Botticelli - November 2019

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Were you a mountain man who married an Indian woman named Singing Grass?
  2. Have you played an alien, a Chosen One, a killer-for-hire and a self-agenda’d magician?
  3. Are you a warrior created by Robert E. Howard?
262

1. Are you Zapp Brannigan’s exasperated lieutenant?
2. Did you open your manifesto by declaring “A specter is haunting Europe–the specter of communism”?
3. Did you write the Anno Dracula series, and other novels, short stories, and film criticism?

Not Kif, wild ass guess on Karl Marx, take one or two DQs.

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1) Were you a mountain man who married an Indian woman named Singing Grass?
2) Have you played an alien, a Chosen One, a killer-for-hire and a self-agenda’d magician?
3) Are you a warrior created by Robert E. Howard?

Not Keanu Reeves, take two DQs

264

#1 was Kit Carson.
Correct on Keanu.
#3 is Kull the Conqueror.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Male?
265
  1. Real
  2. First name starts with K
  3. Dead
  4. Male
266

IQs:

  1. Did you direct Dogma?
  2. Are you an actor who also tours musically with your brother?
  3. Did you play Captain Kangaroo on TV?
267

Previous IQs:

Are you name-checked in Queen’s “Killer Queen”? - “A built-in remedy / For Khrushchev…”
Are you, too? - “…and Kennedy”
Were you the spouse of either of them? - Nina Khrushchev or Jacqueline Kennedy

DQs:

American?
Died since 1919?
Best known for politics/military?

IQs:

Did you silently warn a friend not to tell a little old Irish woman who you were?
Are you that person’s older sibling?
Did Jason Clarke play you in a recent movie?

268

Correct guess for Marx. 3 was Kim Newman.

IQs:

  1. Did you win the first season of American Idol?
  2. Did you found the National Lampoon, write both Animal House and Caddyshack, and play a small role in Animal House?
  3. Were you a Vietnam vet and Democratic presidential candidate who became Secretary of State?
    One DQ reserved.
269

1) Did you direct Dogma?
2) Are you an actor who also tours musically with your brother?
3) Did you play Captain Kangaroo on TV?

Not Kevin Smith, Kevin Bacon, or Bob Keeshan

270

Did you silently warn a friend not to tell a little old Irish woman who you were?
Are you that person’s older sibling?
Did Jason Clarke play you in a recent movie?

Take 3 DQs

271

1. Did you win the first season of American Idol?
2. Did you found the National Lampoon, write both Animal House and Caddyshack, and play a small role in Animal House?
3. Were you a Vietnam vet and Democratic presidential candidate who became Secretary of State?

Not… Kelly Clarkson? Or Bob Kenney? Take the appropriate number of DQs.

272
  1. Real
  2. First name starts with K
  3. Dead
  4. Male
  5. Not American
  6. Died after 1919
  7. Not known for politics/military
273

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Did you host the radio show Information, Please??
  2. Are you a noted German graffiti artist?
  3. Did you have a hit with I Wanna Be Loved By You?
274

1) Did you host the radio show Information, Please??
2) Are you a noted German graffiti artist?
3) Did you have a hit with I Wanna Be Loved By You?

Not Helen Kane, take 2 DQs

275

#1 was John Kieran.
#2 is Klark Kent.
Correct on the Boop girl.

DQs:

  1. European?
  2. Known for the Arts?
276

Correct on Kelly Clarkson; close enough on Doug Kenney; 3 was John Kerry.

IQs:

  1. Were you a gorilla who learned sign language?
  2. Were you animated by Willis O’Brien?
  3. Did you star in a bunch of movies with Spenser Tracy?
    DQ: died before 1969?
277

1. Were you a gorilla who learned sign language?
2. Were you animated by Willis O’Brien?
3. Did you star in a bunch of movies with Spenser Tracy?

Not Koko, King Kong, or Katherine Hepburn, take a DQ for Doug Kenney.

278
  1. Real
  2. First name starts with K
  3. Dead
  4. Male
  5. Not American
  6. Died after 1919
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. European
  9. Known for the arts
  10. Died after 1969
279

IQs:

  1. Did you play Mary Jane Watson in the first trilogy of Spider-Man movies?
  2. Are you secretly Batwoman?
  3. Did you create a particular shade of blue paint with which you made paintings by having nude women roll in vats of the paint and then on white canvases (while prospective buyers watched)?
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Previous IQs:

Did you silently warn a friend not to tell a little old Irish woman who you were? - A young, bearded JFK Jr., when he was hiking across Ireland with a college friend and found himself, after being caught out in the rain, in the hut of a helpful lady who had a picture of his father on the wall.
Are you that person’s older sibling? - Caroline Kennedy
Did Jason Clarke play you in a recent movie? - Ted Kennedy, in Chappaquiddick

Kennedy x3!

DQs:

From the British Isles?
Best known for the visual arts (painting, photography, sculpture, etc.)?
Won a top award in his field?

IQs:

Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?
Were your declaration scrawled on lots of walls during WWII?
Were you the result of a fictional US cloning?