Botticelli - April 2023

Thread Games
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No clue, in all likelhood I’ve never heard of this person but if by some miracle I can think of someone who fits the description before tomorrow noon I might post again.

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Eureka!

Are you John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?

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Drat – just realised he was ruled out by DQ 14. Oh, well…

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Alas, I am not.

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Probably not Joe Schmoe, either…

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I got nothin’

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Time’s up. I am the Alsatian priest and peacemaker, considered by some the Gandhi of his day,

Johann Friedrich Oberlin

For more: J. F. Oberlin - Wikipedia

Checking past Botticelli threads, I see I’ve mentioned him 11 times before, including as recently as last month.

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In the future I must remember to ask if any of your choices has an Ohio connection.

My former boss’s daughter went to Oberlin College, so, yes, I’ve heard of him.

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I’ve heard of the college. Probably heard of the man, too, if only in EH’s posts.

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Thanks! Our next letter is

I

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IQs:

  1. Did I kill your father and should I prepare to die?
  2. Did you preach naked and barefoot for three years?
  3. Did you do stage designs for Ben Jonson?
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I’m not Inigo Montoya, Ignatius or Inigo Jones.

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Correct on the Inigos. #2 was the prophet Isaiah.

DQ: Real?

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I’ve heard of the college and knew it was named after someone named Oberlin (to the point of incorrectly guessing him when I was Oliver Wendell Jones) but didn’t know his first name began with a “J”. My only consolation is that I thought that Religious might have been the category we missed, Germany was probably his origin and was wracking my brains for all of the Johann’s I could think of.

DQs:

  1. Were you the title character of the first comic strip by the artist who would eventually reach fame and fortune with his “Wimpy kid books”

  2. Were you dispatched with a high velocity squash.

  3. Did you share the title role in a 70’s kid’s show with Shazam?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Under the Net?
  2. Were you the female lead on Your Show of Shows?
  3. Did you have a hit with At Seventeen?
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IQ1: Should I hit you with my rhythm stick?
IQ2: Have you portrayed a hobbit, an android, and Napoleon?
IQ3: Did you sing about all the young dudes?

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Not Iggy, dunno and not Isis.

Dunno, not Imogene Coca and dunno.

Dunno, not the late lamented Ian Holm (in LOTR, Alien and Time Bandits), and dunno.

I.

  1. fictional
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1 Incorrect, the correct answer is Igdoof. Kinney wrote it for the University of Maryland school paper where I was a grad student. IMHO it was absolutely dreadful but some people seemed to like it.
2. Ichabod Crane of the legend of Sleepy Hollow who was taken out by a hurled pumpkin.
3. Correct.

DQs

  1. created after 1920?
  2. First name begins with I?
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I.

  1. fictional
  2. created before 1920
  3. first name begins with I
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#1 was Iris Murdoch.
Correct on Imogene Coca.
#3 was Janis Ian.

DQs:

  1. Created by a European author or authors?
  2. Last name starts with I?