Botticelli - May 2024

Thread Games
221

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. American
222
  1. I am not Balanchine (?)
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
223

Boy, you go away for a weekend 'round these parts and you miss an entire Botticelli! Good call, Prof_P!

IQs:

  1. Were you the original choice to play the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz?
  2. Are you a private investigator played on TV by #1?
  3. Were you the first to consider escaped slaves as “enemy contraband” during the Civil War?
224
  1. I am not Buddy Ebsen.
  2. I am not Barnaby Jones.
  3. Take a DQ.
225

1 was Notah Begay III. Correct on Cumberbatch. 3 was Billy Boyd; he’s most famous for playing Pippin in the Lord of the Rings movies, but he’s also played Gerald Forbes in Outlander and Barrett Bonden in Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.

DQ:

  1. Known for the arts?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
227

Correct on #1 and #2, #3 was Benjamin Butler, MGen, USAV.

DQ: Living?

228

IQs:

  1. Did you begin your professional music career by releasing on Soundcloud a song you and your brother wrote for your high school music class project?
  2. Did former Doper Oakminster commemorate you with a thread every year on June 3rd?
  3. Did you write a song about your desire to sleep through the month of August, which was the month your father died?

DQ: Known for the literary arts?

229

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. Dead
  7. Known for the literary arts
230

#3. I am not Billie Joe Armstrong. Take 2 DQs.

231

DQ: known for writing novels?

IQs:
1. You know that show Catherine Tate was on? Yeah. Were you on it, for the first two seasons of the 2005 reboot (in fact, the first episode of the reboot is named after your character) and then sporadically afterwards, like in the 2013 50th anniversary special?
2. Were you Artemis Fowl’s butler?
3. Were you a catcher for the Yankees?

232

Congrats!

  1. Did you play Jodie Dallas on Soap?
  2. Did Robert Guillaume play you on Soap?
  3. Were you half of a ventriloquism team on Soap?
233

1 is Billie Eilish. 2 is Billie Joe McAllister, who on the 3rd of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day, jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. Correct on the author of “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, though I got the month wrong.

Billie times three!

Two DQs reserved.

234

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. Dead
  7. Known for the literary arts
  8. Known for writing novels
235
  1. I am not Billie Piper.
    Take 2 DQs.

#2. I am not Benson.
Take 2 DQs.

236

2 was Butler; 3 was Yogi Berra.

DQs:
1. died after 1960?
2. won any awards?

237

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. Dead
  7. Known for the literary arts
  8. Known for writing novels
  9. Died before 1960.
  10. Did not win any awards
238

DQs:

  1. Genre writer?
  2. Work taught in schools?

IQs:

  1. Does your filmography include roles as a murderous monk, a drunken author, a naval surgeon-slash-naturalist-slash-spy, an AI, and a delusion?
  2. Were you a Georgia-born comedian and actor, or an identically-named centerfielder for the Braves and Royals?
  3. Were you “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”?
239

IQs:
1. and 2. Did Ryan Gosling and Mikey Day play people who looked coincidentally like the two of you in a recent SNL sketch with Heidi Gardner, who couldn’t help herself and cracked up once she saw Day in makeup and prosthetics?
3. Did you lead the Iceni against the Romans?

240

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. American
  5. Known for the arts
  6. Dead
  7. Known for the literary arts
  8. Known for writing novels
  9. Died before 1960.
  10. Did not win any awards
  11. Genre writer
  12. Not usually taught in schools