Botticelli - January 2022

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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IQ1: Did you spend your entire 20-year MLB career playing shortstop for the NY Yankees?
IQ2: Did you play the title character in I, Claudius?
IQ3: Did you make your screen debut opposite a giant ape?

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Yes, I am

Derek Jeter!

Good job, Chock!

144

Great!

First, some catch-up:

Derek Jacobi, Jessica Lange

Next up… S

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IQs:

  1. Are you Pinocchio’s conscience in the upcoming del Toro movie version?
  2. Were you recently seen in a bar in Scotland while taking a break from being in a MCU movie?
  3. Were you Trump’s first press secretary?
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Take a DQ
Not Sebastian Stan?? Wild guess
Not Sean Spicer

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#1 is Sebastian J. Cricket.
#2 was Samuel L. Jackson.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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DQs:

S

  1. Real
  2. Male
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IQs:

  1. Are you Fred Laswell’s best known character?
  2. Did your musical, The Capeman, bomb on Broadway?
  3. Did the late Meat Loaf play your nephew in the longest running ever movie?
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Take a DQ
Not Paul Simon
Not :roll_of_toilet_paper: Everett Scott (A Rival Scientist) :roll_of_toilet_paper:

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#1 is Snuffy Smith. Correct on the others.

DQ: Living?

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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
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IQs:
1. Are you a current SNL cast member who has now appeared twice on Weekend Update with Colin Jost, taking whatever he says and gleefully misinterpreting it as outrageous headlines to paint him in as negative a light as possible?
2. Speaking of Saturday Night Live, can you see Russia from your house?
3. Did your band mate Keith Levene talk about your determination to get better at playing the bass, saying you “did things quickly. One night, he played the first Ramones album nonstop, all night, then next morning, [redacted] could play the bass. That was it; he was ready! I told you [redacted] did things quickly!”

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Take a DQ
Not Sarah Palin, as played by Tina Fey
Not Sid Vicious

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1 was Sarah Sherman.

DQ: first name begins with S?

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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Last name begins with S
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IQs:

  1. Were you Underdog’s archenemy?
  2. Did you compose Finlandia?
  3. Did you write Major Barbara?
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IQs:
1. Do characters in one of your works play the game Questions?
2. Are they, in fact, your characters?
3. Did you give the presidential oath of office to Lyndon Johnson?

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Not Simon Bar Sinister
Take 2 DQs

Take 3 DQs

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Correct on Simon.
#2 was Jean Sibelius.
#3 was George Bernard Shaw.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Died before 1900?