Botticelli - August 2019

Thread Games
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Loralei Lee’s from the 1920’s…

Think, think, think.

42

I get the feeling EH had been wanting to do L for a while because he thought of name for which he knew we wouldn’t ask the right questions.

43

Actually not so, but I did think this would be a good person to use for Botticelli.

44

Still stumped so far…

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OK, please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST Sunday.

46

Are you Tracy Lord from The Philadelphia Story?

47

I am not.

48

My best guess is Annabelle Lee from Poe, but that’s not it.

49

No, it isn’t.

50

Unfortunately, I don’t know 1930s short stories well enough to make a guess (if it is a short story). Maybe it’s a character from something by Hemingway.

51

No, I am actually

Dolly Levi

Lead character of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers, later turned into the much more famous musical and then film Hello, Dolly!: The Merchant of Yonkers - Wikipedia

52

Never considered that she had a last name, and didn’t think to ask about plays. You got us good EH.

53

Good choice, EH. She’s got elegance. I knew we’d discussed it before, but I’d forgotten we decided that plays were considered prose.

54

I wasn’t sure of that myself, but Wiki, at least, defines plays as literature: Play (theatre) - Wikipedia

OK, our next letter is

B

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IQs:

  1. Did Liza Minnelli play you in Cabaret?
  2. Did you play the title character in Yentl?
  3. Did you spend decades reminding people to spay and neuter their pets?
56

IQs:

  1. Did you sit in enlightenment under the Bodhi tree?
  2. Are you Tank Girl’s kangaroo friend?
  3. Did you produce Car Talk?
57

Not Sally Bowles, Barbra Streisand (hey, she played Dolly too!) or Bob Barker.

Not the Buddha, Bouncer or Bob Magliozzi.

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IQ1: Were you a foppish baronet in a novel based on a stage play written by the same person?
IQ2: Were you an upholsterer in 18th-century Philadelphia?
IQ3: Did you have 500 hats?

59

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Did you play Captain Jack Harkness on Doctor Who?
  2. Were you known as “the It Girl”?
  3. Are you an adopted caveboy who grew up to marry your next door neighbor?
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2 (Tank Girl’s kangaroo friend) was Booga; 3 (the producer of Car Talk) was Doug “Bongo Boy” Berman.

DQs:

  1. real?
  2. male?
    IQs:
  3. Are you a one-eared cartoon rabbit?
  4. Do you play the titular Marvelous Mrs. Maisel?
  5. Were you Secretary-General of the UN in the 2000s?