Botticelli - January 2025

Thread Games
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Happy New Year!

I am

C!

Last month: Botticelli - December 2024 - #236 by knoodler

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Yow! Good solution, Prof.Pepperwinkle! I was starting to think Ziggy but you beat me to that too.

IQs:

  1. Were you baseball’s “Meal Ticket” who struck out five All-Stars in a row?
  2. Were you the lead character of a sitcom recently maligned by Vivek Ramaswamy?
  3. Did you direct a subordinate to be “governed by the principle of calculated risk” in an upcoming naval battle?
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  1. Did Haley Joel Osment play you in The Sixth Sense?
  2. Did your character famously respond with “Slipper socks! Medium!” to her mother-in-law in the classic Christmas movie The Ref?
  3. Did you write a quartet of books set in a hot air balloon finishing school?
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I have a question WRT rules. I’ll post it in BGQ.

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IQs

  1. Were you the sitting president during trials in one of the most scandalous eras of US history?
  2. Were you the lead in Starship Troopers who shared a name with a famous ghost?
  3. Were you Andy Capp’s best mate?
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C it is.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECTREAS?
Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Did you accept the formal surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox?

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Take 3 DQs.

#2. I am not Casper.
#3. I am not Charley. Take a DQ for #1.

  1. I am not Salmon P. Chase.
  2. I am not Simon Cameron.
  3. I am not Teleporno, er, Celeborne. Oh, wait… Take a DQ.
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IQ1: Were you a square-jawed cartoon adventurer who talked with real human lips?
IQ2: Did you associate with Scott and Taurus, who talked using the same technique?
IQ3: Were you the London Bach?

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  1. I am not Clutch Cargo.
    Take 2 DQs.
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  1. Calvin Coolidge
  2. Casper van Dein
  3. Chalkie

DQs

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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correct
Crystal, on “Space Angel”
Johann Christian Bach


Two DQs reserved.


IQ1: Were you marooned on the African coast following a mutiny on the Fuwalda?
IQ2: Were you #1’s son?
IQ3: Were you #2’s cousin?

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Ahem.

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#1 was Carl Hubbell.
#2 was Cory Matthews, played by Ben Savage in Boy Meets World.
#3 was Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, CINCPAC, writing about the Battle of Midway.

DQ: First name starts with C?

2 DQs reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Were you, along with your sisters, credited with inspiring ancient Greek culture?
  2. Did you disappear after a violent encounter with a presumably supernatural being?
  3. Did you apprentice as a railroad machinist before making a name for yourself in an associated industry?
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Mea culpa!

Take 3 DQs.

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  1. I am not John Clayton.
  2. I am not Tarzan Clayton.
  3. Take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
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correct (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke)
correct (John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke)
William Clayton, Viscount Greystoke


DQ1: First appeared in prose fiction?
DQ2: Created after 1960?
DQ3: American creator(s)?

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IQ1: Was “Uh-oh, [you]!” frequently heard on Danger Island?
IQ2: Did you discover the best-known dwarf planet?
IQ3: Did you swallow all but one of your children as infants, before the last-born killed you?

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  1. Clio, muse of history
  2. Ichabod Crane
  3. Walter Chrysler

3 DQs reserved