Botticelli - July 2024

Thread Games
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Congrats!

  1. Did you write, among other books, Half-Magic?
  2. Did you write, among other books, The Four-Story Mistake?
  3. Is your most famous work most probably the short story The Specialty of the House?
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Leonard Euler.
  3. I am not Thomas Eakins.

Take 3 DQs.

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1 was Essie Davis.

DQ: real?

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Great guess, Prof!

IQs:

  1. Did you always have compliments for Mrs. Cleaver?
  2. Did Lieutenant Hurwitz think he was you in a flashback scene in Airplane!?
  3. Did you live upstairs from “The Honeymooners”?
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IQs:
1. Is your sitcom notable for “The Puppy Episode”?
2. Were you in love with Narcissus? issus, issus, issus…
4. Did you wear the uniform number 1/8 and pinch-hit for the St. Louis Browns, becoming the shortest player in major-league baseball history?

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Edward Eager, Elizabeth Enright, Stanley Ellin.

DQ:

  1. Female?

2 DQs reserved

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DQs:

1, Real
2. Female

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  1. I am not Eddie Haskell.
  2. I am not Ethel Merman.
  3. I am not Ed Norton.
  1. I am not Echo. Take 2 DQs for the others.
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Congrats, Prof. P.!

My previous IQs:

Were you fond of ketchup on your cottage cheese? - Richard NIxon
Were you that person’s spouse? - Pat Nixon
Were you that person’s eldest child? - Tricia Nixon

On to E.

IQs:

Did you die in the same battle as Gil-galad?
Were you Arwen’s husband?
Were you Arwen’s only son?

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1 was Ellen DeGeneres (it’s the episode in which her character comes out as a lesbian); 3 was Eddie Gaedel.

DQs:
1. living?
2. first name begins with E?

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Ah, swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you win a Nobel Prize for your explanation of the photoelectric effect?
  2. Did you avoid changing your name by marrying your fifth cousin once removed?
  3. Did you own a famous eponymous restaurant in New York City that featured in a Billy Joel song?
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IQs:

  1. Are you Pete’s Dragon?
  2. Did you design the Gateway Arch?
  3. Are you #2’s father?

2 DQs reserved

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. First name begins with E
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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Elendil’s Heir.
#3. I am not Eldarion.

  1. I am not Thomas Edison (??)
  2. I am not Eleanor Roosevelt.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Elliott.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Previous IQs:

Did you die in the same battle as Gil-galad? - This was Elendil himself
Were you Arwen’s husband? - I’ll rephrase
Were you Arwen’s only son? - Yes, Eldarion

DQ:

Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

You are Aragorn. As a kid you had what other name?
You are Aragorn, married to Arwen. As King you took what name?
Were you the second actress to play Marty McFly’s girlfriend?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. First name begins with E
  5. Known for the Arts

EH, take 3 DQs.

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Correct on #2.
#1 was Albert Einstein (he did not win a Nobel for his more famous theory of relativity)
#3 was Elaine Kaufman.

DQ: Known for literature?
DQ: Born since 1980?

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IQs:
1. Were you the most famous role of Kevin Clash?
2. According to a Straight Dope column about how you answered the phone, when someone’s cell went off in your presence, did you dryly note “You’d better answer that–it might be someone important”?
3. did you write
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Jesus

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Previous IQs:

You are Aragorn. As a kid you had what other name? - Estel (“Hope” in Sindarin)
You are Aragorn, married to Arwen. As King you took what name? - Elessar
Were you the second actress to play Marty McFly’s girlfriend? - Elisabeth Shue

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you reportedly say, “I do not seek windows into men’s souls”?
Have you played, among other roles, a network exec’s girlfriend, a newspaper publisher’s secretary and an amateur porn actress?
Are you credited in some circles with the extra horizontal brake light on American cars?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. First name begins with E
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Not known for literature
  7. Born before 1980