Botticelli - January 2022

Thread Games
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3 was Tahani (on The Good Place).

IQs:
1. Do you interview people on NPR?
2. Did four men pose for a picture in your bathtub?
3. Aside from your other work, have you deftly written educational songs about spelling for The Electric Company?

DQs:
1. African?
2. died after 1980?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Deceased
  5. Not American
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Not European
  9. Not Asian
  10. Not political/military
  11. Died after 1950
  12. African
  13. Died after 1980
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IQs:

  1. Do you interview people on NPR?
  2. Did four men pose for a picture in your bathtub?
  3. Asid e from your other work, have you deft ly written educational songs about spelling for The Electric Company ?
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#3. I am not Tom Lehrer.
Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did your theories of naval power influence a future national leader? - Alfred Thayer Mahan
Were you that leader? - Yes, Theodore Roosevelt
Were you the Bartlet White House’s director of communications? - The almost-always smug and annoying Toby Zeigler, on The West Wing

DQs:

From below the equator?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Are you the late Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa?
Are you the hard-drinking comic relief from the North Carolina outdoor drama The Lost Colony?
Did the fan-adored but castmates-hated Jason Nesmith play you?

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Yes, I am Bishop Desmond Tutu. Congrats, EH!

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Thanks, Prof. P.! A fine pick - a great man and a notable peacemaker (Lord knows we need more of 'em). I had the honor of meeting and briefly speaking with him when he was the commencement speaker at my college in 1987.

Next let’s go with

B

Updated for the New Year: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #89 by Elendil_s_Heir

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IQs:

  1. Did you found the American Red Cross?
  2. Were you POTUS between two other POTUS’s, both of whom would qualify for this round of Botticelli?
  3. Did you paint Calumny of Apelles?
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Not Clara Barton, Bill Clinton (or either Bush) and dunno.

29

Correct, Correct, and Sandro Botticelli.

DQ: Real?

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B.

  1. fictional
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IQs:
1. Did your mom have the first name Stanley?
2. Did you recently write your 2021 Year in Review, for the Miami Herald?
3. In Lake Placid do you say the immortal line “If I had a dick, this is where I’d tell you to suck it”?

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Dunno, not Dave Barry and not Deedee Wallace.

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1 was Barack Obama; 2 was correct; 3 was Betty White.

DQs:
1. male?
2. first name begins with B?

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B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with B
35

IQs:

  1. Do you have a racehorse named Spark Plug?
  2. Were you the leading light in men’s fashion in Regency England?
  3. Were you the father of the clan that operated the Ponderosa ranch?
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IQs:
1. Back in the 90s, were you in a very famous teeeeevee shoooow according to the end credits song of the Netflix series about you, by Grouplove?
2. Did you wash your Trans Am in the White House driveway, shirtless?
3. Have you played a high school senior, a vampire, and a White House intern?

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Dunno, but not Beau Brummel or Ben Cartwright

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Dunno, not Joe Biden and dunno

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1 was BoJack Horseman; 2 was correct, of course; 3 was Beanie Feldstein (in Booksmart, What We Do in the Shadows, and American Crime Story).

DQs:
1. created by an American or Americans?
2. main character?

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B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with B
  4. created by an American or Americans
  5. not a main character