ2) Were you the founder of a renowned cymbals manufacturing company?
IQ3) Did Bruce Willis steal your chopper?

194

Welcome, divemaster!

195

Thanks! I actually played along with the fine folks of SDMB for a few months back in the day. Got a correct guess and hosted a round. Or two. Like I said, it’s been a while.

My first introduction to the game was my senior year calculus class. We’d have “Botticelli Friday” on occasion. This would have been in 1985.

196

Not Catherine Zeta Jones or Renee Zellwegger; dunno the third.

Welcome back, divemaster! Dunno x3.

Z.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. living
  4. American
  5. known for the Arts
  6. last name starts with Z
  7. actress
  8. not known primarily from movies
  9. born before 1977
197

Correct on the Chicago 2.
#3 is Daphne Zuniga.

DQ: Best known for comedy?

198

Z.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. living
  4. American
  5. known for the Arts
  6. last name starts with Z
  7. actress
  8. not known primarily from movies
  9. born before 1977
  10. not best known for comedy, I’d say, although she has done it
199

IQ1) Carlos Zambrano
IQ2) Avedis Zildjian (I know this b/c its one of the oldest companies in the world, founded in the 1600s and still making cymbals)
IQ3) Zed. (“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead”).

I’m at work and off to a meeting–will ask DQs later.

200

One quick DQ: Caucasian?