Botticelli April 2016

Thread Games
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Good job, Tim!

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Hey, where’s bordelond?

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All right, Tim!

Previous IQs:

Did your skull end up in a Danish graveyard before being excavated? - Alas, poor Yorick…
Were you the last male human being in the world to survive a global catastrophe? - Another Yorick, the protagonist of the graphic novel series Y: The Last Man.
Were you part of a famous musical trio? - Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary.

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Oh, nice, I had hopes but wasn’t really expecting that one to win it.

The other two were Boris Yeltsin and Steve Young.

And now, as it appears I’m not going to come up with any better ideas, I am Z.

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IQs:

  1. Did you write a whole passel of westerns?
  2. Is your name Spanish for Fox?
  3. Did you invent Esperanto?
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I’m not Zane Grey, I’m not Zorro, and DQ.

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Correct. Correct. L. L. Zamenhof invented Esperanto.

DQ: Real?

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IQ1: Are you an alumni of Walden College?
IQ2: Are you IQ1’s nephew?
IQ3: Are you a short Irken soldier banished to Foodcourtia?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a Russian-born concert violinist, composer and conductor?
  2. Were you #1’s actor son?
  3. Were you #2’s actress daughter?
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IQs:

Did you twice play the mom of doomed young women?
Did you play the heavy in Titanic?
Was Ike a fan of your writing?

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That’s a sweep, 3DQ. (In honor of ‘an alumni’, I present this.)

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I feel like if I got one of these they’d all fall, but I’m getting nothing. 3DQ.

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I’m not Zsa Zsa Gabor?, DQ, and I’m still not Zane Grey.

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I am Z and I am:

  1. Not Real
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You are correct in your assumption.

#1 was Efrem Zimbalist, Sr.
#2 was Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (remembered mainly from the TV series The F.B.I.)
#3 was Stephanie Zimbalist (remembered almost exclusively from Remington Steele)

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with Z?
  3. From a work of prose fiction?
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IQs:

  1. Are you considered by many to be the Father of Television?
  2. Are you this season’s archenemy on The Flash?
  3. Were you a Swedish print artist noted for your “breastscapes”?
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Zonker Harris (from Doonesbury), Zipper Harris, Invader Zim

holding 3 DQs

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I am Z and I am:

  1. Not Real
  2. Male
  3. Last Name starts with Z
  4. Not from a work of prose fiction
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hmm… not Farnsworth?..DQ.
I’m not watching it, but I’ll guess Professor Zoom.
and DQ.

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#1. Vladimir Zworykin, who invented a system for broadcasting and receiving signals using a cathode ray tube.
#2. Well, he’s just called Zoom, but close enough.
#3. Anders Zorn, known for his landscapes with nude women.

DQs:

  1. Originally from a movie?
  2. Protagonist?