Botticelli - July 2024

Thread Games
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Hello, all, and welcome back to another month of “Lives of the Great Accountants”!

Oh, wait, sorry, I meant “welcome to a new month of Botticelli!”

I am N!

Link to last month’s thread.

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IQs:

  1. Were you the bloated Welsh cynosure of the majority of episodes of the highly esteemed, naval-inspected all-helium 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Did Myrna Loy play you in a series of movie mysteries?
  3. Are you the official State Hero of Connecticut?
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IQs:

  1. Are you the wizard patron of Fafhrd?
  2. Did you write the Gor series?
  3. Are you a teenage sleuth played by both Pamela Sue Martin and Emma Roberts?
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IQs:
1. In Futurama, did Leela discover you on Vergon 6 and keep you as a pet?
2. Did you voice bureaucrat Morgan Proctor on Futurama?
3. Speaking of guest voices, are you famously associated with the man who starred as himself in the Futurama episode “Cold Warriors”?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Denise on Scream Queens?
  2. Were you a CSI who got buried alive on CSI?
  3. Did Rutger Hauer play you in Ladyhawke?
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Nora Charles, wife of Nick, memorably played by David Niven.
  3. I am not Nathan Hale.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Nancy Drew.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not … Leonard Nimoy?

Take 3 DQs.

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(or, even more memorably, by William Powell…)

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1 was Nibbler; 2 was Nora Dunn; “Cold Warriors” stars Buzz Aldrin, so 3 was Neil Armstrong.

DQs:
#1. last name begins with N?
#2. male?
#3. real?

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Correct on #3, #1 was Ningauble of the Seven Eyes, and #2 was John Norman.

2 DQs reserved.

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That’s what I thought - not David Niven.

IQs:

Did you win a tactical victory at Guilford Court House?
Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary” during the Civil War?
Were you called “The Wizard of the Saddle,” and by Gen. Sherman, “that devil”?

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Wait a minute. Niven was Dick Charleston in Murder by Death.

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#1 was the inestimable Neddy Seagoon!

Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Were you the lead singer for Herman’s Hermits?
  2. Were you a 16th Century prophet whose writings get hauled out every New Year’s Day?
  3. Did Carolyn Keene write about you?

and

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  1. I am not…Something Noone?
  2. I am not Nostradamus, noted peddler of nonsense, and also author of a cookbook of jelly recipes.
  3. I am still not Nancy Drew

Yes, William Powell is the actor always associated with Myrna Loy. But for some reason, I had David Niven in mind. Maybe because he’s also a “N” name.

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DQs:

  1. Surname begins with “N”
  2. Female
  3. Real
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Correct on all. The first was Peter Noone.

DQ: American?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman?
  2. Were you a recent Speaker of the House?
  3. Did you marry a bandleader and go on to have a long-running radio and then TV series?
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DQ: Living?
DQ: Known for the arts?

IQs:

  1. Did you record “Say It Right” on your third album?
  2. Were you the reckless subject of a comic biopic by Yahoo Serious?
  3. Are you a boy detective in an eponymous series of children’s books?
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Take 3 DQs

  1. I am not Nelly Furtado
  2. Take a DQ
  3. Hmm. All I can think of are the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, and Alvin Fernald, Superweasel. Take a DQ.
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DQs:

  1. Surname begins with “N”
  2. Female
  3. Real
  4. Hyphenated American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the arts