Botticelli -- Mar 2021

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Living
  3. Female
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. First name starts with E
  6. Musician
  7. American
  8. Songwriter
  9. Not known for playing an instrument
  10. Best known as a singer
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Nitpick: Anthony Edwards did not play a pilot in Top Gun, but a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO).

E it is.

IQs:

Was your ship transformed into what we know as Venus?
Did you wield Narsil until slain?
Were you the first to wield Anduril?

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IQs

  1. Did you write mysteries under the pen name of Ellis Peters?
  2. Did you write the Amelia Peabody mysteries?
  3. Are you the author of the classic mystery short story “The Specialty of the House”?
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Take 2 DQs.
#3. I am not Aragorn Elessar.

Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Was your ship transformed into what we know as Venus? - Earendil the Mariner, in the works of JRR Tolkien
Did you wield Narsil until slain? - Elendil the Tall, High King of Gondor and Arnor, ditto
Were you the first to wield Anduril? - Yes, King Elessar FKA Aragorn, ditto

DQs:

Best known as a member of a group?
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Are you a black American female singer with the initials “EB”?
Have you played a secretary, a prisoner and an image consultant?
Early in your marriage, did you live on Malta?

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Yes! I am Erykah Badu. Good job, EH.

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Thanks! Good one, Prof. P. I couldn’t formulate a question about her any other way - not even sure what genre she considers herself in, without looking it up.

My other IQs:

Have you played a secretary, a prisoner and an image consultant? - Elizabeth Banks, in Spider-Man, The Next Three Days and The Hunger Games
Early in your marriage, did you live on Malta? - Then-Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain

Our next letter to follow soon…

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Link:

She’s known as the Queen of Neo-Soul.

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Thanks again.

An update: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #76 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter is

Z

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Congrats!

Edith Pargeter, Elizabeth Peters, Stanley Ellin.

IQs:

  1. Are you the ruler of Ix?
  2. Were you a female science fiction writer who was both born and died in Tucson, Arizona?
  3. Are you an factory who played an IT worker turned secret agent on a TV show?
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IQs:

  1. Did you write A Night In The Lonesome October?
  2. Were you Dorothy Gale’s cousin who appeared in Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz?
  3. Did you star in the movie The Phantom?
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Not Zeena and dunno. Do you want to rephrase your third question?

Dunno, dunno and not Billy Zane.

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#1 was Roger Zelazny.
#2 was Zeb.
Correct on Billy Zane.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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Z.

  1. fictional
  2. male
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IQs:

  1. Are you play Mary Jane Watson in the current Spider-Man movies?
  2. Did you help restore the Temple at the end of the Babylonian Captivity?
  3. Were you an accordion player from Louisiana who achieved some mainstream fame?
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  1. “Are we having fun yet?”
  2. Are you a shapeless, large nosed kindly comic strip character?
  3. Have you been portrayed by Douglas Fairbanks and the ever-leathered George Hamilton?
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Stupid autocorrect!

Let’s try #3 again: Are you an actor who played an IT worker turned secret agent on a TV show?

#1 was Queen Zixi, #2 was Zenna Henderson.

DQs:
From prose?
Created after 1900?

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IQ1: Are you a reggae singer son of an even more famous reggae singer?
IQ2: Are you the artificial intelligence system running the Quantum Leap project?
IQ3: Did you play guitar with the Spiders From Mars?

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Not Zaniyah (sp?), Zacharias or Zydeco Bob.

Not Zippy the Pinhead, not Zippy and not Zorro.

Dunno.

Not Ziggy Marley, dunno and dunno.

Z.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. from prose
  4. created after 1900
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#1 was Zendaya. Close 'nuff.
#2 was Zerubbabel.
#3 was Buckwheet Zydeco.

DQs:

  1. By American author or authors?
  2. Last name starts with Z?