Botticelli - July 2021

Thread Games
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IQs

  1. Did you compete with Keanu Reeves’s character for the affections of a young maid?
  2. Is there a statue of you in Minnesota Lake?
  3. Were you a leader of HYDRA?
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IQs:

1. Were your much less successful comedy albums If The Shoe Fits… and Have Some Nuts!!! , both in 1964?
2. Did Slug Signorino draw you presenting a conceptual amusement park ride, also named after you?
3. Did you have a hit with “Graduation (Friends Forever)”?

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Correct, Victor Mature, and correct.

DQ: From a move made after 1999?

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IQ1: Have you been played by Peter Cushing, Laurence Olivier and Anthony Hopkins?
IQ2: Are you the subject of this game’s namesake’s most famous work?
IQ3: Are you the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing?

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Not Viola Davis, Vince Lombardi or Victor Snow.

Not Velma Smith, Vivian Vance or Victor Gerber.

Not Dr. Van Helsing, Virginia Dare or Leslie Vavavoom.

V.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with V
  3. male
  4. from film or TV
  5. from film
  6. not a main character
  7. from a movie made after 1980
  8. appears onscreen
  9. in context, not good
  10. from an American-made movie
  11. kind of hard to answer, but I’ll say: would not be alive today if real
  12. from a movie made before 1999
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Reserved DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Genre movie?
127

1 was Vaughn Meader; 2 was Amerigo Vespucci; 3 was Vitamin C.

DQs:
1. American?
2. from a movie made after 1990?

1 DQ reserved.

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V.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with V
  3. male
  4. from film or TV
  5. from film
  6. not a main character
  7. from a movie made after 1980
  8. appears onscreen
  9. in context, not good
  10. from an American-made movie
  11. kind of hard to answer, but I’ll say: would not be alive today if real
  12. from a movie made before 1999
  13. unknown if Caucasian, but probably a safe bet
  14. I’d say a genre movie, but YMMV
  15. not American
  16. from a movie made before 1990
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Vicomte de Valmont (Dangerous Liasons)
Jason Vorhees
Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker

Holding 3 DQs

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  1. Were you the smart female in a classic 1960s cartoon show with a van and a dog?
  2. Did Ogden Nash rhyme that you need “a kick in the pance”?
  3. Did you inspire the name Vanessa?
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IQs:
1. From you, do we get the term for a unit of electrical potential?
2. Were you the Girl in Sullivan’s Travels?
3. Are you a former TV boy adventurer-turned-superscientist, living in the shadow of your famous father?

One DQ reserved.

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Not Velma, not the insufferable Philo Vance and not Josephine Van Nuys.

Not Volta, Virginia Westbound or Jonny Vanguard.

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IQs:

  1. Are you the chief of the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon?
  2. Were you the Roman goddess of the hearth?
  3. Are you remembered as “the Father of Op Art”?
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DQs

  1. From Earth?
  2. Any sequels made?
  3. Best fits in Sci-Fi or horror genres?
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Correct, correct, Esther Vanhomrigh.

DQ: Live action movie?

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Not Prince Vince, Vesta or Vroy Vlichtenstein.

V.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with V
  3. male
  4. from film or TV
  5. from film
  6. not a main character
  7. from a movie made after 1980
  8. appears onscreen
  9. in context, not good
  10. from an American-made movie
  11. kind of hard to answer, but I’ll say: would not be alive today if real
  12. from a movie made before 1999
  13. unknown if Caucasian, but probably a safe bet
  14. I’d say a genre movie, but YMMV
  15. not American
  16. from a movie made before 1990
  17. not from Earth
  18. sequels made
  19. best fits in sf or horror genres
  20. live-action movie

No more IQs, please, and ask any earned DQs by noon Sunday EST.

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#1 was Prince Vultan.
Correct on Vesta.
#3 was Victor Vasarely.

DQ: From the Star Trek or Star Wars franchises?

1 DQ reserved.

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V.

  1. fictional
  2. last name begins with V
  3. male
  4. from film or TV
  5. from film
  6. not a main character
  7. from a movie made after 1980
  8. appears onscreen
  9. in context, not good
  10. from an American-made movie
  11. kind of hard to answer, but I’ll say: would not be alive today if real
  12. from a movie made before 1999
  13. unknown if Caucasian, but probably a safe bet
  14. I’d say a genre movie, but YMMV
  15. not American
  16. from a movie made before 1990
  17. not from Earth
  18. sequels made
  19. best fits in sf or horror genres
  20. live-action movie
  21. in a way, from the Star Trek or Star Wars franchises
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In a way?? Oh.

DQ: Are you from the movie Spaceballs?

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2 was Veronica Lake; 3 was Dr. Thaddeus Venture, of The Venture Bros. Correct on Alessandro Volta.

DQ: appears in more than one movie?

2 DQs reserved.