Botticelli - September 2015

Thread Games
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**Originally Posted by astorian View Post
IQ1) Did you win the very first Grammy for Best Album?

IQ2) Are you the most successful South African Jewish musician to come from the British Invasion?

IQ3) Did you and fellow running backs Jim Kiick and Larry Csonka carry the Dolphins to three straight Super Bowls?**

Henry Mancini (for his ***Peter Gunn ***soundtrack), Manfred Mann, and Mercury Morris
Crud… I know almost nothing about Japanese art, so I don’t even know what DQs to ask. I’ll reserve them a bit.

482

Agreed.

Previous IQs:

Were you the heroine of The Pirates of Penzance? - Mabel.
Did you burn most of your husband’s letters to you? - Martha Washington.
Did you live in a little house in Paris that was covered in vines? - Madeleine, in the kids’ books.

DQs:

Has worked in film?
Has won a top award in his field?

One DQ reserved (but I bet Prof. P. has it).

IQs:

Did you play Prince Ruprecht?
Did you write “A Mighty Fortress is Our God”?
Were you a prominent German clerical opponent to Nazism?

483

Yes, I am Hayao Miyazaki, congrats Prof!

While I know Japanese art isn’t everyone’s cup of tea here, I figured Miyazaki would have a few who knew him even so.

484

Yeah, my daughter and son-in-law are big fans of anime, and they’ve introduced me to a few pieces I like.

Time to ponder…

485

Wiki tells me that he did Howl and also Kiki’s delivery Service, both of which I enjoyed, but I never pay attention to directors.

486

…and I am O.

487

IQ1: Did you play Regulus’s brother?
IQ2: Were you charged with killing J D Tippit?
IQ3: Did you write about a man who, as a baby, had been found in a handbag in a railway station?

488

IQ1: Were you friends with the Artful Dodger?
IQ2: Is your home much larger on the inside than it appears on the outside?
IQ3: Did you blind yourself?

489

IQ1: Are you Aquaman’s half-brother, the son of Aquaman’s father and Mary O’Sullivan?
IQ2: Are you IQ1’s super villain identity, a high-tech pirate who threatens to flood entire nations unless they pay him off?
IQ3: Did Stafford Repp play you in the Batman TV series?

490

#2. I am not Lee Harvey Oswald.
Take 2 DQs.

491
  1. I am not Oliver Twist.
    Take a DQ for 2.
  2. I am not Oedipus.
492

Take a DQ for #1. I am not Ocean Master. I am not Chief O’Hara.

493

correct, Oscar the Grouch, and correct.

DQ: Real?

IQ1: Did you go insane after your boyfriend ‘accidentally’ killed your father?
IQ2: Did you kick your adopted son out onto the street when you discovered him taking heroin?
IQ3: Did Wilhelm fire you a few years after he inherited?

494

IQ1) Are you the only man named Oscar to win an Oscar?

IQ2) Are you an Irish Catholic bishop who was executed for treason in 17th century England?

IQ3) Did you tell other mighty monarchs to look upon your works and despair?

495

I am not Ophelia.
Take 2 DQs.

496
  1. Not Oscar Levant?
  2. Not Ozymandias.

Take 1 or 2 DQs depending on #1.

497

DQs:

  1. Real
498

Orm Curry

DQ: Alive?

499

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
500

IQ1: Did you and Eurynome rule the world before you were cast down by Cronus and Rhea?
IQ2: Did you avenge the murder of your father Agamemnon by slaying your mother?
IQ3: Are you the first wife of Paris, abandoned by him in favor of Helen of Troy?