Botticelli February 2015

Thread Games
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Sorry about the delay. I didn’t realize the Prof handed the new thread off to me.

For Valentine’s Day, we will be W.

2

Sorry, I guess I should have been clearer.

IQs:

  1. Were you a painter in the Pre-Raphaelite Style long after that movement had passed?
  2. Was your birth name Caryn Johnson?
  3. Did an astronaut usurp you in the bedroom?
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It wasn’t that you weren’t clear. I didn’t even read the rest of the thread after you won and just waited for you to open a new one.

3 DQs 4 U

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IQ1: Is your real given name Jimmy, though you are sometimes referred to as Jimbo?
IQ2: Were you a governor of Alabama who made notable but unsuccessful runs for president?
IQ3: Are you alone on a post-apocalyptic Earth until a probe lands, after which you hitch a ride on the probe back to the ship that sent it?

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  1. John Waterhouse
  2. Whoopi Goldberg
  3. Woody in Toy Story, whose place was o’ertaken by Buzz Lightyear.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with W?
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DQ roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
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dunno, not George Wallace, dunno

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IQs:

  1. Did you paint American Gothic?
  2. Did Saul consult you about raising the ghost of Samuel?
  3. Was your partner Artemus Gordon?
9

not Grant Wood, dunno, not James West

10

Correct on 1 and 3.
#2 was the Witch of Endor (no other name given).

DQ: Best known from a movie or movies?

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DQ roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Best known from a movie or movies
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Jimmy Wales (co-founder of Wikipedia), correct, and WALL-E.

DQ1: Protagonist?
holding one DQ.

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IQs:

Were you the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence?
Did George Orwell insist you were no Nazi?
Were you a Chicago female detective with a non-WASPy name?

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IQs:

  1. Do you play Anthony DiNozzo, Sr. on NCIS?
  2. Did you recently perform the role of Capt. Hook?
  3. Did you edit A Parody Anthology?
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DQ roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Best known from a movie or movies
  5. Protagonist
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dunno, not Richard Wagner, not P.I. Warchowski (sp?)

17

Not Robert Wagner, not Robin Williams, dunno

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Correct on #1.
Hook came out around 1990. 25 years isn’t recent. Christopher Walken, OTOH, played the role only a month or two ago on live TV.
#3 was Carolyn Wells.

DQs:

  1. Was the movie(s) released after 1990?
  2. Was the movie(s) a comedy?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the only clergyman to sign the Declaration of Independence? - Rev. John Witherspoon, also known as an early president of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton U.).
Did George Orwell insist you were no Nazi? - P.G. Wodehouse: P.G. Wodehouse, Nazi sympathizer/collaborationist? - Great Debates - Straight Dope Message Board
Were you a Chicago female detective with a non-WASPy name? - Close; I’ll give it to you. It was V.I. Warshawski.

DQs:

American character?
considered a beauty?

IQs:

Did Mark Twain give you a left-handed compliment?
Were you appointed Chief Justice of the United States by a President who was also a “W”?
Were you that President?

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IQs:

  1. Did you run for President of the U.S.A. opposite FDR?
  2. Did you go fishing with your brothers in a wooden shoe?
  3. Are you John Hamilton’s best known role?