Botticelli February 2021

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Were you a noted Ohio lawyer who didn’t like jurors whose eyes were too close to their noses? - Clarence Darrow
Did a musician joke in a song about someone giving you a new musical instrument? - Clarence Clemmons, to whom Saint Nick just might have brought a new saxophone, in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
Did you write a book about preparing to play Shakespeare’s Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow

DQ:

Generally admired today?
Greatest fame before 1945?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a French statesman after whom an aircraft carrier was later named?
Did your best friend confess to a TV game-show host that you scared him a little?
Were you First Officer of the USS Voyager?

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Oui! Je suis Georges Clemenceau!

Take it away, EH!

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Thanks, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did your best friend confess to a TV game-show host that you scared him a little? - Cliff Clavin, when Norm Peterson had a chance to speak to Alex Trebek
Were you First Officer of the USS Voyager? - Cmdr. Chakotay

Next letter to follow shortly, I hope.

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Just updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far

Right. Our next letter is

H

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a long-running feud with Louella Parsons?
  2. Were you a White House Communications Director under Trump?
  3. Were you the most honored entertainer in the U.S.A. of the 20th Century?
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Congrats, EH!

IQs:
1. Do you appear in a photo holding up a newspaper with an incorrect headline?
2. Did you play an indecisive Senegalese philosophy professor?
3. Did you perform “America the Beautiful” at the Super Bowl yesterday?

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Wrapping up from last time

Crispin Glover

H…

IQ1: Did you provide Deep Thoughts for Saturday Night Live?
IQ2: Did James Bond call your character a woman of many parts?
IQ3: Is your mind a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives?

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IQ1: In a short story, did a recommendation for a medal for you end in your being fined for the loss of your equipment and banished to a frontier outpost?
IQ2: Were you a fictional photographer and government assassin?
IQ3: Were you Hecuba’s son?

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For more on Clemenceau: Georges Clemenceau - Wikipedia

Not Hedda Hopper, dunno, and not Bob Hope.

Not one of my favorite POTUSes, Harry S Truman; dunno and dunno.

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Not Jack Handey, Halle Berry or… dunno.

Dunno, dunno and not… Hyperion?

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Horatius (“A Medal for Horatius”).
Matt Helm.
Hector.


DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Real?
One DQ reserved.

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Correct, Hope Hicks, Correct.
DQ: Last name starts with H?

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Correct,
Honor Blackman, who played Pussy Galore in Goldfinger. “You’re a woman of many parts, Pussy”.
Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) from Blazing Saddles

Holding 2 DQs

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H.

  1. male
  2. fictional
  3. first name starts with H
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DQ: American creator(s)?

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2 was William Jackson Harper (on The Good Place); 3 was H.E.R.

DQs:
1. created before 2000?
2. from TV or movies?

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H.

  1. male
  2. fictional
  3. first name starts with H
  4. American creator(s)
  5. created before 2000
  6. not originally from TV or movies
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IQs:

  1. Did you go on adventures with Tom Sawyer?
  2. Did your TV show feature Pixie & Dixie & Mr. Jinks as well?
  3. Are you comedy writer Jack Douglas’s son known by this nickname?
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IQs:
1. Do you share a first name with the current Ms. Marvel?
2. Did you found a fast-food restaurant?
3. Did you play a man carrying a double bass, a man walking dogs, and a man failing to get on a bus?

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DQ1: Originally from prose fiction?
DQ2: Created before 1950?