Botticelli - October 2021

Thread Games
141

Caroline Kennedy, correct, and not RFK Jr. but RFK himself.

DQs:

From the British Isles?
Best known for the performing arts?

IQs:

Did Helen Mirren star in a movie about a court fight over one of your paintings?
Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?
Did you write the German WWII satire Officer Factory?

142

Correct, Correct and Karen Gillian.

1 DQ reserved.

143

Phil Keoghan, Alexander Key, Happy Kyne (and the Mirthmakers).

DQs:

  1. Known for acting?

2 DQs reserved

144

Respectively:
I am not Klimt (previously used by Miss Take).
I am not Lt. Col. Kilgore.
I am not Kurt Weil?

DQs:

1. male
2. real
3. last name starts with K
4. dead
5. not American
6. known for the Arts
7. died after 1900
8. not known for writing
9. European
10. not known for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, fashion design, etc.)
11. died before 1990
12. from the British Isles
13. best known for the performing arts
14. known for acting

145

Ah, yes, Klimt. Correct as to Kilgore. And not Kurt Weil, but H.H. Krist.

DQ:

Best known for movies?

IQs:

Did you portray the new monarch in To Play the King?
Were you the first U.S. Secretary of War?
Have you played a governor’s daughter, a bounty hunter, a clone and a farmer’s daughter?

146

IQ

  1. Were you a mean one, Mr. Grinch?
147

I am indeed Boris Karloff! Next game goes to Miss Take.

148

Well done, MissTake!

149

Thank you!

Next up:

I am B

150

IQs:
1. Were you a cynical writer who appears as a character in the third movie of the From Dusk to Dawn series?
2. Were you a British diplomat who like the above person mysteriously disappeared, in 1809?
3. Are you currently playing Monica Lewinsky?

151

DQ, DQ, I am not Beanie Feldstein

152

1 was Ambrose Bierce; 2 was Benjamin Bathurst.

DQs:
1. real?
2. male?

153

I am B

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
154

Good job, MissTake! Not sure I ever would’ve come up with Boris Karloff. I’d even forgotten he was British by birth.

Previous IQs:

Did you portray the new monarch in To Play the King? - Michael Kitchen, as a very Prince Charlesesque character
Were you the first U.S. Secretary of War? - Henry Knox
Have you played a governor’s daughter, a bounty hunter, a clone and a farmer’s daughter? - Keira Knightley, in Pirates of the Caribbean, Domino, Never Let Me Go and Pride & Prejudice

On to B!

IQs:

Did Ryan O’Neal play you in a Kubrick movie?
Did Keir Dullea play you in a Kubrick movie?
Did George C. Scott play you in a Kubrick movie?

155

While I’ve watched a fair amount of Kubrick, I don’t like Kubrick.
The only one I know is 3. I am not Buck Turgidson

156

Congrats!

  1. Were you a female TV journalist parodied on Saturday Night Live by Gilda Radner?
  2. Did you play Diana on the original version of V?
  3. Did you play Bobby Singer on Supernatural?
157

I am not Baba Wawa (Barbara Walters), DQ, DQ

158

IQs:

  1. Did you create the character Jose Jimenez?
  2. Can you build it? (Yes, you can.)
  3. Did you have a hit with Sing, Sing, Sing?
159

IQs:
1. Were you known as Scary Spice?
2. Did you write the comic novel Big Trouble (in which you were making stuff up)?
3. Did you have the same job as your grandfather, but for a lot longer?

160

DQ, I am not Bob the Builder, I am not Benny Goodman

I am not Mel B, DQ, DQ