Botticelli - October 2013

Thread Games
621

Those were:

Yani Tseng
Kristi Yamaguchi (she won DWTS)

DQ: Living?
DQ2: In the Arts?

622

DQs:

  1. European?
  2. Is Y the initial of your last name?

IQs:

  1. Are you a man-killin’ gunslinger who rode with Quantrill and Jesse James?
  2. Are you #1’s brother?
  3. Are you #1’s other brother?
623

Three DQs.

Not Cole Younger.
Not Jim Younger.
DQ for the third Younger.

Y

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
    4: Dead
  4. In the Arts
  5. European
  6. Y is the initial of my last name
624

IQ: Did you want us to take your wife… Please?

625

Not Henny Youngman.

626

Previous IQs:

Along with Rico, were you a trusted assistant to a top cop? - Youngblood, one of Elliott Ness’s G-Men in The Untouchables.
Were you part of a famous trio? - Peter Yarrow, of Peter, Paul and Mary.
Were you a fictitious Duchess of Cornwall? - Ygraine, King Arthur’s mom.

DQs:

British?
Died since 1900?
Best known for the visual arts (painting, photography, sculpture, film, acting, dance, etc.)?

IQs:

Are you the last man left alive on Earth in a graphic novel series?
In some tales, was your beloved uncle a cruel Irish giant?
Did you wear a red swimsuit with great appeal?

627

Yes, on Cole and Jim. Everyone forgets Bob Younger.

628

Three DQs.

Y

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
    4: Dead
  4. In the Arts
  5. European
  6. Y is the initial of my last name
  7. British
  8. Died since 1900
  9. Best known for the visual arts (painting, photography, sculpture, film, acting, dance, etc.)
629

Previous IQs:

Are you the last man left alive on Earth in a graphic novel series? - Yorick, in Y: The Last Man.
In some tales, was your beloved uncle a cruel Irish giant? - Yseult, Tristan’s lover.
Did you wear a red swimsuit with great appeal? - Yasmine Bleeth on Baywatch.

DQs:

Died since 1950?
Actress?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you an insult turned into a defiant name?
Are you a cartoon cereal mascot?
Were you a robot cop?

630

Not … Yankee Doodle?
DQ.
DQ.

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Three DQs.

Y

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
    4: Dead
  4. In the Arts
  5. European
  6. Y is the initial of my last name
  7. British
  8. Died since 1900
  9. Best known for the visual arts (painting, photography, sculpture, film, acting, dance, etc.)
  10. Died since 1950
  11. Actress
631

IQs:

  1. Did you win an Academy Award for your performance in The Farmer’s Daughter?
  2. Did you play Superman’s Kryptonian mother Lara opposite Marlon Brando’s Jor-El?
  3. Did you play Weena in the 1960 version of The Time Machine?
632

Previous IQs:

Were you an insult turned into a defiant name? - Yes, Yankee Doodle.
Are you a cartoon cereal mascot? - Big Yella: Kellogg's "Big Yella" Sugar Corn Pops cereal commercial 1980 - YouTube
Were you a robot cop? - Det. Yoyonovich, from the very bad Seventies TV show Holmes & Yoyo.

DQs:

Ever nominated for an Oscar?
Died since 1980?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you play the President’s national security advisor in an Eighties movie?
Were you a jazz musician admired by Clint Eastwood?
Were you a very unpleasant alien from H.P. Lovecraft’s stories?

633

After EH’s DQs last night, I strongly suspected that I would come home to find that someone had asked the right question. Six IQs and two DQs to answer, but I’m going to be rude and ignore seven of those. :smiley:

Yes, I am indeed the lovely and talented Susannah York (whom I know only from Battle of Britain).

634

My others were Loretta Young and Yvette Mimieux.

and now, continuing backwards through the alphabet,

I am X!

635

Congratulations Professor.

I may not participate too heavily in this round, as I’m just about exhausting my knowledge of Xes right away.

IQ1: Did you found an Academy for the exceptionally gifted?
IQ2: Were you a ruler of Persia?
IQ3: Did you claim that “Plymouth Rock landed on us”?

636

Oh, I don’t X-pect this to last very long.

  1. I’m not Prof. X, Charles Xavier.
  2. I’m not Xerxes the Great
  3. Take a DQ!
637

Number 3 was Malcolm X.

DQ: Are you real?

EDIT: And, yes, I should have worried about X-hausting my knowledge.

638

Good job, Professor!

Hopefully, I’ll have more time to play in the next few days–the last few have been pretty hectic. But I’ll check in as I can.

639

Wait, I thought of a couple:

IQ1: Are you a student at Sunnydale High?
IQ2: Are you the bandleader who popularized Latin music in the US?

640

Well, Spoons just used the one I was going to use (his #2)…

IQ1: Um…
IQ2: Er…
IQ3: Ah…