Botticelli - June 2019

Thread Games
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DQ: 'Nonymous Writer?

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Huh. I really did not expect this to go into endgame…

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Time’s up! I am aeronautical engineer and novelist Nevil Shute Norway, better known as Nevil Shute, author of On the Beach, A Town Like Alice, and over twenty other books. I used the pseudonym to protect my engineering career from any negative publicity which might result from my novels.
Wiki: Nevil Shute - Wikipedia

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Good guess!

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Ah, yes. Of course I know Nevil Shute. I’ve read On the Beach. Just couldn’t think of him. Good job.

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Well, I don’t feel so :smack:-y after all. I would never have gotten that.

Anyway, on to the big O!

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I’ve read On the Beach. I know of Nevil Shute. A good round.

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Agreed on all counts!

O

it is.

IQs:

Did you help teach Cal Rodgers the skill that would take him to an important “first” and national fame?
Did you head the Freedmen Bureau during Reconstruction?
Did you scheme to collect sperm from famous men of the early 1900s?

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O it isn’t – I’ve thought of a good name to use, so I’m going to jump forward a bit.
I am S.

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IQs:

  1. Were you Underdog’s archenemy?
  2. Did you have a hit with *Graceland *?
  3. Were you Barney Google’s racehorse?
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S, eh? Hmm. A little sorry we won’t finish this alphabetical run.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his SECSTATE?

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Not Simon Bar Sinister.
DQ.
DQ.

I know Stanton was one of the first two. A coin flip says…

DQ.
Not Stanton.
Not … Seward?

Whoever wins can backtrack to O, and we can continue from there, skipping S. I just didn’t want to have to wait a few months until another chance came around. :slight_smile:

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#1 is correct.
#2 was Paul Simon.
#3 was Spark Plug.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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IQs:

  1. Did you write On The Beach?
  2. Were you one of a pair who heckled the Muppets?
  3. Did you create the detective Philo Vance?
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Not Nevil Shute. :smiley:
Not Statler.
DQ.

S.

  1. Real
  2. Female
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Correct, correct, and S. S. Van Dine.

DQ: Last name starts with S?

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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron
Were you his second? - Yes, Edwin Stanton
Were you his SECSTATE? - Yes, William Seward

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Do you have the large stone head of an Olmec war god in your basement?
Do you work for the man who gave that stone carving?
Are you the favorite bartender of the first person?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a bad ol’ puddy tat?
  2. Were you the author of the Baby Ballads?
  3. Were you Tom Hanks’s best friend on his first TV Series?
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Three DQs.

Not Sylvester.
Assuming you mean the Bab Ballads, I am not W S Gilbert. If not, DQ.
DQ. (Tom Hanks had a TV series? More than one??)

S.

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with S
  4. Living
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IQ1: Are you a female black woman who ran for US President in 1972?
IQ2: Is a drink made with ginger ale and a splash of grenadine, garnished with a maraschino cherry named after you?
IQ3: Did you provide the voice in the soundtrack to Goldfinger? (bah-wah-wah-wahhhh)