Botticelli February 2024

Thread Games
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1. I am not Paula Prentiss?
2. I am not Peter Cook.
3. I am not Chris Pine.

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Pythagoras?

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with P
4. living
5. known for the arts
6. American
7. known for the performing arts

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1 was Percival Lowell, after whom PLuto was named, sort of. 2 was Tom Pullings. 3. was Karl Popper.

DQs:

  1. Born before 1965?
  2. Known for music?

1 DQ reserved.

23

Swept again.

IQs:

  1. Did Albert Brooks’s father play you on radio?
  2. Did the movie You Can’t Stop The Music stop your career?
  3. Did John Hamilton play you on The Adventures of Superman?
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1. I am not Parkyakarkas.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Perry White.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with P
4. living
5. known for the arts
6. American
7. known for the performing arts
8. born after 1965
9. not known for music

I figured out that the initials were P.L., but I just couldn’t think of anyone. Of course Lowell makes sense, but then again I naturally associate him with Mars.

25

Jaw dropped. I can’t believe you got #1.
#2 was Valerie Perrine.
#3 is correct.

DQ: Born after 1990?

26

John Lee Pettimore in Copperhead Road, Stefanie Powers, Penelope.

DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Won a major award?

One DQ reserved.

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TIL that Pluto was named, at least in part, because the first two letters honored Percival Lowell. Interesting! For more: Pluto - Wikipedia

And see: Back In My Day We Had Nine Planets Pluto T-Shirt

Previous IQs:

Were you one of Thatcher’s Foreign Secretaries? - Francis Pym
Were you an Admiralty official whose diary became famous? - Yes, Samuel Pepys (like the man said, “The Lord High Admiral urinates, but Samuel Pepys”).
Did a British undercover police officer repeatedly insist he wasn’t you? - Not the Pink Panther, but Sir Philip Bleedin’ Sydney (at 2:19 here): https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3e0afj

DQs:

Best known as an actor?
Considered handsome?

IQs:

Were you a satyr voiced by Danny DeVito?
Did you own the bar where the FYI gang hung out?
Are you the best-known person born on Corfu?

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Respectively:
I am not Phil.
I am not Phil on Murphy Brown.
I am not Prince Philip.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with P
4. living
5. known for the arts
6. American
7. known for the performing arts
8. born after 1965
9. not known for music
10. born before 1990
11. Caucasian
12. won a major award
13. best known as an actor
14. does not have a reputation as a handsome dreamboat type

29

Swept me again. Phil x3!

IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
Did Sean Penn play your husband in a movie about a political scandal?
Were you Brett’s immediate supervisor?

30

Pluto was discovered by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh, while he was working at the Lowell Observatory. He had been set to the task of searching for the trans-Neptunian planet that had Lowell predicted, based on oddities in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune.

IQs:

  1. Are you sometimes called “the inventor of television”?

  2. Are you an extremely successful musician and producer, collaborating with and backing up your sister?

  3. Did you survive a horrific brain injury, that led to greater understanding of the localization of functions within in the brain, and mental changes caused by trauma to it?

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IQs:

  1. Did you insist that you had a hot love affair with Sophia Loren, but she always denies it?
  2. Did you play Duncan MacLeod on the Highlander TV series?
  3. Did Glynis Johns play you on the 1960’s Batman TV series?
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IQs:

  1. Did you quarterback the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to a share of the national college football championship in 1952?
  2. Were you a bossy rival to Annie in Miss Hannigan’s orphanage?
  3. Did you move your way up from the Stark Industries secretarial pool?
33

Respectively:
I am not Preem Palver.
I am not Pat Nixon.
I am not Parker.

1. I am not Philo Farnsworth.
2. …you’re not thinking of Finneas O’Connell, whose name isn’t spelled with a “Ph”, are you? Otherwise, take a DQ.
3. I am not Phineas Gage.

1. I am not Peter Sellers?
2. I am not Peter MacNichol?
3. I am not Poison Ivy?

(lotta guesses there)

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Pepper Potts.

34

Correct on Peter.
#2 was Adrian Paul.
#3 was Lady Penelope Peasoup.

2 DQs reserved.

35

#1 was Pepper Rodgers, #2 was Pepper (no last name given), correct on #3.

Pepper x3!

2 DQs reserved.

36

Swept me! I was indeed thinking of Finneas, and misremembered his name as “Phinneas”.

37

Correct (in Asimov’s Foundation series), not Pat Nixon but Valerie Plame (in Fair Game), and correct (in Alien).

DQ:

Best known for movies?

IQs:

Did your dad own a hardware store in Shaker Heights, Ohio?
Were you blinded for three days, but got better?
In a kids’ book, did you melt down the uniform buttons of a British Army deserter?

38

Respectively:
I am not Paul Reiser.
I am not St. Paul.
I am not Paul Revere.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. first name begins with P
4. living
5. known for the arts
6. American
7. known for the performing arts
8. born after 1965
9. not known for music
10. born before 1990
11. Caucasian
12. won a major award
13. best known as an actor
14. does not have a reputation as a handsome dreamboat type
15. best known for movies, I would say, but has had main roles on TV shows

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DQ1: Has played a U.S. president?
DQ2: Married to a fellow actor?

IQs:

  1. Did you play the father of Oswald Cobblepot in Batman Returns?
  2. Was your father a president of Yale and MLB Commissioner?
  3. Did you win your only Grand Slam doubles title at the French Open, partnering with Martina Hingis?
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I am not Paul Reubens, but I am indeed Paul Valentine Giamatti! Because his middle name is Valentine, and it’s February.

Next game goes to SunUp.