Botticelli - September 2018

Thread Games
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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Living
  6. Born after 1950
  7. Not known for the arts
  8. Political/military
  9. Born before 1990
  10. Currently holds a federal level position
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IQs:

  1. Are you generally accepted as the world’s first abstract artist?
  2. Are you aka Wilson Fisk?
  3. Are you aka Batwoman?
163

Previous IQs:

Was Icheb’s report about you? - James T. Kirk
Did you create a famous illustrated edition of Melville’s Moby-Dick? - Rockwell Kent: https://carolwallace.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/picture-13-e1265817195431-11.png
Was your German-born wife named Christiane? - Stanley Kubrick

DQs:

Currently holds Federal elective office?
Democrat?
Born east of the Miss. River?

IQs:

Are you now a U.S. senator from Maine?
Are you now a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee?
Are you a once and future U.S. senator from Arizona?

164

Yes, I am Brett Kavanaugh, currently in consideration for the US Supreme Court. Congrats EH!

165

Thanks, KO, but actually, Judge Kavanaugh isn’t a member of the committee. I was thinking of Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), but would’ve worked my way 'round to the nominee sooner or later, I’m sure!

Other previous IQs:

Are you now a U.S. senator from Maine? - Angus King
Are you a once and future U.S. senator from Arizona? - Jon Kyl

I’ll start the next round tonight.

166

OK, I confused the committees. That was the organization that confirmed him, not the one in which he served.

That’s why I have to research sometimes. :slight_smile:

167

He was never a senator, so he couldn’t have been a *member *of the committee in any event. And the question was phrased in the present tense. Anyway…

Here’s the updated letters-we’ve-used-so-far thread: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

Our next letter, which I see we haven’t done in awhile, will be

I

Have at you!

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IQs:

  1. Did you throw bricks at Krazy Kat?
  2. Did you play the lead in the fairly recent movie Mr. Holmes?
  3. Did you have a hit with At Seventeen?
169

Belated previous IQ wrap-up:
#1 was Charles Foster Kane (named his estate Xanadu)
#2 was Charlie Kaufman (played by Nicolas Cage in Adaptation)
#3 was Boris Karloff (voiced the Grinch).

IQs:

  1. Were you the woman?
  2. Was it said of you, when walking on a windy day, “one might have mistaken him for some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield”?
  3. Did you pen the above description?
170

Not Ignatz, Sir Ian McKellen or… Janis Ian?

Not Irene Adler, Ichabod Crane or Washington Irving.

171

Correct x3.

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Road to Mars?
  2. Did Aleksandr Solzhentisyn write a book about a day in your life?
  3. Are you the Flash’s wife?
172

Not Isaac Asimov, Ivan Denisovich (sp?) and dunno.

173

A clean sweep!

  1. Were you appointed Chief Engineer of Britain’s Great Western Railway?
  2. Are you the son of the superhero Omni-Man?
  3. Did you preside over the OJ Simpson trial?
174

IQ1: Did you compose God Bless America?
IQ2: Were you a bowtie-wearing correspondent for NBC news for 45 years?
IQ3: Did you write a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes?

175

Not one of my all-time favorite Brits (and subject of an earlier Botticelli round) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, dunno, and not Judge Lance Ito.

Not Irving Berlin, dunno, and not… David Irving?

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correct, Irving R. Levine, Clifford Irving

Irving x 3!

DQ: Real?
DQ: First name start with I?

177

IQ1: Are you a Swedish filmmaker who directed The Seventh Seal?
IQ2: Are you the female lead of Casablanca, and not related to IQ1?
IQ3: Are you aka God of Arda?

178

#1 was Eric Idle.
Correct on Ivan.
#3 is Iris West Allen.

DQ: Male?

1 DQ reserved.

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  1. (the son of Omni-Man) is Invincible, from the comic of the same name.

DQ: American?

IQs:

  1. Did you write and perform on the album Straight Outta Compton?
  2. Aside from a rap career, do you have a long-running role on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit?
  3. Does your most famous song incorporate the baseline of Queen’s “Under Pressure” ?
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Not Ingmar Bergmann, Ingrid Bergmann or Eru Iluvatar.

Dunno, not Ice-T, and not Vanilla Ice.

I.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with I
  3. male
  4. American

I’m going out of town tomorrow morning and may have iffy Internet access until late Sunday.