Botticelli - January 2013

Thread Games
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To kick off the new year, the letter is

A

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Happy New Year, and thanks, ChockFull!

IQs:

Were you filmed having coffee with Jerry Seinfeld?
Did you complain about the filming of Ghostbusters?
Did you spend years trying to encourage British exports?

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IQ: Did you try to turn over a fort in NY to the British?

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IQs:

Did you claim to be a survivor from Ekaterinburg?
Did your character cause problems for a trucker and his pet chimp?
Did you write a song about a frog who kept good wine?

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3 DQs for you

Not Benedict Arnold

#1) Take a DQ
#2) Not Sheriff Lobo Claude Akins
#3) Not Hoyt Axton

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IQ: Are you a POTUS with credible “birther” claims?

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IQs:

  1. Are you most often known as “Comic Book Guy”?

  2. Was your daughter told to stand up as you were passing by?

  3. Were your parents Uther and Ygrayne?

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DQ for you, unless this is related to your “First American President” trick question in the trivia question thread, in which case, I’m neither John Adams nor John Quincy Adams

1 Not Jeff Albertson
2 Take a DQ
3 Not King Arthur

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Right on Akins and Axton. #1 was Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Archduchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, and that she had escaped when the rest of the tsar’s family were murdered by the Bolsheviks.

DQ: Real?

IQs:
Are you known for trying to steal a train in Big Shanty, Georgia?
Did you make Esther queen?
Was your ransom a roomful of gold?

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Correct on Albertsom and Arthur. Number 2 was Atticus Finch.

DQ: Are you male?

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Yes

3 DQs.
I think #1 is the Union soldier played by Fess Parker in The Great Locomotive Chase, but I can’t remember the historical figure’s name.

Yes

Summary:
A

  1. Real
  2. Male
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DQ: Born in Vermont? (Chester Arthur claimed to be born in Verment, but scholars believe he was born in Canada)

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James J Andrews led the attempt to steal a Confederate train. The mission failed, and he was hanged as a spy, along with several of his men. Those who escaped became the first men to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Ahasuerus was the Persian king in the Biblical book of Esther. Historians identify him as either Xerxes or Artaxerxes.
Atahualpa, the last Inca, offered to fill a room with gold for Pizarro.

DQ:

Are you still alive?
Are you American?
Are you best known as an artist(e), using the usual definition for “the arts”?

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Alec Baldwin: http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/alec-baldwin-just-a-lazy-shiftless-bastard/
Isaac Asimov, who lived in the same Central Park West neighborhood as the Art Deco apartment building from the movie’s climax.
Prince Andrew, who headed the British exports-encouragement office (or whatever it’s called) for quite a few years.

DQs:

Last name start with A?

Two DQs reserved for now, pending answers to SCAdian’s DQs.

IQs:

Did you pick Pat Lucey for an important gig?
Did you become Catholic after leaving a high office?
A woman, were you the last person ever to do a particular something in your top job, something none of your successors have done since?

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No

No
No
Yes

Summary:
A

  1. Real
  2. Male.
  3. Not born in Vermont
  4. Not still alive
  5. Not American
  6. Best known as an artist, using the usual definition for “the arts”
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IQ1: Did your friends and associates include William Herndon, Joshua Speed, and John Hay?

IQ2: Did you host a House Party on TV in the 1950s and 1960s?

IQ3: Do you work in the grocery store, savin’ your pennies for someday?

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I’m a single moniker kind of guy.

Not John Anderson. The only reason I know that is my high school marching band was hired to play at a local Anderson campaign gig, and some kid was joking about the VP candidate having two girl’s names for a name.
Take DQs for the other 2.

3 DQs for you.

Summary:
A

  1. Real
  2. Male.
  3. Not born in Vermont
  4. Not still alive
  5. Not American
  6. Best known as an artist, using the usual definition for “the arts”
  7. Single name moniker starts with ‘A’
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Yes, he was John Anderson’s running mate in 1980.
Anthony “Tony” Blair.
Queen Anne was the last British monarch to use the Royal Veto.

DQs:

European?
Born since 1900?
Singer/songwriter?

One DQ still reserved.

IQs:

Were you a charismatic but fictitious guy on the Moon?
Were you played by Maren Jensen in a Seventies TV show?
Were you buried at sea from the deck of the USS Philippine Sea?

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IQ1: Are you a slave who wrote a series of enlightening moral tales?

IQ2: Are you a Renaissance poet who wrote of Orlando’s frenzy?

IQ3: Are you a French poet who smuggled guns (and possibly slaves) in Somalia?

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Yes
No
No

You can keep it because…

Yes, I am Aesop!

Good job!