Botticelli, Sept. 2022

Thread Games
181

C

  1. Real
  2. Male
182

Not Bonnie Prince Charlie
Take 2 DQs

183


1, correct
2. Charles II
3. Charles I


DQ1: Living?
DQ2: American?
DQ3: Known for the Arts?

184

C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Known for the Arts
185

IQs:

  1. Were you the offspring of Pepin the Short and Bertha Bigfoot?
  2. Did you create the character Father Brown?
  3. Were you famously interrupted by a gentleman from Porlock?
186
  1. Did, as the TV show title indicated, you love Joanie?
  2. Were you married to Elsa Lanchester?
  3. Were you the star of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman?
187

IQs:
1. Was your nickname “Bombs Away”?
2. Speaking of nicknames, did you get yours from your stepsisters because you lived by the fireplace?
3. Do you share your stage name with a suburb in Maryland?

188

Take 2 DQs
Not Samuel Coleridge while writing Kubla Khan

Not Chachi
Not Charles Laughton
Not Cicely Tyson

Take a DQ
Not Cinderella
Not Chevy Chase

189

#1 was Charlemagne.
#2 was Gilbert K. Chesterton.
Correct on Coleridge.

DQs:

  1. Died after 1950?
  2. Known for the performing arts?
190

IQs:

  1. Were you the first woman to co-anchor CBS’s evening news show?
  2. Did you, possibly do it in the Conservatory with the Revolver?
  3. Were you often heard in the company of Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, windmill-propelled 1950’s BBC radio series, The Good Show?
191

1 was General Curtis LeMay.

DQ: first name begins with C?

IQs:
1. Did you play Kim Jong-Il on 30 Rock?
2. Did you not believe in God because you didn’t believe in Mother Goose?
3. Did you design St. Paul’s Cathedral?

192

C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known, in part, for the performing arts, although not best known as a performer
  8. Last name begins with C
193

Not Connie Chung
Not Colonel Mustard
DQ

2 DQs
Not Christopher Wren

194

1 was Margaret Cho; 2 was lawyer Clarence Darrow.

DQs:
1. died after 1990?
2. known for writing?

195

C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known, in part, for the performing arts, although not best known as a performer
  8. Last name begins with C
  9. Died before 1990
  10. Known, in part, for writing, although not best known for writing
196

Previous IQs:

Are you His Majesty the King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, among other nice places? - Yes, Charles III
Were you the hapless Prime Minister who succeeded Thatcher in the British House of Cards? - Charles Collingridge
Were you Lord Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Yes, Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood

DQ:

Won a top award in his field?

IQs:

Did your wife sell some of your precious artworks in order to cover her expenses, and you were very angry about it?
Were you sent into a combat zone by a general to whom you owed money?
Did someone impersonating you appear onstage during the 1979 Supertramp concert in Paris?

197

C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known, in part, for the performing arts, although not best known as a performer
  8. Last name begins with C
  9. Died before 1990
  10. Known, in part, for writing, although not best known for writing
  11. Did not win a top award in his field
198

2 DQs
Not Croger Chodgson - or take a DQ

199

Correct
Correct
Henry Crum

DQ: Died after 1970?

200

IQ1: We’ve established that you weren’t Pepin the Short’s son; were you his father?
IQ2: Were three of your four sets of g’grandparents, as well as two of your eight sets of g’g’grandparents, the same two people?
IQ3: Was CVN-68 named after you?