Botticelli - June 2022

Thread Games
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#1 was Queen Zixi of Ix.
#2 was Roger Zelany.
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. From a series of movies?
  2. From a comedy?
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IQs:

  1. Did Bert Lahr play you in The Wizard of Oz besides playing the Lion?
  2. Did you lead the return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity?
  3. Did you play Laura Holt in Remington Steele?
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Dingdingding! Yes, I am

Zeke

the Kansas farmhand from The Wizard of Oz and (as I just learned) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011): Hunk, Hickory, and Zeke | Pooh's Adventures Wiki | Fandom

Well done, Prof. P.!

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Thanks.

Our next letter (having consulted EH’s useful chart) is

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IQ1: Are you King Arthur’s father?
IQ2: Did you write The Name of the Rose?
IQ3: Were you the first cinematic “Bond girl”?

86
  1. I am not Uther Pendragon.
  2. I am not Umberto Eco.
  3. I am not Ursula Undress, er, Andress.
87

Sweep!

IQ1: Are you a German exchange student at Springfield Elementary?
IQ2: Was your catchphrase “Did I do that?”
IQ3: Are you Shoeshine Boy’s alter-ego?

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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Urkel.
#3. I am not Underdog.

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Üter Zörker from The Simpsons
Correct on the other two.

DQ: Real?

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DQ:

  1. Real
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U it is.

IQs:

Were you a scheming British Prime Minister?
Were you a scheming U.S. President?
Did you sing “Scream” and “More”?

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IQ1: Were you name checked in a Fall Out Boy song that also sampled The Munsters theme?
IQ2: Are you Principal Krupp’s alter-ego?
IQ3: Are you notorious for directing terrible film adaptations of video games?

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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Ulysses S. Grant.
#3. I am not Leslie Uggams (??)

#1. I am not Uncle Fester (??)
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Uwe Boll.

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Uma Thurman, from the song of the same name
Captain Underpants - apparently you didn’t have elementary school-age children in the 00s
Correct

DQs
Female?
Last name starts with U?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a scheming British Prime Minister? - Francis Urquhart, in the British House of Cards
Were you a scheming U.S. President? - For all his many faults, I don’t think I’ve ever heard Grant described as “scheming” - this was Frank Underwood, in the American House of Cards
Did you sing “Scream” and “More”? - The R&B singer Usher

DQs:

Living?
Best known for the Arts?
American?

IQs:

Were you an early UN Secretary-General?
Were you a top Kennedy Administration diplomat?
Did the Alan Parsons Project have a song about you on their first album?

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IQ1: Do you fiddle about?
IQ2: Have you played a Roman Emporer, a Belgian detective, and a pirate’s ghost?
IQ3: Were you the other guy who organized Live Aid - not Bob Geldolf, the other one?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with U
  4. Dead
  5. Best known for the Arts
  6. American
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#1. I am not U Thant.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Roderick Usher.

#1. I am not Uncle Ernie.
#2. I am not Peter Ustinov.
#3. Take a DQ.

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Yes, Yes, Midge Ure

DQ: Died before 1950?

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IQ1: Did you sue Nintendo because they turned you “into an evil, occult Pokemon character”?
IQ2: Did you write the famous muckracking novel The Jungle?
IQ3: Are you the alias used by a certain hobbit while traveling?