Botticelli April 2016

Thread Games
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Welcome to April, I am S!

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IQ1: Are you one of the mid-1980s Houston Rockets’ “Twin Towers”?
IQ2: Have you ever portrayed Sister Helen Prejean in film?
IQ3: Has Norm MacDonald spoofed you in a series of 2015 fast-food commercials?

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IQ1: Have you written about a car, a dog, and a game-show contestant?
IQ2: Did you play the older daughter in a show about a musical family?
IQ3: Did you play the mother in that show?

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DQ, alas ‘the one that wasn’t Hakeem Olajawan’ doesn’t count.
I’m not Susan Sarandon?
I’m not Colonel Sanders.

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I’m not Stephen King
2xDQ for you

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Correct. (Would it have been more difficult if I’d asked about a nurse instead of the game-show contestant?)
Susan Dey (The Partridge Family).
Shirley Jones.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Female?

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Yeah, I think the game show part was what clued me in, there aren’t a lot of stories in that genre, hehe. Though, I’m not sure if car dog nurse has a unique answer…

I am S:

  1. Real
  2. Male
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Ralph Sampson patrolled the Rockets’ frontcourt alongside Olajuwon.
Correct.
Correct.

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DQ: Are you alive right now?

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IQ1: Were you the other half of a comedy duo with the actor that played Dr. Gregory House?
IQ2: Did you write The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends?
IQ3: Was your 1993 directorial-debut feature film (a) recorded on black-and-white stock and (b) self-financed?

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I am S and I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
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DQ, DQ, and Kevin Smith directed Clerks.

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IQ1: Were you Absalom’s wise half-brother?
IQ2: Were a pair of fictional mountains named for your breasts?
IQ3: Did you write about the King of Currumpaw?

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Stephen Fry teamed with Hugh Laurie in Fry & Laurie.
Poet Shel Silverstein wrote the collections The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends.

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DQ: American?
DQ: Surname begins with S?

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IQ1: Did you write A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
IQ2: Did you write How the Grinch Stole Christmas?
IQ3: Are the career HR leader of Japanese professional baseball?

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I’m not Solomon, the Grand Tetons aren’t fictional! I mean, 2xDQ for you.

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I am S and I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. My surname begins with S
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I’m not Mark Twain or Theodore Geisel, though I am ready to start the T round.

Okay, okay, I’m neither Samuel Clemens nor Doctor Seuss.

and a DQ for you.

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Clemens and Seuss were correct.
Sadaharu Oh is the career HR leader of Japanese professional baseball?

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DQ: Known for the arts?

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I am S and I am:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. My surname begins with S
  6. Not known for the Arts (Though I suppose if you construe Arts broadly enough I could be considered to be)
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Correct.
The Queen of Sheba (King Solomon’s Mines).
Ernest Thompson Seton.
DQ1: European?
DQ2: Died after 1900?

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IQ1: Did you have one of your two brief appearances as a role in a major motion picture replaced with a different actor playing the same role in a later release of that film?
IQ2: Are you a famous guitarist who shares your (first and last) name with a former professional baseball player?
IQ3: Were you a drummer in a band which had a former drummer that had the same (first and last) name as a drummer who played on solo albums released by former bandmates of your father?