Botticelli - June 2017

Thread Games
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IQ1: Are you a New Orleans native, platinum selling singer who also has musical siblings?
IQ2: Are you the frequently imperiled object of affection for a dim-witted but ever-optimistic law enforcement officer?
IQ3: Did you dress like a bear, cavort with a python, and turn into a cat?

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IQ1: Were you a Confederate cavalry commander known as The Wizard of the Saddle?
IQ2: Did you write The Scarlet Letter?
IQ3: Did you play Captain Malcolm Reynolds on Firefly?

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Not Nick Marsalis (guessing), not Nelle, and dunno

Not Nathan Bedford Forrest, Nathaniel Hawthorne or Nathan Fillion

N.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with N
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. died after 1954
  8. never served in elective office (state level or above)
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#1. Whatwhatwhatwhatwhat, it’s Neddie Seagoon! (I don’t wish to know that.)
#2 is Nebula.
#3 was correct.

DQs:

  1. Known for business?
  2. Died after 2000?
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IQ1 was Aaron Neville

Correct on IQ2 (Nell Fenwick from the Dudley Do-Right cartoons)

IQ3 is Nastassja Kinski (bear costume in The Hotel New Hampshire; the snake pin-up poster; and Cat People)

DQ: Known for a professional sport?
DQ: Reserved

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IQs:

  1. Did Greta Garbo star as you in the title role of a 1930’s film?
  2. Are you afraid of Christmas?
  3. Did you have hits with Gold In The Summertime and Headphones?
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Not Ninotchka; dunno x2.

N.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with N
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. died after 1954
  8. never served in elective office (state level or above)
  9. known for business
  10. died before 2000
  11. not known for a professional sport
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DQ: Known for a business making or selling tangible objects??

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DQ: Was business involvement related to mainstream media (i.e., television, movie, newspaper, or magazine)?

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Correct on #1.
Someone who is afraid of Christmas is a Noel Coward.
#3 is Matt Nathanson.

2 DQs reserved.

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Booooooo!

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IQ1: Are you an 80’s era synthesizer musician who had a hit with Cars?
IQ2: Are you a founding member of the bands Duran Duran and Arcadia?
IQ3: Are you a Spinal Tap member portrayed by Christopher Guest?

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IQ1: Were you a whiny, spoiled, conniving brat who (along with your nasty mother) looked down on fine prairie folks?
IQ2: Were you a Pro-Bowl offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys who was later jailed for transporting almost 400 pounds of marijuana?
IQ3: Were you an American satirist known for penning the novels Miss Lonelyhearts and Day of the Locust?

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Please ask the next person you see to slap you upside the head a few times…

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IQ1: Did Boaz marry your son’s widow?
IQ2: Did Peter Ustinov officially work as your servant in the 1940s?
IQ3: Were you the CENTCOM commander in 1990?

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That really was a gawdawful pun, Prof. P. - but I’ll allow it.

Dunno, dunno and not Nigel Tufnel

Dunno x2; not Nathaniel West

Dunno, not David Niven, and not Norman Schwarzkopf

N.

  1. real
  2. last name starts with N
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. American
  6. not known for the Arts
  7. died after 1954
  8. never served in elective office (state level or above)
  9. known for business
  10. died before 2000
  11. not known for a professional sport
  12. not known for a business making or selling tangible objects
  13. business involvement related to mainstream media (i.e., television, movie, newspaper, or magazine)
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Gary Numan, Nick Rhodes, correct

Now I have to think of IQ puns…

DQ: Associated with newspapers?

holding a DQ

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IQ1 was Nellie Oleson, from Little House on the Prairie TV show
IQ2 is Nate Newton

2DQ’s reserved.

IQ: Did you found a market research company that innovated the concept of “Market Share” and is also widely used to measure TV ratings?

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Ding ding ding! Yes indeedy, I am

Arthur Nielsen

AKA the Neilsen ratings guy: Arthur Nielsen - Wikipedia

Good job, divemaster!

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Good one, dm!