Botticelli - Sept. 2021

Thread Games
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DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
182

Previous IQs:

Did you say, “I have done the state some service, and they know it”? - Yes, Othello
Did you refuse to obey segregation laws in your native Nawlins? - Lee Harvey Oswald (maybe his only redeeming quality)
Did you write A Parliament of Whores? - Yes, P.J. O’Rourke (correct spelling)

DQ:

Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Do you not rust and are the subject of an Irish joke?
Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best sitcom friends?
Were you the nude organist on Monty Python’s Flying Circus?

183

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
184

Not Patty O’Furniture? Take a DQ, most likely
Not Oswald
Not Terry O’Jones - I’m guessing you mean the character’s name - take another DQ

185

IQs:

  1. Did e. e. cummings sing of you?
  2. Did Tom Lehrer sing a complex song about you?
  3. Did you contribute a philosophical razor?
186

Previous IQs:

Do you not rust and are the subject of an Irish joke? - Yes, Paddy (or Patty) O’Furniture
Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best sitcom friends? - Yes, Oswald
Were you the nude organist on Monty Python’s Flying Circus? - Onan, played by Terry Jones

DQ:

Died before 1000 AD?

IQs:

Did JFK award you the Presidential Medal of Freedom, after your earlier official disgrace?
Did your sister Kate serve on the board of trustees of Oberlin College?
Did you sing hymns to yourself while pitching for the Cleveland Indians?

187

Take 2 DQs
Not Occam

Take 3 DQs

188

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
189

#1 was Olaf. ("I sing of Olaf, glad and big…)
#2 was Oedipus Rex.
Correct on Occam.

DQs:

  1. Known for science or philosophy?
  2. Died before 100 A.D.?
190

IQs:

  1. Did you play Commissioner Gordon in three Batman movies?
  2. Were you married to Vivian Leigh?
  3. In Aztec mythology, did you discover the net and the harpoon?
191

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
  12. Known from science or philosophy
  13. Died before 100 A.D.
192

Not Gary Oldman
Not Laurence Olivier
Take a DQ

193

Correct, Correct, Opochtli.

DQ: From what is now Greece or Macedonia?

194

IQs:

  1. Were you the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra?
  2. Did you lead the Dwarfs in The Hobbit?
  3. Are you the son of Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern?
195

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
  12. Known from science or philosophy
  13. Died before 100 A.D.
  14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia
196

DQ
Not Thorin Oakenshield
DQ

197

Previous IQs:

Did JFK award you the Presidential Medal of Freedom, after your earlier official disgrace? - Dr. Robert Oppenheimer
Did your sister Kate serve on the board of trustees of Oberlin College? - Orville (and Wilbur) Wright
Did you sing hymns to yourself while pitching for the Cleveland Indians? - Orel Hershiser

DQs:

Was an important principle or observation named after you?
From Ancient Rome or its provinces?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a person from antiquity, known for the humanities, with a single four-letter name?
Did you write about Ender and the Buggers?
Were you an Imperial officer who learned firsthand about Lord Vader’s short temper?

198

DQs:
O

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Only name starts with O
  5. Died before 1900
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Died before 1600
  8. European
  9. Born south of Vienna
  10. Not best known for the Arts
  11. Died before 1000 AD
  12. Known from science or philosophy
  13. Died before 100 A.D.
  14. Not from what is now Greece or Macedonia
  15. No important principle or observation named after me
  16. Based on the Wikipedia definition of Ancient Rome, not from Ancient Rome or its provinces

WIkipedia definition: ancient Rome describes Roman civilization from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, in turn encompassing the Roman Kingdom (753–509 BC), Roman Republic (509–27 BC) and Roman Empire (27 BC–476 AD) until the fall of the western empire.

199

Not Ovid
Not Orson Scott Card
Not Admiral “as clumsy as he is stupid” Ozzel

200

#1 was Orestes.
Correct on Thorin.
#2 is Obsidian.

DQ: Died before 500 B.C.?

1 DQ reserved.