Botticelli February 2025

Thread Games
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1. I am not Valerian.
2. I am not Vanna White.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. female
4. only name begins with V
5. not American
6. has appeared in prose, didn’t originate from it
7. from Earth
8. did not originate from a dramatic work
9. has appeared in comics, didn’t originate from them
10. has been a protagonist, usually thought of as part of an ensemble

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IQs:

Were you a giant evil dragon in a single movie?
Were you Earl Warren’s predecessor as Chief Justice of the United States?
Did you, in three movies, play a man known as Estel in his childhood?

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IQs:

  1. Are you one of a handful of non-quarterback players to win an NFL Super Bowl MVP award?
  2. Did you make television history as the first horror movie hostess?
  3. Is your real name Simon John Ritchie?
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Respectively:
I am not Vermithrax Pejorative.
Take a DQ.
I am not Viggo Mortensen.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Vampira.
3. I am not Sid Vicious.

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  1. Von Miller (Defensive Linebacker; 2015 Denver Broncos)
  2. Correct
  3. Correct

DQs:

  1. Created before 1950?
  2. Based on myth/folklore?
  3. Name begins Va - Vi?
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  1. Correct
  2. Correct
  3. Valerie Carter (“That Girl Could Sing”, “Valerie” respectively)

I missed replying to this before making my next IQs; I’ll hold one DQ in reserve.

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DQs:
1. fictional
2. female
3. only name begins with V
4. not American
5. has appeared in prose, didn’t originate from it
6. from Earth
7. did not originate from a dramatic work
8. has appeared in comics, didn’t originate from them
9. has been a protagonist, usually thought of as part of an ensemble
10. created before 1950
11. from myth/folklore
12. name begins from Va-Vi

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IQs:

  1. Are you Mike Hammer’s secretary?
  2. Were you Carl Kolchak’s boss?
  3. Were you a Swedish actress who was the mother of actor Kristoffer Tabori?
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IQs:

  1. Were you the Roman equivalent of Hephaestus?
  2. Were you the Roman equivalent of Aphrodite?
  3. Were you the Roman equivalent of Hestia?
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I am not Vulcan or Vesta, but I am indeed Venus, goddess of love! Because Valentine’s Day is coming up.

Take it away, Shocking Blue!

Next game goes to SunUp.

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Thanks to knoodler for the mythology DQ, which pretty much clinched it. I actually thought of Vesta first; I added Venus for the sake of completeness.

OK, time for the next game: I am

R

bring on the IQs!

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Correct (in Dragonslayer), Fred Vinson and correct.

Congrats, SunUp! R it is.

IQs:

Did Alan Rickman play you (and quite well, too) in The Butler?
Were you that person’s wife?
Were you their best-known child?

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Good job SunUp! Glad I could help. :wink:

IQs:

  1. Was one of your best inventions derisively regarded as a “folly”?
  2. Did you write books that spanned genres from horror to adventure to nursery rhymes?
  3. Were you an infomercial pitchman from 1985 through 1990 for the Helsinki Formula, a claimed baldness cure?
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I am not Franklin Roosevelt?
I am not Eleanor Roosevelt?
Take a DQ.

I am not Robert Fulton.
I am not… R.E. Howard?
Take a DQ.

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  1. Correct
  2. Robert Louis Stevenson
  3. Robert Vaughn

Robert x3!

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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R

  1. Real
  2. Female
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These were Velda, Tony Vincenzo and Viveca Lindfors.

IQs:

  1. Did you accompany Prince Inga in his quest to free his parents in one Oz book?
  2. Are you the best known Masterharper of Pern?
  3. Did you play Cosmo Topper in 3 films in the 1930s?
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Hello, NellietheElephant and welcome to Botticelli!

I assume you have read the rules from the first post in this thread.

IQ is shorthand for “indirect question”, where you ask the host about a specific person. DQ is short for “direct question” where you try to narrow down the universe of people to a more manageable number to guess.

Our current letter is

R

meaning that, as your host, the person I am thinking of has at least one name which starts with that letter. So feel free to jump in with up to three IQs, each about a different celebrity who has at least one initial R in their name - if you stump me or make me say a person who does not fit the question, you will receive a DQ for each such question. Then, ask DQs, 20-questions style, with generally binary, yes-no answers, in an effort to narrow down the universe of possible celebrities.

Go ahead and give it a try!

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Swept me! Take 3 DQs.

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Welcome, NTE!

Previous IQs:

Did Alan Rickman play you (and quite well, too) in The Butler? - Ronald Reagan
Were you that person’s wife? - Nancy Reagan
Were you their best-known child? - Ron Reagan Jr.

DQs:

Living?
American?
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Have you played different British Prime Ministers in two TV series since 2010?
Did you badly lose the Battle of Chickamauga?