More August Botticelli

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you head up the group known as the Crickets?
  2. Did you die in a plane crash with the answer to #1?
  3. Did you record Blue Velvet?
202

IQ: Were you a losing VP candidate who later briefly served in the Cabinet?

203

IQ1: Did you compose the soundtrack to ‘Animal House’, among others?
IQ2: Are you best remembered for a Broadway musical adaptation of Shakespeare?
IQ3: Did the film ‘Blazing Saddles’ feature you giving Cleavon Little some skin while you played in the desert?

204

Still not Buddy Holly (post 194).
Not the Big Bopper, either.
DQ for #3.

DQ.

DQs for #1 and 2.
Not Mel Brooks. (Take a third DQ if that’s incorrect.)

205

B

  1. ‘B’ is not the initial of my last name
  2. Real
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. In the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for music
  9. Died after 1970
  10. Not known for rock and roll

Draelin has two reserved DQs.
fanganga has two reserved DQs.

206

I thought this might’ve been The Poet McTeagle, but he doesn’t have “B” as an initial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W9p_NFm6qk

You have two surplus “Ds.” It’s the same name as the rock band: http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0248213/?ref_=fn_al_ch_1

IQs:

Did you fake an assassination attempt for political gain?
Have you played a network executive, a computer expert and a crooked prosecutor?
Did you write perhaps the best-known letter ever written to a draft board?

207

Bobby Vinton did Blue Velvet.

DQ: Known for Classical music?

EH, I am aware that in the Movie Barbarella had to find Duran Duran, but in the original French comic strip, it was Durand Durand.

208

Three DQs.

The only famous letter I can think of is Red Coe’s letter about toilet paper…

209

B

  1. ‘B’ is not the initial of my last name
  2. Real
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. In the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for music
  9. Died after 1970
  10. Not known for rock and roll
  11. Not known for classical music

Draelin has two reserved DQs.
fanganga has two reserved DQs.

210

DQ1: Known for country music?
DQ2: Born after 1950?

211

IQ1: Do your first and last name refer to contradictory sizes?
IQ2: Did you shoot the sheriff?
IQ3: Did you sing “Everything I do”?

212

DQ: Died of natural causes?

My IQ was Llyod Bentsen

213

B

  1. ‘B’ is not the initial of my last name
  2. Real
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. In the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for music
  9. Died after 1970
  10. Not known for rock and roll
  11. Not known for classical music
  12. Not known for country music
  13. Not born after 1950
  14. Died of natural causes

Draelin has two reserved DQs.

214

All I can think of is Little Big Man, but that’s first and middle names, so take 3 DQs.

215

Well, you have me there. I didn’t even know it was a comic strip before it was a movie.

The title character in the movie Bob Roberts.
Bob Balaban, in Seinfeld, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, and Absence of Malice.
Bill Clinton, while still a Rhodes Scholar. The letter was widely publicized in his 1992 Presidential campaign.

DQs:

Died after 2000?
Best known as a songwriter/composer?
Grammy winner?

IQs:

Did Helen Mirren, early in her career, play your girlfriend?
Did you just buy The Washington Post?
Were you an Irish writer best known for your book about a non-Irishman?

216

ZDS

B

  1. ‘B’ is not the initial of my last name
  2. Real
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. In the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for music
  9. Died after 1970
  10. Not known for rock and roll
  11. Not known for classical music
  12. Not known for country music, but had some crossover hits
  13. Not born after 1950
  14. Died of natural causes

Draelin has two reserved DQs.

217

IQ: Was your Boston concert aired on PBS so people would stay home and watch, and go our in riot, in the aftermath of MLK’s assasination?

218

B

  1. ‘B’ is not the initial of my last name
  2. Real
  3. Male
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. In the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Known for music
  9. Died after 1970
  10. Not known for rock and roll
  11. Not known for classical music
  12. Not best known for country music, but had some country/crossover hits
  13. Not born after 1950
  14. Died of natural causes
  15. Did not die after 2000
  16. Not best known as a songwriter/composer
  17. Grammy winner

Draelin has two reserved DQs.

219

Not Jeff Bezos.
DQs for #1 and 3.

DQ. (I assume you mean and not go out and riot…)
17 DQs answered, and these three plus Draelin’s two are enough to bring the total up over 20…

220

Yes I did mean didn’t riot. :wink:

DQ: In a Musical Hall of Fame?

(I was going for James Brown)