Botticelli - November 2018

Thread Games
141

Previous IQs:

Are you often credited with inventing TV? - Yes, Philo Farnsworth
Did you costar in Skyhei$t? - Frank Gorshin
Did Earl Warren succeed you on the Supreme Court? - Fred Vinson

DQs:

Born since 1950?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Did a character you played tell someone else to come back “in a suit made of some sort of cloth”?
Did you uncharacteristically get naked while being interviewed for Esquire?
Are you one of the stars of Portlandia?

142

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Fred Armisen.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name begins with F
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. born before 1950
  7. partially known for the arts, if the arts include writing
143

IQs:

  1. Did you write tales about Yoknapatawpha County?
  2. Did you write The World of Tiers series?
  3. Did you write The Great Gatsby?
144
  1. Did you lead the first voyage to successfully circumnavigate the globe, although you yourself did not complete the journey?
  2. Are you a famous fictional globetrotter?
  3. In one of your film outings, were you depicted practising safe sex by way of you and your partner both being fully enveloped in body-sized condoms?
145

Previous IQs:

Did a character you played tell someone else to come back “in a suit made of some sort of cloth”? - Fred Gwynne, the judge in My Cousin Vinny
Did you uncharacteristically get naked while being interviewed for Esquire? - Fred Rogers
Are you one of the stars of Portlandia? - Yes, Fred Armisen

Fred x3!

DQs:

Best known for novel(s)?
Greatest fame before 1941?

IQs:

Were you a key female character in Les Miserables?
Are you the former chief editor of The Concord Monitor, in New Hampshire?
Did your future wife first see you walking down the street, eating an entire loaf of bread?

146
  1. I am not William Faulkner.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not F. Scott Fitzgerald.
  1. I am not Ferdinand Magellan.
  2. I am not Phileas Fogg.
  3. This sounds familiar, but I can’t place it. Take a DQ.

Respectively:
I am not Fantine.
Take a DQ.
I am not Ben Franklin.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name begins with F
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. born before 1950
  7. partially known for the arts, if the arts include writing
  8. not best known for novels
  9. greatest fame before 1941
147

Correct, Philip Jose Farmer, Correct.

DQ: Known for literature (short stories, plays, poems, etc.)?

148

IQs:

  1. Did you write A Coney Island of the Mind?
  2. Did you write the play Little Murders?
  3. Did you write So Big and Show Boat?
149

Previous IQs:

Were you a key female character in Les Miserables? - Yes, Fantine
Are you the former chief editor of The Concord Monitor, in New Hampshire? - Felice Belman
Did your future wife first see you walking down the street, eating an entire loaf of bread? - Yes, Ben Franklin

DQ:

Ever won a major award for your writing?

IQs:

Were you a longtime CBS News exec?
Did you create Downtown Abbey?
Did your coworkers watch, and mock, your wedding home movies?

150
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Jules Feiffer.
  3. Take a DQ.

Respectively:
I am not Fred Friendly.
I am not Julian Fellowes.
I’ve seen this one before, but I forgot. Take a DQ.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name begins with F
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. born before 1950
  7. partially known for the arts, if the arts include writing
  8. not best known for novels
  9. greatest fame before 1941
  10. not known for literature (short stories, plays, poems, etc.)
  11. never won a major award for his writing
151

#1 was Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Correct on Jules.
#3 was Edna Ferber.

DQs:

  1. Born before 1900?
  2. Known for government/poliitics?
152

Previous IQs:

Were you a longtime CBS News exec? - Yes, Fred Friendly
Did you create Downtown Abbey? - Yes, Julian Fellowes
Did your coworkers watch, and mock, your wedding home movies? - Maj. Frank Burns, on MASH*

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a one-name teenybopper idol in the Fifties?
Ditto, but with two names, one of which is an ancient word for England?
Did you paint the artwork for the first Conan the Barbarian poster?

153

Respectively:
I am not Fabian.
I am not Frankie Avalon.
I am not Frank Frazetta.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name begins with F
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. born before 1950
  7. partially known for the arts, if the arts include writing
  8. not best known for novels
  9. greatest fame before 1941
  10. not known for literature (short stories, plays, poems, etc.)
  11. never won a major award for his writing
  12. born before 1900
  13. not known for government/politics
154

Correct, correct, and Leslie Nielsen’s Lt Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun (I forget which one - in fact, that reminds me that they’re well overdue a rewatch for me).

DQ: known for philosophy?

IQs:

  1. Did you play the last king of Scotland?
  2. Are you considered by many the best pound-for-pound boxer of all time, currently with a 50-0 record?
  3. Were you famous for the quote “I have a truly marvellous proof of this theorem, which this margin is too small to contain” (or words to that effect)?
155

IQs:

  1. Did you shoot Jesse James?
  2. Were you a Civil War general known as The Pathfinder?
  3. Were you Ben Franklin’s Tory son?
156

Swept me!

IQs:

Did your father, shown in a movie to have messy eating habits, favor your older brother over you?
Did you command the Roman legions at Masada?
Were you RNC chair in the Eighties?

157
  1. I am not Forrest Whitaker.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Pierre Fermat.
  1. I am not Robert Ford.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.

Take three DQs.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name begins with F
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. born before 1950
  7. partially known for the arts, if the arts include writing
  8. not best known for novels
  9. greatest fame before 1941
  10. not known for literature (short stories, plays, poems, etc.)
  11. never won a major award for his writing
  12. born before 1900
  13. not known for government/politics
  14. not known for philosophy
158

Correct on Mr. Ford.
#2 was John C. Fremont.
#3 was William Franklin.

DQs:

  1. Known for military activity?
  2. Born before 1800?
159

Previous IQs:

Did your father, shown in a movie to have messy eating habits, favor your older brother over you? - Faramir, in the *LOTR *movies
Did you command the Roman legions at Masada? - Pomponius Falco
Were you RNC chair in the Eighties? - Frank Fahrenkopf

DQs:

Born east of the Miss. River?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you the “action guy” on FYI?
Did you command Hill Street Station?
Is your dog buried not far from you?

160

IQs:

  1. Did you invent the steamboat?
  2. Did you take credit for inventing the steamboat even though #1 above beat you to it?
  3. Did you paint Maya clothed and unclothed?