Botticelli - April 2023

Thread Games
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IQ:

  1. Do various parts of your anatomy have different flavors, including asparagus and licorice.
  2. Do you own carnivorous luggage?
  3. Were you originally created as a companion to the loonies of a planetary insane asylum. but later became a popular action hero?

DQ:

  1. Know primary for work in physics?

1 held remaining

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not known for Politics
  8. Not American
  9. Died before 1950
  10. Not known for sports/athletics
  11. Not known for military
  12. European
  13. Not known for business
  14. Known for Science
  15. Not from the British Isles
  16. Born north of Vienna
  17. Born west of Vienna
  18. Known primarily for work in physics
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  1. I am not Rorschach.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Theodore Roosevelt (??)
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Yes, Rorschach in Watchmen (my favorite line in that)
Randyll Tarly, father of Samwell, in Game of Thrones
Not TR but RBG. She visited India with her friend and colleague Antonin Scalia and they took an elephant ride. Friends, seeing her vacation photos, later asked why she sat behind him, and she said, “The handler told us it was a question of weight distribution.”

DQs:

Involved in the Manhattan Project?
Won a Nobel Prize?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not known for Politics
  8. Not American
  9. Died before 1950
  10. Not known for sports/athletics
  11. Not known for military
  12. European
  13. Not known for business
  14. Known for Science
  15. Not from the British Isles
  16. Born north of Vienna
  17. Born west of Vienna
  18. Known primarily for work in physics
  19. Not involved in the Manhattan Project
  20. Won a Nobel Prize

That’s 20. Please ask all remaining DQs by 8pm today, EDT.

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Don’t forget that if you have successfully gained a DQ in this game you may ask your final “Are you FirstName LastName?” question at any time.

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@Prof.Pepperwinkle Did you see these?

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Oops. Missed 'em. Sorry.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Rincewind.
  3. I am not Rocket Raccoon (??).

Let’s extend that deadline on DQs until Noon EDT tomorrow. Happy Easter!

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  1. The Road Runner
  2. Correct
  3. Correct! Rocket Racoon in his first appearance and later miniseries was quite different from the character we know today. Perhaps the separation from his otter girl friend has hardened him.

IQs:

  1. Is there a physical phenomenon named after you?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Not known for Politics
  8. Not American
  9. Died before 1950
  10. Not known for sports/athletics
  11. Not known for military
  12. European
  13. Not known for business
  14. Known for Science
  15. Not from the British Isles
  16. Born north of Vienna
  17. Born west of Vienna
  18. Known primarily for work in physics
  19. Not involved in the Manhattan Project
  20. Won a Nobel Prize
  21. Physical unit of measurement named after me.
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Are you Roentgen (sp?)

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Final DQ:

Are you associated with seismology?

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Yes! I am

Wilhelm Roentgen!

who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of x-rays.

Good job, EH!

Happy Easter!

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Thanks - you too! DQ answer 21 did the trick.

Our next letter is

J

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IQ1: Was your daughter the last queen of England?
IQ2: Did you write Three Men on the Bummel?
IQ3: Did you write about the Snork Maiden?

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IQs:

  1. Are you Ed Sheeran’s new baby daughter?
  2. Are you the head maid of the Emerald City of Oz?
  3. Did you write the Gregor Demarkian series of mysteries?
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Not King James, Jerome K. Jerome and dunno.

Not Jezebel, dunno and dunno.

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#1 is Jupiter Sheeran.
#2 is Jellia Jamb.
#3 was Jane Haddam.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
  3. Last name starts with J?
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J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with J
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Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #101 by Elendil_s_Heir