Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you use an unusual form of leverage to try to bring about peace? - Yes, Lysistrata (no sex for you men until you stop fighting!).
Did you lead the Spartans at Thermopylae? - Leonidas.
Were you Emperor of Humanity at the time of the events in The Mote in God’s Eye? - Another monarch named Leonidas.

DQs:

Royalty?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you write I Discover Columbus?
Were you Dr. Zhivago’s true love?
Did a colleague doubt your ability to bear a child?

242

Wow, you’re good.

Yes, I am Lucy, the three-million-year old Austrolopithecine hominid discovered by Louis Leakey in Ethiopia in 1974. Congratulations again.

243

You seem to have misspelled “Donald Johanson.” :smiley:

244

Huh, I’d always thought it was Louis. Wiki says is was Donald Johanson working with Tom Gray. I stand corrected.

245

Good one! Probably the oldest-named person you could play in Botticelli. If you see the Scarlett Johansson movie Lucy, the Austrolopithecine female makes a small but important appearance.

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Toumai (Sahelanthropus tchadensis): ~7 Mya
Ardi (Ardipithecus ramidus): ~4.4 Mya
Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis): ~3.2 Mya

Toumai and Ardi may not be hominins.
And let’s not forget Sue (Tyrannosaurus rex): 65.5-67 Mya :slight_smile:

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Back to me, eh? Okay… let’s try D

248

Yeah, but Toumai and Ardi didn’t get the book deal Lucy did.

IQs:

  1. Were you perpetually pestered on your TV series by a marionette named Umbriago?
  2. Are you referred to in Rocky’s one solo song in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
  3. Are you Hugh Lofting’s best known character?
249

IQ1: Did you go on a long journey with Abner Perry?
IQ2: Did you play a surgeon, a tank commander, an IRA member, and a train robber?
IQ3: Did you write stories about the second son of the duke of Denver and his (the son’s, that is) valet, Bunter?

250

IQ1: Are you an NBA center who now plays for the Houston Rockets because you couldn’t get along with Kobe Bryant when you were with the LA Lakers?
IQ2: Are you a country singer who had a role as an abusive boyfriend in Slingblade?
IQ3: Did you pitch for the NY Mets when they won the World Series in 1986, then do the same for the NY Yankees in 1996 and 2000?

251

Not Dr . Doolittle

Take DQs for 1 and 2

252

Not Donald Sutherland or Dorothy Sayers

Take a DQ for 1

253

Not Dwight Howard, Dwight Yoakum, or Dwight Gooden.

254

IQ1: Were you the primary founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel?
IQ2: In the night before the invasion of the Syria–Lebanon Campaign, did a French bullet take out your eye while you were looking through binoculars?
IQ3: Did you establish a united kingdom over all Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, almost 1000 years before the birth of Christ?

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David Innes, in the Pellucidar novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Correct on the other two.
DQ: Real?

256

Not David Ben-Gurion. Moshe Dayan or King David

257

SUMMARY

  1. Real person
258

Correct on Dr. Dolittle.
#1 was Jimmy Durante.
#2 is Damocles (“The sword of Damocles is hangin’ over my head [that ain’t no crime]”)

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Male?
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IQs:

  1. Are you the eponymous character in a Rudyard Kipling poem?
  2. Did you play the Watcher in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie?
  3. Were you one of Jimmy Nelson’s ventriloquist dummies?
260

I don’t like it when astorian is the quizmaster. He keeps sweeping me.

IQ1: Did your cousin strangle you to get the ring you just found in the Gladden river?
IQ2: Are you Faramir and Boromir’s father?
IQ3: Were you the first dwarf to bear one of the seven rings of Sauron?