Botticelli - May 2022

Thread Games
141
  1. Correct.
  2. was John Donne.
  3. Allan wrote Won’t You Come Home, Disraeli.

2 DQs reserved.

142

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
  11. Best known for the Arts
  12. English
143

DQ: Best known for the performing arts?

1 DQ reserved.

144

2 DQs
Not Dinsdale Piranha

145

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
  11. Best known for the Arts
  12. English
  13. Best known for the performing arts
146

DQ: Known for acting?

147

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
  11. Best known for the Arts
  12. English
  13. Best known for the performing arts
  14. Has acted, but not really known for acting
148

Previous IQs:

Did you not like people in your workplace whose eyes were too close to their nose? - Clarence Darrow, in picking jurors (he thought that meant they were narrow-minded)
Were you a VIP and a messy eater in a 2002 movie? - Denethor, Steward of Gondor, in LOTR: The Two Towers
Were you Spiny Norman’s nemesis? - Yes, London gangster Dinsdale Piranha on Monty Python

DQs:

Best known as a musician?
Has won a top award in his field?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you costar on Designing Women?
Was the cunning but very lazy Wally a coworker of yours?
Did you write No Ordinary Time?

149

IQs:
1. Were you the first person of English descent born in America?
2. You’re a mechanoid freelance peacekeeping agent with a verbal tic, yes?
3. Did you leave the above person on the roof of the Baxter Building, though you’re not a cape-and-tights superhero–or a Marvel universe character–in fact, you’re (originally) from a different medium altogether?

150

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
  11. Best known for the Arts
  12. English
  13. Best known for the performing arts
  14. Has acted, but not really known for acting
  15. Best known as a musician
  16. Has not won a top award in his field (no Grammy), although he has been knighted
151

Not Delta Burke
Not Dilbert
DQ

Not Virginia Dare
2 DQs

152

2 was Death’s Head; 3 was the Doctor.

2 DQs reserved.

153

IQs:

  1. Were you one of Terrytoon’s The Mighty Heroes?
  2. Were you a French printmaker known for your satirical caricatures?
  3. Are you Jim Butcher’s best known character?
154

2 DQs
Not Harry Dresden

155

#1 was Diaper Man.
#2 was Honore Daumier.
Correct on Harry Dresden.

DQ: known as a songwriter or composer?

1 DQ reserved.

156

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
  11. Best known for the Arts
  12. English
  13. Best known for the performing arts
  14. Has acted, but not really known for acting
  15. Best known as a musician
  16. Has not won a top award in his field (no Grammy), although he has been knighted
  17. Known as a songwriter or composer
157

DQ: Known for pop music?

158

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
  11. Best known for the Arts
  12. English
  13. Best known for the performing arts
  14. Has acted, but not really known for acting
  15. Best known as a musician
  16. Has not won a top award in his field (no Grammy), although he has been knighted
  17. Known as a songwriter or composer
  18. Known in part for pop music
159

IQs:

  1. Were you part of the band The Who?
  2. Were you tormented by a puppet named Umbriago on your TV show?
  3. Were you the founder of Wendy’s restaurant chain?
160

Not Roger Daltry
DQ
Not Dave Thomas