Botticelli - February 2020

Thread Games
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I hope everyone got what they wanted for Groundhog Day!
I am T

Since it’s my first time leading I’m going with the least obscure name I have in mind in hopes of making this quick.

Last month’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=887662

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IQs:

  1. Were you POTUS after Theodore Roosevelt?
  2. Did you have a hit with What’s Love Got To Do With It?
  3. Did you write A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court?
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Not Wm Howard Taft, not Tina Turner, not Mark Twain

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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit in the 1960’s with Tiptoe Thro’ The Tulips?
  2. Are you the present POTUS?
  3. Did you have a hit with Stand By Your Man?
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Not Tiny Tim, not Donald Trump, not Tammy Wynette.

You’re really building up my self esteem here.

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Swept again!

  1. Did you write the hymn Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me?
  2. Did you paint Venus of Urbino?
  3. Did your father’s assassin’s brother save your life?
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dunno, not Titian, dunno

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IQs:

Did you and a former political foe, later reconciled, die on the same day, exactly fifty years after a great event which concerned you both?
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
Were you murdered in Canterbury Cathedral?

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Not Thomas Jefferson, don’t know, not Richard Burton

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Previous IQs:

Did you and a former political foe, later reconciled, die on the same day, exactly fifty years after a great event which concerned you both? - Yes, Thomas Jefferson (and John Adams), on July 4, 1826
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas of Civil War fame
Were you murdered in Canterbury Cathedral? - Well, Richard Burton isn’t a “T” - but yes, he did play Archbishop Thomas Becket

Thomas x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Have you played an assassin, a pilot, a spy and a sports agent?
Did P.T. Barnum bring you and your wife to the White House?
Were you held in a New Zealand correctional facility?

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DQ: Last name starts with T?

1 DQ reserved.

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not Tom Cruise, not Tom Thumb, don’t know

  1. Real
  2. Female
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  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with a T
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Personal, usually answers are phrased in the affirmative when possible, such as “First name starts with T” rather than “Last name does not start with T,” for easier intuitive comprehension.

What were your other answers, PP, if you please?

Previous IQs:

Have you played an assassin, a pilot, a spy and a sports agent? - Yes, Tom Cruise, in Collateral, Top Gun, Mission: Impossible and Jerry Maguire
Did P.T. Barnum bring you and your wife to the White House? - Yes, Gen. Tom Thumb, to meet President Lincoln
Were you held in a New Zealand correctional facility? - Tom Paris, on Star Trek: Voyager

Tom x3!

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Were you the ingenue in The Best Years of Our Lives?
Did your posthumously-released writings document your loss of faith?
Did a character you played rant about the American obsession with bosoms?

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oops.

#1 was Augustus M. Toplady.
#2 is correct as Titian.
#3 was Todd Lincoln.

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not Terry Moore, not Tammy Faye Bakker, not Terri Garr

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with a T
  4. Living
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DQ: American?

IQs:

  1. Were you a skinny ultra-fashionable model of the 1960’s?
  2. Did you have a hit with your husband with Love Will Keep Us Together?
  3. Did you write War and Peace?
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not Twiggy, not Toni Tennille (sp?), not Leo Tolstoy

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with a T
  4. Living
  5. American
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Swept me again.

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Magnificent Ambersons?
  2. Are you a musical performer frequently found exclusively on another Thread Games thread?
  3. Did you have a hit with Unbreak My Heart?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the ingenue in The Best Years of Our Lives? - Teresa Wright, on whom I had a crush for awhile
Did your posthumously-released writings document your loss of faith? - Mother Teresa
Did a character you played rant about the American obsession with bosoms? - The British comic Terry-Thomas, in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Milton Berle and Terry-Thomas discuss America, England and bosoms - YouTube

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Born since 1950?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you have an unforgettable winter stay at the Overlook Hotel?
Did you, too?
And you?