Botticelli - November 2015

Thread Games
281

Take 3 DQs.

282

I am not Wil Wheaton. Take 2 DQs.

283

Previous IQs:

Did you take the biggest piece of meat from the platter at banquets, and keep VIPs waiting while you napped? - William Howard Taft.
Did your stepfather beat your mom until you stepped in? - William Jefferson Clinton.
Did you once give a speech from a rooftop in East Liverpool, Ohio? - William Jennings Bryan.

William x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
American?

IQs:

Are you the best-known person to hail from Auburn, N.Y.?
A ladies’ man and a noted environmentalist in addition to your day job, did you keep trying to do that job even after you were told to stop?
Do you often feature your dogs in your artwork?

284

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American
285

Take 3 DQs.

286

Wesley Willis, Will Arnette

DQ: From literature?

holding a DQ

287

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American
  4. Not from literature
288

IQ1: Are you the artist of The Spirit?
IQ2: Are you a humorist who often said “I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”?
IQ3: Were you the last Kaiser and King of Prussia?

289

Previous IQs:

Are you the best-known person to hail from Auburn, N.Y.? - William Seward, Lincoln’s SecState.
A ladies’ man and a noted environmentalist in addition to your day job, did you keep trying to do that job even after you were told to stop? - William O. Douglas, SCOTUS associate justice, who struggled with dementia late in life and at least once tried to sit on a case as a full member of the court even after resigning.
Do you often feature your dogs in your artwork? - William Wegman, photographer: http://wegmanworld.typepad.com/.a/6a014e5f228375970c019b00d33a97970c-320wi.

Another William x3!

DQs:

If real, would be alive today?
Created since 1964?
Best known from movies?

IQs:

Were you the victor of the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
Are you a noted American researcher into SADD?
Did John Goodman play a dim cop in a comedy sketch in which you appeared?

290

I am not Will Eisner.
I am not Will Rogers.
I am not Kaiser Wilhelm.

291

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American
  4. Not from literature
  5. If real, would probably be alive today
  6. Created before 1964
  7. Best known from movies
292

Take 3 DQs.

293

Previous IQs:

Were you the victor of the Battle of Fallen Timbers? - Gen. “Mad Anthony” Wayne.
Are you a noted American researcher into SADD? - Dr. Wayne London.
Did John Goodman play a dim cop in a comedy sketch in which you appeared? - Wayne of Wayne’s World in one SNL segment.

Wayne x3!

DQs:

First name start with W?
Primary character?
Appeared in more than one movie?

IQs:

Were you Buck Rogers’s boon companion?
Were you the last in your living space to be eaten?
Were you the victor of an 1864 naval battle off the coast of Cherbourg, France?

294

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American
  4. Not from literature
  5. If real, would probably be alive today
  6. Created before 1964
  7. Best known from movies
  8. Last name starts with W
  9. Primary character (or very close to it)
  10. Appeared in one movie and remakes of the same movie
295

I am not Wilma Deering.
Take 2 DQs for the others.
Happy Thankgiving!

296

To you as well, and to all my fellow American Dopers!

Previous IQs:

Were you Buck Rogers’s boon companion? - Yes, Wilma Deering.
Were you the last in your living space to be eaten? - The title character of A Fish Called Wanda.
Were you the victor of an 1864 naval battle off the coast of Cherbourg, France? - Capt. John A. Winslow of the USS Kearsarge, who defeated and sank the Confederate commerce raider CSS Alabama.

DQs:

First movie was in B&W?
Considered a heroine or “good girl”?

IQs:

Did you live next door to a very ornery little boy?
Did you have your car’s paintjob trimmed in your college colors?
Was it said that you were wrongly doing your husband’s job for him?

297

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American
  4. Not from literature
  5. If real, would probably be alive today
  6. Created before 1964
  7. Best known from movies
  8. Last name starts with W
  9. Primary character (or very close to it)
  10. Appeared in one movie and remakes of the same movie
  11. First movie in B&W
  12. Not a heroic role, but she is a good girl.
298

I am not Mr. Wilson.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not Edith Wilson. If that’s not right, take another DQ.

299

Previous IQs:

Did you live next door to a very ornery little boy? - Yes, Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace.
Did you have your car’s paintjob trimmed in your college colors? - Woodrow Wilson; his black car was trimmed with the orange of Princeton U.
Was it said that you were wrongly doing your husband’s job for him? - Yes, Edith Wilson, the First Lady, after he was nearly felled by ill health.

Wilson x3!

DQ:

Considered a beauty?

IQs:

Have you played a soldier, a dictator, an assassin and a jazz musician?
Did you command the USS Monitor during its duel with the CSS Virginia?
Were you duped by the Red-Headed League?

300

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. American
  4. Not from literature
  5. If real, would probably be alive today
  6. Created before 1964
  7. Best known from movies
  8. Last name starts with W
  9. Primary character (or very close to it)
  10. Appeared in one movie and remakes of the same movie
  11. First movie in B&W
  12. Not a heroic role, but she is a good girl.
  13. Not a beauty, but a pretty little girl.