Botticelli - August 2015

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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Rosenkrantz (Shakespeare’s Hamlet, W S Gilbert’s Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, and some other guy’s :smiley: Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern are Dead).
Correct.
Correct.
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did Little Buttercup get you and another baby mixed up?
IQ2: Did you kill yourself because you thought your 13-year-old girlfriend had died?
IQ3: Did a sparrow kill you with his bow and arrow?

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Yes, by thunder! I am Ralph Rackstraw, hero of the comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore! Jolly good show, SCAdian!

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Damn, SCAdian, you’re good! Congrats once more.

Previous IQs:

Did you bring a trident to the dinner table? - Prince Ruprecht, in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: - YouTube
Did you torment Reek? - Ramsay Snow, in Game of Thrones.
Did you advise the Perot campaign in 1992 on possible running mates? - GOP political advisor Ed Rollins, who noted that Reagan’s former AG William French Smith - on the Perot short list - had died several years earlier.

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Pre-1900 but not from literature sounded like it might be from the theatre. I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with characters from Shakespeare or Gilbert & Sullivan. The latter proved correct. :slight_smile:

Decisions, decisions… I think I shall be A.

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IQ1) Did you replace Leo Durocher, and get replaced by Tommy Lasorda?

IQ2) Were you head of the Library of Congress, when you weren’t writing Pulitzer-winning plays and poetry?

IQ3) Did you give a million dollars to different people every week, on behalf of John Beresford Tipton?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a notable Finnish architect and designer?
  2. Do you play Lois Lane in the recent Superman movies?
  3. Are you a menace known as a “one-man Justice League”?
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IQ1: Are you a woolly mammoth resident of Sesame Street?
IQ2: Were you the first owner of a popular hangout in Happy Days?
IQ3: Were you the second owner?

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IQs:

Was your wife Gilraen?
Was your mom?
Were you a top lawyer for JFK and Nixon’s nemesis?

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Three DQs. (#3 was The Millionaire, right?)

And three for you.

DQ.
Not … Arnold? (I think Arnold was the first one - take a DQ if I’m wrong.)
DQ.

Not Arathorn II.
Not Aragorn II (aka Strider, aka Elessar Telcontar).
DQ.

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#1 was Alvar Aalto. #2 is Amy Adams. #3 is Amazo.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with A?
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IQs:

  1. Did you have a line of Fish & Chips restaurants in the 1970’s?
  2. Do you battle the Evil Dead?
  3. Did you play Alice Kramden?
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Previous IQs:

Was your wife Gilraen? - Yes, Arathorn.
Was your mom? - Yes, Aragorn.
Were you a top lawyer for JFK and Nixon’s nemesis? - Archibald Cox.

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO?
Did your best-known work start out on the radio in 1978?
Were you the best-known resident of Braintree?

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Not Arthur Treacher.
Not Ash.
DQ.

DQ. (Obviously, anyone who wants to play Botticelli with you needs to memorise Chamberlain’s biography. :D)
Not … Douglas Adams?
Not the obnoxious and disliked John Adams.

A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with A
  4. Not born in America, but famous for what I did there
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Correct on Arthur and Ash. #3 was Audrey Meadows.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

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A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with A
  4. Not born in America, but famous for what I did (or allegedly did) there
  5. Not known for the Arts, though there is a connection
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IQs:

  1. Were you the foremost 18th Century furniture designer in Great Britain?
  2. Were you Jack Burns’s comedy partner?
  3. Did you send your husband saltpeter?
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A Botticelli in the news!: White House launches plan to counter explosion in heroin use

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Previous IQs:

Were you Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s first CO? - Adelbert Ames, colonel of the 20th Maine (and later a Carpetbagger governor). I’ve asked about him in previous Botticelli rounds, so I’m guilt-free, SCAdian!
Did your best-known work start out on the radio in 1978? - Yes, Douglas Adams’s The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
Were you the best-known resident of Braintree? - Yes, John Adams.

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Were you one of the most damaging spies ever to hit the FBI?
Were you played by a British actor in a Spielberg movie?
Were you that actor?

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Pretty sure that’s Adam, but I don’t remember his first name so have a DQ.
Not Avery Schreiber.
Not Abigail Adams.

Not … Aldrich Ames?
DQ.
DQ.

A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with A
  4. Not born in America, but famous for what I did (or allegedly did) there
  5. Not known for the Arts, though there is a connection
  6. Dead