Botticelli - Sept. 2020

Thread Games
181

IQs:

  1. Were you a noted African-American tennis player?
  2. Were you possibly the first person to die from AIDS?
  3. Did you write and perform The Hanukkah Song?
182

IQs

  1. Are you a Viking turned Supreme Court Justice?
  2. Did you pen a moving letter to Kobe after his death?
  3. Did you create the fictional Dogpatch?
183

Not Arthur Ashe, that flight attendant whose name escapes me, and not Adam Sandler.

Dunno, dunno and not Al Capp.

184

Alan Page, Allen Iverson, and yes.

DQ:
Known for politics?
Born after 1980?

185

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. first name starts with A
  5. born after 1960
  6. known for positive contributions
  7. not known for the arts
  8. has not, to my knowledge, been in the news in the past two years
  9. not known for politics
  10. born after 1980
186

Correct, Arvid Noe, and Correct.

DQ: Known from sports?

187

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. first name starts with A
  5. born after 1960
  6. known for positive contributions
  7. not known for the arts
  8. has not, to my knowledge, been in the news in the past two years
  9. not known for politics
  10. born after 1980
  11. known from sports
188

IQs:

  1. Are you a two-time winner of the Indy 500, and the son of a multiple-time winner of that same race?
  2. Did you win the gold medal in the 1994 Olympics for men’s single figure skating?
  3. Did you famously not invent baseball?
189

Not Al Unser, dunno, and not Abner Doubleday.

190

#1 was Al Unser, Jr. I’ll count it.
#2 was Alexai Urmanov.
#3 is correct.

DQ: American?

191

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. first name starts with A
  5. born after 1960
  6. known for positive contributions
  7. not known for the arts
  8. has not, to my knowledge, been in the news in the past two years
  9. not known for politics
  10. born after 1980
  11. known from sports
  12. American
192

IQs:

  1. Did you write Lysistrata?
  2. Did you edit The Oxford Book of English Verse?
  3. Did you recently divorce from Johnny Depp?
193

Not Aristophanes (sp?), dunno and dunno.

194
  1. Correct on Aristophanes.
    2 was Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
    3 is Amber Heard.

DQs:

  1. Known for a team sport?
  2. Caucasian?
195

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. first name starts with A
  5. born after 1960
  6. known for positive contributions
  7. not known for the arts
  8. has not, to my knowledge, been in the news in the past two years
  9. not known for politics
  10. born after 1980
  11. known from sports
  12. American
  13. partly known for team sport
  14. mixed race
196

IQs
(And here we exhaust my knowledge of sports)

  1. Are you a former tennis pro married to an actress / ex SI swim model?
  2. Are you a former tennis pro who was married to Brooke Shields?
197

I’m not Andre Agassi either time.

198

Andy Roddick and Andre Agassi

DQ:
Does the sport involve a round ball?

199

IQs:

  1. Were you shot through with arrows after your hair was caught on a low-hanging branch, which pulled you off of your horse?
  2. Were you commander of King Saul’s army?
  3. In the Koran, did you nearly sacrifice Ishmael?
200

I’m not Absalom, Athanasius or Abraham.

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. first name starts with A
  5. born after 1960
  6. known for positive contributions
  7. not known for the arts
  8. has not, to my knowledge, been in the news in the past two years
  9. not known for politics
  10. born after 1980
  11. known from sports
  12. American
  13. partly known for team sport
  14. mixed race
  15. sport does not involve a round ball