Botticelli - June 2021

Thread Games
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Good job, DLR!

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted member of the Spanish Inquisition? - Cardinal Ximenez
Did you head a school for unusual children in upstate New York? - Prof. Charles Xavier
Were you the U.S. Marine Corps commandant in the 1980s? - Paul X. Kelley

Right, then. On to J!

IQs:

Did William Styron write, 30-some years later, about how much he enjoyed smoking cigars with you?
Were you that person’s spouse?
Were you that person’s son?

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IQs:

  1. Did you portray Catwoman?
  2. Did you receive your most recent Emmy nomination in 2019 for your role in a Ryan Murphy show?
  3. Is his name my name, too?
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IQs:

  1. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?
  2. On the highly acclaimed 1950’s all-leather BBC radio series The Goon Show did you regularly report when someone had fallen in the wa-ter?
  3. Did you star in Cinderfella?
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Respectively:
I am not John F. Kennedy.
I am not Jacqueline Kennedy.
I am not John F. Kennedy, Jr.

1. I am not Julie Newmar.
2. I am not Jessica Lange?
3. I am not John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt DA DA DA DA DA DA DA

1. I am not J. Wellington Wimpy.
2. Take a DQ. James Moriarty?
3. I am not Jerry Lewis.

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Correct on Wimpy.
Not Count Jim “Eraserneck” Moriarty, but Little Jim.
Correct on Jerry.

DQ: Real?

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Swept me!

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s senior White House aide?
Were you another one?
Does a painting of you in colorful robes hang in the U.S. Supreme Court building?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn Christ the Lord is risen today?
  2. Did you write the Gregor Demarkian series of detective stories?
  3. Did you have a hit with the song Diamonds and Rust?
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Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Justice?

Take 3 DQs.

1. real

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#1 was John Wesley.
#2 was Jane Haddam.
#3 was Joan Baez.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. American?
  3. Living?
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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s senior White House aide? - John Nicolay
Were you another one? - John Hay
Does a painting of you in colorful robes hang in the U.S. Supreme Court building? - This dude (and I have stood in front of this very painting: John Jay - Wikipedia)

John x3!

DQs:

First name start with J?
Political/military?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Elizabeth Banks play your secretary?
Were you taken in by the Red-Headed League?
Were you cloned from a slain President who sounded an awful lot like, but was never actually named as, JFK?

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Respectively:
I am not J. Jonah Jameson.
I am not Jabez Stone.
I am not Joshua Kellogg.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. American
4. living
5. first name starts with J
6. political/military

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Correct on the first and third, but the second was Jabez Wilson.

DQ:

Best known for politics?

IQs:

A fictional bad guy, did you and your brother have the same first name?
Were you the first SECDEF in the Trump Cabinet?
Did Records Officer Finney hate you?

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IQs:

  1. Did you serve as translator to the U.S. Ambassador to Russia while a teenager?
  2. Did you write Born Free?
  3. Were you an American painter whose work inspired the Pop Art movement?
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Respectively:
I am not James Moriarty.
I am not James Mattis.
I am not J. Tiberius Kirk.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not John Barry.
3. I am not Jasper Johns.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. American
4. living
5. first name starts with J
6. political/military
7. best known for politics

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Swept me! James x3.

IQs:

Were you a longtime Republican senator from Alabama?
Are you the second Catholic man elected President of the United States?
Are you his wife?

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#1 was John Quincy Adams.
#2 was Joy Adamson.
Correct on Jasper.

DQs:

  1. Born before 1960?
  2. Federal office holder?
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I am not Jeff Sessions, but I am indeed Joe Biden! (I’m also not Dr. Jill Biden.)

Next game goes to Elendil’s Heir.

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Good one, EH!

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Thanks, DLR! Haven’t had a President as a Botticelli subject in quite awhile - and the incumbent, I think, never. I was thinking of Jeremiah Denton for the senator from Alabama, but Jefferson Beauregard Sessions works, too.

For our next letter let’s go with

L

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IQs:

  1. Are you the title character in a book by Vladimir Nabokov?
  2. Did you do the farm reports on WKRP in Cincinnati?
  3. Did you create a collection of puzzles over a hundred years ago that is still in print today?