Botticelli - August 2024

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Well, IQs are asked in order to get DQs. If I can’t think of a possible solution, I’ll always go with someone I do know to get another DQ.

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I was pretty sure I had it, and pretty sure EH had it. But he was in first, and I didn’t want to jump in and pirate him.

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Yes, you were correct too.

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GUYS GUYS there I was, watching Carnivale, when the show cuts to the characters (while the carnival is on the move) playing Botticelli! It was surreal.

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Thanks, all, and especially to SMV for the assist.

You may recall that Vera Lynn’s best-known song plays at the end of Dr. Strangelove.

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #125 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter is

R

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Good guess, EH!

IQs:

  1. Are you a character in works by Shakespeare, Gilbert and Sullivan, and Tom Stoppard?

  2. Were you the only character played by the same actor in both a movie and the subsequent long-running TV series based on it?

  3. Did you direct that movie?

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IQs:

  1. Did you co-star with Bob Hoskins in a groundbreaking comedy?
  2. Did you encourage a Soviet leader to “tear down this wall”?
  3. Can you be found in a 1939 poetry book?
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IQs:
1. Did you have dogs named Vicki and King Timahoe?
2. Were you (both) Melinda(s) in Melinda and Melinda?
3. Did you have a snake act in Carnivale?

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Good guess Elendil_s_Heir!

IQs:

  1. Did you write books about three World War II battles?
  2. Did you write books about the U.S. Army in three World War II campaigns?
  3. Were you the alter ego of Dr. Johnny Fever?
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IQs:

  1. Are you the hero of the H.M.S. Pinafore?
  2. If I don’t guess your name will you take my baby?
  3. Was the reason the 3rd Mummy movie bombed probably because you weren’t in it?
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I’m not Rosencrantz, Walter “Radar” O’Reilly or Robert Altman.

I’m not Roger Rabbit, not Ronald Reagan and dunno.

Not Richard M. Nixon, dunno and dunno.

Dunno, dunno and not Frank Reid.

Not Ralph Rackstraw, not Rumpelstiltskin and not The Rock.

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#1 was Cornelius Ryan (The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far and The Last Battle), #2 was Rick Atkinson (An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle and The Guns at Last Light).
#3 was Rip Tide, the disco-loving host of Gotta Dance.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
  3. First name begins with R?
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  1. Correct
  2. Correct
  3. Rum Tum Tugger from T.S. Eliot’s The Old Opossum’s Book of Practical Cats

1 DQ reserved

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2 (Melinda) was Radha Mitchell; 3 (snake) was Ruthie.

2 DQs reserved.

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Not Ralph Rackstraw, not Rumpelstiltskin and not The Rock.
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Correct, Correct, and Rachel Weisz as Evie.

1 DQ reserved.

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SunUp, I’ve read books by both Ryan and Atkinson in the last few years, and should definitely have guessed them!

R.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with R
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Incidentally, in Carnivale Felix leads the game, choosing “B”, and while he’s able to answer indirect questions from his daughter Libby and Lilah the bearded lady, he’s stumped when his wife asks him “Are you a big liar?” (There’s a bit of subtext here, as he’s not been entirely truthful about winning a bet on a big fight.) And of course I was trying to think who would fit–P.T. Barnum? Baron Munchausen, if the title counts?

DQs:
1. living?
2. American?

IQs:
1. Did you want us to make you feel like you’re “the only girl in the world”?
2. Did you ask for a “map of the cat”?
3. Were you Felix’s wife and an erotic dancer in Carnivale?

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Not Rihanna, dunno and dunno.

R.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with R
  4. dead
  5. American
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2 was Richard Feynman; 3 was Rita Sue.

DQs:
1. died after 1924?
2. known from the arts?

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A clean sweep, by gum!

IQs:

  1. In a Dire Straits song (later covered by the Indigo Girls), do you find a convenient streetlight, step out of the shade, and say something like, “You and me babe, how 'bout it?”
  2. Are you one of the few historically attested female pirates of the Spanish Main?
  3. Are you her captain?