Botticelli - July 2019

Thread Games
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Will Arnette

holding a DQ, but EH guessed it before I did

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  1. I am not the Queen of the Blues, Dinah Washington.
  2. I am not Carrie Wilson.
    Take a DQ for 3.
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Previous IQs:

Are your initials “DW” and you’re a famous black singer? - I’ll rephrase
Did you and two other singers have a hit with “Hold On”? - Close enough, but it’s Carnie Wilson (Wendy, her sister, is also in the trio)
Did you play Ens. Harry Kim? - Garrett Wang

DQ:

Greatest fame before 1975?

IQs:

You are not Dinah Washington. Are your initials “DW” and you’re a famous black singer, best known for hits in the Sixties?
Did you play a Congressional aide in the sequel to Bruce Almighty?
Did you receive advice while at the keyboard for the proper timing of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”?

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IQs:

You are not Dinah Washington. Are your initials “DW” and you’re a famous black singer, best known for hits in the Sixties?
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Yes, I am Dionne Warwick! Good job, EH!

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Woohoo - thanks, Prof. P.!

Other previous IQs:

Did you play a Congressional aide in the sequel to Bruce Almighty? - Wanda Sykes
Did you receive advice while at the keyboard for the proper timing of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”? - Bertie Wooster: Puttin' on the Ritz - Bertie Wooster - YouTube

Our next letter is naturally

X

I’ll be out of town for the weekend and my Internet access may be iffy.

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IQs:

  1. Did you create teams of teenage mutant superheroes to wheel you about your school?
  2. Were you assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom?
  3. Are you known as Ahasuerus in the Books of Ezra and Esther?
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Not Prof. Charles Xavier, Malcolm X or… Xerasthebes?

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IQ1: Were you a car thief, played by Vin Diesel, who was recruited by the CIA, and as part of your cover, stole Ferrarris, Lamborghinis, and other supercars to sell, but a vintage Dodge Charger for yourself?
IQ2: Did you write the Anabasis?
IQ3: Were you canonized for your work as a member of the Order of Jesus?

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Correct, correct, and Xerxes I.

DQ: Real?

90

IQ1: Do you partner with Kofi Kimgston and Big E in the wrestling faction The New Day?
IQ2: Did Nicholas Bender play you on Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
IQ3: Were you a bandleader married to Charo?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the Happy Hooker?
  2. Are you the Aztec god of art, dance and prostitutes?
  3. Are you a Brazilian TV show host known as the “Queen of Children”?
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Not XXX, Xenophon, or St. Xavier.

Dunno, not Xander, and not Xavier Cougat.

Not Xaviera Hollander, dunno, and dunno.

X.

  1. fictional
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Xavier Woods

DQ: Male?

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IQ1: Are you one of the Melnibonean Lords of Chaos, a beautiful young woman who rides a chimera?
IQ2: Were you a Persian king assassinated by your chief bodyguard?
IQ3: Are you the final boss in Unreal Tournament?

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Correct, Xochipilli and Xuxa.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with X?
  2. Created after 1899?
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IQs:

  1. Did you play Red John on The Mentalist?
  2. Did you star in the silent film Ben Hur?
  3. Are you the title of the subject of a then-scandalous portrait by John Singer Sargent?
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[I notice in the news that **Franky Zapata** appeared on a flying board over the crowds in Paris on Bastille Day, and plans to fly across the English Channel on July 25th, 110 years to the day after the first airplane flight across the Channel. Expect to see him in an IQ on the Z round.]

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Dunno, not Xerxes, and dunno.

Dunno, dunno, and not Madame X.

X.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name starts with X
  4. created after 1899
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#1 was Xander Harris.
#2 was Francis X. Bushman. (Name never seen without the X.)
#3 is Correct.

DQs:

  1. Created by an American or Americans?
  2. Created after 1959?
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Yes, thanks, Prof. P., “X” middle names are fair play in this round if the person always used the initial, like Bushman did.

X.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name starts with X
  4. created after 1899
  5. created in part by an American or Americans
  6. created after 1959