Botticelli - January 2024

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Not an actress
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Not known for music
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Not considered a beauty
  11. Died of natural causes
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Take 3 DQs.

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First time playing, so correct me if I’m doing this wrong.

IQs:

  1. Did you play the chief of police in the Police Academy movies?
  2. Were you played by a star who though she should have had top billing on her sitcom?
  3. Is there a museum of your work near Taos, New Mexico?
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Welcome SunUp! Glad to have you!

  1. I am not Steve Gutenberg (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
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**[quote=“kitap, post:9, topic:995514, full:true”]

  1. Were you one of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s sisters?
  2. Did you play Angela Rance on the first season of The Exorcist?
  3. Did you write Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction?
    [/quote]
    Grace, Geena Davis, Grady Hendrix.

DQs:
Known for paintings/drawings?
2. American?
3. Caucasian?

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DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Not an actress
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Not known for music
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Not considered a beauty
  11. Died of natural causes
  12. Not known for the visual arts (paintings, drawings, etc.)
  13. American
  14. Caucasian
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George Gaynes, Ginger Grant, and I should restate the last IQ:

  1. Is there a museum of your work in Santa Fe, New Mexico?
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  1. I am not Georgia O’Keeffe.
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DQ1: Best known for literature?

Holding on to the second.

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DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Not an actress
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Not known for music
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Not considered a beauty
  11. Died of natural causes
  12. Not known for the visual arts (paintings, drawings, etc.)
  13. American
  14. Caucasian
  15. Best known for literature
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Welcome, SunUp! We’re always glad to have new players.

Previous IQs:

Did the same actor who played you also play an Egyptian archeologist and provide the voice of a walking tree? - Gimli the Dwarf in the LOTR movies was played by John Rhys-Davies, who also played Sallah in the Indiana Jones movies and voiced Treebeard the Ent in the LOTR movies
Are you a top judge whose mother was a Reagan Cabinet official? - Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s mother Anne was EPA director
While you were sheriff in Buffalo, N.Y., did you personally carry out executions by hanging? - Grover Cleveland

DQs:

Best known for fiction?
Ever won a top award?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you captain of the doomed USS Enterprise-C?
Did you joke that you knew two tunes - one of them was “Yankee Doodle,” and the other wasn’t?
Did Queen Victoria complain that you addressed her “as if I were a public meeting”?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a British pop star who fled to Thailand to avoid charges of possession of child sexual abuse material?
  2. In T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, are you the eldest son of King Lot of Orkney, and one of Arthur’s knights?
  3. Are you the youngest brother of #2?
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DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Not an actress
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Not known for music
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Not considered a beauty
  11. Died of natural causes
  12. Not known for the visual arts (paintings, drawings, etc.)
  13. American
  14. Caucasian
  15. Best known for literature
  16. Best known for fiction
  17. Has won top prizes in her genre
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#2. I am not Ulysses S. Grant.
#3 I am not Gladstone.
Take a DQ.

  1. I am not Gary Glitter.
  2. I am not Gawain.
  3. Take a DQ.
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Previous IQs:

Were you captain of the doomed USS Enterprise-C? - Rachel Garrett | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Did you joke that you knew two tunes - one of them was “Yankee Doodle,” and the other wasn’t? - Yes, U.S. Grant, who was tone-deaf
Did Queen Victoria complain that you addressed her “as if I were a public meeting”? - Yes, Prime Minister William E. Gladstone

DQ:

Best known for novels?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Not an actress
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Not known for music
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Not considered a beauty
  11. Died of natural causes
  12. Not known for the visual arts (paintings, drawings, etc.)
  13. American
  14. Caucasian
  15. Best known for literature
  16. Best known for fiction
  17. Has won top prizes in her genre
  18. Best known for novels
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Correct, correct. #3 was Sir Gareth.

DQ: Known for speculative fiction?

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IQs:

  1. In one of your movies, did you sit on a gravestone engraved “Archie Leach”, which was your real name?
  2. Will you survive?
  3. Are you the monster at the end of the book?
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DQs:

  1. Female
  2. Real
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Dead
  6. Not an actress
  7. Died after 2000
  8. Not known for music
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Not considered a beauty
  11. Died of natural causes
  12. Not known for the visual arts (paintings, drawings, etc.)
  13. American
  14. Caucasian
  15. Best known for literature
  16. Best known for fiction
  17. Has won top prizes in her genre
  18. Best known for novels
  19. Not known for speculative fiction, i.e, science fiction/fantasy
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  1. I am not Cary Grant.
  2. I am not Gloria Gaynor.
  3. I am not lovable, furry ol’ Grover.