Botticelli August 2022

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Hello hello hello and welcome to the August 2022 Botticelli thread, with me, your host W. De La Rue. Here is the Wikipedia article on the game, here is last month’s thread, and here is Albert Einstein hanging out on the beach.

I am X.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a South American children’s entertainer?
  2. Were you the original “King of the Movies”?
  3. Were you Socrates’s nagging wife?
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IQs:

Did you attack Sparta with a vast army?
Were you a noted Greek cavalry commander?
Were you USMC Commandant in the 1980s?

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1. I am not Xuxa.
2. I am not Francis X. Bushman.
3. I am not Xanthippe.

Respectively:
I am not Xerxes.
I am not Xeno X. Xeno.
I am not Whoever X. Dudeguy.

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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Were you assassinated by the League of Islam in 1965?
  2. Were you one of the above-mentioned assassins?
  3. Were you a Swiss polar explorer?
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Previous IQs:

Did you attack Sparta with a vast army? - Yes, Xerxes
Were you a noted Greek cavalry commander? - Xenophon
Were you USMC Commandant in the 1980s? - Gen. Paul X. Kelley

DQs:

Real?
First name starts with X?

IQs:

Did you command Hill Street Station?
Were you meant to succeed Cmdr. Spock?
Were you a noted Catholic cleric?

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IQ1: Were you Charo’s first husband?
IQ2: Are you Cain Marko’s stepbrother?
IQ3: Were you a friend of Willow and Cordelia?

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1. I am not Malcolm X.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

Respectively:

I am not Frank X. Furillo.
I am not Xon.
I am not Cardinal Ximenez.

IQ1: I am not Xavier Cugat.
IQ2: I am not Professor Charles Xavier.
IQ3: I am not Xander Harris.

DQs:
1. real
2. first name starts with X

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IQ: Were you a co-founder of the Society of Jesus?

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Correct.
#2 was William 25 X.
#3 was Xavier Mertz.

DQs

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Happy Hooker?
  2. Are you aka Nate Grey?
  3. Were you Luna Lovegood’s dad?
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I am not Xignatius Loyola, X-Man, or Xenophilius Lovegood, but I am indeed Xaviera Hollander! Next game goes to the Prof.

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Thanks! There just aren’t that many X’s.

I am

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Swept me! Well done, the botha youse.

On to G.

IQs:

Did a friend say he never saw you laugh as heartily as when one of your dogs made off with an entire ham from your kitchen?
Did you say you would take a loyalty oath before every meal, if you had to?
Did you tell a reporter you saved your feelings for your wife, not for public policy?

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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. Not Gike Gence. Take a DQ.
#3. I should know this one; you’ve used it several times. But, take a DQ.

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Three of my favorite Georges: Washington, Thomas and Marshall (the last, when asked how he felt about a pending bill in Congress).

DQs:

Male?
Real?
American?

IQs:

Were you Darcy’s naive younger sister?
Did you tear a Nazi flag in two that you’d found put up without your permission?
Did you break an ax at a committee meeting?

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DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Not American
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IQ1: Did you sing “I’m Telling You Now”?
IQ2: Did you sing “Pretty Little Lady from Beaumont, Texas”?
IQ3: Did you sing “This Diamond Ring”?

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IQs:
1. Does the novel named after you begin “Let me say this: bein an idiot is no box of chocolates”?
2. Did you write the above novel?
3. Were you on the PMRC?

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#1. That was Freddie & the Dreamers, if I remember correctly. Take a DQ.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Gary Lewis.

#1. I am not Forrest Gump.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. Take a DQ.