Botticelli July 2020

Thread Games
101

IQ1: Did you fund the discovery of King Tut’s tomb?
IQ2: Did you turn down the title of Duke of London?
IQ3: Did you marry M Pontmercy?

102

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with C
103

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Charlemagne.
#3. I am not Charles de Gaulle (??)

#3. I am not Cosette.
Take 2 DQs.

104

Lord Carnarvon.
Carnarvon: Can you see anything?
Carter: Yes, wonderful things!
Winston Churchill.
Correct.
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DQ1: European?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

105

Previous IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top in 1863? - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine
Were you the best-known Frankish king? - Yes, Charlemagne
Did you say, “How can anyone hope to govern a country with 430 different kinds of cheese”? - Yes, Charles de Gaulle

DQ:

Living?
Born since 1950?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a master blackmailer taken on by Sherlock Holmes?
Did Sophie Okenodo play you in a recent stage production?
Were you likened to “a rotten mackerel by moonlight”?

106

3 was Walter Cronkite.

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:
1. Were you a New Yorker cartoonist whose recurring characters were adapted into a TV sitcom in the 60s?
2. Did you represent John Scopes?
3. In a Shakespeare play, are you a much-decorated military leader who becomes elected consul, but then abandons Rome to side with the enemy Volscians?

107

IQ1: Could a certain British army officer describe every detail of your uniform?
IQ2: Did you marry a princess of Helium?
IQ3: Did you marry a princess of Ptarth?

108

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with C
  5. European
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Living
  8. Born since 1950
109

#3. I am not Henry Clay. Take 2 DQs.

#1. I am not Charles Addams.
#2. I am not Clarence Darrow.
Take a DQ for #3.

#1. I am not Caractacus.
#2. I am not John Carter.
Take a DQ for #3.

110

Previous IQs:

Were you a master blackmailer taken on by Sherlock Holmes? - Charles Augustus Milverton
Did Sophie Okenodo play you in a recent stage production? - Cleopatra, in the British National Theatre’s production of Anthony and Cleopatra (Ralph Fiennes played the Roman dude)
Were you likened to “a rotten mackerel by moonlight”? - Yes, Henry Clay, as he “both shined and stank”

DQs:

Political/military?
From the British Isles?
Born since 1975?

IQs:

Were your children Jeremy and Jemima?
Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar?
Were you the hapless PM who succeeded Thatcher in the original British House of Cards?

111

IQs:

  1. Were you the main character in “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frakweiler”?
  2. Were you captured by the Comanche at approximately 10 and lived with them until captured by the Texas Rangers and forcibly returned to her birth family?
  3. Did you write a series of books called The Parasol Protectorate?
112

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with C
  5. European
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Living
  8. Born since 1950
  9. Not political/military
  10. From the British Isles
  11. Born since 1975
113

Take 3 DQs.

Take 3 DQs, and welcome back, kitap!

114

Yes, indeed - glad to have you back, kitap!

Previous IQs:

Were your children Jeremy and Jemima? - Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood
Were you the hapless PM who succeeded Thatcher in the original British House of Cards? - Henry Collingridge

DQs:

English?
Scientific/inventor?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Paul Bettany play both you and a fictional character that may have been loosely based on you?
Did Alice Roosevelt Longworth say that it looked like you “had been weaned on a pickle”?
Were you painted in a red dress and with a white dog for your official portrait?

115

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Not American
  4. First name starts with C
  5. European
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Living
  8. Born since 1950
  9. Not political/military
  10. From the British Isles
  11. Born since 1975
  12. English
  13. Not a scientist/inventor
116

Correct.
Correct.
John Carter’s son, Carthoris.
.

One DQ reserved.

117

#2. I am not Calvin Coolidge.
Take 2 DQs.

118

IQ1: In your first film role, were you killed in a fight in the Flavian Amphitheatre?
IQ2: Did you sing “A Summer Song”?
IQ3: Did you sing “Yesterday’s Gone”?

119

Thanks!

  1. Claudia Kincaid
  2. Cynthia Ann Parker
  3. Gail Carriger

DQs:

  1. Royalty?
  2. Known for the Social Sciences or History?
  3. Caucasian?
120

In the past, I believe the rule has been that royalty is inherently political for Botticelli purposes.

Previous IQs:

Did Paul Bettany play both you and a fictional character that may have been loosely based on you? - Charles Darwin in Creation and Dr. Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander
Did Alice Roosevelt Longworth say that it looked like you “had been weaned on a pickle”? - Yes, Calvin Coolidge
Were you painted in a red dress and with a white dog for your official portrait? - His wife Grace: Grace Coolidge - Wikipedia

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you badly beaten by Preston Brooks?
Did you costar in Temperatures Rising?
Were you Beldar and Prymaat’s daughter?