Botticelli August 2023

Thread Games
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Nicely done, SMV!

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New round. I am:

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Barbie - d’oh! Good one. Not like she hasn’t been everywhere this summer.

On to M.

IQs:

Were you the fictional head of SIS in 1960?
Was your song prominently featured in The Bourne Identity?
Were you ship’s surgeon of HMS Surprise?

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  1. I am not “M”.
  2. DQ.
  3. Jesus and Mary and Patrick be with you, but I am not Stephen Maturin, for all love.
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IQs:
1. Did you write that a specter was haunting Europe?
2. Did you write H is for Hawk?
3. Are your notebooks still radioactive?

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IQs:

  1. Were you “the Say Hey Kid”?
  2. Is your name the first to appear in the song Science Fiction Double Feature?
  3. Did you write the poem Sea Fever?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the fictional head of SIS in 1960? - Yes, M, in the Ian Fleming spy novels
Was your song prominently featured in The Bourne Identity? - Moby (“Extreme Ways”)
Were you ship’s surgeon of HMS Surprise? - Yes, dear Dr. Maturin, in Patrick O’Brian’s Napoleonic sea adventures

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Were you a Seventies Congresswoman with an excruciatingly WASPy name?
Did you lead The Citadel after WW2?
Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”?

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  1. I am not Karl Marx.
  2. DQ.
  3. I am not Marie Curie.
  1. I am not Willie Mays.
  2. I am not Michael Rennie.
  3. I am not…Herman Melville.
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2 was Helen Macdonald.

DQ: real?

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  1. DQ.
  2. DQ.
  3. I am not Marko Ramius, from The Hunt For Red October.
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Correct
Correct
#3 was John Masefield.
“I must go down to the sea again,
To the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship
And a star to steer her by.”

DQ: Male?

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After I posted my guess, I thought, “Nah, that’s not right. It’s probably that English sea-poet, what’s-'is-name.” But I still wouldn’t have gotten it, because I was thinking of Walter de la Mare.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male

@De_La_Rue, EH asked the same DQ earlier, so take another.

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IQs:

  1. Did you win the Indy 500 in 1969 and never again?
  2. Were you an NFL quarterback known as “Joe Cool”?
  3. Did Claude Monet coerce the French government into buying your best known works from your widow for a small fortune?
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Previous IQs:

Were you a Seventies Congresswoman with an excruciatingly WASPy name? - Millicent Fenwick
Did you lead The Citadel after WW2? - Gen. Mark Clark
Were you “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? - Yes, Capt. Marko Ramius

Two DQs reserved.

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IQs:
1. Did you write Seaguy?
2. Were you a Know Nothing?
3. After Barbara Bush called your family the dumbest thing she’d ever seen, did you write a letter in response defending them, despite being a fictional character?

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  1. DQ.
  2. I am not Joe Montana.
  3. I am not…Manet?
  1. DQ.
  2. I am not Millard Fillmore.
  3. I am not Murphy Brown.
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#1 was Mario Andretti.
Correct on the others.

DQ: Last name starts with M?

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DQs:

Living?
American?

IQs:

Were you Trump’s first SECDEF?
Were you a Foundation “merchant prince” in Asimov’s writings?
Were you a bootlegger with occult interests?

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1 was Grant Morrison; 3 was Marge Simpson. I’ve been watching the special features on a Simpsons DVD set, and one of them goes over the Bush-Simpson brouhaha. Of course, I’ve seen Marge’s letter and Bush’s diplomatic reply before, but the great thing about the DVD is that you get to hear Julie Kavner read the letter as Marge.

DQ: known for the arts?

2 DQs reserved.

IQs:
1. Did you ask “What’s Going On?”
2. Did you refuse to endorse Beanee Weenee(s)?
3. Barbara Bush doesn’t read her letter on the DVD–instead, do you, which makes a sort of sense, since you were the longtime voice of a female authority figure on the show as Mrs. Krabappel?

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IQ:
In your original appearance did you co-star with a giant ape, and then later with your brother, but now have a primary franchise all on your own?
Do you Transform into a gun?
Are you a tomboy video game aficionado, whose life was saved by her love of Kate Bush songs?