Botticelli August 2022

Thread Games
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#DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not best known for the Arts, but known for them in a very roundabout way
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Only name starts with A
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  1. I am not Commander Adama.
  2. I am not Achilles.
  3. I am not Athena. (??)

#3. I am not Alanis Morissette.
Take 2 DQs.

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Held DQs:

European?
Died before 500 AD?

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IQ1: Are many fables attributed to you?
IQ2: Have you been portrayed by both the first cinematic James Bond and the first cinematic Hannibal Lector?
IQ3: Did you marry Wanda in Rio, have 17 children and found a leper colony?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not best known for the Arts, but known for them in a very roundabout way
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Died after 500 AD
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#1. I am not Aesop.
#2. I am not Agamemnon (??)
#3. Take a DQ.

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1 was Anthony Scaramucci; 2 was Ben Affleck.

DQs:
1. died after 1500 AD?
2. from the British-Irish Isles?

“Only name starts with A” seems to have been left off the DQ list

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IQ1: Is your symbol a rod with a snake wrapped around it?
IQ2: Were you an Arabic philosopher, &c, from the Iberian Peninsula?
IQ3: Were you a Persian doctor, philosopher, &c?

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IQs:
1. Were you last seen with Fred Noonan?
2. Did you appear on the back cover of a magazine in 1979, in front of an exploding nuclear power plant, looking uncharacteristically troubled and saying “Yes…me worry!” ?
3. Did you play George, a daydreamer who becomes manager of a local TV station in a 1989 comedy, and whose last name comes from the above character? You’re a big fan of the above magazine (no surprise there, given your career) and even got to guest-edit an issue in 2015.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not best known for the Arts, but known for them in a very roundabout way
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Died after 500 AD
  8. Only name starts with A
  9. Died before 1500 AD
  10. From the British-Irish Isles
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  1. I am not Aesculapius.
    Take 2 DQs.

#1. I am not Amelia Earhart.
#2. I am not Alfred E. Newman
#3. I am not Jason Alexander.

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3 was “Weird Al” Yankovic.

DQ: known from science?

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  1. correct
  2. Averroes
  3. Avicenna


DQ1: Royalty?
One DQ reserved.


IQ1: Were you a Saxon king called “the Great”?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not best known for the Arts, but known for them in a very roundabout way
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. Died after 500 AD
  8. Only name starts with A
  9. Died before 1500 AD
  10. From the British-Irish Isles
  11. Not known for science
  12. Not royal, though of possibly noble birth (it’s disputed)
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#1. I am not Big Al, aka Alfred the Great.

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IQ1: Were you the last queen of England?
IQ2: Were you said to be Uther’s brother?
IQ3: Were you a scholar, teacher, &c, at Charlemagne’s palace school?

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Yes, I am ALCUIN!

That took a lot less time than I expected. Good job, SCA!

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Great job, SCA. Last month I spent 9 days at the University of York, criss-crossing Alcuin College on my way to Halifax College to visit my son. Alcuin of York should have been on my mind.

Yes
Yes (played by Sean Connery in Time Bandits and Brian Cox in Troy)
Archie Leach, played by John Cleese in A Fish Called Wanda

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I am P.

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Congrats, SCAdian!

IQs:
1. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building could be taller than the statue of you atop City Hall, in a certain city?
2. Did you and your friend Nicole explore The Simple Life?
3. Did you direct the Puppetoons, and later live-action sci-fi movies?