Botticelli - January 2024

Thread Games
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DQ2: Known for mysteries?

Are we out of DQs?

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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
  20. Known for mysteries

That’s 20. Please ask all remaining DQ’s by noon EST tomorrow.

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Okay, we have an award-winning American Caucasian female mystery writer, who died after 2000 and whose last name starts with G.

Anyone who has won a DQ this round may now ask one (1) question of the sort “Are you FirstName LastName?”.

Good luck. Deadline is 6pm EST tomorrow.

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Are you Sue Grafton?

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Yes. I am

Sue Grafton,

author of the wonderfully written Alphabet Murders series starring Kilsey Milhone.

I just learned she started writing the series while going through a bitter six-year-long divorce with her ex-husband. During that time she found herself coming up with more and more elaborate ways to kill him off, and decided to write them down.

Well done again, EH!

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Thank you, Prof.! A good Botticelli subject, and a fine way to start the New Year.

For more: Sue Grafton - Wikipedia

Our next letter will be

U

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Good one, Prof! I’ve heard of her, but mysteries aren’t my cup of tea.

I.Q.s

  1. Are you an Italian count portrayed by Dante as entombed in ice, in the ring of Hell reserved for betrayers of kin and country, gnawing on the head of your archenemy Archbishop Ruggieri?

  2. Were you the author of The Name of the Rose, Foucault’s Pendulum, and The Island of the Day Before?

  3. Were you a robot voiced by James Spader?

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Congrats! I know who she was, but have never read her.

  1. Did Robert Wisdom play you on Supernatural?
  2. Did you play Honey Ryder?
  3. Did you write The Earthsea series?
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Great subject and great catch. Boy, I’m glad I didn’t use my DQ on “Best known for romance?”

  1. Did you appear in H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quartermain?
  2. Did you teach acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio?
  3. Are you the fussier of The Odd Couple?
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IQs:

  1. Were you a Swiss leader of the Protestant Reformation?
  2. Are you a four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500?
  3. Were you a long-time quarterback, most often connected with the Baltimore Colts?
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Not Urbino, Umberto Eco or Ultron.

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Dunno, not Ursula Andress and not Ursula K. LeGuin.

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Dunno, not Uta Hagen (sp?) and not Felix Unger,

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Dunno, not Al Unser and not Johnny Unitas.

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Correct on 2 and 3. 1 was actually Count Ugolino della Gherardesca.

DQ: Real?

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#1 was Umslopogaas, 2 & 3 are correct. (The play and movie character was Felix Ungar, though that was changed to Unger in the TV series.)

DQ: Male?

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U.

  1. real
  2. male
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IQs;

  1. Are you a German movie director whose movies are considered sone of the worst ever created?
  2. Are you the fictional scheming, villainous protagonist of the original House of Cards, who eventually becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
  3. Are you #2’s counterpart in the American version of the show?
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#1 was Ulrich Zwingli. Correct on the others.

DQ: Last name starts with U?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a comic foil to Carl Winslow?
  2. Did you lead a division-sized assault on the Mule Shoe at Spotsylvania?
  3. Did George Brett bat you in on his “pine tar” home run in 1983?