Botticelli - Sept. 2016

Thread Games
101

Previous IQs:

Were you a costar of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. original TV series? - Yes, Robert Vaughn
Did Naomi Watts play you in a political thriller? - Outed CIA spy Valerie Plame
Are you a top female aide to President Obama? - Valerie Jarrett

DQs:

First appeared in a novel?
British?

IQs:

Did you play Edward Scissorhands’s kindly creator?
Did Don McLean famously sing about you?
Were you a plucky robot in The Black Hole?

102

Not Veronica, DQ, not Vanessa Helsing. (And I can’t decide if either of those shows look interesting enough to watch yet.)

No to Vincent Price and Richie Valens, take a DQ for the robot.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name starts with V.
  4. Not American.
  5. First appearance before 1964.
  6. European.
  7. First appeared in written media.
  8. First appearance before 1900.
  9. Did not first appear in a novel.
  10. British.
103

Previous IQs:

Did you play Edward Scissorhands’s kindly creator? - Yes, Vincent Price.
Did Don McLean famously sing about you? - I’ll rephrase.
Were you a plucky robot in The Black Hole? - VINCENT (voiced by Roddy McDowell)

DQ:

First appeared in short story?

IQs:

You are not Richie Valens. Did Don McLean famously sing about you?
Did Julie Andrews play you in a movie?
In the same movie, did she play you, too?

104
  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name starts with V.
  4. Not American.
  5. First appearance before 1964.
  6. European.
  7. First appeared in written media.
  8. First appearance before 1900.
  9. Did not first appear in a novel.
  10. British.
  11. First appeared in a short story.

I am neither Victor nor Victoria, but I only know one Don McLean song, so DQ. :slight_smile:

105

Previous IQs:

You are not Richie Valens. Did Don McLean famously sing about you? - Vincent van Gogh: Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics - YouTube
Did Julie Andrews play you in a movie? - Yes, Victor.
In the same movie, did she play you, too? - Yes, Victoria!

DQ:

Appeared in more than one short story?

IQs:

Did Ed Harris play you in The Abyss?
Did your colleagues suspect you “screwed the pooch”?
Were you an ancient poet?

106

I am not Virgil “Gus” Grissom* or Virgil the poet, and I suspect Ed Harris played a guy named Virgil in The Abyss but I can’t remember, so one DQ.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name starts with V.
  4. Not American.
  5. First appearance before 1964.
  6. European.
  7. First appeared in written media.
  8. First appearance before 1900.
  9. Did not first appear in a novel.
  10. British.
  11. First appeared in a short story.
  12. Appeared in more than one short story.
  • I would never have remembered that moment in The Right Stuff, if it hadn’t been my introduction to the phrase.
107

Yes, Virgil all around. Harris’s character was nicknamed “Bud” but his estranged wife knew that his actual first name, of which he was not proud, was Virgil (great movie BTW).

IQs:

Were you a bratty little girl who toured a chocolate factory?
Were you pals with an astronaut nicknamed “Stinky”?
Were you one of the Scooby Gang?

108

Not Violet Beauregard or Velma Dinkley, DQ for the stinky question. :slight_smile:

109

Previous IQs:

Were you a bratty little girl who toured a chocolate factory? - Good answer, but I’ll rephrase.
Were you pals with an astronaut nicknamed “Stinky”? - Valentine Michael Smith, in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. A Dr. Mahmoud had that nickname.
Were you one of the Scooby Gang? - Yes, Velma, whose last name I didn’t even know before!

DQ:

Lead character in those short stories?

IQs:

Were you a bratty little girl, other than Violet Beauregard, who toured a chocolate factory?
Did an editor assure you of Santa’s existence?
Were you one of Charlie Brown’s schoolmates?

110

I am not Veruca Salt and no, Virginia, that’s not my name either. I am also not Linus Van Pelt.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name starts with V.
  4. Not American.
  5. First appearance before 1964.
  6. European.
  7. First appeared in written media.
  8. First appearance before 1900.
  9. Did not first appear in a novel.
  10. British.
  11. First appeared in a short story.
  12. Appeared in more than one short story.
  13. Lead character.

You also still have one DQ reserved, unless my guessing on the third Virgil doesn’t count as a DQ. :slight_smile:

111

Correct on Veronica Lodge; Vincente Fox was President of Mexico; correct on Vanessa Helsing. I don’t plan on watching either.

IQ: Are you the title character in a Penny Dreadful Victorian series about a vampire?

112

Yes! I am Varney the Vampire!

Congrats, Prof. P!!

113

He’s been guessed (and not just by me) in a lot of “V” rounds. I’m not surprised he actually got a turn.

So, I am W!

114

Previous IQs:

Were you a bratty little girl, other than Violet Beauregard, who toured a chocolate factory? - Yes, Veruca Salt
Did an editor assure you of Santa’s existence? - “Yes, Virginia…”
Were you one of Charlie Brown’s schoolmates? - I was actually thinking of Violet, but either of the Van Pelts will do.

Good job, Prof. P.!

On to W…

IQs:

Did you see to it that your organization finally got a building of its own?
Did you once say in an interview that you wore Fat Boy Jeans as a kid?
Did the Pope give you a special flag for a particular project of yours?

115
  1. Were you once married to a musketeer?
  2. Were you known by the code name “Targeter” during the Galactic Civil War?
  3. Did you play Mork and Mindy’s son?
116

IQ’s:

  1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer who played his entire 21-year career for the Pirates at left field and later at 1st base ?
  2. Were you Bush 41’s anti-Dukakis poster child?
  3. Are you the boy who won’t fall asleep?
117

Take 3 DQs.

118
  1. I am not Milady de Winter.
    Take a DQ for 2. (Something about Winter, one assumes.)
  2. I am not Jonathan Winters.
119

#3. I am not Wee Willie Winkie. Take 2 DQs.

120
  1. Were you a Baseball Hall of Famer who played his entire 21-year career for the Pirates at left field and later at 1st base? Willie Stargell.
  2. Were you Bush 41’s anti-Dukakis poster child? Willie Horton.
  3. Are you the boy who won’t fall asleep? Correct, Wee Willie Winkie.

DQ’s:

  1. Male?
  2. Real?