Botticelli - January 2026

Thread Games
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  1. Abigail Breslin
    2 & 3: Correct

DQs:

  1. Known for dance or ballet?
  2. Died after 1970?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
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Correct, correct, Akhenaton.

DQ:
First name starts with A?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
  12. First name starts with A
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Previous IQs:

Did both Lorne Greene and Edward James Olmos play you? - Yes, Commander Adama, in each version of Battlestar Galactica
Were you the longtime Congressman from Harlem? - Not Bella Abzug, but Adam Clayton Powell
Were you MYCROFT’s fake public identity on the Moon? - Adam Selene, in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

Adam[ ] x3!

DQs:

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

IQs:

Has the same actor both played you and provided your voice in two different works?
Were you the son of that person (not the actor)?
Are you the most recent ex-Mayor of New York City?

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IQs:

  1. Are you Oded Fehr’s most famous role?
  2. Did you play Johnny Cage in the first Mortal Kombat movie?
  3. Did you play Peggy Carter?
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IQs:

  1. Were you the main antagonist in Rugrats?
  2. Did you portray Morticia Adams?
  3. Did you play an internet billionaire on TV?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
  12. First name starts with A
  13. Known for music
  14. Won numerous Grammys and other awards
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  1. I am not Eric Adams.
    Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Angelica Pickles.
  2. I am not Angelica Huston.
  3. Take a DQ.

That puts us at 20 or more DQs. No more IQs please.
Please ask all remaining DQs by 10pm EST tomorrow.

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3 is Ashton Kutcher (Two and a Half Men)

1 DQ reserved

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Ardeth Bey (The Mummy & The Mummy Returns), Linden Ashby, Hayley Atwell.

DQs:

  1. Best known for being a solo act?
  2. Known for rock music?

One DQ reserved

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
  12. First name starts with A
  13. Known for music
  14. Won numerous Grammys and other awards
  15. Solo act
  16. Has done some rock & roll, better known for another genre
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Previous IQs:

Has the same actor both played you and provided your voice in two different works? - Paul Giamatti played John Adams in the HBO miniseries of the same name, and also gave voice to him in the recent Ken Burns documentary, The American Revolution.
Were you the son of that person (not the actor)? - John Quincy Adams
Are you the most recent ex-Mayor of New York City? - Yes, Eric Adams

Adams x3!

DQ:

Greatest fame before 1980?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
  12. First name starts with A
  13. Known for music
  14. Won numerous Grammys and other awards
  15. Solo act
  16. Has done some rock & roll, better known for another genre
  17. Greatest fame arguably before 1980; she had most of her hits then
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Final DQ: Known for gospel?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
  12. First name starts with A
  13. Known for music
  14. Won numerous Grammys and other awards
  15. Solo act
  16. Has done some rock & roll, better known for another genre
  17. Greatest fame arguably before 1980; she had most of her hits then
  18. Not known for gospel. She did some, but then she did almost everything.
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DQ: Subject of a recent film biography?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known from the Arts
  4. Not Caucasian
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Did act, but really not known for it
  9. Not a traditional beauty
  10. Not known for dance or ballet
  11. Died after 1970
  12. First name starts with A
  13. Known for music
  14. Won numerous Grammys and other awards
  15. Solo act
  16. Has done some rock & roll, better known for another genre
  17. Greatest fame arguably before 1980; she had most of her hits then
  18. Not known for gospel. She did some, but then she did almost everything.
  19. Subject of a recent film biography, and a more recent mini-series
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Since we don’t have 20 yet, I’m extending the deadline to tomorrow at 10 pm EST.

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I’ll ask:

Are you Aretha Franklin?