Botticelli - December 2022

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Not from prose
  3. First name begins with L
  4. Female
  5. Created before 1954
  6. Creator not American
  7. Originally from poetry, better known as from a song
  8. Not an American character
  9. Would not be alive today, if real
  10. Created after 1800
  11. Created by a European
  12. Creator not British
  13. Created after 1900
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correct
Lili Marleen
correct

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Ach du lieber! I don’t really know that much German.

But, Ja!

Ich bin

Lili Marleen.

(or Lili Marlene, depending on the version)

Guten job, SCA, and Merry Christmas!

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Good job, SCA, and a very Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! :relieved::notes::snowflake::evergreen_tree::santa:

Previous IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Were you a European starlet about whom no one in the US had ever heard before you did shampoo ads? - Rula Lenska (anyone else remember her?)
Did you create Battlestar Galactica? - Glen Larson

265

Whoa, haven’t thought about Rula Lenska in a long time.

266

She had her 15 minutes, including mockery by Johnny Carson, and that was about it.

267

The lines I quoted, from the first verse, make up 50% of what I can remember of the song. :smiley: I was in my third year of German when I dropped out of high school. It’s proven useful from time to time – was quite helpful when I was trying to read signs in Norway, for instance.


I am N.

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IQs:

  1. Are you also known as Bartholomew in the New Testament?
  2. Did Pamela Sue Martin play you on TV?
  3. Were you a reputed miracle worker from Myra who attended the 1st Council of Nicaea?
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IQ1: Are you Deep Space 9’s bartender’s nephew?
IQ2: Did you draw the cover for Duran Duran’s breakthrough album?
IQ3: Did you document your 10 Days in a Madhouse?

270

DQ
Not … Nancy Drew?
Not Nicholas

Not Nog
DQ
Not Nellie Bly

271

IQs:

Did you win a tactical victory at Guilford Court House?
Did DDL play you in a Nineties flick?
Did you gain an unwanted nickname in the American Civil War?

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#1 was Jesus’s disciple Nathanael (as reported in John’s gospel).
Correct on the other two.

DQ: Real?

273

Congrats, SCAdian!

IQs:
1. Did you found a hot dog fast food chain?
2. Did delightful you, yes, play perfectly (and alliteratively) Lois Lane?
3. Did you host a kids’ science program on PBS?

274

Correct
Patrick Nagel, who drew the cover for the Rio album
Correct

DQ: Male?

275

DQ
DQ
Not … Nathan Bedford Forrest?
What’s a “DDL”?

Not Nathan
DQ
Not Bill Nye (the Science Guy)


N

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
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2 was Noel Neill.

DQ: last name starts with N?

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N

1. Fictional
2. Female
3. First name starts with N

278

Previous IQs:

Did you win a tactical victory at Guilford Court House? - Gen. Nathaniel Greene
Did DDL play you in a Nineties flick? Daniel Day-Lewis played Nathaniel Poe in Last of the Mohicans
Did you gain an unwanted nickname in the American Civil War? - Gen. Nathaniel Banks, nicknamed “Commissary” after Confederate troops captured a lot of his supplies

Nathaniel x3!

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?
Main character?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off?
  2. Are you the central character in the highly acclaimed chocolate-enrobed mildly radioactive 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  3. Did you have a hit with I Can See Clearly Now?
280

IQs:
1. Are you a redheaded computer programmer who travels through time in different ways in Netflix’s Russian Doll?
2. Do you play the above person, and are also friends with renowned detective Benoit Blanc?
3. Are you a current (US) football player?