January 2014, Botticelli

Thread Games
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#1 is Jane Urquart, poet/short fiction writer/novelist and author of ‘The Underpainter’.

DQ: Are you European?

542

IQ1: Are you a country singer with an city name?
IQ2: Are you a pope?
IQ3: Did Andy Warhol cast you in a number of his films?

543

Oops, thanks. Sorry, I missed that. One DQ reserved for now.

544

I am not Keith Urban.
I am not Pope Urban I.
Take a DQ for #3.

545

Udo Kier was in Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein and Dracula films.

DQ: Are you known for musical accomplishments?
(Still waiting on the European DQ as well…)

546

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with U
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born after 1960
  8. Not a writer
  9. Not known for the visual arts
  10. Born before 1980
  11. Not European
  12. Not known for musical accomplishments
547

DQ:

Asian?

IQs:

Did a late-night host mock both your name and that of another VIP?
Were you Tolkien’s publisher?
Were you arguably Hogwarts’s worst headmistress ever?

548

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with U
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born after 1960
  8. Not a writer
  9. Not known for the visual arts
  10. Born before 1980
  11. Not European
  12. Not known for musical accomplishments
  13. Not Asian
549

Take DQs for 1 & 2. I am not Delores Umbridge.

550

Previous IQs:

Did a late-night host mock both your name and that of another VIP? - David Letterman, hosting the Oscars, went back and forth repeating “Uma [Thurman]… Oprah!”
Were you Tolkien’s publisher? - Edward Unwin.
Were you arguably Hogwarts’s worst headmistress ever? - Yes, her.

DQs:

Born in the northern hemisphere?
Received a major award in his field?

551

Seems to be a bit of an echo in here… :smiley:

(Major-General, by the way, not colonel.)

552

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Male
  4. Last name starts with U
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born after 1960
  8. Not a writer
  9. Not known for the visual arts
  10. Born before 1980
  11. Not European
  12. Not known for musical accomplishments
  13. Not Asian
  14. Born in the southern hemisphere
  15. Won major awards, but as part of a group
553

Sorry - I missed yours. He was a colonel at the time, IIRC.

554

He was CO of the British 1st Airbourne Division. That makes him a general. (Colonels command regiments.)

555

IQ1: Did you co-write one of the biggest charity relief singles of the 1980s?
IQ2: Are you the alter-ego of Shoeshine Boy?
IQ3: Are you the alter-ego of Principal Benjamin Krupp?

556

IQ: Was a city renamed in your honour?

557

Take DQs for #1 and #3. I am not Underdog

558

I do not know. Take a DQ.

559

IQ: Are you a filmmaker whose best-known film involves an empty Coke bottle?

560

Then you are not Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, for whom St. Petersburg was renamed Leningrad.