Botticelli - January 2017

Thread Games
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Thanks!

Now, I am S!

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IQ: Did you write the song “Camptown Races”?

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I am not Stephen Foster.

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IQ: Did you write The Gulag Archipelago?

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I am not Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Just so you know, standard practice allows you to ask up to 3 IQs at a time.

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Right, then.

IQs:

Were you a notable creation of Dashiell Hammett?
Did Robert Lawson portray you as a demagogue and a mooch?
Did you go from the White House to a failed Congressional campaign to a law practice and then back to the White House?

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I am not Sam Spade.
Take a DQ for each of the other two. I’m racking my brain on #3.

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IQ: Were you known as the Duke of Flatbush?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a notable creation of Dashiell Hammett? - Yes, Sam Spade.
Did Robert Lawson portray you as a demagogue and a mooch? - Sam Adams, in Mr. Revere and I.
Did you go from the White House to a failed Congressional campaign to a law practice and then back to the White House? - Sam Seaborn, on* The West Wing*.

Sam x3!

IQs:

Real?
Male?

DQs:

Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States?
Did you write Joseph Anton?
Are you the narrator of The Lovely Bones?

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Take a DQ.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
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#2. I am not Salman Rushdie.
Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did Lincoln appoint you Chief Justice of the United States? - Salmon P. Chase
Did you write Joseph Anton? - Yes, Salman Rushdie (pretty good book, too)
Are you the narrator of The Lovely Bones? - Susie Salmon

Salmon/an x 3!

DQs:

Living?
Last name start with S?

IQs:

Were you also known as Curunir?
Did you hang out with Thuringwethil?
Did Josiah Thompson write a bio of you?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with S
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I am not Saruman.
Take 2 DQs.

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Duke Snider.

DQ: American?

Sticking with baseball,
IQ: Are you the justice who as a district court judge made the ruling which ended the baseball strike in the 1990’s?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with S
  5. American
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Take another DQ.

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Previous IQs:

Were you also known as Curunir? - Yes, Saruman.
Did you hang out with Thuringwethil? - This was Sauron, in The Silmarillion; Thuringwethil was a female vampire IIRC.
Did Josiah Thompson write a bio of you? - Soren Kierkegaard.

DQs:

Born since 1964?
Best known for the arts?

IQs:

Did you play multiple female roles in Cloud Atlas?
Did you play an Esther Williams-type swimming starlet in Hail, Caesar?
Are you a U.S. senator from Maine?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with S
  5. American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Best known for the Arts