Botticelli - April 2019

Thread Games
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Oui! Good work, DLR!

222

I know the painting but couldn’t have named him. Good job indeed, DLR!

223

Merci, Prof.!

I am G.

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IQs:

  1. Did you paint The Wreck of the Medusa?
  2. Are you secretly Nightwing?
  3. Did you write The Firm?
225

toutes nos félicitations, DLR!

IQ1: Are you the main character of Kafka’s Metamorphosis?
IQ2: Did you play the second-in-command of *Firefly *and later the head of a law firm?
IQ3: Did Liam Neeson play you in The Dark Knight Trilogy?

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  1. I am not Gerricault.
  2. I am not Dick Grayson.
  3. I am not John Grisham.

IQ1: I am not Gregor Samsa.
IQ2: I am not Gina Torres.
IQ3: I am not Raʾs al-Ghūl.

227

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. According to the Talmud, are you the archangel charged with control over fire?
  2. Are you a three-headed kanji from outer space?
  3. Are you an old time radio character who had his own show as a spinoff from Fibber McGee and Molly?
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IQ1: Are you QB for the LA Rams?
IQ2: Are you head coach of the Dallas Cowboys?
IQ3: Are you head coach of the Oakland Raiders?

229

IQ1: Are you a fictional character modeled on Ivan Boesky?

IQ2: Are you a Canadian singer-songwriter whose biggest hit contained the names of all the Great Lakes?

IQ3: Did you play a radio executive (and utter possibly the funniest line in TV history while doing so), and a Maytag repairman?

230
  1. I am not Gabriel.
  2. I am not the kaiju King Ghidora.
  3. I am not the Great Gildersleeve.

Take three DQs.

IQ1: I am not Gordon Gekko.
IQ2: I am not Gordon Lightfoot.
IQ3: I am not Gordon Jump.

231

Swept again! And corrected!

IQs:

  1. Are you the villain in many of the episodes of the highly acclaimed BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Did you create Howard the Duck?
  3. Did you duet I Remember It Well with Maurice Chevalier in the movie Gigi?
232

Jared Goff, Jason Garrett, Jon Gruden

Real?
Male?
Last name start with G?

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IQ1: Did the doe-like Fawn Hall trample your presidential aspirations?
IQ2: Are you Howard Stern’s longtime producer ncknamed “Baba Booey”?
IQ3: Were you Chancellor of the Klingon Empire until Worf killed you?

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IQs:

Did you write in a letter to a synagogue’s leaders that the U.S. Government gives “to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”?
Did your stalwart stand on Snodgrass Hill win you a memorable nickname?
Did you tell a reporter that you saved your feelings for your wife?

235
  1. I am not Grytpype.
  2. I am not Steve Gerber.
  3. Take a DQ.

IQ1: I am not Gary Hart.
IQ2: I am not Gary Dell’Abate.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

Respectively:
I am not George Washington.
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ. I’ve heard this anecdote before (the reporter asks “How do you feel about the bill?”) but can’t remember the name.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with G
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Sapristi nuckoes! You know of Hercules Grytpipe-Thinne. Correct on 1 and 2.
#3 was Hermione Gingold.

DQ: Living?

237

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Female Eunuch?
  2. Were you Zeus’s cupbearer?
  3. Are you “especially good at expectorating”?
238

Swept, by gum!

IQ1: Did one of your four sea-voyages take you to the island of Laputa?

IQ2: Are you a notorious womanizer and poet who fought for Greek independence?

IQ3: Are you the only president to serve two terms nonconsecutively?

239
  1. I am not Germaine Greer.
  2. I am not Ganymede.
  3. I am not Gaston.

IQ1: I am not Lemuel Gulliver.
IQ2: I am not George Gordon, Lord Byron.
IQ3: I am not Grover Cleveland.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with G
  4. living
240

Swept yet again.

IQs:

  1. Did Miss Piggy play you in Muppet Treasure Island?
  2. Were you Saul of Tarsus’s rabbi?
  3. Are you Murasaki Shikibu’s best known character?