Botticelli - November 2019

Thread Games
301
  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
  11. From the British Isles
  12. Not known for the visual arts (painting, photography, sculpture, etc.)
  13. Won awards, but not the top awards in his field
  14. Known for the performing arts
  15. Died before 1999
  16. Has acted, much better known for something else
  17. Best known as a musician
  18. Not knighted or ennobled
  19. Died before 1989
  20. Died before 1979
  21. British
  22. Rock musician
  23. Died in his early 30s
  24. Part of a band

If that’s all the DQs, make your final guesses.

302

I sense a Christmas connection.

All the Who’s down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot.
But Keith Moon, the Who’s wild-man drummer like it even better.

Are you Keith Moon?

303

Rumor is that the Muppets’ Animal was inspired by Keith Moon. Yes, it’s the wild man himself. The game is now yours.

304

Thang Q veddymooch.

I am A.

305
  1. Did you play an elderly mystery writer who dabbled in detective work?
  2. Were you an author who probably inspired the creation of number 1’s character?
  3. Did you write about a philosophical whale and a sentient flowerpot, among many other things?
306

Take 2 DQs.
#3. I am not Douglas Adams.

307

Good job, Prof. P.! Shoulda thought of him.

IQs:

Were you colonel of the 20th Maine before serving as a Carpetbagger governor of Mississippi?
Were you an FBI turncoat?
Did you complain about the closure of streets in your Manhattan neighborhood during the filming of Ghostbusters?

308

#3. I am not Woody Allen (???)

Take 2 or 3 DQs.

309

1. Did you play an elderly mystery writer who dabbled in detective work?
2. Were you an author who probably inspired the creation of number 1’s character?

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, most likely inspired by Agatha Christie.

Real?
Male?

310

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
311

Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:

  1. Are you one of a trio of singing chipmunks?
  2. Did you write and draw a comic about your father’s experiences during the Holocaust?
  3. Were you nicknamed “Little Sure Shot”?
312
  1. I am not Alvin.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Annie Oakley.
313

Previous IQs:

Were you colonel of the 20th Maine before serving as a Carpetbagger governor of Mississippi? - Adelbert Ames
Were you an FBI turncoat? - Aldrich Ames
Did you complain about the closure of streets in your Manhattan neighborhood during the filming of Ghostbusters? - Isaac Asimov

DQs:

First name start with A?
American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Were you a teacher with the maiden name of Grayson?
Were you a queen before you were a senator?
Was your mother Gilraen?

314
  1. Were you Tom in an early version of a music duo?
  2. Did you play a 60s sitcom grandpa?
  3. Are you Hank Hill’s Highland doppleganger?
315

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
316

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Art Garfunkel.
    Take 2 DQs.
317

2. Did you play a 60s sitcom grandpa?
3. Are you Hank Hill’s Highland doppleganger?

Al Lewis and Tom Anderson

Literary character?
19th century?

318

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
319

2 (creator of comic about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust) was Art Spiegelman.

IQs:

  1. Did you use the pseudonym Carlos Danger?
  2. Did you write The Lost World, The White Company, and many other books having nothing to do with mysteries and your most famous character?
  3. Did you play Han Solo?
    DQ: created before 1960?
320

Ah, how could I forget Mauschwitz?
IQs:

  1. Did you use the pseudonym Carlos Danger?
  2. Did you write The Lost World, The White Company, and many other books having nothing to do with mysteries and your most famous character?
  3. Did you play Han Solo?

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Arthur Conan Doyle.
#3. I am not 'Arrison Ford. I don’t know the new fellow. Take a DQ.