Botticelli February 2015

Thread Games
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IQ1) Are you a rock musician whose real first name is Ulysses?

IQ2) Were you the winning lawyer in the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade?

IQ3) Did you provide the voices of Tigger and Dick Dastardly?

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  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Best known from a movie or movies
  5. Protagonist
  6. Movie(s) released before 1990
  7. Comedy is one of the genres
  8. Character is American
  9. Actress is beautiful, but is more noted for talent
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Who didn’t he give a left-handed compliment to? -pass
forgot #2’s name, but I remember William Howard Taft appointed him

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take 3 DQs

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dunno
er… Wade?
not Paul Winchell

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Previous IQs:

Did Mark Twain give you a left-handed compliment? - Twain said of Richard Wagner, “I like his music. You can talk as loudly as you want and not bother anyone.”
Were you appointed Chief Justice of the United States by a President who was also a “W”? - Edward White
Were you that President? - Yes, William Howard Taft (who later became CJ himself)

DQs:

character appears in just a single movie?
movie released before 1960?

IQs:

Did you call your wife “Duchess”?
Did you go to great lengths to conceal the fact that one of your arms was smaller than the other?
According to a 2000 magazine profile, did you love a poker game called “Oh Hell”?

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Paul Winchell was correct.

Sarah Weddington was the lawyer who won Roe v. Wade (Wade lost.)

Roy Wood, leader of the move, had the first name Ulysses.

DQ) Did the actress who played you ever win an Oscar?

Will save other DQ

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#1 was Wendell L. Willkie.
#2 was Wynken (of Wynken, Blynken and Nod in Eugene Fields’s poem)
#3 was Perry White in The Adventures of Superman

3 DQs reserved for the moment.

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  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Best known from a movie or movies
  5. Protagonist
  6. Movie(s) released before 1990
  7. Comedy is one of the genres
  8. Character is American
  9. Actress is beautiful, but is more noted for talent
  10. Character appears in more than one movie
  11. Movie released after 1960
  12. Actress has not won an Oscar, but was nominated once
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not George Washington?, don’t remember, dunno

I’ve played Oh Hell before, but’s it’s not really a poker game. It’s a bidding game that can get really vicious.

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IQ1: Did you play Ellen, Dana, Dian, and Gwen?
IQ2: Did you sing “Jose Cuervo”?
IQ3: Were you #2’s mother?

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DQ: Name starts with WA-WI?

2 DQs reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Did you call your wife “Duchess”? - Warren G. Harding.
Did you go to great lengths to conceal the fact that one of your arms was smaller than the other? - Kaiser Wilhelm II.
According to a 2000 magazine profile, did you love a poker game called “Oh Hell”? - GQ in its profile of William Jefferson Clinton described it as a poker game, FWIW.

DQs:

Was first movie in which character appeared nominated for Best Picture Oscar?
Action/adventure one of the other genres of the first movie?
Character ever use a gun?

IQs:

Did your mom make you give up your dream of serving in the Navy?
Were you the sole casualty of your ship in its best-known battle?
Were you Lincoln’s SECNAV?

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IQ1) Despite leading the NFL in rushing twice, are you much better known as a lawyer?

IQ2) Did you wake up one morning with a big piece of Khartoum next to you?

IQ3) Are you the longest-married British rock star ever?

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  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with W
  4. Best known from a movie or movies
  5. Protagonist
  6. Movie(s) released before 1990
  7. Comedy is one of the genres
  8. Character is American
  9. Actress is beautiful, but is more noted for talent
  10. Character appears in more than one movie
  11. Movie released after 1960
  12. Actress has not won an Oscar, but was nominated once
  13. Name starts with WA-WI
  14. First movie in which character appears was not nominated for Best Picture Oscar, but was for another category
  15. Action/adventure is another genre
  16. Do not recall if the character uses a gun: will say highly unlikely that she did (why does this question get asked so much?:D)
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dunno, not Shelly West, not Mrs. West :smiley: take a DQ

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take 3 DQs

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not Walter Payton?, dunno, not Roy Wood?

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“Whizzer” White won two NFL rushing titles but is better known as Supreme Court Justice Byron White

Hollywood studio boss Jack Wolz oke up with the severed head of his prize hore Khartoum in his bed, in The Godfather.

Drummer Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones has been married to his first wife Shirley since 1963.

DQ1) Movie released after 1975?

DQ2) Caucasian?

DQ3) On the right side of the law?

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Sigourney Weaver (Alien and sequels, Ghostbusters and sequel, Gorillas in the Mist, Galaxy Quest).
Correct.
Country singer Dottie West.
DQ1: Blonde?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Were you allegedly born in Elderslie?
IQ2: Did you write about a Jewish charioteer?
IQ3: Does a line between Asia and Australia bear your name?