Botticelli - May 2018

Thread Games
242

Please disregard IQs #3 and #4 and I’ll use them in an upcoming round. I don’t know where my mind was.

243

Who wrote the Kinsey Milhone books, Prof. P.?

Dunno, not Betty Grable, and not Heinz Guderian.

G.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with G
  5. not American by birth
  6. died before 1900
244

IQ1: Are you a journeyman MLB pitcher whose 1974 autobiography is titled Me and the Spitter?
IQ2: Did you portray Grandpa Walton in The Waltons?
IQ3: Did you compose This Land is Your Land?

245

Sorry, Sue Grafton wrote about Kinsey.

IQs:

  1. Did you “sing” I Remember It Well with Maurice Chevalier in Gigi?
  2. Were you the protagonist in an episode of ST:TOS that was hoped to start a spinoff, but the series never happened?
  3. Are you the villain of the movie Unbreakable?
246

Dunno, not Will Geer, and not Woody Guthrie

Thanks!

Dunno, not Gary Seven, and not… Mr. Glass?

247

#1 was Hermione Gingold. Correct on the other two.

DQ: European?

248

IQ answers

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			1) Was your gangster character known for flipping a coin constantly? George Raft
  1. Was your “legs” pin-up displayed by countless GIs in WWII?..Correct: Betty Grable
  2. Did you lead the German charge to the French coast in 1940? Correct Heinz Guderian

DQ

  • Are you known from sports/athletics?
249

G.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with G
  5. not American by birth
  6. died before 1900
  7. European by birth
  8. not known from sports/athletics
250

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Poker Face?
  2. Are you a current Senator from South Carolina?
  3. Did you have a hit with Redneck Woman?
251

Gaylord Perry

DQ: Known for the Arts?

252

IQ1: Were you considered the chief White House Plumber during the Nixon era?
IQ2: Are you the lead vocalist and bassist for Rush?
IQ3: Are you a kidnap victim whose grandfather refused to pay more than $2.2 million ransom because of tax purposes?

253

IQs

  1. Were you the homespun TV comedian with nickname “Lonesome George”?
  2. Were you in charge of Nazi propaganda?
  3. Did you pioneer genetics ?
254

Not Lady Gaga, Lindsey Graham or… Lori Graham?

Not G. Gordon Liddy, Geddy Lee or… dunno.

Dunno; not Joseph Goebbels or Gregor Mendel.

G.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with G
  5. not American by birth
  6. died before 1900
  7. European by birth
  8. not known from sports/athletics
  9. not known for the Arts
255

IQs
2)Correct
3)Correct

  1. You’re not George Gobel DQ

DQ - are you known from politics/military?

256

G.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with G
  5. not American by birth
  6. died before 1900
  7. European by birth
  8. not known from sports/athletics
  9. not known for the Arts
  10. known from politics/military
257

Correct, Correct, and Gretchen Wilson.

DQ: Died before 1800?

258

IQs:

  1. Were you the Spice Girl known as Ginger Spice?
  2. Did you create Dick Tracy?
  3. Were you Hamlet’s mom?
259

J. Paul Getty III

DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?

260

Dunno, not Chester Gould, and not Gertrude.

G.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with G
  5. not American by birth
  6. died before 1900
  7. European by birth
  8. not known from sports/athletics
  9. not known for the Arts
  10. known from politics/military
  11. died after 1800
  12. native speaker of a Romance language
261

#1 is Geri Halliwell.
Correct on the others.

DQ: Known from politics?