Botticelli - June, 2014

Thread Games
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Happy June, everyone!

I am C!

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Answers from the previous game:

Correct on Don Quixote.
Dannay was one of two authors (I can never remember the other’s name) who wrote together as Ellery Queen.
Ellery Queen Jr.
IQ1: That famous day in history, did a young man tell you he didn’t want to go?
IQ2: Did you and your girlfriend go on an interstate killing spree in the late 1950s?
IQ3: Was Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnapping and killing your son?

(I’ll try to get back here more often…)

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I’m not Gen. George Armstrong Custer.
Take a DQ for #2.
I’m not Charles Lindbergh.

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IQs:

Are you the Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals?
Are you the monarch in that novel?
Did you record “letters” to your sister from your tent?

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Take 3 DQs.

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Are you a painter born in the Danish West Indies?
Did you lead the Free French Forces during WWII?
Are you the father of taxonomy?

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I should know the first, but take a DQ.
I am not Charles DeGaulle.
I am not Carl Linnaeus.

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IQ1: Were you a fictional death row inmate with a strange healing power?
IQ2: Were you both a pro baseball player and The Rifleman?
IQ3: Realizing your prom was bloody awful, did you go home to kill your mother?

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Take a DQ for #1. I’m not Chuck Connors. I’m not Carrie.

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Correct on Chuck Connors and Carrie. The death row inmate was John Coffey (“Like the drink, only not spelled the same”), from Stephen King’s “The Green Mile.”

DQ: Real?

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DQs:

  1. Real.
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Correct on Custer.
Charlie Starkweather.
Correct on Lindbergh.
DQ: American?
IQ1: Did you play a man who kissed his gay lover in a movie about a play?
IQ2: Did you play a man who kissed his gay lover in a movie about a play
IQ3: Are you a heavyweight boxing champion better known under another name?

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Previous IQs:

Are you the Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals? - Charles Hampton
Are you the monarch in that novel? - King Charles III (the conclusion was set in the near future)
Did you record “letters” to your sister from your tent? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on MASH*.

DQs:

Male?
Living?
Last name start with C?

IQs:

Were you an “an ice-devouring sex tornado”?
Did you play Aeon Flux?
Did you almost single-handedly stop a military coup in your country?

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DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not American.
  3. Female.
  4. Dead.
  5. Last name starts with C.
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1 or 2: I am not Michael Caine. (Sleuth)
Take a DQ for the other.
#3. I am not Cassius Clay.

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I am not Charlize Theron. Take DQs for 1 and 3.

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IQ1: Did you write The Mousetrap?
IQ2: Did you discover radioactivity and radium?
IQ3: Are you an Egyptian pharaoh who was brought up speaking Greek, but learned Egyptian later?

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I am not Dame Agatha Christie. I am not Marie Curie. I am not Cheops.

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Previous IQs:

Were you an “an ice-devouring sex tornado”? - Chazz Michael Michaels (Will Ferrell), thus described in Blades of Glory.
Did you play Aeon Flux? - Yes, Charlize Theron.
Did you almost single-handedly stop a military coup in your country? - King Juan Carlos of Spain, in the early Eighties.

DQs:

Died since 1900?
Have a famous husband?

IQs:

Did you decipher the Rosetta Stone?
Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar?
Although a great athlete, did you insist that you were no one’s role model?

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DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not American.
  3. Female.
  4. Dead.
  5. Last name starts with C.
  6. Died before 1900.
  7. Did not have a famous husband.