Botticelli - August 2015

Thread Games
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IQ: Were you John Steed’s partner?

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Yes! I am the incredibly lovely***** and talented British secret agent Mrs Emma Peel, played on telly by Diana Rigg and on the big screen by Uma Thurman.

  • More girl-next-door than supermodel, but damn, Diana Rigg was gorgeous!
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Congrats, TexCat! Good job.

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I am W.

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IQs:

  1. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?
  2. Were you the Good Little Witch who was friends with a ghost?
  3. Are you the only Country & Western musician to be honored with the Library of Congress’s Gershwin prize?
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IQ1) Did you benefit from the problems of Clement Haynsworth and Harold Carswell?

IQ2) Did your wife Lurleen take your old job for a while?

IQ3) Did you popularize the baseball proverb, "Hit 'em where they ain’t?

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  1. Wimpy
  2. DQ
  3. Hank Williams?

3DQ’s I would have guessed Yogi Berra if I were Y. ; )

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  1. Correct on J. Wellington Wimpy.
  2. Wendy (friend of Casper)
  3. Willie Nelson.

DQs:

  1. Real?

  2. Female?
    IQs:

  3. Were you a leading DJ of the late 50’s and early 60’s?

  4. Did Lon Chaney, Jr. play you in a series of movies?

  5. Did Edward Albee write a play in which people asked who was afraid of you?

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Previous IQs:

Were you the most laconic Ghostbuster? - Yes, Egon.
Was your catchphrase “Never mind”? - Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) on SNL.
Were you a noted American suffragette? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

NPR’s Scott Simon interviewed her very early in his career and later admitted that he was quite smitten. He recalled that his first question was something like, “What is it that makes you so wonderful, Miss Rigg?”

Congrats, TexCat!

On to W.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SecState?
Did you encourage Donald Trump to run for President this year?
Did you give the longest-ever speech of its kind?

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  1. Wolfman Jack
  2. DQ
  3. Virginia Wolfe

3 DQs

W

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
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Warren Burger, who was confirmed as Chief Justice after Haynsworth and Carswell failed to get past the Senate

Alabama used to have term limits for governor, so George Wallace had his wife Lurleen run for governor (she won and he was power behind the throne)

Wee WIllie Keeler said “Hit 'em where they ain’t.”

DQ1) First name start with W?

DQ2) Originally a character in a novel or short story?

DQ3) Are you human?

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[QUOTES]

IQs:

  1. Were you a leading DJ of the late 50’s and early 60’s?
  2. Did Lon Chaney, Jr. play you in a series of movies?
  3. Did Edward Albee write a play in which people asked who was afraid of you?
  1. Wolfman Jack
  2. DQ
  3. Virginia Wolfe
    [/QUOTE]

Correct on Jack. #2 was the Wolfman. #3 is indeed Virginia Woolf.

DQ: Best known from TV or movies?

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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SecState? - William Seward.
Did you encourage Donald Trump to run for President this year? - William Clinton.
Did you give the longest-ever speech of its kind? - William Henry Harrison (his inaugural address).

William x3!

DQs:

Created since 1900?
American?
Last name start with W?

IQs:

Did you have prominent Indian chiefs appear in your Wild West show?
In a cartoon, did Uncle Sam observe a fight between you and your former political mentor?
Did the FBI note that you were acting oddly while hospitalized?

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IQ1) Were you the voice of Tigger and Dick Dastardly?

IQ2) Were you the winning lawyer in the Roe vs. Wade case?

IQ3) Are you a movie sex symbol who was once married to Dudley Moore?

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Haynsworth and Carswell were nominated for Abe Fortas’s seat, which eventually went to Harry Blackmun. Warren Burger succeeded Earl Warren as Chief Justice.

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IQ1: Were you a conservative curmudgeon who published The National Review?
IQ2: Did you command US forces in Vietnam before being called back by LBJ?
IQ3: Are you the mastermind of the hip hop band the Black-Eyed Peas?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a superhero from underground comix artist Gilbert Shelton?
  2. Did you create Calvin & Hobbes?
  3. Did you paint The Embarkation for Cythera?
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Wild Bill Hickock?
DQ
DQ

3 DQs

  1. William Buckley
  2. Westmoreland?
  3. DQ

3 DQs

W

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not start with W
  4. Originally from a novel or short story
  5. Human
  6. Has appeared on TV and movies, but is not known for that.
  7. Created since 1900
  8. Not American
    and I’m ignoring EH’s DQ about last name.
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will.i.am

William x3!

DQ: Sci-fi/fantasy genre?

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IQ1: Were you a fictional Montenegrin working out of your home in Manhattan?
IQ2: Were you an emperor with one arm shorter than the other?
IQ3: Is there debate whether you were born at Elderslie or at Ellerslie?