Botticelli - January 2022

Thread Games
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Another 3 DQs

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#1 was Robert Shaw. Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Were you killed after reassuring your troops, “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance”? - Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick, at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Did Robert Lawson depict you as a blowhard and a mooch? - Sam Adams, in Mr. Revere and I
Did you command the commerce raider CSS Alabama? - Capt. Raphael Semmes

DQs:

Victim of crime?
Died as a result of a crime?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his SECSTATE?

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IQs:
1. Were you a Bond girl in Live and Let Die, a more passive role than the progressive-minded Old West frontier doctor you’d later portray on TV in the 90s?
2. Are you a statistician and analyst who has made a whole bunch of election predictions (maybe 538 of them)?
3. Are you an implied acquaintance of the Hiphopopotamus ("…where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did [redacted] tell you that? What’s he got to do with it? What kind of rapping name is [redacted]?")

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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
  14. Incident involved a crime
  15. Not associated with NYC
  16. Died before 1975
  17. Not a victim of crime
  18. Did not die as a result of a crime
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Another 3 DQs

Not Jane Seymour
Not Nate Silver
DQ

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DQ: Policeman or other officer of the law?

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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
  14. Incident involved a crime
  15. Not associated with NYC
  16. Died before 1975
  17. Not a victim of crime
  18. Did not die as a result of a crime
  19. Not a policeman or other officer of the law
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IQs:

  1. Did a virgin lighting a candle cause you to return?
  2. Were you aka Ted Geisel?
  3. Was your wife named Xanthippe?
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DQ
Not Dr. Seuss
DQ

191

The outstanding DQs put us over 20, so no more IQs please. Please ask your earned DQs by 6:00 pm PST Monday 1/31

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3 (person mentioned by the Hiphopopotamus) was Steve.

1 DQ reserved.

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#1. Any of the Sanderson Sisters from Hocus Pocus.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Socrates.

2 DQs reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron
Were you his second? - Edwin Stanton
Were you his SECSTATE? - William Seward

DQ:

Crime was political in nature?

Two DQs reserved.

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I’m going to say yes, in the sense that the crime was committed for political reasons.

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
  14. Incident involved a crime
  15. Not associated with NYC
  16. Died before 1975
  17. Not a victim of crime
  18. Did not die as a result of a crime
  19. Not a policeman or other officer of the law
  20. Crime was politically motivated
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DQs:

  1. Violent crime?
  2. Crime occurred after 1960?
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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
  14. Incident involved a crime
  15. Not associated with NYC
  16. Died before 1975
  17. Not a victim of crime
  18. Did not die as a result of a crime
  19. Not a policeman or other officer of the law
  20. Crime was politically motivated
  21. Not a violent crime
  22. Crime occurred before 1960
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DQ:

Crime occurred before 1941?

One DQ reserved.

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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
  5. American
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Died before 2000
  8. Not known from the arts
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Kinda sorta political
  11. White
  12. Best known for a single incident
  13. No famous spouse
  14. Incident involved a crime
  15. Not associated with NYC
  16. Died before 1975
  17. Not a victim of crime
  18. Did not die as a result of a crime
  19. Not a policeman or other officer of the law
  20. Crime was politically motivated
  21. Not a violent crime
  22. Crime occurred before 1960
  23. Crime occurred before 1941
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Final DQ: connected with an assassination?