[GAME] Botticelli - Sep 2014

Thread Games
141

<raises eyebrow> “Diogenes J Cynic”?
Diana, Princess of Wales.
Correct.
DQ: American?
IQ1: Are you Ned Nickerson’s girlfriend?
IQ2: Are you a private detective often hired by Nero Wolfe?
IQ3: Did you urgently need to build a spaceship to keep your country independent?

142

IQs:

  1. Are you the world famous girl detective?
  2. Were you Spike’s girlfriend on Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
  3. Are you the unknown woman?
143

Not Desdemona
Not Daisy Duke (Catherine Bach… sigh!)
Not Delilah

144

Summary

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. Not American
145

Not Nancy Drew

Not Drusilla
I don’t know the unknown woman (nobody does!)- so take a DQ.

146

Correct on the first two. The unknown woman is “named” Jane Doe.

DQ: Last name starts with D?

147

IQs:

  1. Were you “Winnipeg’s Sweetheart”?
  2. Do you host The Price Is Right?
  3. Did you write The Story of Civilization?
148

Summary

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with D
149

Not Drew Carey or Will (and Ariel) Durant

I don’t know Winnipeg’s Sweetheart (I figured it was Bobby Hull). Take a DQ

150

Actress Deanna Durban is #1. Correct on the others.

DQ: Best known from movies?

151

Summary

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with D
  5. Have appeared on the big screen, but not best known for that
152

Summary

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. Not American
  4. Last name starts with D
  5. Have appeared on the big screen, but probably not best known as a movie character
153

You can say that again! I guess we should go with the second #5.

IQs:

Were you a noted advocate who shares a birthdate with my dad?
Did the same actor who played your dad for a long time, also play an editor in The Hudsucker Proxy?
Did your husband work for JFK, and you worked for LBJ?

154

Ahem:

155

Not … CLarence Darrow?

Dunno #2

Not Doris Kearns Goodwin
SO, you get 1 DQ for sure. 2 if Darrow is wrong.

156

IQ1: Are you Ned Nickerson’s girlfriend?
IQ2: Are you a private detective often hired by Nero Wolfe?
IQ3: Did you urgently need to build a spaceship to keep your country independent?
Not Nancy Drew or Fred Durkin. Take a DQ for #3

157

IQs:

  1. Were you Perry Mason’s secretary?
  2. Did you hang with Maynard G. Krebs?
  3. Were you a tenor on Jack Benny’s radio show?
158

IQ1: Do you draw the comic Meat Cake and sing Onward Suckdog Soldiers?
IQ2: Are you Barry Humphries in drag?
IQ3: Did you play the Vulcan High Priestess in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock?

159

Correct on the first two.
King David, in Jerry Pournelle’s King David’s Spaceship.
DQ: Best known from television?
IQ1: Did you play a character who was stranded on a tropical island for several years?
IQ2: Did you play “identical cousins” on a TV show?
IQ3: Sid you star in Tammy and the Bachelor?

160

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted advocate who shares a birthdate with my dad? - Yes, Clarence Darrow (b. April 17)
Did the same actor who played your dad for a long time, also play an editor in The Hudsucker Proxy? - David Hyde Pierce’s dad on Frasier was played by John Mahoney, who was also in THP.
Did your husband work for JFK, and you worked for LBJ? - Yes, Doris Kearns Goodwin (her husband is Richard Goodwin).

DQ:

European?

IQs:

Is your boss’s boss a conehead?
Did you remind everyone of the dangers of absolute power?
Were you a Southern woman with a popular TV show?