Botticelli - February 2020

Thread Games
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Boris.
  3. Take a DQ.
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DQ:

  1. Died after 1800?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not American
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. European
  7. Not known as a visual artist
  8. Not from the British isles
  9. Last name starts with B
  10. Not a performing artist
  11. Native speaker of a Romance language
  12. Not best known as a writer
  13. Not Italian
  14. Died before 1900
  15. Composer
  16. Died after 1800
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Previous IQs:

You are not Jake Blues. Did John Belushi once portray you putting on sunglasses like Ray Charles? - Ludwig van Beethoven: John Belushi as Beethoven - DG - YouTube
Were you Anhuld’s codename at the end of True Lies? - Yes, Boris
Were you a painter from East Liverpool, Ohio, noted for his realistic street scenes and pro-Lincoln art during the Civil War? - David Gilmour Blythe: david gilmour blythe - Bing images

DQs:

Died before 1850?
Best known for symphonies?

IQs:

Did you write the opera Carmen?
Were you a composer with the same last name as an engineer with whom Geordi LaForge fell in love?
Did Hal Holbrook play you in Lincoln?

105

Oui, ce’st moi, Alexandre César Léopold “George” Bizet, I hadn’t realized until I looked at the Wikihe only lived to be 36 years old.

Bon travail, EH!

106

Mercy buckets, Prof. P.!

Other previous IQs:

Were you a composer with the same last name as an engineer with whom Geordi LaForge fell in love? - Johannes Brahms (Dr. Leah Brahms was the ST:TNG character)
Did Hal Holbrook play you in Lincoln? - The venerable Republican politician Francis Blair Sr.

Lemme think about our next letter…

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I’ve updated the letters-we’ve-used-so-far thread here: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

Aaaand our next letter is

P

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IQs:

  1. Are you an eccentric but well-loved inventor from The Adventures of Superman?
  2. Are you the actor that played #1?
  3. Did Oilcan Harry throw you to the crocodiles?

Once again, thanks for keeping the update!

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Glad to!

Not Prof. Pepperwinkle, dunno, and dunno.

110

IQs:

  1. Did you think he was a Cold Hearted snake?
  2. Do you believe you will be resurrected in your Riverworld?
  3. Will you sign my copy of The Boat of a Million Years?
111

#1 is correct.
#2 is Phil Tead.
#3 was Mr. Pureheart, Pearl Pureheart’s father. Pearl is Mighty Mouse’s girlfriend.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
112

Dunno, not Philip Jose Farmer and dunno.

P.

  1. fictional
  2. female
113

IQs:

  1. Did your perpetual optimism try the patience of the adults around you?
  2. Did you say “The quality of mercy is not strained.”?
  3. Are you Ellen DeGeneres’s wife?
114

  1. Did you think he was a Cold Hearted snake?

  2. Do you believe you will be resurrected in your Riverworld?

  3. Will you sign my copy of The Boat of a Million Years?

  4. Paula Abdul

  5. correct on PJF

  6. Poul Anderson

DQ: Adult character?

1 DQ reserved

115

Not Polyanna, not Portia (probably wrong, but I know it’s Shakespeare) and not Portia del Rossi (sp?).

P.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. adult character
116

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Are you the Rainbow’s daughter in the Oz books of L. Frank Baum?
  2. Were you a black singer who played the lead in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway?
  3. Are you Soleil Moon Frye’s best known role?
117

IQs:

  1. Are you Mrs. Richard Benjamin?
  2. Did your mother found Comedy Channel, Inc., which eventually became Comedy Central?
  3. Were you Nicolas Cage’s first wife?

DQ: author born after 1900?

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Dunno, not Paul Robeson, and not Punky Brewster.

Dunno x3.

P.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. adult character
  4. author born after 1900
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IQs:

  1. Are you the Rainbow’s daughter in the Oz books of L. Frank Baum?
  2. Were you a black singer who played the lead in Hello, Dolly! on Broadway?
  3. Are you Soleil Moon Frye’s best known role?
    Dunno, not Paul Robeson, and not Punky Brewster.

#1 is Polychrome.
#2 was Pearl Bailey, playing Dolly.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with P?
  2. Character originally from prose literature (which does not include plays)?
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P.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. adult character
  4. author born after 1900
  5. last name starts with P
  6. character not originally from prose literature