Botticelli February 2025

Thread Games
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  1. Were you a well-known theater critic whose wife Jean wrote Please Don’t Eat the Daisies?
  2. Were you a fictional Federal Agent in the old West, played by Robert Conrad?
  3. Did you voice Chicha in The Emperor’s New Groove?
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IQs:

  1. Did you run for president against FDR in 1940?
  2. Are you “Weird Al” Yankovic’s longtime guitarist?
  3. Were you a Franciscan friar with a famous razor?
169

Kaiser Wilhelm II
Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones
Waldo (after whom the real devices are named)


DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: Living?
One DQ reserved.



“Was your left arm six inches shorter than your right arm as a result of your difficult berth?” Typo – that should have been “difficult birth”. I’ll forego the DQ if you think you would have been able to answer the IQ absent the typo.

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Previous IQs:

Was your body too big for the space prepared for it in the floor of the cathedral where you were first buried? - William the Conqueror - it burst as it was being forced into the space, making a huge stink, or so the story goes
Were you the most famous person to live in Auburn, N.Y. in 1860? - William H. Seward, who became Lincoln’s Secretary of State the following year
Did Gen. George H. Thomas win his best-known nickname at a battle you badly lost? - Gen. William S. Rosecrans; Thomas mounted a stout-hearted defense and held the line against Confederate attack after Rosecrans fled the field, gaining the nickname “the Rock of Chickamauga”

William x3!

DQs:

American?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you capture Vincennes and Kaskaskia?
Were you arguably the best-known American to visit Paris when the Eiffel Tower was opened?
Did James Cagney, who looked quite a bit like you, play you in a late-career biopic?

171

I am not Jim West; take 2 DQs

  1. I am not Wendell Wilkie
  2. I am not Kimo West
  3. I know the answer has something to do with Occam’s Razor, but I don’t know the source. Take a DQ.
172

It would not have made difference. I read that as “birth.”

173

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Known for the arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
174

I am not… Walt Whitman? If yes, take 2 DQs; if not take 3 DQs.

175

William of Ockham was the name.

DQ: Known for the performing arts?

176

Walter Kerr, correct, Wendie Malick.

2 DQs reserved

177

IQ1: Did you often need food badly?
IQ2: Did you also often need food badly?
IQ3: Did you sing about a dead skunk?

178

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Not known for arts
  5. Dead
  6. American

I made an error – I am NOT known for arts.

@SunUp you can ask a different DQ.

179

Take 3 DQs

180

DQ: Known for politics/military?

181

Warrior
Wizard
Loudon Wainwright III


DQ: Last name starts A-M?
Three DQs reserved.

182

IQ1: Do people look for you in the UK?
IQ2: Do people look for you in the US?
IQ3: Are you especially fond of Wensleydale cheese?

183

DQ:

  1. Died before 1980?

One DQ reserved.

184

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. Not known for arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not known for politics/military
  8. Last name starts N-Z
  9. Died after 1980
185
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Waldo
  3. I am not Wallace (of Wallace & Gromit)
186

Wally
correct
correct


Four DQs reserved.