Botticelli, June 2011

Thread Games
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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]
Alf Landon of Kansas, squashed like a bug by FDR in the 1936 election; his daughter Nancy was later elected to the U.S. Senate.
[/quote]

:smack: I kept thinking of Goldwater and Mondale, while Landon never crossed my mind.

Yes.

No, “Abe”, I’m not your son Robert Lincoln.

Yep.

Nope.

Summary:

  1. I am not fictional.
  2. I am male.
  3. Only one of my names starts with L.
  4. I was born before the 20th century.
  5. I am American.
  6. I am a politician.
  7. I was not born before 1600.
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IQ: Are you known as the Kingfish?

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You got me!

I am Huey Long, governor of Louisiana and victim of assassin Carl Weiss.

Your turn!

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Hey, good job, ChockFull! That was quick.

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Wow. A Botticelli win and a first place Feud finish in the same week. I should buy a lottery ticket.

I’ll be meetings all afternoon, so I won’t be able to respond for a while. I’ll start you off with…
G

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IQ: In a classic movie, did you swashbuckle your way toward revenge disguising your identity as a weird clown?

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IQ: Did you also answer to Tharkun, Mithrandir and Olorin?

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Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
I know the movie but…drawing a blank on the actors and/or character names…
Ask a DQ.

No, I am not Gandalf.

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IQ: Is your writing quoted on the Canadian $20 bill?

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“This note is legal tender”?? Um…Government official?

Last time I was in Canada (1990s) the $20 had a loon on it. Don’t remember any quotes. Have they changed the currency again?

Ask a DQ.

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IQ: Are you friend to all children?

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Scaramouche–great movie. Stewart Granger–great role!

DQ: Are you fictional?

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The current issue of paper money, the “Canadian Journey” series, features literary quotations on each of the $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 notes. The $20. features the quotation “Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?”, the English translation of « Nous connaîtrions-nous seulement un peu nous-mêmes, sans les arts? » - Gabrielle Roy (1909–1983), from her novel La Montagne secrète (The Hidden Mountain).

DQ: Are you a female?

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I was counting on someone remembering my Greatest Passion In Life. :wink:

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IQ: Do you have a problem with avoiding trees?

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IQ: Do you often talk about a certain place in Mist County?

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No, I am not Gamera

No, I am not George of the Jungle

No, I am not Garrison Keillor

As for DQs:

  1. Yes, I am fictional
  2. No, I am not female
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IQ: Do you have a tendency to level Tokyo?

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IQ: Are you a particularly idiotic Marine?

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IQ: Did you attack the mead hall, killing and eating anyone you found there, until slain by a hero?