Botticelli - April 2021

Thread Games
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Answers to previous IQs:

Hercule Poirot, Captain Hastings, Captain Haddock (Tintin).


IQ1: Were you an English nobleman born in Angola?
IQ2: Were you the third Roman emperor?
IQ3: Were you the fourth?

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I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
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  1. DQ
  2. DQ
  3. DQ
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John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke.
Caligula.
Claudius.


DQ1: Living?
DQ2: American?
DQ3: Known for the Arts?

265

Congrats!

Belated IQ wrap-up: 1 (currently in Garner’s position) was Kamala Harris; 3 (narrated The Point!) was Dustin Hoffman.

IQs:
1. Did you and your son play the same role in a cinematic Biblical epic?
2. Did you represent John Scopes?
3. Did you create Tommy and Tuppence?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Minnie the Moocher?
  2. Did you have a hit with Rhinestone Cowboy?
  3. Did you have a hit with Come on-a My House?
267

I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
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  1. I am not Charlton Heston
  2. I am not Clarence Darrow
  3. DQ
269
  1. I am not Cab Calloway
  2. I am not Glen Campbell
  3. I am not Rosemary Clooney
270

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you write the story of Pinocchio?
  2. Did your numerous paintings inspire the Impressionist movement, although you yourself didn’t think much of it?
  3. Are you an imaginary son W.C. Fields talked about on his radio series, The Lucky Strike Show?
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  1. I am not Carlo Carlotti
  2. I am not Paul Cezanne
  3. DQ
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#1 was Carlo Collodi. Close enough.
#2 was Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
#3 was Chester Fields. Once Lucky Strike realized Bill was hyping the competition they made him stop.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with C?
  2. Died before 1950?
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I am C:

  1. I am real
  2. I am male
  3. I am deceased
  4. I am American
  5. I am known for the arts
  6. My last name starts with C
  7. I did not die before 1950
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IQs:

  1. Were you an eccentric cartoon inventor with a silent sidekick named Leonardo?
  2. Did you create the fictional detective Father Brown?
  3. Were you a Polish Romantic classical composer and pianist?
275

IQs:
1. Did you write about the negative environmental effects of pesticides?
2. Do you wear red-and-white striped headgear, gloves, a bowtie, and nothing else?
3. Were you the first criminal caught by radio?

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  1. DQ
  2. DQ
  3. I am not Frederic Chopin
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  1. I am not Rachel Carson
  2. DQ (though I’m kicking myself … this is super-familiar)
  3. I am not Al Capone
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#1 was Clyde Crashcup.
#2 was G. K. Chesterton.
Correct on Chopin.

DQs:

  1. Known for the performing arts?
  2. Died before 1990?
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IQs:

Where you the criminal mastermind behind the Red-Headed League?
Were you London’s most notorious blackmailer, killed by one of his victims?
Did you die of a heart attack after seeing a monstrous hound near your estate?

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DQ
DQ
DQ (Letting down one of my old English teachers with this one)