Botticelli - February 2023

Thread Games
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Onwards to

F!

Last month’s link: Botticelli - January 2023 - #276 by SCAdian

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Dammit, I missed all the Ms! Good one, Prof.P. On to Fs, then.

IQs:

Did Churchill joke about your name?
Did you write “Was My Brother in the Battle?”?
Did they dig into the floor to film a scene about your childhood?

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Take 3 DQs.

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IQ1: Are you a well-known libertarian economist who is also an SCA legend?
IQ2: Are you #1’s Nobel-laureate father?
IQ3: Did your henchmen tell you “That’s eraser, Boss. Eraser,” after you mispronounced the word?

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Take 3 DQs.

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Ike’s SECSTATE, John Foster “Dull, Duller,” Dulles
Stephen Foster
Charles Foster “Citizen” Kane

Foster x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
First starts with F?

IQs:

Did your jerk of a dad eat messily in a movie?
Are your sons implied to be gay in a flash-forward scene of FOX TV series?
Were you a popular female US Olympian?

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Congrats!

  1. Did you write The Well of the Unicorn?
  2. Did you write A Little Princess?
  3. Did you Impress the bronze dragon Mnementh in the Pern books?
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David Friedman (aka Duke Cariadoc of the Bow)
Milton Friedman
the Frito Bandito

Three DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with F
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#3. I am not Peggy Fleming. Take 2 DQs.

#1. I am not Fletcher Pratt.
Take 2 DQs.

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DQ1: Created after 1970?
DQ2: American creator(s)
One DQ reserved.


IQ: Are you George MacDonald Fraser’s best-known character?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Created before 1970
  5. American creators
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I am not Harry Flashman.

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Faramir, in LOTR; Ned Flanders, on The Simpsons; and yes, Peggy Fleming

DQs:

Would be alive today, if real?
Created before 1930?

IQs:

Were you a top political aide to FDR?
Were you the longest-serving mayor of Cleveland, Ohio?
Was your birthname Leslie King?

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Correct, Frances Hodgson Burnett, F’lar (born Fallarnon).

2 DQs held.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Created before 1970
  5. American creators
  6. Created after 1930
  7. Would not be alive today, if real
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#1. I thought that was Pa Watson. Take a DQ.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Gerald Ford.

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“Pa” Watson was indeed one; Jim Farley was another
Frank Jackson
Yes, Gerald Ford

DQs:

Good guy?
American character?

IQs:

Did Calpurnia work for you?
Were you that person’s son?
Were you that person’s daughter?

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  1. Are you F’lar’s half-brother?
  2. Are you F’lar’s son?
  3. Were you a well-known architect who was born in Richland Center, Wisconsin?
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Take 3 DQs.

Take 2 DQs.
#3 I am not Frank Lloyd Wright (??)