Botticelli - Sep 2013

Thread Games
261

Black Bart.
Correct on Bill Bailey.
Buck Rogers.
DQ1: Male?
DQ2: European?
IQ1: Are you a real pirate who shares a surname with a fictional one?
IQ2: Do you have 500 hats?
IQ3: Was “Yakety Sax” used as the theme song for your TV show?

262

I am not Bartholomew Cubbins or Benny Hill, and walk the plank with a DQ for #1.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not American.
  3. Female.
  4. European.
263

Bartholomew Roberts (not to be confused with The Dread Pirate Roberts).
Correct on Bartholomew Cubbins and Benny Hill.
DQ: Living?
IQ1: Are you a reformed jewel thief who must solve crimes to prove his own innocence?
IQ2: Are you a burglar who must solve crimes to prove his own innocence?
IQ3: Do you write stories about said burglar?

264

I am drawing three complete blanks, and I know I’m going to be pissed at myself, but 3 more DQs. Wait … I’ll say I’m not Matt Bomer, but that’s the actor and not the character. Worth a shot. :slight_smile: Take 2 or 3 DQs as necessary.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not American.
  3. Female.
  4. European.
  5. Dead
265

IQs:

  1. Be ye the likely boyo who played Will Turner?
  2. Were ye the captain of a ship with black sails, crewed by the damned and so evil that Hell itself spat ye back out?
  3. Did ye give poor ol’ Billy Bones the black spot?
266

I am not Orlando Bloom or Captain Barbossa. And I can’t remember the answer for #3 because all I can think about is Muppet Treasure Island, so take a DQ.

267

Blind Pew (ye may recall him mistakin’ Jim 'Awkins fer a girl in Muppet TI).

DQ: British?

268

All I could see in my mind was Billy Connolly yelling “Jim, Jim, Jimmy Jim Jim.” :slight_smile:

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not American.
  3. Female.
  4. European.
  5. Dead
  6. Not British.
269

Yarr, I be havin’ no idea 'twere ITLAP day today.

IQ1: Be ye a member of a prominent Italian family and known fer offin’ yer rivals wit’ poison?
IQ2: Be ye marryin’ an English king who be in the habit o’ decapitatin’ his wives?
IQ3: Be ye leadin’ the Iceni tribe?

270

Yarr, sure and I’ve never heard of Catherine Tate either, but as the next round be well and truly underway, I’ll let it go at that.

From the previous round, me hearties:

Thomas Lincoln, father of Abraham
Treyvon Martin
William Tecumseh Sherman

So the next round be a B, eh?

IQs:

Did ye play a network exec who suffered from unrequited love?
Did some complain when a lass from another country was cast to play ye?
Did ye play a famous role in a hair color that was unnatural to ye?

271

I be hearin’ o’ Catherine Tate, an I quite often be failin’ to know who a particular person who were chosen be.

272

Boston Blackie.
Bernie Rhodenbarr.
Lawrence Block.
DQ1: Native speaker of a Romance language?
DQ2: Known for the arts?
DQ3: First name begin with B?
IQ1: Were you a lovely blonde who starred in a Louis L’Amour western with Sean Connery?
IQ2: Were you a red-haired newspaper-comic reporter?
IQ3: Were you the leader of a WWII-era group of fighter pilots?

273

Lucretia Borgia, Anne Boleyn, and Boadicca, I am surely not.

Avast, have yerself 3 DQs, as I’ve not a bloody idea.

I am not Britt Ekland (that’s a guess) or Brenda Starr. One or two DQs.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not American.
  3. Female.
  4. European.
  5. Dead
  6. Not British.
  7. Not a native speaker of a romance language.
  8. Not known for the arts.
  9. First name does not begin with B.
274

First some cleanup…

Teddy Roosevelt, depicted on Mount Rushmore.
Terence Stamp, who appeared in Far From The Madding Crowd, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy.

IQ1: Be ye a stutterin’ sailor?
IQ2: Did ye found the Little People of America?
IQ3: Did ye kill Grendel and his mum?

275

I am not Beowulf. I am maybe not Billy Barty, but that’s a guess based solely on the subject matter that I’m totally going to Wikipedia to look up after I post. :slight_smile: The stuttering sailor has stumped me, so one or two DQs, depending on whether I’m right about #2.

276

IQs:

  1. D’ye run really, really fast?
  2. Are ye the really, really fast grampa of #1?
  3. Did ye have a habit of killin’ off yer wives?
277

Not Bart or Barry Allen, nor Bluebeard.

278

Brigitte Bardot was the female lead in Shalako.
Correct on Brenda Starr.
Blackhawk, from the DC comics.
DQ1: Known for the sciences?
DQ2: Native speaker of a Germanic language?
IQ1: Did your father work with as real dummy?
IQ2: Were you a dummy whose family included a gay man, a man who thought he could make himself invisible, and a small-time gangster?
IQ3: Did your teacher make multiple attempts to kill you after you broke off an affair with her?

279

IQ: Be ye a Communist terrorist (an’ I be acceptin’ last name only, because I don’t be knowin’ the first name)?

280

'Twas Bob Balaban in Seinfeld, who had a soft spot in his heart for Elaine, but alas, she cared naught for him
Yarr, Renee Zellwegger was cast as Bridget Jones, though she be not a proper Englishwoman
Kenneth Branagh played Hamlet with blonde hair, a most unnatural sight

Yarr, so ye’ll be wantin’ some keelhaulin’, is that what ye mean to say?

DQs:

Political/military?
Dead before 1900?

One DQ reserved, if it suits ye.

IQs:

Was it said that ye bathed in the blood of virgins?
Did ye play a spy and marry a musician?
Were ye likened by yer boss to a blunt instrument?