Botticelli, Nov. 2022

Thread Games
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J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with J
  4. deceased
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. not known for politics/government
  8. died after 1950
  9. known. among other things, for business
  10. died after 1980
  11. died before 2010
  12. originally from Europe
  13. name of business contains all or part of his name
  14. business still in operation
  15. business creates physical objects as products
  16. business not related to food and drink
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correct
Junior Juniper
Jasper Sitwell


DQ1: Business related to electronics?
DQ2: British?


IQ1: Were you SecWar under Pierce?
IQ2: Did you, your mother-in-law, and two other family members move to California?
IQ3: Were you a female cousin of #2?

223

IQ1: Did you claim to have invented jazz?
IQ2: Does a popular Christmas story’s first sentence indicate that you were dead?
IQ2: Did your mother slaughter a bunch of horny teenagers because she thought their negligence caused your death?

224

#1 is Jack Smith.
#2 was Judy Garland.
#3 is the Juggernaut.

3 DQs reserved.

225

I got the “J” name (Jack), so I believe you have two DQs, Prof. P.

Not Jefferson Davis, not Jed Clampett (sp?) and not Jessica Clampett.

226

Not Jelly Roll Morton, not Jacob Marley and not Jason.

227

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with J
  4. deceased
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. not known for politics/government
  8. died after 1950
  9. known, among other things, for business
  10. died after 1980
  11. died before 2010
  12. originally from Europe
  13. name of business contains all or part of his name
  14. business still in operation
  15. business creates physical objects as products
  16. business not related to food and drink
  17. business not related to electronics
  18. not British

As we’re now over 20 earned DQs, no more IQs, please.

228

DQ: Business created mechanical products?

1 DQ remaining.

229

Another sweep! No more DQs for me.

230

correct
correct
Jethrine Bodine, Jethro’s twin sister


One DQ reserved.

231

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with J
  4. deceased
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. not known for politics/government
  8. died after 1950
  9. known, among other things, for business
  10. died after 1980
  11. died before 2010
  12. originally from Europe
  13. name of business contains all or part of his name
  14. business still in operation
  15. business creates physical objects as products
  16. business not related to food and drink
  17. business not related to electronics
  18. not British
  19. business created mechanical products

As I understand the phrase, at least.

Please ask all earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

232

DQ: German (or Germanic)?

233

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with J
  4. deceased
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. not known for politics/government
  8. died after 1950
  9. known, among other things, for business
  10. died after 1980
  11. died before 2010
  12. originally from Europe
  13. name of business contains all or part of his name
  14. business still in operation
  15. business creates physical objects as products
  16. business not related to food and drink
  17. business not related to electronics
  18. not British
  19. business created mechanical products
  20. not German (or Germanic)
234

DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?

235

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with J
  4. deceased
  5. naturalized American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. not known for politics/government
  8. died after 1950
  9. known, among other things, for business
  10. died after 1980
  11. died before 2010
  12. originally from Europe
  13. name of business contains all or part of his name
  14. business still in operation
  15. business creates physical objects as products
  16. business not related to food and drink
  17. business not related to electronics
  18. not British
  19. business created mechanical products
  20. not German (or Germanic)
  21. native speaker of a Romance language

Tawk amongst yourselves, and then please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST tomorrow.

236

So, businessman, name on a product (mechanical, but not electronics), died 1981 to 2009, maybe French, Spanish or Italian.

I’m not comin’ up with a car-related name offhand. (Unless, of course, it’s Francoise du Jeep :crazy_face:).

Time to think…

237

Hmm… non-electronic mechanical product. Cars? Watches? Kitchen appliances?
Of course, we don’t know for certain that the J last name is part of the company name. It could be just his first name…
Also, not known only for business, also known for other things? An athlete who started a business? A fashion designer who also does watches?
Time to ponder…

238

Still no clue.

239

Ditto.

240

I’m stumped