Botticelli - October 2024

Thread Games
81

IQs:

  1. Were you Sasquatch in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man?
  2. In your first year of eligibility to enter the Baseball Hall of fame, did you receive just six votes?
  3. Did you win an Academy Award in The Subject Was Roses?
82

A it is.

IQs:

Did you defend British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre?
Did Anthony Hopkins play you in Amistad?
Have you played a princess, a linguist and a self-harming former reporter?

83

IQ1: Were you a member of a famous Scandinavian musical group?
IQ2: Were you a member of that same group?
IQ3: Were you also a member of that group?

84
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I feel like I should know this, but I don’t. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Agatha Something…
  1. I am not Alfred Nobel
  2. I am not…Bea Arthur?
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ. Though this sounds like one of those “Wait, seriously?” answers.
  2. I am not…Henry Aaron?
  3. Take another DQ
  1. I am not John Adams, who got six of the eight acquitted.
  2. I am not John Quincy Adams.
  3. I am not Amy Adams.
  1. I am not Agneta Something-Or-Other (not sure of spelling or surname, but I know she was one of the "A"s in ABBA. The blonde singer, I think.)
  2. I am not Annie-Frid (Ditto.)
  3. I am not Benny Andersson.
85

#1 was Angela Lansbury.
#2 was Albert Schweitzer.
#3 is correct, Agatha (All Along) Harkness.

2 DQs reserved.

86

2 was Audrey Meadows; 3 was Alex, from A Clockwork Orange.

DQs:
1. died after 1900?
2. known from the arts?

87
  1. André Roussimoff, aka Andre the Giant. (Yes, it actually happened.)
  2. Good guess, but Hank got in on his first ballott. It’s Moises Alou.
  3. Jack Albertson; he won Best Supporting Actor.
88

DQs:

  1. Died after 1950?
  2. Famous for TV roles?
  3. Born in Europe?
89

I already used Audrey Meadows.

90

No, you used Alice Kramden.

91

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.
  3. Dead.
  4. Surname began with “A”.
  5. Naturalized American citizen.
  6. Died before 1900.
  7. Not known for the arts.
  8. Died before 1950.
  9. Not famous for television roles.
  10. Born in Europe.
92

Ah, so I did. My error.

93

DQs:

  1. Born after 1800?
  2. Known for government/military?
94

IQs:

  1. As governor of Massachusetts, did you spearhead the recruitment of the Union Army’s first two Black regiments?
  2. Did you give away much of your steel industry wealth toward libraries, museums, and establishments for the arts?
  3. Did you share a Greenwich Village brownstone with your best friend, fellow divorcee Kate?
95

IQs:
1. Are you Secretary General of the United Nations?
2. Did you attend an unusual tea party with a hare, a sleepy dormouse, and a hatter?
3. Was a novel of yours made into what is arguably the first giant monster movie–since the ending involves a dinosaur running amuck in London–in 1925?

96
  1. I am not Governor Andrew. Can’t remember if his personal name was William or John, but his surname was Andrew.
  2. I am not Andrew Carnegie.
  3. I am not Allie.
  1. I am not…bah. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Alice.
  3. Take a DQ.
97

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.
  3. Dead.
  4. Surname began with “A”.
  5. Naturalized American citizen.
  6. Died before 1900.
  7. Not known for the arts.
  8. Died before 1950.
  9. Not famous for television roles.
  10. Born in Europe.
  11. Born after 1800.
  12. Not known for government/military.
98

1 was Antonio Guterres; 3 was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

DQs:
1. born west of Vienna?
2. born north of Vienna?

99

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character of the most famous work by Lucy Maud Montgomery?
  2. Did you die fighting Ivan Skavinsky Skavar?
  3. Did your father co-author the best known Classical Greek-to-English dictionary?
100

IQs:
1. Speaking of giant monster movies, were you the “beauty that killed the beast”?
2. Was your co-pilot Fred Noonan?
3. Did you have a minor role in History of the World Part I, as the clerk at the Roman unemployment office? (“Did you bullshit last week?” “No.” “Did you try to bullshit last week?..”)