Botticelli - August 2024

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Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #124 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our new letter is

S

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Nicely played, ER!

IQs:

  1. Are you Ungoliant’s Heir?
  2. Have you played a cheerful idiot, an old man who cannot get the wood anymore, and a scraggy Frenchman, all on the same show?
  3. Have you played the cheerful idiot’s doomed best friend, the old man who cannot get the wood anymore’s jazzy girlfriend, and the scraggy Frenchman’s employer?
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IQs:
1. Were you the head of the Institute in The Institute?
2. Did you write The Institute?
3. Were you a Jewish LA Dodger?

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Not Shelob, Spike Jones or Shirley Jones.

Dunno, not Stephen King, and not Stanley Koufax.

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Correct on Shelob.
#2 was Spike Milligan, and #3 was Peter Sellers, both on the highly acclaimed, quality-assured, wood-paneled, bumbershoot-laden, all-leather 1950’s BBC radio series,…

The Goon Show!

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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1 was Mrs. Sigsby.

DQ: first name begins with S?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write the Bartimaeus Trilogy?
  2. Did you compose Finlandia?
  3. Did you steal Zeppo Marx’s wife away from him?
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IQs:
1. Were you in The Shape of Water?
2. Did you host bonfires of the vanities?
3. Were you allegedly modeled after French wrestler Maurice Tillet? (The 2001 movie version of you, not the original version of you, from the picture book by William Steig.)

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Dunno, not Sibelius and not Spencer Tracy.

Not Michael Shannon, Savanarola (sp?) or Shrek.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
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#1 was Jonathan Stroud.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Frank Sinatra.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for the Arts?
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A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you the female lead in The Shape of Water?
2. Well, did Superintendent Chalmers make it (to your residence), despite your instructions?
3. Did you found the American Federation of Labor?

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Dunno, not Principal Skinner and not Sullivan.

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
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Just popped in to say it’s Sandy Koufax.

/resumes lurker mode

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Ah, thanks.

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1 was Sally Hawkins; 3 was Samuel Gompers.

DQs:
1. American?
2. died after 1970?

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D’oh, Gompers, of course! :roll_eyes:

S.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name begins with S
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died before 1970
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IQs:

  1. Were you Trump’s first Attorney General?
  2. Were you Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury?
  3. Are you one of the female Supreme Court Justices?
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Great guess, EH!

IQs:

  1. Were you one of the original Mercury astronauts, later becoming NASA’s Director of Flight Crew Operations?
  2. Were you a poet who, after drowning in a sudden squall while sailing off the coast of Italy, was cremated on an Italian beach?
  3. Have you been played by both Jim Parsons and Iain Armitage?
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Not Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, not Seth Mnuchin and not Sonia Sotomayor.

Not Scott Carpenter, not P.B. Shelley and dunno.

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IQs:
1. Did you direct two movies released in 1982, and two other movies released twenty years later? (Well, okay, the other 1982 film is credited to Tobe Hooper, and you were a producer, but there’s long been suspicion that you actually directed it.)
2. Did you co-write the Star Trek episode “The Lights of Zetar”, which at one point involves aliens in a way “puppeteering” humans?
3. Were you “The Man”, and a Cardinal?