Botticelli - October 2013

Thread Games
461

#2 was Jubilation T. Cornpone, from the musical Li’l Abner.
#3 was J. Alfred Prufrock, from T. S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. In the Arts as we know and love them?
462

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not in the Arts as we know and love them
463

Thanks for the Clampett correction.

Previous IQs:

Are you the most famous resident of an Ecuadorian embassy? - Julian Assange, in London.
Did your assistants, after a tragedy, make a late-night library visit? - Jackie Kennedy’s staff went to the Library of Congress on the night of Nov. 22, 1963, to research the Lincoln funeral observances.
Did Mark Twain hate your writing style? - Correct as to James Fenimore Cooper.

DQs:

Died since 1900?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did JFK say he particularly enjoyed your memos?
Was your last film role as a foul-mouthed but doting mom?
Did your loss of an appendage but not your life trigger a military conflict?

464

DQ.
DQ.
Not a one-eared man named Jenkins.

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not in the Arts as we know and love them
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Political/military connections, but not actually a political/military figure
465

Correct on Johnny B. Goode and Jack Klugman.

The man who said “We was robbed,” was boxing manager Joe Jacobs. He managed Max Schmeling.

DQ: Known for work in the sciences?

466

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not in the Arts as we know and love them
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Political/military connections, but not actually a political/military figure
  9. Not known for work in the sciences
467

Correct on Queen Jocasta and Inspector Javert. Number 3 was King John.

IQ1: Is a kind of knife named after you/
IQ2: Did you have authority over an investigatory body and a reputation for transvestism?
IQ3: Is your name a byword for wealth?

468

Not Jim Bowie.
Not J Edgar Hoover.
Not John Paul Getty.

469

Correct on 1 and 2. 3 wasn’t whom I was thinking of but fits, so I’ll rephrase:

IQ: Is your family name a byword for extreme wealth and shared with a Republican politician with a reputation for being to the left of the Republican mainstream?

470

And, since I have a DQ left over from King John:

DQ: Are you known as a businessman?

471

IQs:

  1. Were you known as The Great Profile?
  2. Did you front the Blackhearts?
  3. Did you create Holden Caulfield?
472

Previous IQs:

Did JFK say he particularly enjoyed your memos? - Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who served as his ambassador to India.
Was your last film role as a foul-mouthed but doting mom? - Jill Clayburgh, in Bridesmaids.
Did your loss of an appendage but not your life trigger a military conflict? - Yes, the cause (don’t even know his first name) of the War of Jenkins’s Ear.

DQs:

Died since 1950?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Are you an evil young king?
Are you secretly the father of that evil young king?
Are you perhaps the most hated alien sidekick evah?

473

Those were:

1)Jarah Mariano
2)Jason Segal
3)Josh Radnor

DQ1)Died after 1950
DQ2)Born East of the Misssissippi
DQ3)Born North of the Mason-Dixon Line

474

IQ2: Are you a union organiser whose ultimate fate is an enduring mystery?
IQ3: Are you a notorious American bank robber?

475

IQ: Are you from the “Small Town” of Seymour, Indiana?
IQ2: Did you write a song recounting 40 years of 20th C. history?

476

Not … John D Rockefeller?

DQ.
Not Joan Jett.
Not … John Steinbeck?

DQ.
DQ. (Game of Thrones references, perhaps?)
Not Jar Jar Binks.

Not Jimmy Hoffa.
Neither Jesse nor Frank James.

Two DQs.

J

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Not in the Arts as we know and love them
  7. Died since 1900
  8. Political/military connections, but not actually a political/military figure
  9. Not known for work in the sciences
  10. Not known as a businessman
  11. Did not die since 1950
  12. Not born north of the Mason-Dixon Line
  13. Born east of the Mississippi
    (Note: Not born in the continental US)

etv78: Two of your DQs had already been asked by Elendil’s Heir; ask again.

477

1: Rockefeller, as you said - the man I was thinking of was John, the Republican I mentioned in the clue was Nelson.
2: Jimmy Hoffa, as you said.
3: The James brothers fit, but weren’t the robber I had in mind.
IQ1: Are you a notorious American bank robber whose family name starts with a D?

478

Not John Dillinger.

479

#1 was John Barrymore. #3 was J. D. Salinger in Catcher in the Rye.

I’ll wait on my DQs until I have a good idea for 'em.

480

Previous IQs:

Are you an evil young king? - Joffrey of Westeros (yes, from Game of Thrones)
Are you secretly the father of that evil young king? - Jaime Lannister
Are you perhaps the most hated alien sidekick evah? - Yes, Jar Jar (ptui!)

DQs:

Most famous for a single incident?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did a NE Ohio radio host say yesterday that he was named after you?
Did you insist that your work be performed slowly?
Did you insist that you were more important than the guy in the previous question?