Botticelli June 2023

Thread Games
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I concur wholeheartedly.

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As do I.

W it is.

IQs:

Were you a prominent British abolitionist?
Were you a prominent American abolitionist and editor of The Liberator?
Are you known for your photos of dogs dressed in human clothing?

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No. 1 was George Wishart. Correct on Nos. 2 and 3.

DQ:
Known for music?

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I think I should get credit for knowing Kaiser Wilhelm had one arm shorter than the other, but not for assuming his grandfather would be also be named Wilhelm, knowing literally nothing else about the grandfather, including number.

Respectively:
I am not William Wilberforce.
See, I can guess this is another William, but I shouldn’t get credit just for saying William.
I am not William Wegman.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. living
4. born before 1970
5. last name starts with W
6. known for the arts
7. not known for music

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IQs:

  1. Are you an Anglo-Irish writer, better-known in your lifetime for your plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance Of Being Earnest than for the novel for which you are most famous now?

  2. Are you an expatriate American artist whose most famous work, “An Arrangement In Gray And Black”, is better known by its nickname?

  3. Did you direct Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and Some Like It Hot?

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You’ll notice I didn’t claim DQs for either of them.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a prominent British abolitionist? - Yes, William Wilberforce
Were you a prominent American abolitionist and editor of The Liberator? - The irascible William Lloyd Garrison
Are you known for your photos of dogs dressed in human clothing? - Yes, William Wegman

William x3!

DQ:

Known for the performing arts?

IQs:

Did you fall just one vote shy of becoming President in 1868?
Did you have a horse named Nelson and a dog named Sweetlips?
Did you found Western Union?

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1. I am not Oscar Wilde.
2. I am not James McNeil Whistler.
3. I am not Billy Wilder.

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not George Washington.
Take a DQ.

DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. born before 1970
  5. last name starts with W
  6. known for the arts
  7. not known for music
  8. known for the performing arts
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Previous IQs:

Did you fall just one vote shy of becoming President in 1868? - Sen. “Bluff Ben” Wade of Ohio, during Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial; Wade was next in line
Did you have a horse named Nelson and a dog named Sweetlips? - Yes, George Washington
Did you found Western Union? - Jeptha Wade

DQs:

Best known as an actor?
American?

IQs:

Did JFK put you on SCOTUS?
Were you a noted Gilded Age architect?
Were you the secretive billionaire, loosely based on Howard Hughes, in Diamonds Are Forever?

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IQs:

  1. Are you best remembered for playing Tarzan?
  2. Were you Ronald Reagan’s first wife?
  3. Did you write Tracticus Logico-Philosophicus?
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Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Willard Whyte.

1. I am not Johnny Weissmuller.
2. I am not Jane Wyman.
3. I am not Ludwig Wittgenstein.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. living
4. born before 1970
5. last name starts with W
6. known for the arts
7. not known for music
8. known for the performing arts
9. best known as an actor
10. American

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Previous IQs:

Did JFK put you on SCOTUS? - Justice Byron “Whizzer” White
Were you a noted Gilded Age architect? - Stanford White, killed by his lover’s jealous husband
Were you the secretive billionaire, loosely based on Howard Hughes, in Diamonds Are Forever? - Yes, Willard Whyte

DQs:

Leading man?
Best known for movies?

IQs:

Have you played an ADA, a law school dean and a POTUS?
Did you die not long after completing the filming of your role in Stripes?
Did you play Commodore Matt Decker?

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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Moonstone, considered to be the first police procedural?

  2. Were you the Republican nominee for President in 1940?

  3. Did you steal a magic ring, setting in motion a chain of events lasting for years, and chronicled over the course of four stories?

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Swept me twice!

IQs:

  1. Were you known as “the Honky Tonk Heroine”?
  2. Did you appear with Dan Fogelberg on the album Twin Sons of Different Mothers?
  3. Were you Bob Elliott’s radio interviewer character?
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Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Warren Oates.
I am not William Windom.

1. I am not Wilkie Collins.
2. I am not the previously-used Wendell Willkie.
3. Take a DQ.

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Wally Ballou.

DQs:

1. real
2. male
3. living
4. born before 1970
5. last name starts with W
6. known for the arts
7. not known for music
8. known for the performing arts
9. best known as an actor
10. American
11. leading man
12. best known for movies

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#1 was Kitty Wells.
#2 is Tim Weisberg.
Correct on Wally.

DQs:

  1. Known for comedies?
  2. Common last name?
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The Honky Tonk Heroine, upon correction, was Jean Shepherd. So just go with

DQ: Common last name?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the title character in Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Sorcerer?
  2. Were you the protagonist in Ringworld?
  3. Did Billie Hayes play you on H. R. Pufnstuf?
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Correct on Nos. 1 and 2. No. 3 was me being a bit sneaky: the answer is Wotan, whose theft, loss, and subsequent attempts to reclaim the magic ring crafted by Alberich the Dwarf is the driver of the Ring of the Nibelung cycle.

One DQ reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a smith from Germanic mythology, said to have forged Excalibur and the paladin Roland’s sword Durendal?

  2. Were you a former newspaper editor and adulterer who conducted the last “front-porch” campaign for the Presidency?

  3. Did missing a flight save your life, allowing you to subsequently release country music’s first platinum album?