Botticelli - April 2023

Thread Games
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IQ1: Does a famous ghost story’s first sentence declare you were dead?
IQ2: Did your father’s gift to you of colorful clothing anger your brothers?
IQ3: Was your death ruled a homicide caused by gunshot, despite occurring 33 years after you were shot?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Stupefyin’ Jones in Li’l Abner?
  2. Did you play a passerby who was stupefied by Stupefyin’ Jones in Li’l Abner?
  3. Did you play Evil Eye Fleagle in Li’l Abner?
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correct (James II, to be precise)
correct
Tove Janssen

DQ: Known for the Arts?

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Not Jacob Marley, Joseph (of the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) or Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

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Dunno x3

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J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with J
  4. not known for the Arts
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Yes
Yes
I had to look him up to see if he qualified - he died 50 years after being shot, not 33, so I’ll say no. I was looking for James Brady, wounded by Hinkley during the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

DQ: Alive?

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Julie Newmar, Jerry Lewis, Jamie Farr.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Known for business?
  3. Unusual first name?
69

IQs:

  1. Did you break Roger Maris’s record last year?
  2. Did you star with Eddie Murphy in the Beverly Hills Cop movies?
  3. Did R. Crumb do an album cover for the band in which you were the lead singer?
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Thanks for doing this!

I note that the following letters haven’t been used in 2023: H, I, N, Q, U and Y.

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IQ1: Is your beauty beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair?
IQ2: Were you a rebel who wandered alone?
IQ3: Were you saving all your kisses just for Jimmy?

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IQ1: Are you Finn the human’s companion in the Land of Ooo?
IQ2: Do you want a creature of the night to touch-a touch-a touch-a touch you?
IQ3: Were you a disgraced spokesman for a fast food chain based on a questionable but successful (for you) diet?

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Not Jose Baseballstar, not Judge Reinhold and dunno.

Not Jezebel, dunno and dunno.

Not Jake, dunno and not Jennie Craig.

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with J
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. not American
  6. not known for business
  7. not an unusual first name
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I think you missed this one…

Correct
Janet Weiss from Rocky Horror
I’ll rephrase

DQ: Known for politics/military?

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Jolene
Johnny Yuma
Joni


Three DQs reserved.

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Thanks, CFOHG.

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name starts with J
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. not American
  6. not known for business
  7. not an unusual first name
  8. dead
  9. not known for politics/military
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DQ1: European?
DQ2: known for sports?
One DQ reserved.

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IQ1: Are you an incarcerated former spokesman for a fast food chain, who got the gig based on your dramatic weight loss from exclusively eating said chain’s food?
IQ2: Did you write Two Treatises of Government?
IQ3: Were you the founder of the Simpson’s home town?

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#1 was Aaron Judge.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Janis Joplin (with Big Brother & the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills).

DQ: Died after 1950?

1 DQ reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Did you occasionally perform under the name Winston O’Boogie?
  2. Was Knobby Walsh your boxing manager?
  3. Did you write History of the Jewish Wars?