August 2014 Botticelli

Thread Games
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dunnodunno

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DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Alive?
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Colbie Callait

DQ: American?

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(EH was an extra in The Avengers. He and his wife are among the crowd during Loki’s distraction at Stuttgart. Search the threads and you’ll find out exactly when they appear.)

IQs:

  1. Were you known for saying (repeatedly): “Delenda est Carthago!”?
  2. Were you Jesus’s archnemesis among the Pharisees?
  3. Are you constantly chasing after the Road Runner?
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IQs:

Is your character’s armchair in the Natl. Museum of American History?
Were Mary Todd and her father friends of yours?
Are you buried in a modest grave in Plymouth Notch, Vt.?

Thanks. Not my wife, but an actress with whom I was paired for the night’s shoot: I was an Avengers extra - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board

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DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
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not Commodus, don’t remember, not Wile E. Coyote

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IQ1: Was your last name changed from Andolini at Ellis Island?

IQ2: Did Lorenzo Music provide the tipsy voice of your unseen character?

IQ3: Did your enemies regularly insist you weren’t really born in Vermont?

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Congrats on your brush with stardom!

Not Caroll O’Connor, not Samuel Clemens, dunno

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not Don Corleone
not Carlton the Doorman
dunno, is this related to EH’s Q about the modest grave?

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It’s two different people.

IQ: Did you affectionately refer to your TV wife as a dingbat?

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Thanks, Knowed.

Previous IQs:

Is your character’s armchair in the Natl. Museum of American History? - Yes, Carroll O’Connor, Archie Bunker on All in the Family.
Were Mary Todd and her father friends of yours? - Not Sam Clemens, but earlier - the great Whig leader Henry Clay. Mary Todd went on to marry another former Whig, Abraham Lincoln, of course.
Are you buried in a modest grave in Plymouth Notch, Vt.? - Calvin Coolidge: https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7007/6712661447_8ae65ab7ce.jpg

DQs:

Last name start with C?
Died since 1950?
Best known for the creative arts?

IQs:

Did your wife keep a collection of knicknacks on the mantelpiece about which you would tell stories to your kids every night?
Did you play a man who had a (fake) younger brother named Prince Ruprecht?
Did you announce that you had no quarrel with the Vietcong?

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IQ:.Did your alcoholism get you cut from your original NFL team?

BTW, ignore my previous IQ.

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#1 was Cato the Elder. #2 was Caiaphas.

2 DQs reserved for now.

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You got Vito Corleone and Carlton the Doorman right.

No- this is a different President. Calvin Coolidge in buried in Plymouth Notch.

Chester Alan Arthur was born in Vermont- but long before the “birthers,” there were people who argued that Arthur was really Canadian, and ineligible to be PResident.

So, I get ONE direct question:

DQ: Were you white/Caucasian?

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IQ1: Are you proud to state that you are hardly ever sick at sea?

IQ2: Did Hitler offer a special bounty to any Luftwaffe pilot who could shoot you down?

IQ3: Did you replace Ian Gillan as the lead singer of Deep Purple?

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IQ: Are you a scandal riddled governor, previously best known for your size?

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IQs:

  1. According to Ian Fleming’s novels, does James Bond look like you?
  2. Are you the hero of the Ulster Cycle?
  3. Are you a member of Top Cat’s gang?
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DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Last name starts with C
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not known for creative arts
  8. White
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dunno, not Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, dunno but eager to find out