Botticelli - July 2018

Thread Games
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Not Annie Oakley, Anne Bonney or Amy Irving.

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Swept again.

IQs:

  1. Did you play Samantha’s mom on Bewitched?
  2. Did you write Evil Under The Sun?
  3. Did you write Winesburg, Ohio?
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IQ1: Is a unit of length equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter named after you?
IQ2: Were you Middle Earth’s largest dragon, defeated by Eagles and Eärendil at Thangorodrim?
IQ3: Did Bruce Campbell play you in The Evil Dead?

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Not Agnes Moorehead, Agatha Christie or… wasn’t that Upton Sinclair?

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Not Mr. Angstrom, the dreaded Ancalagon, or Ash.

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Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Sherwood Anderson.

DQ: Known for a crime or crimes?

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IQs:

  1. Did you hire Louis Comfort Tiffany to decorate the White House?
  2. Were you a Dadaist artist who called himself Jean in France, but Hans in Germany?
  3. Did you write Watership Down?
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Not Chester Arthur, dunno and dunno.

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A.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name begins with A
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died after 1900
  8. not known for business
  9. born west of the Mississippi
  10. born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. died after 1970
  12. not known for politics/military
  13. known for a crime or crimes
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IQ1: Did you run against FDR for president in 1936?
IQ2: As a child, did your father hand you a note to take to the chief of police, who then locked you in a cell for an hour and told you “This is what we do to bad little boys”?
IQ3: Did you play Dr. Octopus in Spider-Man 2?

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Correct on Chet.
#2 was Jean/Hans Arp.
#3 was Richard Adams.

DQs:

  1. Died after 2000?
  2. Known for murder or kidnapping?
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Not Alf Landon, dunno (although I’ve heard that story) or Alfred Molina.

A.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name begins with A
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died after 1900
  8. not known for business
  9. born west of the Mississippi
  10. born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. died after 1970
  12. not known for politics/military
  13. known for a crime or crimes
  14. died before 2000
  15. known for murder or kidnapping
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Next, to find out if she’s a criminal or a victim…

IQs:

  1. Do you frequently sing with the band Union Station?
  2. Did you have a hit with Rolling in the Deep?
  3. Are you an American historian best remembered for the eponymous book “The Education of…”?
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Alfred Hitchcock

DQ: Primarily known as the victim of a crime?

holding a DQ

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Hitchcock - ah! For some reason I thought it was either Roald Dahl or Peter O’Toole, but of course they aren’t "A"s.

Dunno, not Adele, and dunno.

A.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name begins with A
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died after 1900
  8. not known for business
  9. born west of the Mississippi
  10. born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. died after 1970
  12. not known for politics/military
  13. known for a crime or crimes
  14. died before 2000
  15. known for murder or kidnapping
  16. arguably primarily known as the victim of a crime
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#1 is Alison Krauss.
Correct on Adele.
#3 is Henry Adams, descendant of John Adams.

DQ: Died after 1990?

1 DQ reserved.

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A.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. first name begins with A
  4. dead
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. died after 1900
  8. not known for business
  9. born west of the Mississippi
  10. born south of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. died after 1970
  12. not known for politics/military
  13. known for a crime or crimes
  14. died before 2000
  15. known for murder or kidnapping
  16. arguably primarily known as the victim of a crime
  17. died after 1990
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O.K., a 1990’s American female murder or kidnapping victim, possibly from California. Not coming to mind immediately… “arguably” is a bothersome word, though.

Think, think, think.

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DQ: Unusual first name?

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IQs:

  1. Have you played a fairyland princess, Amelia Earhart and a 1960’s painter?
  2. Were you Fred Astaire’s first dance partner?
  3. Did you play Kevin Kline’s wife in De-Lovely?