Botticelli - June, 2014

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Were you known as “the Mountain who Rides?” - correct as to the Cleganes from Game of Thrones.
Are you that guy’s brother? - Ditto.
Did you say that you and your sister “are all kinds of things to each other”? - Hillbilly idol Cletus Spuckler on The Simpsons.

DQ:

French?

IQs:

Are you a longtime cast member of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Have you played an Army helicopter pilot and a Navy diver?
Did you play Hit-Girl’s dad?

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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.
  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.
  15. French.
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I am not Charlie Brown.
I am not Coco Chanel.
I am not Carlton.

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I am not Rachel Carson. Take DQs for the first two.

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I am not Colin Mochrie.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not Nicholas Cage.

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Don’t think I’d ever heard of Sleuth - I was thinking of Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve in Deathtrap.
Correct on Cassius Clay.
DQ: Notable for being someone’s mistress?
IQ1: Did you kill a man in his bathtub?
IQ2: Were you a Roundhead leader?
IQ3: Are you the Duchess of Cambridge?

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Yes, I am Charlotte Corday!

Well done, SCAdian!

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That was my next guess. Not.

Mine were Catherine de’ Medici and Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo.

Congrats, SCAdian!

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Way to go, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Are you a longtime cast member of Whose Line Is It Anyway? - Yes, Colin Mochrie.
Have you played an Army helicopter pilot and a Navy diver? - Cuba Gooding, Jr., in Outbreak and Men of Honor.
Did you play Hit-Girl’s dad? - Yes, Nicolas Cage in Kick-Ass.

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Well done, SCAdian!

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Would you believe I first heard of Charlotte Corday in an Addams Family novel I read back around fourth grade? The other two, just for the record, were Oliver Cromwell and Catherine Middleton.
Looking at EH’s recently updated list, I see that O, X, Y, and Z are the only letters that haven’t been used yet this year. I’m not feeling adventurous enough to try X, Y or Z, and the only ‘O’ who comes readily to mind is Otto Kretschmer, who is probably a little too obscure for most of you. So I guess I will try …

R.
By the way, for the new people who’ve joined us recently: I don’t have internet access at work, so I’m only available in the evening or on my days off.

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IQs:

  1. Were you a sidekick to the Hulk, Captain America and Captain Marvel?
  2. Were you assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan?
  3. Did you have a hit with The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face?
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Neither Rick Jones, RFK, nor … Roberta Flack?

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IQ1: Did you write James and the Giant Peach?
IQ2: Are you a 16th century Spanish priest who had a chess opening named after him?
IQ3: Are you a standup comic who told the police your alias was Tater Salad?

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Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Are you Cliff Steele’s alter-ego?
  2. Are you Romulus & Remus’s mother?
  3. Were you one of Freud’s proteges?
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IQs:

Were you commanding officer of His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur?
Were you the mostly-dumb brother of the lead character in a show described as Touched by a Redneck?
Were Gandalf and Saruman colleagues of yours?

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Not Roald Dahl, Ruy Lopez or Ron White.

Three DQs.

DQs for the first two.
Not Radagast the Brown.

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Ouch, triple denied!

IQ1: Were you the 2nd-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles in 1985?
IQ2: Did you wear the face you keep in a jar by the door?
IQ3: Did Leo Tolstoy invite you to perform at his home, but gave you and Beethoven derogatory comments after your performance?

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#1 is Robotman from The Doom Patrol. #2 is Rhea Silva. # was Otto Rank.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name start with R?
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DQ.
Not Eleanor Rigby.
Not … Rimsky-Korsakov?

R

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with R