Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
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Last month’s thread: Botticelli May 2025

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #135 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter will be

K

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Lowly Worm. Classic.

On to K.

IQs:

  1. Was a city in Saxony once named for you?
  2. Were you given a nickname based on your aggressive use of a combat arm?
  3. Have you played a ghost, a Scotland Yard inspector and a Scottish princess?
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IQ1: Did Andrew Jackson Kirksey die in an accident in which you were also involved?
IQ2: Were you a ninth-century king of the Picts?
IQ3: Were you killed in a Memphis hotel in 1968?

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IQs:

  1. Did you, an entomologist, become better known in a related field after studying the mating habits of gall wasps?
  2. Did your game plans improve the success of the forward pass in (US) college football games?
  3. Are you the centerpiece of arguably the most successful reality television series in the history of television?
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IQs:

  1. Were you surprised to learn that not everybody liked the part in your autobiography where you talked about shooting your puppy?
  2. Were you an NBA All-Star and mayor of Sacramento? (not at the same time)
  3. Are you SpongeBob’s boss?
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IQs:

  1. Did you star as Antoinette in Wide Sargasso Sea?
  2. Did you play Jessica Tate on Soap?
  3. Did you play Lindsey inHqlloween?
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Not Kaiser Wilhelm, Gen. Judson Kilpatrick or Katharine MacCormack.

Dunno, not Kaer or the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Dunno x3.

Not Kristi Noem, dunno and not Mr. Krabs.

Dunno, not Katherine Helmond (sp?) and dunno.

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  1. Alfred Kinsey
  2. Knute Rockne
  3. Kim Kardashian

DQs:

Real?
Male?
First name begins with K?

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The city of Chemnitz was, during the time of the partition of Germany, known as Karl Marx Stadt.
Correct on Kill-Cavalry.
The third was Kelly MacDonald, who played the Grey Lady, a detective (in Black Mirror), and Merida.

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JFK
Kenneth MacAlpin
correct

Two DQs reserved.

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Karina Lombard, correct, Kyle Richards.

2 DQs reserved

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#2 was Kevin Johnson. The other two are correct. DQ reserved.

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K.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with K
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IQs:

  1. Did you create Joey, Gina, and Ruff?
  2. Do heavy metal fans consider you “god”?
  3. Did you remark to the Minister of Magic that Hogwarts’ headmaster “has style”?
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DQs:

Living?
Known for the arts?

IQs:

  1. Did you command the amphibious forces of the US Pacific Fleet during World War II?
  2. Were you a bushranger played in a modern-day update by Yahoo Serious?
  3. Did you design several planes at Lockheed’s famous “Skunk Works”?
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IQs:

  1. Did you paint Die Blaue Reiter?
  2. Did you invent the safety razor?
  3. Did you play Jaws in the Bond films?
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Dunno x3.

Not Gen. Krueger, dunno and dunno.

Dunno, dunno and not Kiel.

K.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with K
  4. living
  5. not known for the arts
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#1 was Paul Klee.
#2 was King Gillette.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Born after 1970?
  2. American?
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K.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. first name begins with K
  4. living
  5. not known for the arts
  6. born before 1970
  7. American
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DQ1: Known for science?
DQ2: Born before 1950?


IQ1: Am I waiting impatiently for you to write the third Christopher Snow book?
IQ2: Did you create Billy, Jeffy and Thel?
IQ3: Did you play a civil engineer, an island police chief and the father of twins?