Botticelli -- November 2016

Thread Games
141

Correct on JS, JC, and CPE Bach.
IQ1: Did you write a tune which Allan Sherman used for a song about food?
IQ2: Did you write an opera, a tune from which was used in a kids’ baseball movie?
IQ3: Did you write an orchestral piece, meant for children, based on a theme by Purcell?

142

Take 3 DQs.

143

Brahms (Hungarian Dance No 5/“Hungarian Goulash No 5”)
Bizet (Carmen/The Bad News Bears).
Britten (A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra).
DQ1: Best known for music?
DQ2: Native speaker of a Romance language?
One DQ reserved.

144

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with B
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died before 1950
  8. European
  9. Not known for the visual arts
  10. Not political/military
  11. Not British
  12. Died after 1850
  13. Not a writer
  14. Died after 1900
  15. Best known for music
  16. Not a native speaker of a Romance language
145

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted ornithologist? - James Bond
Were you a noted fictional character named after him? - That James Bond
Did you help the three Lone Gunmen? - Jimmy Bond

Bond x3!

DQ:

Russian?
Composer?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a bat with your name appear in a cartoon as Rasputin’s sidekick?
Did you play Cmdr. Chakotay?
Does Amy Adams play you in Arrival?

146

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with B
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Died before 1950
  8. European
  9. Not known for the visual arts
  10. Not political/military
  11. Not British
  12. Died after 1850
  13. Not a writer
  14. Died after 1900
  15. Best known for music
  16. Not a native speaker of a Romance language
  17. Not Russian
  18. Composer
147

Yes! I am Bela Bartok!

Good job, EH!

148

Thanks! Haven’t updated the letters-played list lately, but I think it’s been awhile since we did

G

149

IQ1: Were you noted for your many loves?
IQ2: Were you #1’s beatnik friend?
IQ3: Were you a man named Mohandas who was better known by an honorific?

150

IQs:

  1. Are you the best known character played by SCAdian’s IQ2’s actor?
  2. Did the Indigo Girls sing a song about you?
  3. Are you a gay talk show host with a long running season on the BBC?
151

Not Dobie Gillis, Maynard G. Krebs, or Gandhi.

Not Gilligan, dunno, and dunno.

152

#1. Correct.
#2. Galileo.
#3. Graham Norton.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
153

IQs:

  1. In the musical Camelot, does Guinevere pray to you in song?
  2. Are you Lancelot’s illegitimate son?
  3. Are you a superintelligent gorilla villain from The Flash?
154

Not God, Galahad or… Gorillaman?

G.

  1. real
  2. male
155

#1 is St. Genevieve.
(O Genevieve, St. Genevieve, it’s Guinevere, remember me?)
#2 is Galahad, correct.
#3 is Grodd.
DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Last name starts with G?
156

IQs:

  1. Were you the title character in a two-season live action musical comedy/adventure series produced by Disney?
  2. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi and mentor?
  3. Did you incessantly try to capture or harm the Smurfs?
157

Correct on all three.
IQ1: Was a version of the M3 medium tank named after you?
IQ2: Was the M48 medium tank named after you?
IQ3: Were you killed at Khartoum during the Mahdist War?

158

Dunno x3.

Not U.S. Grant, George Patton (my dad commanded one in West Germany!), and not Gen. George “Chinese” Gordon.

G.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. alive
  4. last name starts with G
159

#1 was Galavant.
#2 was Gamaliel
#3 was Gargamel.

DQs:

  1. Born after 1970?
  2. Known for the Arts?
  3. American?
160

IQs:

  1. Did you paint portraits of Maia clothed and unclothed?
  2. Are two of your solo albums titled Watermark and Angel Clare?
  3. Did you sing Lydia the Tattooed Lady?