Botticelli - January 2023

Thread Games
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2 was Art Metrano; 3 was Allen Iverson.

DQs:
1. living?
2. known for the arts?

42

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with A.
  3. Female
  4. Not alive.
  5. Known for the Arts.
43

The love of Nick Chopper’s life was Nimmie Amee. Close enough.
#2 was Oombie Ambie, the guardian with the green whiskers.
#3 was Peg Amy.

DQs:

  1. Known for the performing arts?
  2. Died since 1950?
44

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with A.
  3. Female
  4. Not alive.
  5. Known for the Arts.
  6. Not known for the performing arts.
  7. Died since 1950.
45

IQs:

  1. Were you Count Petofi’s right hand man on Dark Shadows?
  2. Are you a typewriting poetical cockroach?
  3. Were you a leader in the American Transcendentalist movement, whose daughter was a noted author?
46

IQs:
1. Does the tagline for a 1994 comedy describe you as the best there is…in fact, given your unique profession, the only one there is?
2. Did REM ask if you were goofing on Elvis?
3. Does a small museum located in the Northern Ireland community of Culmore, just north of Derry, commemorate you—a Kansas-born pioneer, civil rights supporter, and charter member of The 99s, who died around 1937 (the exact date is unknown)?

47

Take a DQ, I am not archie (or was it archy?), I am not Bronson (?) Alcott.

Take a DQ, I am not Andy, take a DQ.

48

1 was Ace Ventura, pet detective; 2 was indeed Andy Kaufman; 3 was Amelia Earhart.

DQs:
1. known for writing?
2. American?

49

#1 was Aristide.
#2. archy is correct.
#3 Amos Bronson Alcott is correct.

DQ: Died since 2000?

50

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with A.
  3. Female
  4. Not alive.
  5. Known for the Arts.
  6. Not known for the performing arts.
  7. Died since 1950.
  8. Known for writing.
  9. American
  10. Died since 2000.
51

Previous IQs:

Did you command the Battlestar Galactica? - Yes, Cmdr. Adama
Were you mocked as “His Rotundity”? - John Adams
Were you the first US ambassador to Prussia? - his son, John Quincy Adams

DQs:

Best known for novels?
Won a top award in her field?

IQs:

Were you one of Henry VIII’s wives?
Did you write Breathing Lessons?
Did you write Interview with the Vampire?

52

I am not Anne Boleyn, I am not Anne Tyler or take a DQ, I am not Anne Rice.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with A.
  3. Female
  4. Not alive.
  5. Known for the Arts.
  6. Not known for the performing arts.
  7. Died since 1950.
  8. American
  9. Died since 2000.
  10. Best known for novels.
    11.Won a top award in her field.
  11. Known for writing.
53

IQs:

  1. Did you resign the Vice Presidency?
  2. Are you the first name in 20th Century Danish furniture design?
  3. Did you come to bury Caesar?
54

IQs:
1. Did you star in your husband’s film S.O.B. (a more adult turn than the family-friendly fare you’d become known for)?
2. Did multiple women claim to be you, although you most likely died with the rest of your family in 1918?
3. Do you reside in the House of Secrets, in the Dreaming?

55

Swept me! Anne x3.

You have two DQ #11 answers, BTW.

IQs:

Were you the first commanding officer of the 20th Maine, and later a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi?
Did you have the first name (almost) of a sandwich and ran for President?
Were you AKA MYCROFT?

56

I am not Spiro Agnew, take a DQ, I am not Marc Antony, or take a DQ.

I am not Julie Andrews, I am not Anastasia, take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

My kindle got cranky and insisted it had let me edit and make the second 11 into a 12. It lied.

57

3 was Abel, in DC Comics.

DQ: known for writing novels in a specific genre?

58

DQs:

  1. Real

  2. First name begins with A.

  3. Female

  4. Not alive.

  5. Known for the Arts.

  6. Not known for the performing arts.

  7. Died since 1950.

  8. American

  9. Died since 2000.

  10. Best known for novels.
    11.Won a top award in her field.

  11. Known for writing.

  12. Known for writing novels in a specific genre.

The last is actually #13.

59

Previous IQs:

Were you the first commanding officer of the 20th Maine, and later a carpetbagger Governor of Mississippi? - Adelbert Ames
Did you have the first name (almost) of a sandwich and ran for President? - Rubin Askew
Were you AKA MYCROFT? - Adam Selene, an AI in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

DQs:

Best known for sf/fantasy?
Top award was a Pulitzer?
Greatest popularity before 2000?

IQs:

Were you a black feminist author?
Did a snarky servant respond to a declaration of yours, “I shall alert the media”?
Were you one of three leading Organians?

60

IQs:
1. Did your newspaper column begin in 1973?
2. Do you have an album with a very long title beginning When the Pawn…?
3. Give you a lever long enough and a place to stand, and you’ll move the whole world?