Botticelli August 2023

Thread Games
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Well, I’ll ask the obvious question:

  1. Are you a superhero whose power is super speed?
  2. Are you the coward, bully, and libertine whose picaresque adventures involved you in every major military conflict of the mid-19th c., including the First Afghan War, the Crimean War, the Battle of Rourke’s Drift, the Indian Mutiny, and the U.S. Civil War (both sides)?
  3. Are you one of the creators of IQ 2?
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  1. I am not Freddie the Freeloader.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Sir Francis Drake.
  1. I am not the Flash.
  2. I am not Capt. Harry Flashman.
  3. I am not George MacDonald Frasier (sp?).
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correct
Frances Farmer
correct


DQ: Real?

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DQ:

  1. Real
205

Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Did the institute named after you have a working train engine, the kinetic golf ball sculpture Newton’s Dream, and an Imax theater?
2. Were you the title role in Run Lola Run?
3. Aah-aah! Will you save every one of us?

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#3. I am not Flash Gordon.
Take 2 DQs.

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1 was Benjamin Franklin; 2 was Franka Potente.

DQs:
1. first name begins with F?
2. female?

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DQs

  1. Real
  2. Last name only starts with F
  3. Male
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Previous IQs:

Did you meet Capt. Picard on Risa? - You were on the right track - this was Vash, in a ST:TNG episode
Were you a French official very helpful to the rebels during the American Revolution? - Yes, Vergennes, who got a town after named him in Vermont in gratitude
Was “Stinky” Mahmoud your friend? - Yes, Valentine Michael Smith, in Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land

Congrats, Prof. P.! On to F.

IQs:

Did your dad eat very messily after sending you off to your likely death?
Were you the police captain in charge of Hill Street Station?
Did you say in an 1856 speech in Cleveland that the relationship between the different races was the most important issue facing the United States?

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IQs:
1. Did you object to the term “Muppeteer”, saying it made you and your former co-workers sound like “darling little elves”?
2. Are you the American mom on American Dad?
3. Are you associated with rainbow-hued unicorn school supplies?

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IQs:
1: Did you give the order to “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!”
2. Is there a research lab in suburban Chicago, whose main hall is modeled on the cathedral at Chartes, named for you?
3. Are you a Belgian-born fashion designer known for your wrap dresswd and aristocratic last name?

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Whoops missed the entire last round.

IQs for F

  1. Are you a friend of Peter Parker who volunteered for Vietnam?
  2. Are you a former ethnically stereotypic spokescharacter for a corn chip?
  3. Did you write and illustrate the comic that was the source for my Doper ID?
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Take 3 DQs.

#1. I am not Frank Oz.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I have a daughter. I am not Lisa Frank.

  1. I am not Farragut.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Flash.
  2. I am not the Frito Bandito.
  3. Take a DQ.
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2 was Franny Smith.

DQ: living?

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Correct on Farragut. 2 is Enrico Fermi, eponym of the Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. 3 was Diane von Fürstenberg.

DQs:

  1. Known for politics?
  2. American?
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DQs

  1. Real
  2. Last name only starts with F
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for politics
  6. American
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IQs;

  1. Are you an Irish actor who’s played a slave owner, a sex addict, and a Holocaust survivor with special skills?
  2. Are you a character actor who most commonly plays obnoxious but ultimately decent cops?
  3. Are you going to PUMP…YOU UP?
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IQs:
1. Did you follow Nixon and precede Carter?
2. Did you follow Nixon and precede Carter?
3. Do you foil the crimes of Dr. Weirdly, Shady Shrew, and Cassandra Cat?

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I know I know #3, but it’s not coming around. Take 3 DQs.

#1. I am not Gerald Ford.
#2. I am still not Gerald Ford. Take a DQ.
#3. Take a DQ.

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2 was Betty Ford, following Pat Nixon and preceding Rosalynn Carter; 3 was Slylock Fox, in the comic strip Slylock Fox.

DQs:
1. died after 1920?
2. known for the arts?