Botticelli June 2023

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Is your most famous creation a Janitor who was burned to death.
  2. Did you write and illustrate the graphic novel “Dropsie Avenue”.
  3. Did you write a series of short stories about the loves won a lost by the relatives of a Mr. Mulliner?
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1. I am not John Worthington Wells.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Witchiepoo.

1. I am not Wayland.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Waylon Jennings.

1. I am not Wes Craven.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not P.G. Wodehouse.

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, has also had a side gig recently
9. best known as an actor
10. American
11. leading man
12. best known for movies
13. name not as common as Smith or Jones or Brown, but not really unusual either

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Previous IQs:

Have you played an ADA, a law school dean and a POTUS? - Sam Waterston, in Law & Order, On the Basis of Sex and Lincoln
Did you die not long after completing the filming of your role in Stripes? - Yes, Warren Oates
Did you play Commodore Matt Decker? - Yes, William Windom

DQ:

Considered handsome?

IQs:

Were you a noted Brit with the middle name Ewart?
Did you hail from Auburn, N.Y. and had the middle name Henry?
Did your bloated corpse have to be forced, very stinkily, into a too-small coffin?

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Correct, Louis Wu, Correct.

1 DQ reserved.

DQs:

  1. Did you play Mork & Mindy’s baby?
  2. Did you play the hero in Die Hard?
  3. Did you play the hero in The Book of Eli?
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  1. Will Eisner
    Other two correct.

DQ: Made a movie in the last 2 years?

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Correct on Nos. 1 and 3; No. 2 was Warren G. Harding.

DQs (one earned this round and one reserved):

  1. African-American?
  2. Usually plays good guys?
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Respectively:
I am not William Ewart Gladstone.
I am not Warren Oates.
I am not William Windom.

1. I am not Jonathan Winters
2. I am not Bruce Willis.
3. I am not Denzel Washington.

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, has also had a side gig recently
9. best known as an actor
10. American
11. leading man
12. best known for movies
13. name not as common as Smith or Jones or Brown, but not really unusual either
14. rugged, chiseled features
15. Has not made a movie in the last 2 years (but has appeared in a documentary)
16. white
17. most famous character is a “good guy”

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and swept me.

DQ: Last name starts with Wa -to- Wh?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Joe Friday on Dragnet?
  2. Did you voice Simon Pegg’s dog in Absolutely Anything?
  3. Are you the central character in Death of a Salesman?
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Previous IQs:

Were you a noted Brit with the middle name Ewart? - Yes, the late PM William Gladstone
Did you hail from Auburn, N.Y. and had the middle name Henry? - William Seward, Lincoln’s SECSTATE
Did your bloated corpse have to be forced, very stinkily, into a too-small coffin? - William the Conqueror

William x3!

DQs:

Won an Oscar?

One DQ reserved.

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1. I am not Jack Webb.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Willy Loman.

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, has also had a side gig recently
9. best known as an actor
10. American
11. leading man
12. best known for movies
13. name not as common as Smith or Jones or Brown, but not really unusual either
14. rugged, chiseled features
15. Has not made a movie in the last 2 years (but has appeared in a documentary)
16. white
17. most famous character is a “good guy”
18. last name starts with Wa -to- Wh
19. nominated for but did not win an Oscar

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IQ1: Did you famously demand “more cowbell”?
IQ2: Did you voice Hades in the Disney version of Hercules?
IQ3: Did you portray fictional PI Easy Rawlins in his only screen appearance?

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IQ1: I am not Christopher Walken.
IQ2: I am not James Woods.
IQ3: I am not the previously-used Denzel Washington.

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Correct, Robin Williams, Correct.

1 DQ reserved.

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Swept me.

IQ1: Are you a cult film director sometimes called the Prince of Puke?
IQ2: Were you part of the Funky Bunch in your earlier musical career?
IQ3: Did you recently legally change your name to Ye?

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IQ1: I am not John Waters.
IQ2: I am not Mark Wahlberg.
IQ3: I am not the former Kanye West.

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Still drawing a blank. I release my reserved DQ to be asked by another player.

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DQ: Born before 1960?
EH’s DQ: Last name starts with Wa?

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IQs:

  1. Did you star in RoboCop?
  2. Did you star in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins?
  3. Did you write The Age of Innocence?
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I am not Fred Ward or Edith Wharton, but I am indeed Dr. Peter Weller! (As witnessed by yours truly at a convention, he doesn’t like it when people call him “Mister”–he did spend ten years getting a doctoral degree in Italian art history.)

Chosen solely because I recently found issue #7 of the RoboCop comic at a street festival and had to get it.

Next game goes to the Prof.