Botticelli - November 2023

Thread Games
61

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
62

Not Simon Templar AKA The Saint
Take 2 DQs

Hmm…Sodom was a place, so not that…DQ
DQ
Not Simon

63

More Simons.

  1. is Simon Magus, a New Testament magician who according to the Book of Acts tried to buy the power to confer the Holy Spirit from the Apostles; the buying and selling of holy offices such as bishoprics and abbacies is the sin of simony, and contributed to the Reformation.
  2. was Simon Fraser, “The Fox”, 11th Lord Lovat, who was beheaded for treason, for leading his clansmen out in the 1745 Jacobite rebellion.
  3. was indeed Simon, who likes to make drawerings.
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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron
Were you his second? - Edwin Stanton
Were you his SECSTATE, and Andrew Johnson’s, too? - William H. Seward

DQs:

American?
Last name start with S?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Were you legendarily too shy to woo your true love?
Did Brienne kill you in the woods near Winterfell?
Did both Calvin Coolidge and FDR appoint you to seats on the Supreme Court?

65

IQs:

  1. Were you the first Christian martyr?
  2. Did you write The Book of Swords?
  3. Were you a comedian and a producer for whom two sitcom characters were named?
66
  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
67

2 DQs
Not Harlan Stone

Not St. Stephen
DQ
Not Sheldon Leonard

68

Correct, Sebell, Barbara Sleigh.

DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Died on before 1900?
69

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
70

Correct, Robert Silverberg, correct.

  1. Died before 1700?
71

DQs, that I never got around to asking because I was late for the dentist:

  1. European?
  2. Known for music?

IQs:

  1. Did you write the lyrics of “A Boy Named Sue”?
  2. Were you a sultan of Egypt and brother of Saladin?
  3. Were you surprised to find out that people like you, they really like you?
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Previous IQs:

Were you legendarily too shy to woo your true love? - Miles Standish, in early Colonial American lore
Did Brienne kill you in the woods near Winterfell? - Stannis Baratheon, in Game of Thrones
Did both Calvin Coolidge and FDR appoint you to seats on the Supreme Court? - Yes, Harlan F. Stone. Although a Republican and appointed by a Republican, he was a reliable-enough pro-New Deal vote on the court that FDR made him Chief Justice. (Per Wiki: “To date, Justice Stone is the only justice to have occupied all nine seniority positions on the bench, having moved from most junior associate justice to most senior associate justice and then to chief justice”).

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you call a truce for a foe’s wedding night?
Was your father a diplomat and your mother a teacher?
Did two different actresses play you in two successive movies?

73

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1700
  10. European
  11. Known for music
74

Not Shel Silverstein
DQ
Not Sally Field

Take 3 DQs

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Previous IQs:

Did you call a truce for a foe’s wedding night? - Saladin, during the Crusades
Was your father a diplomat and your mother a teacher? - Cmdr. Spock, on Star Trek
Did two different actresses play you in two successive movies? - Lt. Saavik, played by Kirstie Alley in STII: Wrath of Khan and Robin Curtis in STIII: The Search for Spock.

DQs:

European?
Best known as a singer?
Best known as a solo musician?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were the Cleveland Indians supposedly named after you?
Have you written about Lincoln’s top naval officers, the Battle of Midway and many other such topics?
Did Robert Lawson depict you as a blowhard, a rabble-rouser and a mooch?

76

IQs:

  1. Are you a mean ol’ puddy tat?
  2. Are you a title character in a song on Cher’s new album?
  3. Are Brad and Janet on their way to see you when their car breaks down in the rain?
77

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Last name starts with S
  6. Best known for the Arts, in a way
  7. Caucasian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1700
  10. European
  11. Known for music
  12. Not best known as a singer
  13. Not best known as a solo musician

EH - European was already asked in #10. You still have 3 DQs

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3 more DQs

Not Sylvester
DQ
Not Dr. Everett Scott :roll_of_toilet_paper:

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Ah, thanks. I’d overlooked that “European?” was already asked.

Previous IQs:

Were the Cleveland Indians supposedly named after you? - Alex Sockalexis, who had Native American blood
Have you written about Lincoln’s top naval officers, the Battle of Midway and many other such topics? - Naval historian Craig Symond
Did Robert Lawson depict you as a blowhard, a rabble-rouser and a mooch? - Sam Adams, in the YA book Mr. Revere and I

DQs:

From the British Isles?
Best known as an instrumentalist?
Won a top music award?
Greatest fame before 1980?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a hardboiled private eye?
Did Pittsburgh Pirates player Phil Garner capitalize on his resemblance to you?
Were you a good-humored African star of Richmond FC?

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Correct on 1 and 3. 2 was Ahmed ibn Najm al-Din, known to the Crusaders as Safadin.

DQ: Mother tongue was English?

IQs:

  1. Were you chief of the tigers, and principal antagonist to the man-cub?
  2. Are you a singer with a truthful pelvis?
  3. Are you good enough, strong enough, and doggone it, people like you?