Botticelli February 2021

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you win your wings helping George Bailey? - Yes, Clarence the angel, in It’s A Wonderful Life
Are you the best-known person from Pinpoint, Ga.? - Clarence Thomas
Were you a noted Ohio lawyer who shares a birthday with my father? - I’ll rephrase

DQ:

From the British Isles?

IQs:

Were you a noted Ohio lawyer who didn’t like jurors whose eyes were too close to their noses?
Did a musician joke in a song about someone giving you a new musical instrument?
Did you write a book about preparing to play Shakespeare’s Richard III?

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Yes, Casper Weinberger, Casper Van Dien

DQ1: Known for politics?
DQ2: Died before 1900?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with C
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 2000
  8. European
  9. Not from the British Isles
  10. Known for politics
  11. Died after 1900
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IQs:

Were you a noted Ohio lawyer who didn’t like jurors whose eyes were too close to their noses?
Did a musician joke in a song about someone giving you a new musical instrument?
Did you write a book about preparing to play Shakespeare’s Richard III?
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Take 3 DQs.

45

Pete Carroll, Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins

DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?
DQ: Primarily known from WWII?

holding a DQ

46

1 (ran for governor of New York as a Democrat in 2018, not California as a Republican in 1962) was Cynthia Nixon.

DQ: held elected office?

47

IQ1: Were you a fictional English nobleman born in Angola?
IQ2: Did you create a long-running strip about a working woman?
IQ3: Were you the main character of that strip?

48

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with C
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 2000
  8. European
  9. Not from the British Isles
  10. Known for politics
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Native speaker of a Romance language
  13. Not primarily known from WWII
  14. Held elected office
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Cathy Guisewite.
  3. I am not Cathy.
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John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke.
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DQ: Born in or south of Vienna?


IQ: Were you the last pesident of communist Romania?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with C
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 2000
  8. European
  9. Not from the British Isles
  10. Known for politics
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Native speaker of a Romance language
  13. Not primarily known from WWII
  14. Held elected office
  15. Born south of Vienna
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I know it, but it’s just not coming around.

Take a DQ.

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Nicolae Ceausescu. (Shucks. I had hopes…)


DQ: Born in or east of Paris?

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IQs:
1. Were you considered for the role of Louis Tully in Ghostbusters, who you wanted to play with a German accent and owning German Shepherds?
2. Were you Mary-Lou in The Man who Fell to Earth (1976)?
3. Has a reporter who suspiciously looks like you shown up occasionally in Marvel comics–in one instance, bumping into a disguised and bespectacled Thor in a hallway?

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#3. I am not Clark Kent. Take 2 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with C
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 2000
  8. European
  9. Not from the British Isles
  10. Known for politics
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Native speaker of a Romance language
  13. Not primarily known from WWII
  14. Held elected office
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Born west of Paris, but in France
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1 was John Candy; 2 was Candy Clark.

DQ: died before 1930?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with C
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 2000
  8. European
  9. Not from the British Isles
  10. Known for politics
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Native speaker of a Romance language
  13. Not primarily known from WWII
  14. Held elected office
  15. Born south of Vienna
  16. Born west of Paris, but in France
  17. Died before 1930
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IQ1: Are you a sea sick sea serpent?
IQ2: Did you create the character in IQ1?
IQ3: Did you almost kick David Letterman in the face on his show?

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#1. I am not Cecil.
#2. I am not Bob Clampett.
#3. Take a DQ.