Botticelli - August 2015

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Does a statue of you stand outside the Jefferson County, Ohio courthouse? - Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s SecWar.
Did the soldiers cheer you at lights-out in Breaker Morant? - Yes, King Edward VII.
Is it thought that you perhaps died of election violence? - Edgar Allan Poe.

DQs:

Last name start with E?
American?

IQs:

Did you play Miss Honey?
Has Cate Blanchett played you twice?
At age 6 or 7, and coached by your uncle, did you give a Nazi salute?

142

DQ.
Not Ellen DeGeneres. (That seems to be the obvious answer. :D)
Not … Harlan Ellison?

Three DQs.

Three DQs.
I hate to be negative, but:

E

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Not American
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IQs:

  1. Are you the Greek goddess of discord?
  2. Did Zeus abduct you while in the form of a bull?
  3. Were you Orpheus’s fiancee?
144

Not Eris, Europa, or Eurydice.

145

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Are you one of the three majorly written about witches of the Discworld series?
  2. Are you the focus of an eponymous poem by Longfellow?
  3. Did Father McKenzie give a sermon at your funeral?
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DQ. (I do know the other two…)
Not Evangeline.
Not … Eleanor Rigby?

147

#1 is Esmerelda Weatherwax.
Correct on 2 and 3.

DQ: From literature?

148

E

  1. Not real
  2. Not male
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Not American
  5. Not from literature
149

C. Estes Kefauver, correct x2

DQ: from TV?

150

IQ1: Did you write the Pisan Cantos while in custody for treason in Italy after WWII?
IQ2: Despite your reputation as a radical bohemian poet, did you become a Republican after staying two years in the Soviet Union?
IQ3: Did IQ1 arrange for publication of your poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Living Planet from the pages of Thor?
  2. Did you write Silas Marner?
  3. Did you have a hit with A-Tisket, A-Tasket?
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Egbert Souse (“that’s pronounced soo-ZAY, soo-ZAY”) from WC Fields’ The Bank Dick
Ernest Borgnine star of Marty, (which was originally a TV movie with Rod Steiger)

Eva Longoria (she divorced San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker0

Three DQs reserved

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Previous IQs:

Did you play Miss Honey? - Embeth Davidtz, in Matilda.
Has Cate Blanchett played you twice? - Queen Elizabeth I.
At age 6 or 7, and coached by your uncle, did you give a Nazi salute? - The future Queen Elizabeth II: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/europe/uk-queen-nazi-salute-footage/.

DQs:

European?
Created since 1950?
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

After initial resistance, did you accept Mr. Darcy’s proposal?
Did you write “My Day” for decades?
Did you play Tauriel?

154

Three DQs.

DQ.
Not George Eliot. (Loved that book.)
DQ.

Not … Jane Eyre?
DQ.
DQ. (I rather wish nobody had…)

Finally - some DQs with “yes” answers! :slight_smile:

E

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Not American
  5. Not from literature
  6. From TV
  7. European
  8. Created since 1950
  9. Considered a beauty
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#1 is Ego. #2 is correct. #3 was Ella Fitzgerald.

DQs:

  1. English?
  2. Protagonist?
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Previous IQs:

After initial resistance, did you accept Mr. Darcy’s proposal? - Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice (my favorite incarnation: http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsK/30803-26902.jpg).
Did you write “My Day” for decades? - Eleanor Roosevelt; it was her long-running newspaper column.
Did you play Tauriel? - Evangeline Lilly, in the Hobbit movies (and I agree with you).

DQs:

From a sitcom?
Created since 1975?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you the most laconic Ghostbuster?
Was your catchphrase “Never mind”?
Were you a noted American suffragette?

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Not … Egon? (I think one of them was named Egon…)
DQ.
DQ. (If you’d said “English suffragette,” I’d have had an answer.)

E

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Not American
  5. Not from literature
  6. From TV
  7. European
  8. Created after 1950
  9. Considered a beauty
  10. English
  11. Protagonist
  12. Not from a sitcom (though there were definitely humorous elements)
  13. Not created after 1975
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Ezra Pound, e e cummings, T.S. Eliot

DQ: Movie character?

holding 2 DQs

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IQ1: Were you a Nazi lieutenant colonel captured in Argentina in 1960 by Mossad and hanged in Israel two years later?
IQ2: Did you portray Gwen Stacy in The Amazing Spider-man movies?
IQ3: Did you portray the Dread Pirate Roberts?

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Not Adolf Eichmann.
DQ.
DQ.

E

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Not American
  5. Not from literature
  6. From TV
  7. European
  8. Created after 1950
  9. Considered a beauty
  10. English
  11. Protagonist
  12. Not from a sitcom (though there were definitely humorous elements)
  13. Not created after 1975
  14. Appeared in a movie, but not best known for that