Botticelli - June, 2014

Thread Games
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1 am not Champollion. (Not sure I spelled that correctly)
Take 2 DQs for the last two.

22

First two are correct. Third was actually Cleopatra.

DQ: Died before 1800?

23

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.
  8. Died before 1800.
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Previous IQs:

Did you decipher the Rosetta Stone? - Yes, Champollion.
Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood.
Although a great athlete, did you insist that you were no one’s role model? - Charles Barkley.

DQs:

European?
Best known for the creative arts?

IQs:

Were you one of the most noteworthy Emperors of Humanity in Asimov’s Foundation series?
Did you have a torrid affair with a married man on Hilton Head?
Were you both a jurist and a onetime candidate for President?

25

IQ1: Are you a Russian monarch with an alleged fatal love for horses?
IQ2: Were you married to Agamemnon?
IQ3: Did you succeed Marcos as President of the Philippines?

26

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.
  8. Died before 1800.
  9. European.
  10. Not known for the creative arts.
27

I am not Cleon.
Take 2 DQs for the last two.

28

I am not Catherine the Great.
I am not Clytemnestra.
Take a DQ for #3.

29

3 is Corazon Aquino.

DQ: Royalty?

30

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.
  8. Died before 1800.
  9. European.
  10. Not known for the creative arts.
  11. Not royalty.
31

My IQ was referring to Camille Pissarro

DQ: Born west of the Rhine?

IQ1: Are you a ballet dancer born in Belgium?
IQ2: Are you a Spanish writer who moved to New Spain?
IQ3: Did you assassinate an American president and was hanged for that reason?

32

IQ1: Were you Andromeda’s mother?
IQ2: Were you Andromeda’s father?
IQ3: Was Andromeda was chained to a rock to await you before you got killed by Perseus?

33

I am not Cepheus, Cassiopeia or Cetus.

34

Take DQs for the first 2. I’m not Leon Czolgosz.

35

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.
  8. Died before 1800.
  9. European.
  10. Not known for the creative arts.
  11. Not royalty.
  12. Born west of the Rhine.
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Previous IQs:

Were you one of the most noteworthy Emperors of Humanity in Asimov’s Foundation series? - Yes, Cleon.
Did you have a torrid affair with a married man on Hilton Head? - Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, during the Civil War. It wasn’t discovered until many years later when her journals were published.
Were you both a jurist and a onetime candidate for President? - Charles Evans Hughes, who served on the Supreme Court (twice, I think) and also narrowly lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

DQs:

British?
Died before 1700?

IQs:

Were you known as “the Mountain who Rides?”
Are you that guy’s brother?
Did you say that you and your sister “are all kinds of things to each other”?

37

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.
  8. Died before 1800.
  9. European.
  10. Not known for the creative arts.
  11. Not royalty.
  12. Born west of the Rhine.
  13. Not British
  14. Died after 1700.
38

I am neither Gregor nor Sandor Clegane.
Since #3 isn’t Jaime Lannister, take a DQ.

39

IQ1: Did you only pay 5c for a psychiatrist visit?
IQ2: Did you found a company that markets, among other things, a substance called “No. 5”?
IQ3: Were you Rhoda’s doorman?

40

IQ1. Were you Queen of France and blamed for the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?
IQ2: Were you a ballet dancer and the first woman to execute the entrechat quatre?
IQ3: Did you write Silent Spring?