Botticelli July 2020

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
22

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Supergirl.
#3. I am not Arne Saknussemm (sp??) from Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Take 1 or 2 DQs.

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IQs:
1. Have you drawn the cartoons in the margins of Mad magazine for decades?
2. Are you a US Supreme Court justice appointed by Barack Obama?
3. Fitting your unusual personality, did you bring an anteater on a leash when you were interviewed by Dick Cavett?

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Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe).
Correct.
Sir Ernest Shackleton.
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DQ1: Living?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
DQ3: American?
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IQ1: Did a long-lived person teach you how to use your mighty hands?
IQ2: Were Brig Gen Brooks and Col Mayfair among your associates?
IQ3: Were you a journalist noted for you meeting with a missionary?

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He shoots, he scores - good job, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did you succeed your father Eomer as King of Rohan? - Elfwine, again from Tolkien
Is the tower named after you the tallest building in Minas Tirith? - Ecthelion
Was your ship transformed into what we know as Venus? - Earendil the Mariner

Right! On to S, then.

IQs:

Were you also known as Annatar?
Were you also known as Curunir?
Was your eldest daughter Elanor the Fair?

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  1. I am not Sergio Aragones.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Peter Sellers (??)

Take 1 or 2 DQs.

27

Take 3 DQs,

28

Take 3 DQs.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
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Previous IQs:

Were you also known as Annatar? - Sauron
Were you also known as Curunir? - Saruman
Was your eldest daughter Elanor the Fair? - Samwise Gamgee

DQs:

First name start with S?
European?
Died since 1950?

IQs:

Did you wear a cape in the movie Jeffrey?
Were you a noted Scottish race car driver?
Did you, as Holmes, pretend to toss an explosive at Dr. Watson?

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2 (US Supreme Court justice appointed by Barack Obama) was Sonia Sotomayor; 3 (brought an anteater on a leash when interviewed by Dick Cavett) was Salvador Dali.

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:
1. Did you write Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious?
2. While a US Representative for Vermont, did you appear as a rabbi in the 1999 film My X-Girlfriend’s Wedding Reception, and bemoan the Brooklyn Dodgers’ move to Los Angeles?
3. Were you a Jewish LA Dodger?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with S
  7. European
  8. Died before 1950
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#3. I am not Sigerson. Take 2 (or 3) DQs.

#1. I am not Sigmund Freud.
Take 2 DQs.

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Samson.
Dr Clark Savage Jr.
Henry Morton Stanley.
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DQ1: British/Irish?
DQ2: Died after 1800?
One DQ reserved.
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.
.
“I taught Samson how to use his mighty hands;
I showed Columbus to this happy land;
And for Pharaoh’s little kiddies
I built all the pyramiddies,
And to the Sahara carried all the sand.”

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2 was Bernie Sanders; 3 was Sandy Koufax.

DQ: known for science?

3 DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with S
  7. European
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not British/Irish
  10. Died before 1800
  11. Not known for science

:laughing: Applause, EH, for that bit of verse.

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Thanks, but 'twas SCAdian, not I.

Previous IQs:

Did you wear a cape in the movie Jeffrey? - Patrick Stewart
Were you a noted Scottish race car driver? - Jackie Stewart
Did you, as Holmes, pretend to toss an explosive at Dr. Watson? - Not Sigerson but the British actor Stewart Granger, in a movie adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles (with William Shatner, of all people, playing the bad guy)

Stewart x3!

DQs:

From the British Isles?
Died before 1850?
Political/military?

IQs:

Were Robert and Renly your brothers?
Did your father strongly suggest you leave home before you died in a “hunting accident”?
Were you Tyrion’s lover and later his father’s?

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Oops! Sorry. Good one, SCA!

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with S
  7. European
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not British/Irish
  10. Died before 1800
  11. Not known for science
  12. Political/military

EH: Take 2 DQs to replace those that had already been asked.
and Take 3 DQs for the last set of IQs.

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IQs:
1. Were you the original artist of Dr. Strange?
2. Did you create Thing 1 and Thing 2?
3. Are you Nancy’s ex on Stranger Things?

DQs:
1. born north of Vienna?
2. born east of Vienna?
3. died after 1600?

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Thanks, Prof. P.

Previous IQs:

Were Robert and Renly your brothers? - Stannis Baratheon, in Game of Thrones
Did your father strongly suggest you leave home before you died in a “hunting accident”? - Samwell Tarly, ditto
Were you Tyrion’s lover and later his father’s? - Shae, ditto

DQs

Best known for political stuff?
Royalty/nobility?

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you posthumously win the Medal of Honor for your heroism in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu?
Did David Warner play you in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier?
Were you Jala Wo’s business partner?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with S
  7. European
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not British/Irish
  10. Died before 1800
  11. Not known for science
  12. Political/military
  13. Died after 1600
  14. Born north of Vienna
  15. Born west of Vienna
  16. Best known for political stuff
  17. Not royalty/nobility