Botticelli, July 2023

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Last month’s thread: Botticelli June 2023

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #104 by Elendil_s_Heir

Right. Our new letter is

K

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IQs:

  1. Did you create Pogo Possum?
  2. Did you paint The Kiss?
  3. Are you Superman’s pet dog?
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IQ1: Were Thom, McMahon, Kirksey and Marney associated with you?
IQ2: Did you write "The Marching Morons?
IQ3: Were you an Irish earl lost when the ship you were riding on was torpedoed?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the self-proclaimed “Painter of Light”?

  2. Are you a jelly doughnut?

  3. Are you possibly the most influential economist since the end of World War II?

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  1. Were you Ruggedo’s Chief Steward who later became the Nome King?

  2. Are you the dragon jouster formerly known as Vetch in Mercedes Lackey’s Dragon Jousters series?

  3. Are you a former child actress best known for the 1975 movie Escape to Witch Mountain?

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IQ:

  1. Are you known for your pleasure dome?
  2. With your last words did you quote Melville?
  3. Are about 0.5% of the population your direct descendants?
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Dunno, not Klimt and not Krypto.

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Not Kearney, dunno and not Lord Kitchener.

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Not Kincaid, not JFK (although that’s a myth about his 1963 Berlin speech, as I’ve pointed out here several times before), and not Keynes.

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Dunno x3.

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Not Kublai Khan, dunno, and not Genghis Khan.

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JFK – those were members of PT-109’s crew.
Cyril M Kornbluth
correct


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

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  1. Kahn Noonien Singh from the wrath of Kahn: “From hell’s heart, I stab at thee! For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!” Also the last words of Captain Ahab.

1DQ resevered

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K.

  1. real
  2. female
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#1 was Walt Kelly. Correct on the others

DQ: Last name starts with K?

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IQs::

  1. Were you the winner of the first season of American Idol?
  2. Does Ryan Gosling play you in an upcoming summer blockbuster movie?
  3. Are you secretly Batwoman?
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I know. A German translator once told me that “Ich bein ein Berliner” could be construed as “I am a jelly doughnut”, but in the same way “I am Parmesan” could be interpreted as “I am cheese” rather than “I am from Parma”; I just asked it for the funny. Correct, though misspelled, about Thomas Kinkade, and John Maynard Keynes.

IQs:

  1. Did you kill Harry Dresden?

  2. Are you a soccer player who’s here, who’s there, who’s fucking everywhere?

  3. Are you IQ2’s girlfriend?

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Not Kerry Underwood, dunno, and not Selena Kyle.

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Dunno, not the great Roy Kent of AFC Richmond, and not Keeley (sp?).

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K.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. last name starts with K