Botticelli - September 2015

Thread Games
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Take a DQ for #1. I am not Goneril. I am not William Goldman.

402

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. Best known as a writer
  10. European
  11. British
  12. Born after 1800
  13. Born after 1900
  14. Writer of Nonfiction
  15. Write primarily on history or politics
  16. Not closely associated with a particular newspaper or magazine
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Previous IQs:

Did you command one side at the Battle of Guilford Court House? - Nathanael Greene, during the American Revolution.
Were you one of King Lear’s daughters? - Yes, Goneril.
Did you write the screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All the President’s Men? - Yes, William Goldman (who’s an Oberlin grad like me).

DQs:

Politically conservative?

IQs:

Did you give your name to a form of political mischief?
Did you write Aztec?
Did you volunteer to wait to be shot at a street corner?

404

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. Best known as a writer
  10. European
  11. British
  12. Born after 1800
  13. Born after 1900
  14. Writer of Nonfiction
  15. Write primarily on history or politics
  16. Not closely associated with a particular newspaper or magazine
  17. Politically conservative
405

Unless #1 is Guy Fawkes (I’m not him), take 3 DQs.

406

IQ1: Are you a British historian who wrote books about Winston Churchill and Jewish history?
IQ2: Are you a History Channel participant who specializes in ancient Roman history and the Napoleonic era?
IQ3: Did you author the six-volume series The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?

407

Well done, Knowed Out! I am indeed Sir Martin Gilbert. Pip, pip and all that.

408

Whew. OK, the new letter is K.

409

IQ1: Do you play 12-string guitar with an Australian group which finished its 50th-anniversary tour last year?
IQ2: Did you sing a song about a 99-year war?
IQ3: Were you president of Germany for a brief period in the 1940s?

410

IQs:

  1. Did Mr. Moose drop ping pong balls on you?
  2. Were you a 20th Century Austrian Expressionist painter?
  3. Are you voiced by Scarlet Johansson in the upcoming movie The Jungle Book?
411

D’oh! Shoulda got that. I was just reading about Churchill (but not a Gilbert book). Well done, Knowed Out.

Previous IQs:

Did you give your name to a form of political mischief? - Elbridge Gerry.
Did you write Aztec? - Gary Jennings.
Did you volunteer to wait to be shot at a street corner? - G. Gordon Liddy, offering to be executed for letting down Nixon during Watergate.

On to K.

IQs:

Have you played characters named Elizabeth, Cecilia and Domino?
Were you (perhaps unfairly) the villain in Breaker Morant?
Were you the best-known Mudhens fan?

412

IQ1: Did you wield the magical baseball bat, Excalibur?
IQ2: Did you win a bet against Stephen Hawking?
IQ3: Was satire declared dead when you won a prize?

413

take 3 DQs

414

not Captain Kangaroo(?), dunno, not Shere Khan(?)

415

dunno x2, not Max Klinger

416

not whoshisface from Mage comics, take 3 DQs

417

Kevin Matchstick, Kip Thorne, and Henry Kissinger (Nobel Peace Prize, per Tom Lehrer)

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

Holding one DQ.

418

IQ1: Are you in a band with Jack Black?
IQ2: Are you friends with Stan, and sort of frenemies with Eric?
IQ3: Did you play Paul Atreides?

419

Keith Potger (The Seekers).
Nena Kerner (“99 Luftballons”).
Karl Doenitz.

Three DQs reserved.

420
  1. Correct. 2. Oscar Kokoschka. 3. Kaa.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with K?
  2. American?