Botticelli - Jan. 2016

Thread Games
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correct, Jerome Bettis, Jill St. John

DQ: Known for politics/government?

holding a DQ

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IQ1: Are you an American painter noted for drip paintings?
IQ2: Were you a shadow U.S. Senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997?
IQ3: Were you a Chicago White Sox outfielder who gained a nickname from wearing stockings because your baseball shoes weren’t broken in?

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Not Jackson Pollack, Rev. Jesse Jackson or “Shoeless Joe” Jackson.

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not American
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died after 1900
  7. last name starts with J
  8. European
  9. not known for politics/government
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IQs:

  1. Were you Daniel’s client in The Devil And Daniel Webster?
  2. Were you a helpful mouse in Disney’s Cinderella?
  3. Did you win Mary Mestrovich’s hand in marriage in a weight-lifting contest?
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Not… Judas? Dunno the other two.

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#1 was Jabez Stone. #2 was Jacques. #3 was Joe Magarac, man of steel.

DQs:

  1. British?
  2. Military?
  3. Died after 1980?
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J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not American
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died after 1900
  7. last name starts with J
  8. European
  9. not known for politics/government
  10. British
  11. had military significance, but did not serve
  12. died before 1980
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IQ1: Did Mary Tudor depose you as Queen of England 9 nine days after you took rule in 1537?
IQ2: Are you an Anglo-Polish author who wrote Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim?
IQ3: Are you more famously known as The Elephant Man?

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Not Queen Jane, Joseph Conrad or John Merrick.

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IQs:

  1. Were you the father of all who play the harp and flute?
  2. Did you write Born Free?
  3. Are you SCAdian’s favorite Dutch artist?
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Dunno the first two; not Jan Vermeer?

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Correct on Vermeer.
#1 was Jubal. #2 was Joy Adamson.

DQ: Best known for Science?

DQ reserved.

33

Justinian.
Ah, but which King James? :smiley:
Jeffrey Dahmer.
DQ1: Known for a single incident?
One DQ reserved.
James II.

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J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not American
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died after 1900
  7. last name starts with J
  8. European
  9. not known for politics/government
  10. British
  11. had military significance, but did not serve
  12. died before 1980
  13. not best known for Science
  14. not known for a single incident
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IQ1: Is your best-known work Dictionary of the English Language?
IQ2: Did you coin the word “vaccine” from the Latin word for cow, since you discovered that those afflicted with cowpox were immune to smallpox?
IQ3: Were you commander of the British Naval Fleet during WWI?

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DQ: Known for business?

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Not Dr. Samuel Johnson, Dr. Edward Jennens or Admiral Lord Jellicoe.

J.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. not American
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died after 1900
  7. last name starts with J
  8. European
  9. not known for politics/government
  10. British
  11. had military significance, but did not serve
  12. died before 1980
  13. not best known for Science
  14. not known for a single incident
  15. known, in part, for business
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IQs:

  1. Are you DC Comics’s “Son of Saturn”?
  2. Are you Prof. X’s stepbrother?
  3. Did you play Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman?
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IQ1: Were you kidnapped in Rome in 1973, and your ransom bargained down because your grandfather didn’t want to pay any more than was tax-deductible?
IQ2: Are you a Georgia office holder who was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center?
IQ3: Are you a French author who wrote a book in which the title references the length, not depth, of a sea journey?

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Take three DQs.

Dunno, not Jimmy Carter (guessing) and not Jules Verne.