Botticelli - October 2018

Thread Games
81

IQs:

  1. Did you paint A Studio at Les Batignolles?
  2. Did you compose Clair de Lune?
  3. Did you write the Horatio Hornblower series?
82

IQ1: I am not Fred Savage.
IQ2: I am not Fred Phelps.
IQ3: I am not Fred Durst.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not C.S. Forrester.
83

#1 was Henri de Fantin-Latour.
#2 was Gabriel Faure.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. Died after 2000?
84

Previous IQs:

Were you chair of the RNC in the Eighties? - Frank Fahrenkopf
Were you revived in Arthur C. Clarke’s 3001? - Yes, astronaut Frank Poole, thought to have been killed by HAL
Were you captain of Hill Street Station? - Frank Furillo, on Hill Street Blues

Frank x3!

DQs:

British?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a subject of bobbysox crushes in the Fifties?
Were you, too?
Were you the first from a particular subgroup to take the top job in the overall organization, and honored that fact in your official insignia?

85

IQ1: Did you frequently partner with The Gray Mouser?
IQ2: Did you write about the above’s exploits?
IQ3: Did Prince Hal let you have credit for killing Hotspur?

86

Respectively:
I am not Frank Sinatra.
I am not Frankie Avalon.
I am not Pope Francis.

IQ1: I am not Fafhrd.
IQ2: I am not Fritz Leiber.
IQ3: I am still not Falstaff.

87

DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
  4. not American
  5. not living
  6. not involved in politics/the military
  7. European
  8. died after 1900
  9. not known for the Arts
  10. died before 2000
  11. not British
88

IQs:

  1. Did you create the world’s first nuclear reactor?
  2. Did you use a pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the earth?
  3. Did you sometimes you the pseudonym Anthony Afterwit?
89

Swept me again, DLR. Damn, you’re good! As to the Pope: Coat of arms of Pope Francis - Wikipedia

IQs:

Was your disappearance part of the mystery in Angel Heart?
Were you an emissary of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV?
Have you played a monarch, an astronaut’s spouse and a private eye?

90

Request: cool it with the “still not” answers. Sometimes we don’t read every line written.

91

Will do.

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Claire Foy.

  1. I am not Enrico Fermi.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
92

Correct on Enrico.
#2 is Leon Foucault.
#3 was Benjamin Franklin.

DQs:

  1. Known for science or business?
  2. French?
93

Previous IQs:

Was your disappearance part of the mystery in Angel Heart? - WWII-era crooner Johnny Favourite (very loosely based on Frank Sinatra)
Were you an emissary of the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV? - Count Fenring, in Dune
Have you played a monarch, an astronaut’s spouse and a private eye? - Yes, Claire Foy, in The Crown, First Man and The Girl in the Spider’s Web

DQs:

Died before 1950?
Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Were you a ward of the famous person who eventually married you?
Were you a skater whose hairstyle was widely admired?
Did Churchill utter a three-word insult based on your name?

94

IQs:

  1. Did you create a set of encyclopedia with Mr. Wagnalls?
  2. Did you write Penguin Island?
  3. Did you beat Robert Fulton to the patent office for your steamboat invention, but lost the credit for it due to Fulton’s marketing expertise?
95

Take three DQs.

  1. I am not Funk.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
    DQs:
  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
  4. not American
  5. not living
  6. not involved in politics/the military
  7. European
  8. died after 1900
  9. not known for the Arts
  10. died before 2000
  11. not British
  12. known for a soft science, if we’re counting those
  13. not French
  14. died before 1950
  15. not best known for a single incident
96

Previous IQs:

Were you a ward of the famous person who eventually married you? - Frances Folsom married Grover Cleveland
Were you a skater whose hairstyle was widely admired? - Peggy Fleming
Did Churchill utter a three-word insult based on your name? - Churchill said of Ike’s SecState, “Dull, duller, Dulles.”

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?
Greatest fame before 1925?

IQs:

Were you a mathematician with a four-syllable-long last name?
Did you and your nephew both play the same role?
In a movie, did your father prefer your older brother to you?

97

Correct on Funk.
#2 was Anatole France.
#3 was John Fitch.

2 DQs reserved.

98

Respectively:
I am not Leonardo of Pisa, AKA Fibonacci.
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
  4. not American
  5. not living
  6. not involved in politics/the military
  7. European
  8. died after 1900
  9. not known for the Arts
  10. died before 2000
  11. not British
  12. known for a soft science
  13. not French
  14. died before 1950
  15. not best known for a single incident
  16. born east of Vienna
  17. born north of Vienna (but moved there at a young age)
  18. greatest fame before 1925
99

IQ: Are you the guy who came up with the idea of the Oedipus Complex?

100

Yes, I am Sigmund Freud! “What is conscious is conscious only for a moment.”

Next game goes to Prof. Pepperwinkle.