Botticelli – July 2026

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It’s not quite July, but we’ll start a new thread…

I am

F

As in, Fourth of July :fireworks:

Botticelli -- June 2026
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Rules are here.

IQs:
1. Did you star in Network?
2. Did you write Bossypants?
3. Were you mayor of Philadelphia?

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  1. Is the theater where the Prairie Home Companion was performed named for you,?
  2. Were you #1’s wife?
  3. Is there a famous wreck in Lake Superior named for you?
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I am not Faye Dunaway
I am not Tina Fey
Take a DQ

Take 2 DQs
I am not Edmund Fitzgerald

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3 was Frank Rizzo.

DQ: real?

IQs:
1. Did you sing “1234”?
2. Asking for a “map of the cat”? Cracking safes at Los Alamos? Painting a topless Marie Curie? Surely you’re joking, Mr…
3. Did you play Howard Beale in Network?

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IQs:

1 & 2. Were you mayor of New York City during a major war?
3. Were you a scientist for Gizmonics Institute?

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Take 2 DQs
I am not Peter Finch

I am not Fiorello LaGuardia [sp?]
Take a DQ
Take a DQ

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F

  1. Fictional
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1 (“1234”) was Feist; 2 (“Surely you’re joking…”) was Richard Feynman.

DQs:
1. from prose?
2. female?

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F it is!

IQs:

Did your future wife overhear you insulting her to your friend?
Were you the first Cuyahoga County Executive?
Were you President Bartlet’s first CJCS?

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IQs:
1. Did you have a home for imaginary friends?
2. Were you in The Most Dangerous Game, right before that other movie?
3. Were you mayor of Toronto?

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Correct on #1 (or #2). The other was Fernando Wood, mayor at the start of the Civil War.
#3 was Dr. Clayton Forrester.

DQs:

Human?
First name starts with F?

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  1. F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. Zelda Fitzgerald
  3. Edmund Fitzgerald, correct

Fitzgerald X3!

2DQs reserved

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Little Lord Fauntleroy?
  2. Did you write The Magical Monarch of Mo?
  3. Were you one of the Doves in the book The Flight of the Doves?
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IQs:

  1. Did you power a car with your feet?
  2. Did you take children to the land of Make Believe?
  3. Were you associated with Westboro Baptist Church ?
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Take 3 DQs

Take 3 DQs

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  1. I am not Frances Burnett
  2. Take 2 DQs

I am not Fred Flintstone
Take a DQ
I am not Fred Phelps

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F

  1. Fictional
  2. From prose
  3. Sexless, but occasionally presents as male
  4. Not human
  5. First name starts with F
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IQ1: Was your brother Dingus murdered by being shot in the back?
IQ2: Were you the one who murdered Dingus?
IQ3: Were you a fictional civil engineer’s valet?

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Take 3 DQs