Botticelli - October 2016

Thread Games
121

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you have “the face of an angel” but “fights like the devil”?
  2. Did you write The Plague and The Stranger?
  3. Were you Red Skelton’s country bumpkin character?
122

Previous IQs:

Are you married to actress Rachel Weisz? - Daniel Craig
Were you the Finch family’s cook and confidante? - Calpurnia, in To Kill a Mockingbird
Were you Don Johnson’s most famous role? - Sonny Crockett, on Miami Vice

DQs:

First appeared in print?
First appeared since 1964?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Did you serve nonconsecutive terms on SCOTUS?
Were you a fire-and-brimstone preacher who served as president of Oberlin College?
Was your wife Nora and your dog Asta?

123

DQ.
DQ.
Not Clem Kadiddlehopper.

DQ.
DQ.
Not Nick Charles.

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with C
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Not known from TV or movies
  7. Did not first appear in print
  8. First appeared since 1964
  9. Not really a “bad guy,” but definitely a rascal
124

#1 was Cat Ballou. #2 was Albert Camus. Correct on Clem.

DQs:

  1. From a song?
  2. First appeared since 1980?
125

IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist in the movie Clueless?
  2. Did you have a hit with Catch A Falling Star?
  3. Were you one of Sheri Lewis’s puppets?
126

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with C
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Not known from TV or movies
  7. Did not first appear in print
  8. First appeared after 1964
  9. Not really a “bad guy,” but definitely a rascal
  10. From a song
  11. Did not first appear after 1980
127

DQ.
DQ.
Not Lamb Chop.

128

#1 is Cher Horowitz.
#2 was Perry Como.
Correct. (Charley Horse would have worked as well.)

Sooo, a rascal from a song of the 60’s or 70’s.

Hmm…

  1. Is the “C” for an actual name rather than a title (such as Captain or Colonel or Czar)?
    1 DQ reserved
129

Previous IQs:

Did you serve nonconsecutive terms on SCOTUS? - Charles Evans Hughes
Were you a fire-and-brimstone preacher who served as president of Oberlin College? - Charles Grandison Finney
Was your wife Nora and your dog Asta? - Yes, Nick Charles

Charles x3!

DQs:

Rock and roll song?
Best-known version sung by a man?

IQs:

Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar?
Did you fly across America, “crash by crash”?
Did you title your book Still Me?

130

IQs:

  1. Are you a school clown who asks “Why is everybody always pickin’ on me?”
  2. Can you take a sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with chocolate and a miracle or two?"
  3. Did Rickie Lee Jones sing about you being in love?
131

I really should know 1 and 2, but…
Three DQs.

Not Charlie Brown.
Not the Candyman.
DQ.

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with C
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Not known from TV or movies
  7. Did not first appear in print
  8. First appeared after 1964
  9. Not really a “bad guy,” but definitely a rascal
  10. From a song
  11. Did not first appear after 1980
  12. The “C” is for an actual name rather than a title
  13. Not a rock and roll song
  14. Best-known version was sung by a man
132

Correct on the first two.
#3 was “Chuck E.'s” in Love.

DQs:

  1. First appeared in the 1970’s?
  2. Best known version by a black artist?
133

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with C
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Not known from TV or movies
  7. Did not first appear in print
  8. First appeared after 1964
  9. Not really a “bad guy,” but definitely a rascal
  10. From a song
  11. Did not first appear after 1980
  12. The “C” is for an actual name rather than a title
  13. Not a rock and roll song
  14. Best-known version was sung by a man
  15. Did not first appear in the 1970s
  16. Best known version not by a black artist
134

IQs:

  1. Do you live on Wolverton Mountain with your pretty daughter?
  2. Did Danny O’Keefe sing about you having the blues?
  3. And did you never return, O did you never return, and is your fate still unlearned?
135

Not Clifton Clowers (“Wolverton Mountain”).
DQ.
Not Charlie (“MTA”).

136

Correct, “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”, Correct.

DQ: From a Country & Western song?

137

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with C
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Not known from TV or movies
  7. Did not first appear in print
  8. First appeared after 1964
  9. Not really a “bad guy,” but definitely a rascal
  10. From a song
  11. Did not first appear after 1980
  12. The “C” is for an actual name rather than a title
  13. Not a rock and roll song
  14. Best-known version was sung by a man
  15. Did not first appear in the 1970s
  16. Best known version not by a black artist
  17. From a Country & Western song
138

Previous IQs:

Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood
Did you fly across America, “crash by crash”? - Cal Rodgers, one of my favorite early aviation heroes: Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia
Did you title your book Still Me? - Christopher Reeve

Think think think…

139

IQs:

  1. Are you presently running for POTUS?
  2. Did Alcuin advise you?
  3. Did you create Plastic Man?
140

Not Hillary Clinton.
Not Charlemagne.
DQ.