Botticelli - April 2024

Thread Games
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Starting off with

D.

Last month:

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IQs:

  1. Was Walter Koenig’s Chekov character on Star Trek modeled after you?
  2. Did you write Taps as a general in the Union Army?
  3. Did you play the sidekick to Gene Kelly’s character in Singing In The Rain?
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IQs:

Did a little kid named Elmo often drop by your house?
Did the creator of your best-known character say the character was probably going to eventually die of autoerotic asphyxiation?
Did you and your girlfriend once use full-body condoms?

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#3. I am not Donald O’Connor.
Take 2 DQs.

#1. I am not Dagwood Bumstead.
Take 2 DQs.

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#1 was Davy Jones (of the Monkees, not of the locker.)
#2 was Dan Butterfield.

DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

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Congrats!

  1. Did you write, among other works, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance?
  2. Do you have a pink kitten named Eureka?
  3. Did you win the gold medal in women’s figure skating in 1976?
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IQs:
1. Were you a North American president, but not of the U.S.?
2. Were you Janet on The Good Place?
3. As fans of a classic comedy know, are you not an old man–you’re 37?

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Previous IQs:

Did a little kid named Elmo often drop by your house? - Yes, Dagwood Bumstead in Blondie
Did the creator of your best-known character say the character was probably going to eventually die of autoerotic asphyxiation? - Chris Carter once said that David Duchovny’s X-Files character, FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, was likely to go that way
Did you and your girlfriend once use full-body condoms? - Lt. Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

DQs:

American?
First name start with D?

IQs:

Did you decline to return for the recent reboot of a popular sitcom originally set in a West Coast city?
Are you an actor, best known for sf, with the exact same name as a prominent Vermont businessman of the 1920s?
Were you the second-smallest but fastest member of the Parr family?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with D
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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Dorothy Gale.
#3. I am not Dorothy Hamill.

Take 3 DQs.

#3. I am not Dash.
Take 2 DQs.

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1 was Jefferson Davis; 2 was D’arcy Carden; 3 was Dennis, in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

DQs:
1. living?
2. known for the arts?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with D
  5. Living
  6. Not known for the Arts
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IQs:

  1. Are you a Gold Glove-winning former Yankee shortstop?
  2. Did you hold five-star rank in two different militaries?
  3. Was an LPGA tournament named in your honor?
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IQs:
1. Did you sing with the Supremes?
2. Did you invent a keyboard with a non-QWERTY layout?
3. In the middle of the journey of our life, did you come to yourself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost?

DQ: born after 1970?

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  1. I am not Derek Jeter (?).
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Diana Ross.
  2. I am not Dvorak (?).
  3. I am not Dante Alighieri.
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with D
  5. Living
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Born before 1970
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Previous IQs:

Did you decline to return for the recent reboot of a popular sitcom originally set in a West Coast city? - David Hyde Pierce, for Frasier
Are you an actor, best known for sf, with the exact same name as a prominent Vermont businessman of the 1920s? - Michael Dorn, Worf on ST:TNG and DS9
Were you the second-smallest but fastest member of the Parr family? - Yes, Dash, in The Incredibles

DQs:

Best known for politics/military?
White?

IQs:

Were you a plump judge and personal friend of President Lincoln whom he appointed to SCOTUS?
Did your world gain membership in the Second Empire by building a particular form of transportation?
Did Patrick Stewart play you onstage in London in late 1985?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with D
  5. Living
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Best known for politics/military
  9. White
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Take 3 DQs.

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David Davis (they’d ridden circuit together in rural Illinois, back in the day), the title character in the Jerry Pournelle sf novel King David’s Spaceship, and that other King David, in Peter Shaffer’s play Yonodab (and I saw it!).

David x3!

DQs:

Currently holds public office?
From a state east of the Mississippi River?

IQs:

Were you a US senator from Connecticut and a close friend of Ted Kennedy’s?
Are you now the senior US senator from Illinois?
Are you the recently-deceased senior US senator from California?