Botticelli - May 2022

Thread Games
121

IQs:

  1. Did you play the bad guy in 9 to 5?
  2. Did you play Mumbles in the movie Dick Tracy?
  3. Did John Malkovich’s character say it made him feel good to kill your character in RED?
122

Not Dabny Coleman
2 DQs

123

#1 is correct.
#2 was Dustin Hoffman.
#3 was Richard Dreyfuss.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. American?
124

D

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Living
  5. Not American
125

IQs:
1. Were you a non-Western politician quoted on the back of my Bartlett’s as saying “black cat, white cat—as long as it catches mice, it’s a good cat”?
2. Does the name of your band have no definite article, as stated in the title of one of its albums?
3. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And you are Marie of Roumania?

126

Not Deng Xiaopeng
Not David Bryne (The Name of This Band is Talking Heads)
DQ

127

1 was Dorothy Parker.

DQ: born after 1970?

128

D

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1970
129

Congrats, CFOHG!

Previous IQs:

Do you offer people the choice between Cake or Death? - Yes, Eddie Izzard
Did one of your two young daughters have an eye operation? - Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Did your character jokingly refer to Byron as a minor poet? - Edward Woodward, playing the title character in Breaker Morant

Edward x3 redux!

On to D….

IQs:

Were you in the Army during the Korean War, and your middle name was Stanley?
Were you an Oscar-winning cousin of that person?
Were you a leader of the Mad Scientists Club?

130

3 DQs

131

IQs:
1. Are you a Hatian-American novelist who wrote the memoir Brother, I’m Dying?
2. Were you told you would become once, twice, thrice Lord Mayor of London?
3. Do you sneeze like a kitten?

132

2 DQs
Not Dipper Pines

133

1 was Edwidge Danticat; 2 was Dick Whittington.

DQs:
1. European?
2. born after 1945?

134

IQs:

  1. Did you compose Th e Sorcerer’s Apprentice?
  2. Did you write “Go and catch a falling star”?
  3. Did Allan Sherman write a song asking for your return?
135

D

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1970
  7. European
  8. Born before 1945
136

Not Dukas
2 DQs

137

Previous IQs:

Were you in the Army during the Korean War, and your middle name was Stanley? - Michael S. Dukakis
Were you an Oscar-winning cousin of that person? - Olympia Dukakis
Were you a leader of the Mad Scientists Club? - Mortimer Dalrymple, in the YA stories by Bertrand R. Brinley

DQs:

From the British Isles?
Political/military?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War?
Were you a monarch and the title character of a Niven and Pournelle sf novel?
Did you act in a silent sitcom scene about disastrously ironing your pants?

138

D

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1970
  7. European
  8. Born before 1945
  9. From the British Isles
  10. Not political/military
139

DQ
Not King David
Not Dick Van Dyke?

140

Previous IQs:

Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War? - David Tod
Were you a monarch and the title character of a Niven and Pournelle sf novel? - Yes, from King David’s Spaceship
Did you act in a silent sitcom scene about disastrously ironing your pants? - David Hyde Pierce (I should have said “near-wordless”): Funny Scene From Frasier - Niles Causes Fire "Silent Scene" - YouTube

David x3!

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
English?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you not like people in your workplace whose eyes were too close to their nose?
Were you a VIP and a messy eater in a 2002 movie?
Were you Spiny Norman’s nemesis?