Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
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IQ1: Are you an animated mannequin who was nabbed by the Psychedelic Circus?
IQ2: Was your Golden Age true identity Dan Garret, and your Silver Age identity Dan Garrett?
IQ3: Did you claim to Superman that you were hired to destroy Krypton?

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IQ1: Were your given names “George Herman”?
IQ2: Is a type of belt often worn with military uniforms named for you?
IQ3: Did you command two expeditions to carry breadfruit trees from the South Pacific to the West Indies?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. American, but not “United States of America” American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not a recording artist
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Take a DQ for #1.
I am not the Blue Beetle.
Unless number 3 is Brainiac (which I am not), take a DQ.

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I am not Babe Ruth. Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Correct.
Sam Browne.
William Bligh. (The first expedition wasn’t successful…)
DQ1: Actor?
DQ2: From a North American or Caribbean country?
One DQ reserved.

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The “Saturday Night Massacre” was when Robert Bork fired Watergate investigator Archibald Cox, at Richard Nixon’s request.

Irish author Maeve Binchy wrote chick lit classics like Tara Road.

DQ1) Born after 1900?

Will reserve one other DQ

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. American, but not “United States of America” American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not a recording artist
  8. Not an actor
  9. From South America
  10. Born before 1900
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IQ1: Are you a pseudo-redneck movie critic?
IQ2: Do you live in a hut on chicken legs?
IQ3: Did you write a series of books about a Honolulu detective?

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  1. I am not Joe Bob Briggs.
  2. I am not Baba Yaga.
    Take a DQ for #3.
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Brother Power the Geek, correct, Black Zero

DQ: Artist in visual media?
holding a DQ

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Correct.
Correct.
Earl Derr Biggers (Charlie Chan).
Two DQs reserved.

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IQ1: Are you a Sliver Age Superman foe whose role was filled by people hypnotized by Dr. Peter Silverstone?
IQ2: Are you an Inferior Five member who flies at super low speeds?
IQ3: Are you a Golden Age Justice Society of America foe who masqueraded as a psychiatrist and projected thought images to commit crime?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. American, but not “United States of America” American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not a recording artist
  8. Not an actor
  9. From South America
  10. Born before 1900
  11. Not an artist

By which I mean painter, printmaker, illustrator, sculptor, graphic designer, fashion designer, set designer, makeup artist, etc., etc., etc.

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I am not Blackrock.
I am not the Blimp.
I am not Brainwave.

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DQ: Born in a country on the west coast of South America?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Dead
  5. American, but not “United States of America” American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not a recording artist
  8. Not an actor
  9. From South America
  10. Born before 1900
  11. Not an artist
  12. Not from a country on the west coast of South America
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Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen and Bill Withers.

IQ: Were you an Argentine who wrote A Universal History of Infamy?

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Yes! I am poet and short story writer Jorge Luis Borges! Good job, Baffle.