December Botticelli

Thread Games
342

Correct on Alvin Karpis.
Kaspar Hauser.
Athelstan King, the hero of Talbot Mundy’s King of the Khyber Rifles.
IQ1: British (English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish/Manx)?
IQ2: Musician (singer/songwriter/conductor/instrumentalist/&c)?
IQ1: Are you best known for playing a WWII Air Force officer?
IQ2: Did you play a starship navigator?
IQ3: Did you write a short story about an alien cookbook?

343

1: As you say, Colonel Klink
2: Kane, from the Command and Conquer series
3: Harry Enfield’s sketch character Kevin the Teenager

344

Not Immanuel Kant?

Yes
No

1: DQ
2: Not Walter “Chekov” Koenig
3: Not Damon “To Serve Man” Knight

Recap:
K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1900
  8. In the arts
  9. British
  10. Not a musician
345

IQs:

  1. Were you a jazz band leader played by Jack Webb?
  2. Are you the divine personification of the DC Universe?
  3. Did you clown around with Betty Boop?
346

I’ll bring this one forward now.

DQ: An author?

347

Werner Klemperer, who played the above-mentioned Colonel Klink.
Correct on Koenig and Knight.
I’ll hold my DQ pending the answer to Spoons’s.
IQ1: Did you refer to the Royal Marines as “soldier an’ sailor too”?
IQ2: Did your shipyard set records during WW II?
IQ3: Were you an Air Force field marshal during WW II?

348

That was Soren Kierkegaard

DQ: Died after 1950?

349

IQ1: Were you a pro wrestler who also played Peggy Bundy’s uncle?
IQ2: Did you play goal for the Montreal Canadiens before being elected to the Canadian Parliament?
IQ3: Did you invent a “suicide machine”?

350

Previous IQs:

Did Mr. Spock torture you? - Chief Kyle (who wasn’t just in the Mirror Universe).
Did you play a captain and marry an Ohio politician? - Yes, Kate “Captain Janeway” Mulgrew, who married Tim Hagan, once a candidate for Governor of Ohio.
Did you say of faculty politics, “The fighting is so fierce because the stakes are so small”? - 'Twas Henry Kissinger.

DQs:

Died after 1975?
Ever knighted?

IQs:

Were you noted for your cartoons of cats?
Did you keep a coconut on your desk?
Did you appear in a movie in which the narrator asked us to look closely at a car?

351

IQ: Did you describe how a man could have the world, and all that’s in it?

352

3: Not Koko the Clown. Take DQs for the other 2

No

3 DQs for you

Yes

1: Not King Kong Bundy
2: Take a DQ
3: Not Dr. Jack Kevorkian

No and no

1: Not B. Kliban
Take DQs for the other 2

Not Rudyard Kipling?

Recap:
K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1900
  8. In the arts
  9. British
  10. Not a musician
  11. Not an author
  12. Died after 1950
  13. Died before 1975
  14. Never knighted
353

Was indeed Rudyard Kipling:
“If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs…
…then yours is the world, and all that’s in it.
And what is more,
You shall be a man, my son.”

354

Quote:

Pete Kelly in Pete Kelly’s Blues, and Karma.

and I’ll think a bit before I ask my DQs.

355

Correct on King Kong Bundy and Dr. Kevorkian. The hockey-playing member of Parliament was Ken Dryden.

DQ: Known for your work in film?

356

Yes

Recap:
K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1900
  8. In the arts
  9. British
  10. Not a musician
  11. Not an author
  12. Died after 1950
  13. Died before 1975
  14. Never knighted
  15. Known for work in film
357

DQ: Actor?

358

IQ1: Have you played a Jewish clerk and an Indian liberator?
IQ2: Do you play a wannabe-actress whose friends include a microbiologist, a neuroscientist, and an astrophysicist?
IQ3: Were you the first American Idol?

359

Yes

1: Not Ben Kingsley
2: Not Kaley Cuoco
3: Not Kelly Clarkson

Recap:
K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1900
  8. In the arts
  9. British
  10. Not a musician
  11. Not an author
  12. Died after 1950
  13. Died before 1975
  14. Never knighted
  15. Known for work in film
  16. Actor
360

So, a British film actor who died between 1950 and 1975, whose last name starts with K, and wasn’t knighted.

Thinking…

361

Previous IQs:

Were you noted for your cartoons of cats? - Yes, B. Kliban.
Did you keep a coconut on your desk? - John F. Kennedy: World War II | JFK Library
Did you appear in a movie in which the narrator asked us to look closely at a car? - “King” Kaiser, in My Favorite Year.

DQs:

Ever won an Oscar?
Best known for serious roles?

IQs:

Were you Mrs. Lincoln’s seamstress and confidante?
Did President Obama mention you in a limo-backseat interview with Brian Williams?
Were you a potential First Lady of the past 50 years?