January 2014, Botticelli

Thread Games
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All right, fanganga!

Previous IQs:

Did Bob & Ray joke about your change of plans? - Hannibal, who decided not to cross the Alps after his troops complained about what a pain in the ass it was.
Although born overseas, did you spend some time in Cleveland as a kid? - Bob Hope.
Were you Nelson Rockefeller’s last wife? - Yes, Happy.

New IQs:

Did you often leave town early to avoid bothersome ceremonies?
Did Boris Karloff memorably give you voice?
Did you sing a song that was edited to mention different cities for release in each?

122

My initial letter is ** G ** and…

1: I am real
2: I am male
3: G is the first letter of my last name

1: I am not George of the Jungle
2: I don’t know to whom you refer
3: I don’t know to whom you refer

I am not George McFly

1: I don’t know to whom you refer
2: I am not Guiseppe Garibaldi
3: I don’t know to whom you refer.

Again, I’m 0 for 3.

123

Graham Greene wrote The Quiet American. Actress Greta Garbo actually said “I want to be left alone”.

DQs:

  1. Are you alive?
  2. Are you known for your work in Science?
124

Previous IQs:

Did you often leave town early to avoid bothersome ceremonies? - George Washington, touring the South during his Presidency, had a low tolerance for hoopla. He would sometimes leave town an hour earlier than announced.
Did Boris Karloff memorably give you voice? - The Grinch!
Did you sing a song that was edited to mention different cities for release in each? - Lady Gaga in “You and I.”

DQs:

American?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you write of Jesus defending an organist?
Did you publish The Liberator?
Did you marry a girl from Troy, N.Y. and end up being buried there?

125

IQ: Were you a major lieutenant to Hitler?

126

IQ1: Do you love lasagna and hate Mondays?
IQ2: Have your roles included Arlen Bitterbuck and Kicking Bird?
IQ3: Were you an ogre to a group of nerds, before becoming one yourself?

127

Correct on George of the Jungle.
Hermann Goering. (“No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Goering. You may call me Meyer.”)
German fighter ace Adolf Galland, whose autobiography was called Die Erste und die Letzte (“The First and the Last”).
Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Are you a British general with an Oriental nickname?
IQ2: Did a famous pianist refer to you as “Joe Green”?
IQ3: Were you the commander of the Free French forces during WW II?

128

Nevermind

129

1: I am not … Gustav Holst?
2: I am not … Viktor Gollancz?
3: I don’t know to whom you refer.

1: I am not Garfield
2: I don’t know to whom you refer.
3: I don’t know to whom you refer.

1: I am not Charles “Chinese” Gordon.
2: Unless “Joe Green” counts as his name, I don’t know.
3: I am not Charles DeGaulle.

My initial letter is G and…

1: I am real
2: I am male
3: G is the first letter of my last name
4: I am no longer alive
5: I am not known for my contribution to science.
6: I am American

130

IQ: Is your Presidential memoir the gold standard for the genre?

131

Correct on Gordon and de Gaulle.
Victor Borge translated Giuseppe Verdi into English.
DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: Died after 1900?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Was your ear cut off after you were kidnapped in Rome?
IQ2: Were you the father of that person?
IQ3: Were you the father of that person?

132

Correct on Garfield.

Graham Greene played Arlen Bitterbuck in The Green Mile, and Kicking Bird in Dances with Wolves.

Donald Gibb played the role of Ogre in the Revenge of the Nerds movies.

Two DQs reserved for now.

133

IQs:

  1. Are you arguably the best known professional ice hockey player?
  2. Were you Pantagruel’s father?
  3. Are you a beneficent Kaiju oft-seen on MST3K?
134

Previous IQs:

Did you write of Jesus defending an organist? - Garrison Keillor: http://www.prettygoodgoods.org/products/57942-the-stoning-of-the-organist-by-garrison-keillor
Did you publish The Liberator? - The great abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
Did you marry a girl from Troy, N.Y. and end up being buried there? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, born in Virginia but true to the United States during the Civil War.

Five DQs now reserved.

135

I’ve seen this one before and I can’t remember who it was, so I’ll guess - I am not… Grover Cleveland?

0 for 3

I am not Wayne Gretzky
I do not know to whom you refer
I am not … King Ghidora?
My initial letter is G and…

1: I am real
2: I am male
3: G is the first letter of my last name
4: I am no longer alive
5: I am not known for my contribution to science.
6: I am American for a particular definition of American
7: I am not known for the arts
8: I died since 1900

136

#2 was Gargantua. #3 is Gamera. King Ghidora attacks Tokyo, Gamera defends it.

DQs:

  1. Known for politics?
  2. Citizen of the U.S.A.?
137

That was Grant.

DQ: Died after 1950?

138

DQs:

Ever in business?
Naturalized U.S. citizen?

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you often cast as a wise old Indian?
Were you beloved by a young secret agent?
Did you joke about Ahab and the curiously precise white whale?

139

Darn. It was a coin-flip between those two.

1: I don’t know to whom you refer.
2: I am not … Pussy Galore?
3: I am not … George Carlin?

1: I am real
2: I am male
3: G is the first letter of my last name
4: I am no longer alive
5: I am not known for my contribution to science.
6: I am American for a particular definition of American
7: I am not known for the arts
8: I died since 1900
9: I am known as a leader.
10: I don’t know if my guy was a US citizen - he could have been, but I think probably not.
11: I am not known for business

140

1: I am real
2: I am male
3: G is the first letter of my last name
4: I am no longer alive
5: I am not known for my contribution to science.
6: I am American for a particular definition of American
7: I am not known for the arts
8: I died since 1900
9: I am known as a leader.
10: I don’t know if my guy was a US citizen - he could have been, but I think probably not.
11: I am not known for business
12: I died before 1950