Botticelli April 2015

Thread Games
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Okay, a new month and a new topic. Let’s go with…

V

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Edmund Pettus? Never heard of him…
IQ1: Did you write Dreamsnake and Barbary?
IQ2: Did your grandfather invent baking powder?
IQ3: Were you a writer who had an affair with Vita Sackville-West?

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wtg, astorian.

IQ1: Were you US Secretary of State under Jimmy Carter?
IQ2: Did you write The Dying Earth series?
IQ3: Did you frequently play Lucille Ball’s best friend?

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Last month’s thread: Botticelli - March 2015 - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

IQs:

Were you assured that Santa Claus existed?
Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina?
Did you play Princess Irulan?

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Not Virginia Woolf
Take a DQ for 1 and 2

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Not Cyrus Vance or Vivian Vance
Take a DQ for 2, which is probably some other Vance.

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Not Virginia O’Hanlon (I did that one last Xmas) or Virginia Dare.

Take a DQ for 3

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Vonda McIntyre.
Vincent Price.
Correct.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

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Previous IQs:

Were you assured that Santa Claus existed? - “Yes, Virginia” O’Hanlon indeed.
Were you the first white child born in what is now North Carolina? - Yes, Virginia Dare.
Did you play Princess Irulan? - Virginia Madsen, in David Lynch’s Dune.

Virginia x3!

DQ:

Last name start with V?

IQs:

Do you have your own website devoted to the question of whether or not you’re still alive?
Did you sing about injustice, adultery and murder in Georgia?
Were you Tom Riddle?

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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with V
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Not Vicki Lawrence or Lord Voldemort

Take a DQ for #1

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Brief sidebar: I know little or nothing about Edmund Pettus per se.

But since the making of the movie Selma, and the recent re-enactment of the march to Montgomery, I heard a lot about the bridge. And I also read a few articles calling for the bridge to be renamed, due to Pettus being a pretty horrible man.

A year ago, I wouldn’t have known who Edmund Pettus was. But in the past year, I’ve heard his name just often enough to figure it out.

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Jack Vance :slight_smile:

DQ: Alive?

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IQ1: Are you a NYG wide receiver who wrote Sandy Hook victim Jack Pinto’s name on his cleats and gloves?
IQ2: Did you direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With The Wind?
IQ3: Were you king of Sardinia–Piedmont and made the first king of a united Italy in 1861?

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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with V
  4. Dead
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Not Victor Cruz, Victor Fleming or Victor Emmanuel I.

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IQ1: Did you play one of the Magnificent Seven?
IQ2: Did you write Babes in Toyland?
IQ3: Did you play a tubercular dentist and a Biblical hero?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play King Tut on Batman?
  2. Did you play a caricature of your perceived star-self in After The Fox?
  3. Did you play yourself in Variety Girl?
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Actually, Victor Emmanuel II, but what’s an I among friends?

IQ1: Are you a Texan pianist who won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958?
IQ2: Are an Irish recording artist known for the hit Tupelo Honey?
IQ3: Did you play Valene “Val” Clements Ewing Ewing Gibson Waleska Ewing on Dallas and Knots Landing?

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Previous IQs:

Do you have your own website devoted to the question of whether or not you’re still alive? - Abe Vigoda: http://www.abevigoda.com/
Did you sing about injustice, adultery and murder in Georgia? - Yes, Vicki Lawrence.
Were you Tom Riddle? - Yes, Lord Voldemort.

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Were you an avuncular guy in a Russian play?
Were you a hotshot Latino lawyer on TV?
Married to a former ambassador, did you find yourself unexpectedly in the news?

As awful as he was, I can’t imagine renaming the bridge. It’s iconic now, and under that name.