Botticelli - June 2024

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you repeat the words “I know” 26 times on your first hit record?
  2. Are you told to “wrap your legs round these velvet rims”?
  3. Do you have stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies, along with wings to fly above the clouds?
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DQ: Created after 1979?

IQs:

  1. Were you one of Disney’s Nine Old Men who designed Jiminy Cricket?
  2. Did you star in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins?
  3. Did you write Tracticus Logico-Philosophicus?
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Correct, correct, Catherine Willows.

DQ:

  1. From a rock song?
  2. Song written after 1980?
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Dingdingding! Yes, I am

Wendy

from “Born to Run,” of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu4_zVxmufY

She was only mentioned once in all of the Boss’s songs: Bruce Springsteen iconic women in songs include Wendy, Mary

Incidentally, a university prof of my sister’s once apologized to the class: “Sorry I’m late; the streets were jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive.”

Well done, SunUp!

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Very nice choice, EH, and great guess, SunUp!

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Hey, thanks! It was a bit of a stroke of luck; I figured it had to be “Windy” (by The Association; see IQ#3 above) and was trying to figure out a filler question. I was thinking of a clue for Wendy Darling and suddenly associated to a show I had listened to one time that claimed “Born To Run” was about a Peter Pan fantasy by Springsteen - and realized I should throw in a reference to the song character.

Anyway, enough about that. Let’s get the next round going: I am

I

the ninth letter of the alphabet, the first person subject pronoun, and our next Botticelli initial!

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IQs:

Are you the antihero of A Confederacy of Dunces?
Were you a very thin, very hungry teacher, according to Disney?
Are you a novelist from a prominent South American political family?

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Congrats!

  1. Are you one of the Mandrell sisters?
  2. Did JoAnna Cameron play you in a 70s kiddie TV show?
  3. Were you memorably played by Bo Svenson in the Magnum, PI two-part episode Did You See the Sunrise?
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Congratulations, SunUp! Good guess - I’d never have gotten that.

IQs:

  1. Are you and Charli XCX so fancy, you already know, you’re in the fast lane from LA to Tokyo?
  2. Did a god demand your father sacrifice you to him?
  3. Did a goddess demand your father sacrifice you to her?
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IQs:

  1. Did you battle Abdul Abulbul Ameer to the death?
  2. Did you play Sgt. Kinchloe on Hogan’s Heroes?
  3. Were you an actor who played a companion to the first Doctor on Doctor Who, and who died recently?
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Don’t know, I am not… Ichabod Crane?, I am not Isabel Allende.

Take at least one DQ.

I am not Irlene Mandrell, don’t know, and don’t know.

Take 2 DQs.

I am not Iggy Azalea, I am not Issac the patriarch, and… dunno.

Take a DQ.

Dunno, I am not Ivan Dixon, and… darn, I remember the obits, but not the name.

Take 2 DQs.

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Correct on Iggy Azalea and Isaac, son of Abraham. 3 was Iphigenia, sacrificed to Artemis as punishment for her father Agamemnon’s killing one of the goddess’ sacred stags.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

Are you the Hotstepper (Murderer)?
Did you build railroads, bridges, ocean liners, and a tunnel beneath the Thames?
Are you an iconic punk rocker with an incongruous passion for golf?

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#1 was Ivan Skivanski Skivar.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Ian Chesterton.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with I?
  2. Male?
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Dunno, I am not Isambard Kingdom Brunei, and I am not Iggy Pop. (Alice Cooper, too!)

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I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
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Correct on Brunel and Iggy Pop, although I wouldn’t have taken a DQ even if you’d missed it, because I was thinking of Alice Cooper; I have no idea if Iggy Pop plays golf. The Hotstepper (the lyrical gangsta) was Ini Kamoze.

DQ: Known for the arts?

IQs:

  1. Are you an Israeli-American violinist who has performed at state dinners and at a Presidential inauguration?
  2. Were you a comedian and cornet player whose real name was Merwyn Bogue?
  3. Are you the protagonist of a famously violent Nazi-themed sexploitation film?
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Previous IQs:

Are you the antihero of A Confederacy of Dunces? - Ignatius Reilly
Were you a very thin, very hungry teacher, according to Disney? - Yes, Ichabod Crane
Are you a novelist from a prominent South American political family? - Yes, Isabel Allende

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Did your nursemaid supposedly introduce you, as an infant, to George Washington?
Did you take a ring you really should have thrown into a volcano?
Were you Sid Caesar’s comedic coconspirator?

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I am not Itzaak Perlman (sp?), dunno, and I am not Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS.

Take a DQ.

Dunno, I am not Isildur (heh!) and I am not Imogene Coca.

Take a DQ.

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I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
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Correct, Isis, Ivan (“Ivan, did you see the sunrise?”)

DQ:
Known for Politics?

One DQ reserved