Botticelli - Aug. 2021

Thread Games
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I think it should count. Most of us have heard of the movie, some of us have seen it, and he was one of the two main characters.

I vote you earned another round.

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Yes, take another round!

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Thank you! Our next letter, then, is

M

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IQs

  1. Were you Miss America 1955?
  2. Did you portray a dictator on a NBC comedy?
  3. Is there a statue of you at the Grand Ole Opry?
245

Not Lee Meriwether, Matthew Perry or Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.

246

Yes, Margaret Cho, Minnie Pearl

DQs

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
247

IQs:
1. Did you have binders full of women?
2. Does one of your books begin “It was a dark and stormy night” (really!)?
3. Did you revamp the Doom Patrol and Animal Man?

248

IQs:

  1. Did you write The History of England in the 19th Century?
  2. Did you best Lee at Gettysburg?
  3. Did you write Bimbos of the Death Sun?
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  1. Are you the hero of the aforementioned Bimbos of the Death Sun?
  2. Are you his girlfriend?
    3… Did you write the 1984 book The Changeover?
250

IQ1: Are you a former Boston Red Sox relief pitcher who owned a bar?
IQ2: Were you the first professional basketball player to go pro directly out of high school?
IQ3: Were you a basketball player nicknamed “The Mailman”?

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Not Mitt Romney, not Madeline L’Engle and dunno.

Not Sir Thomas Mallory, not George G. Meade and dunno.

Dunno x3.

Not Sam Malone, not Carl Malone and maybe this was Carl Malone.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
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#1 was Thomas Babington Macaulay.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Sharyn McCrumb.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with M?
  2. Living?
253

IQs:

  1. Did you star opposite the Marx Brothers in Love Happy?
  2. Did you star opposite Bob Hope in The Lemon Drop Kid?
  3. Were you the lead singer of The Fifth Dimension?
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3 (Animal Man, Doom Patrol) was Grant Morrison.

DQ: known from the arts?

IQs:
1. Did you write H is for Hawk?
2. Have you played Moses, Torquemada, Louis XVI, Dr. Van Helsing, and a Jewish version of Friar Tuck?
3. Were you born with the last name Little (though you later changed it)?

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Yes
Moses Malone
Yes, Karl (with a K) Malone

DQ: American?

256

James Owen Mega, Marion Farley, Margaret Mahy.

3 DQs reserved

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Not Margaret Rutherford, not Margaret O’Brien and not Margaret Leadsinger.

Not Kinsey Milhone, Mel Brooks or Thurgood Marshall.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
258

1 was Helen Macdonald; 3 was Malcolm X.

DQs:
1. died before 1950?
2. known from a single incident or thing?

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#1 was Marilyn Monroe.
#2 was Marilyn Maxwell.
#3 was Marilyn McCoo.

DQs: Known for politics?

2 DQs reserved.

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M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name started with M
  4. deceased
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1950
  8. best known from a single incident or thing
  9. sorta kinda known for politics