Botticelli November 2011

Thread Games
61

Garbo’s right.

Gabrielle Giffords and George Carlin.
DQ: Are you male?
DQ: Are you living?

62

IQ: Were you the creative force behind Tubeway Army?

IQ: Did you direct a shot-for-shot remake of one of the most famous thrillers in cinema history?

IQ: Are you the British version of Godzilla, destroying London instead of Tokyo?

63
  1. Male
  2. Dead
64

Not Gus Van Sant, and not Gorgo.

But take a DQ for #1.

65

You are not early new-waver Gary Numan, best known for his solo hit “Cars”. Tubeway Army was the band he was in before going solo.

DQ: Real person?

66
  1. Male
  2. Dead
  3. Real person
67

Is your autobiography titled: “I never wanted to be Vice President of anything”?

68

“He who yawns” is the translation of “Goyaałé”, the Chiracahua-language name of Geronimo.

DQ: Were you known for athletic accomplishments?
IQ: Was your then-new invention an attraction at the World’s Columbian Exposition?

IQ: When advised to “go see (your name)”, did you reply, “I am (your name)”?

IQ: Were you the brother of a race-car driver for whom an automobile marque was named?

69

DOn’t know this one- ask a DQ

70

No.

  1. Male
  2. Dead
  3. Real person
  4. Not known for any involvement in sports

Not George Ferris (as in Ferris wheel)

Take two DQs for these

71

IQ: Are you the sculptor responsible for a sculpture prominently featured in the climax of a Hitchcock film?

IQ: Did a US president once say that you were a nice enough fellow, but you spent too much time playing football without a helmet?

IQ: Are you a better man than I am?

72

Not Gerald Ford or Gunga Din.

But since I can’t remember the first name of the guy who built Mount Rushmore (his last name was… Borglund, or something like that?), take a DQ.

73

IQ: Did you also write The Tenth Man?

IQ: Did you have a big hit in 1956 with “the Wayward Wind”?

IQ: Is something eating you?

74

Overcome with sadness, Joseph Grimaldi went to a doctor. When advised to go see the great clown Grimaldi (who performed in whiteface), the normal-looking patient revealed his identity.

Gaston Chevrolet, a racecar driver and manufacturer himself, was the brother of Louis, who cofounded the Chevrolet company with William Durant in 1911.

DQ: Political figure?

DQ: Entertainer?

IQ: Did you perform two of the maudlin songs of the 1960-80 era, one of which was devoted to a child’s development, the other to a woman you loved?

IQ: Did you record the song Ghosts of Cape Horn?

IQ: Are you a baseball great whose middle name is Moses?

75

Were you the heir to one of the richest Americans of all time?

76

Not Gilbert Grape, and not Gogi Grant.

But take a DQ for “The Tenth Man.”

77
  1. Male
  2. Dead
  3. Real Person
  4. Not involved in sports
  5. Not an entertainer of any kind.
  6. Not a politician, but a very important political figure anyway.
78

Gutzon Borglum was the sculptor of Mount Rushmore.

DQ: American?

79

Not Bobby Goldsboro (“Watching Scotty Grow” and “Honey”)

Take a DQ for the other 2.

80

I SHOULD be able to come up with SOME acceptable answer to such a broad question, but I can’t (“Melvin Gummar?”)

So, ask a DQ.