Botticelli - May 2021

Thread Games
101

DQs:
W

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Male
  4. Living
  5. Not known for the Arts, but did have a brief dalliance with the arts, not as a creative, but on the business/promotional side of things.
  6. American
  7. Not born after 1970
  8. Not known for politics
  9. Not known for sports
  10. Born after 1940
  11. Award / medal winning
  12. Not known for writing
  13. Caucasian
  14. Best known for business
  15. Current spouse is not famous. Previous spouse had minor recognition. Between spouses dated someone famous.
  16. Name not part of the best known business’s name. However, I started another company whose name was a backronym of my nickname
  17. Business known for making a physical product (rather than a service, etc.)
  18. Not a billionaire
  19. Not known for edible products
  20. Known for mechanical product (including automobiles), where mechanical product is defined as what a layman would call a machine
  21. Known for electronics
102

Is that all the DQs?

103

I believe that is all the awarded DQs.
By my count, 4 players have earned a [Firstname Lastname] question:
Prof
EH
MissTake
SCAdian, who I think is offering it up to anyone else.

Ask before 12 noon Pacific Time Monday, May 10th

104

Correct.

105

I’m stumped.

106

I’ll take SCAdian’s. This is the only living W in business I can think of - are you Steve Wozniak?

107

Oh, that’s a great guess!

108

Yes!!! I am Apple co-founder, “the other Steve”, Steve Wozniak!!

The expanded answer to #5 refers to the US Festivals, the attempt at a Gen-X version of Woodstock, that by the mid-90s, the Simpsons was making jokes about how it (and Apple) had been forgotten.

Things I learned while answering the DQs - Not a billionaire, worth “only” 100 million.
Started a company with the ridiculous name Wheels of Zeus, or WoZ.
Dated alleged comedienne Kathy Griffin and was married to an Olympic kayak team member.
For #11, President Reagan awarded him and Jobs the National Medal of Technology.

Great job, kitap!

109

Yay!

I am

M!

Go for it!

110

IQ1: Were you Wolfram’s cousin and Lothar’s brother?
IQ2: Do you come to save the day?
IQ3: Were you a red-haired girl in books by Ludwig Bemelmans?

111

Take a DQ, I am not Mighty Mouse, take a DQ.

112

Manfred Frhr von Richthofen.
:white_check_mark:
Madeline.


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Female?

113
  1. Fictional
  2. Male
114

IQ1: Were TV audiences invited to sing along with you?
IQ2: Was the captain of the Pequod obsessed with getting revenge on you?
IQ3: Do you assist your alcoholic grandfather on inter-dimensional adventures?

115

I am not Mitch, I am not Moby Dick, take a DQ.

116

IQs:

  1. Are you a bartender on The Simpsons?
  2. Did you write Paradise Lost?
  3. Were you married to Joe diMaggio?
117

I am not Moe, Milton or Marilyn Monroe.

118

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you write Angels from the Realms of Glory?
  2. In Norse mythology did you guard the Well of Knowledge?
  3. Was your little red book a best seller in the 1960’s?
119

Yes, Yes, Morty Smith from Rick and Morty

DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction?

120

Good job, kitap! Woulda coulda guessed The Woz.

On to M.

IQs:

Were you King Beyond the Wall?
Were you commandant of The Citadel after WWII?
Were you a gangster who dabbled in the occult and died in a murder-suicide?