Botticelli - August 2015

Thread Games
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This round’s letter is G

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Amurrikun
  5. Has worked in the arts, but not most famous for it
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. Not born since 1950
  8. Known for politics/military, but not best known
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Reposting

IQs:

  1. Are you the star of a Canadian comedy series who can fix nearly anything with duct tape?
  2. Did you paint The Raft of the Medusa?
  3. Were you a puppet Ed Sullivan occasionally kissed good night?
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dunno, not Goya(?), dunno

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dunno x2, not George Washington

5

Red Green, Theodore Gericault, Topo Gigio.

3 DQs reserved.

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DQ: Best known for business?

2 DQs reserved.

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George VI. HRH Prince George of Cambridge may someday be George VII.
3 DQs reserved.

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IQ1) Were you both a starter on the winning team in the first Super Bowl, and the head coach of a team that lost the Super Bowl?

IQ2) Did your best-known band get deported from Germany because you were under legal working age?

IQ3) Did you write the best-seller Dad Is Fat?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Amurrikun
  5. Has worked in the arts, but not most famous for it
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. Not born since 1950
  8. Known for politics/military, but not best known
  9. Not best known for business
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not Forrest Gregg, dunno x2

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DQ: Second letter of last name is a vowel?
2 DQs reserved.
IQ1: Did you invent a popular method for stenography?
IQ2: Did you write the Royal Fireworks Music?
IQ3: Were you a Great pope?

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DQ: Known from sports?

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Previous IQs:

Did you and your mom see JFK the day before he died? - George W. Bush.
Did you name your plane after your girlfriend? - George H.W. Bush.
Did you have a dog named Sweetlips and a horse named Nelson? - Yes, George Washington.

George x3!

DQs:

Best known for a single incident?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Were you a Norwegian no-goodnik?
Did you write about the death of that guy’s mother?
Were you a longtime and celebrated conductor the Cleveland Orchestra?

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Whoops, number 6 is wrong.

Will rework DQ roundup in a sec…

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Apologies, SCAdian. Ask another DQ.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Amurrikun
  5. Has worked in the arts, but not most famous for it
  6. **First **name starts with G
  7. Not born since 1950
  8. Known for politics/military, but not best known
  9. Not best known for business
  10. Not known for sports
  11. Best known for a single incident
  12. Not considered a “good guy,” but hasn’t exactly suffered for it
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dunno, not Handel (cannot remember his first name, I keep thinking it’s Frederick), not Gregory?

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not Grendel, dunno, not Gustav Holtz?

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IQ: Were you a chief operative in the White House Plumbers?

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Yes, I am [SIZE=“7”]George Gordon Battle Liddy[/SIZE], better known as G. Gordon Liddy, a retired American lawyer and convicted felon best known as the chief operative in the White House Plumbers unit that existed from July–September 1971, during Richard Nixon’s presidency. He was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal.

Grats Professor!

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John Gregg invented Gregg shorthand.
George Frederick Handel (originally Georg Friedrich Händel).
Yes, St Gregory the Great.