Botticelli - January 2025

Thread Games
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Well done, kitap!

Previous IQs:

Best-known as an actor, are you also a licensed helicopter pilot who’s been commended for helping those who got into trouble out west? - Yes, Harrison Ford
Did you fall in love with Eliza Doolittle despite yourself? - Yes, Prof. Henry Higgins
Did you play the unctuous assistant to a millionaire in The Big Lebowski? - Philip Seymour Hoffman memorably played Brandt.

On to L.

IQs:

Did your bratty boys annoy your law partner, William Herndon?
Did you not like your husband to go around the house barefoot?
Was your Vermont home called Hildene?

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IQs:

  1. Are you described as being “a fussbudget”?
  2. Are you the baddest man in the whole damn town?
  3. Are you a silent-era actress known for suffering for her art to an extreme?
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Take 3 DQs.

Take a DQ
I am not Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
i am not Louise um… Bowman? Seymour?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with L.
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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Are you Robert Rankin’s absurdist noir private eye character in Waiting For Godalming?
  2. Were you a 1940’s actress best known for her role in The Postman Always Rings Twice?
  3. Did Phil Harris voice you in Disney’s Robin Hood?
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IQs:
1. Were you a mild-mannered accountant who noticed a producer could make more money with a flop than with a hit?
2. Did you observe in That Was the Week that Was that when Mozart was your age, he’d been dead for two years? (Currently you’ve outlived Mozart by 61.)
3. Were you a White House intern at the center of a late 90s scandal?

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  1. Lucy Van Pelt
  2. Correct
  3. Lillian Gish

DQ:

  1. Are you American?
  2. Known from the arts?
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IQs:

  1. Did you portray Vice Admiral Holdo?
  2. Are you one who “ate no basil” according to “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Bob”?
  3. Did you sing and play fiddle with your older (and rather better-known) sister Barbara?
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Take a DQ, I am not Lana Turner, I am not Little John

Take a DQ, take another -all I can thhink is Louis Ruykeyser - and I am not Monica Lewinsky

Take 2 DQs and I am not Louise Mandrell.

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#1 is Laszlo Woodbine. Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with L.
    4.American
  4. Known for the Arts.
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DQ: Living?

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1 was Leo Bloom, in The Producers; 2 was Tom Lehrer.

DQs:
1. last name begins from A-M?
2. known for the performing arts?

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Laura Dern, Lisa Bonet and correct.

2 DQs reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Did you bankroll a substantial bet at an illegal betting house (ya follah?)
  2. Did your cow start a major conflagration?
  3. Are you best friends with the man you bested in face-to-face combat?
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IQs:
1. Were you arrested for the assassination of JFK?
2. Do you get a mention in Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week”?
3. Did a recently concluded six-season TV mockumentary explore what you do in the shadows?
(Well, you and three other people. Four if you count the familiar.)

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Take a,DQ, I am not Mrs. O’Leary, take a DQ.

I am not Lee Harvey Oswald and take 2 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. Known for the Arts.
  6. Last name begins with N-Z.
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Alive (my apologies for missing it!)
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2 was Lena Horne; 3 was Laszlo Cravensworth, of What We Do In the Shadows.

DQs:
1. born after 1970?
2. known for acting?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name begins with L.
  4. American
  5. Known for the Arts.
  6. Last name begins with N-Z.
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Alive (my apologies for missing it!)
  9. Born before 1970
  10. Known for acting