Botticelli - July 2024

Thread Games
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#1 was the lovely Noel Neill.
#2 was Nancy Pelosi.
#3 was Harriet Nelson.

DQs:

  1. Actress?
  2. Died after 1950?

1 DQ reserved.

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Correct on #1.
#2 was Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger.
#3 was Nate the Great.

2 DQs reserved.

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Ahem.

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Whoops, sorry!

  1. I am not Nathaniel…oh hell, I can’t remember his last name, he was a Quaker from New England…Nathaniel Greene?
  2. I am not Nathaniel Banks.
  3. I am not Nathan Bedford Forrest.
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Swept me! Nathan[iel] x3.

IQs:

Did a very large person send you away from home, much as it hurt him to do so?
You were small, had four legs, fur and a bad attitude, and roamed a British school at night. Who were you?
Did you eat a frightened woman while others looked on and did nothing to stop you?

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Niecy Nash, Nick Stokes, Navarre.

3 DQs reserved

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IQs:
#1. Were you one of the Omicronians in Futurama?
#2. Arooooo! Aroooooooo! Were you president of Earth?
#3. When Melllvar pits the Planet Express crew against you and your former co-workers, do you try out the martial technique used by your most famous character, saying “Let’s see if this actually works!”?

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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Mrs. Norris
  3. I am not … Norbert, the dragon?
  1. Take a DQ
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not…Leonard Nimoy?
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1 was Ndnd; 2 was Richard Nixon’s preserved head; 3 was correct (in “Where No Fan has Gone Before”).

2 DQs reserved.

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I think we’re waiting on @Prof.Pepperwinkle 's DQs:

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I missed those, yes.

DQs:

  1. Surname begins with “N”
  2. Female
  3. Real
  4. Hyphenated American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not an actress
  8. Died after 1950
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DQ: Known for literature?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQ: Died after 2000?

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DQs:

  1. Surname begins with “N”
  2. Female
  3. Real
  4. Hyphenated American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not an actress
  8. Died after 1950
  9. Known for literature
  10. Died before 2000
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Previous IQs:

Did a very large person send you away from home, much as it hurt him to do so? - This was Norbert the dragon, sent away by Hagrid
You were small, had four legs, fur and a bad attitude, and roamed a British school at night. Who were you? - Yes, Mrs. Norris, Filch’s cat
Did you eat a frightened woman while others looked on and did nothing to stop you? - Nagini, Voldemort’s giant snake ally

DQs:

Best known for novels?
Best known for genre fiction?

IQs:

Were you fond of ketchup on your cottage cheese?
Were you that person’s spouse?
Were you that person’s eldest child?

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IQs:
1. Did you voice (a talking doll of) your most prominent character, from a certain other show, in “A Big Piece of Garbage”?
2. Were you one of the nudist scammer aliens in Bender’s Big Score?
3. In “Where No Fan has Gone Before”, when the context of heroic things is brought up, do you say “Yeah–in the third season, I kissed Shatner”?

DQs:
1. originally European?
2. first name begins from A-M?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Delta of Venus?
  2. Did you write Ringworld?
  3. Do you write The Old Kingdom series of books?
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I am not Larry Niven, and I don’t know 2. But I’m going to skip the other IQs and DQs because I am indeed Anaïs Nin, essayist, novelist, memoirist, and eroticist. Prof. Pepperwinkle bears away the bell!

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Ring-a-ling-a-ling. Garth Nix was #3.

Next up, I am…

E!

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Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Did you star in The Babadook?
2. Is a mathematical constant named after you (well, after your last initial)?
3. Did you paint “The Gross Clinic”?