Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
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U.

  1. real
  2. male
142

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Are you a character from Norse mythology also called Skrymir?
  2. Are you aka Shoe Shine Boy?
  3. Were you Ingmar Bergman’s muse?
143

IQs:

  1. Were you considered a failure during your time in office, yet as time progressed your reputation has risen favorably by comparisons of successive leaders?
  2. Did you appear in a teen movie with Kirsten Dunst?
  3. Are you a philosopher who wrote a famous novel that shares a certain similarity with one of Edgar Allen Poe’s works?
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@Prof.Pepperwinkle I already asked your #3 question.

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Sorry 'bout that.

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Not Ugrir (sp?), dunno, and still not Liv Ullman.

Not Ulysses S. Grant, dunno and not Umberto Eco.

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#1 was Utgard-Loki.
#2 is Underdog.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Last name starts with U?
148

U.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with U
149

Correct, correct, and Gabrielle Union (Bring It On)

DQ: Known from prose?

150

IQs:

  1. Did you write a series of books with an animal’s name in the title, but which is not about that animal?
  2. Are you a doctor who founded a drug company?
  3. Were you kicked out of your home before reconnecting with an old friend, who was also kicked out of his home?
151

Dunno, not Dr. Upjohn and dunno.

U.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with U
  5. not known from prose
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John Updike (“Rabbit Run”)
Correct
Felix Unger (The Odd Couple)

DQs:

Alive after 1950?
American?

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Felix Unger, of course! :confounded_face:

U.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with U
  5. not known from prose
  6. alive after 1950
  7. American
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IQs:

  1. Are you well known for your opposition to music streaming services?
  2. Did you impress upon your charges the danger of telling lies?
  3. Jesus take the wheel! Did you win a Grammy for Best Country Song of 2005?
155

Dunno x3.

156
  1. Lars Ulrich
  2. Dolores Umbridge
  3. Carrie Underwood

DQs:

Alive after 2000?
Known from the arts?

1 DQ reserved

157

D’oh! Shoulda known all of those.

U.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with U
  5. not known from prose
  6. alive after 1950
  7. American
  8. alive after 2000
  9. known from the arts
158

IQs:

  1. Were you known as Mr. Baseball?
  2. Did you produce a popular typewriter in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries?
  3. Does your name mean “dark spider” in Sindarin?
159

IQs:

  1. Were you born in New Zealand, and married to one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood?
  2. Were you also born in New Zealand, and appeared in Xena, Warrior Princess and Ghost Ship?
  3. Were you initially a patron of Galileo before condemning him in his second trial?
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Not Bob Uecker (sp?), not Mr. Underwood and not Ungoliant.

Not Keith Urban, not that Urban actor guy, and dunno.