Botticelli - December 2022

Thread Games
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Starting off the month with

A!

Link to last month’s game: Botticelli, Nov. 2022 - #366 by Prof.Pepperwinkle

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I was right. (I’ve never been able to decide which is more boring – baseball or basketball.)


IQ1: Is Hobart the capital of an island named after you?
IQ2: Were you allegedly the world’s first murder victim?
IQ3: Were you originally called Abram?

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IQs:
1. Did you have a pet snake named Emily Spinach?
2. Did you live in an “Amish Paradise”?
3. Did you write stories about your son’s stuffed animals?

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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Abel.
#3. I am not Abraham.

#1. I am not Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
#2. I am not Weird Al Yankovic.
#3. I am not A. A. Milne.

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A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you an also-famous relative of Oliver Sacks?
2. Were you briefly a cast member on You Can’t Do That on Television, prior to your other career?
3. Did you say you didn’t know what weapons World War III would be fought with, but predicted World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones?

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Abel Tasman
correct
correct


DQ: Real?

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DQs:

  1. Real
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IQ1: Did you write about Jommy Cross?
IQ2: Are you Jim and Ingrid’s son?
IQ3: Were you a four-time Indy 500 winner?

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#3. I am not A. J. Foyt.
Take 2 DQs.

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IQ1: Are you a hard rock guitarist known for wearing schoolboy uniforms while performing?
IQ2: Were you the drummer for a band featuring your brother on lead guitar and at one point your nephew on bass?
IQ3: Did a recent Disney+ Star Wars series depict your pre-rebellion life?

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A. E. van Vogt (Slan)
A. J. Croce
correct

A. x3! :smiley:


DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known for the Arts
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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Ahsoka (??).

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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Albert Einstein.

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1 was Al Capp; 2 was Alanis Morissette.

DQs:
1. living?
2. American?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known for the Arts
  4. Living
  5. Not American
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Angus Young, of AC/DC
Alex Van Halen
I was about to say the Ahsoka show is still in development and hasn’t aired yet, then I remembered she was the main character in three episodes of last month’s animated Tales of the Jedi anthology series. I’ll rephrase.

DQ: European?
DQ: Born after 1970?

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IQ1: Were you the title character of a recent live-action Disney+ Star Wars series that depicted your pre-rebellion life?
IQ2: Do you have adventures with your friend Obelix?
IQ3: Have you won a record 5 Cesar awards (the French equivalent of the Oscars) for acting?

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IQs:
1. Are you the current Secretary General of the U.N.?
2. Does the Pink Panther briefly dress as you, in the opening credits of The Pink Panther Strikes Again (hey, your husband directed that!)?
3. Did you write a comical history of the Sexual Revolution in 1973–and let’s face it, that makes it all the more likely you were referring in a song of yours to James Joyce’s novel, given its reputed obscenity, not Homer’s Odyssey or the Tennyson poem?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known for the Arts
  4. Living
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Born after 1970