Botticelli - March 2015

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Our new letter is

A

Have at it!

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IQs:

  1. Did you partner in comedy with Jack Burns?
  2. Did you partner in comedy with George Burns?
  3. Did you write Plague Dogs?
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Dunno, not Gracie Allen, and dunno.

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Avery Schreider, correct on Gracie, and Richard Adams (better known for writing Watership Down)

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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IQ1: Did you and your wife change your names at a very advanced age?
IQ2: Did Patton say you were the best tank commander in the Army?
IQ3: Were you an Austrian archduchess who became queen of France?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the topic of a song by Tom Lehrer?
  2. Did you perform a hit song to the tune of The Dance of the Hours?
  3. Did you perform the role of Tyrone F. Horneigh?
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Dunno, not Creighton Abrams, and not Marie Antoinette.

Not A. Lobachevsky, dunno, and dunno.

A.

  1. real
  2. male
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I am never forget the day I feerst heard the song of Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky.

IQ1: Did you personally kill someone while serving as the Vice President of the US?
IQ2: Were you the person killed?
IQ3: Was your father King Philip?

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#1 was not Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, but the lovely Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel.
#2 was Allan Sherman, whose hit was [*Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah/I].
#3 was Arte Johnson, on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Last name starts with A?
  3. Known for the Arts?
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IQs:

  1. Were you a businessman associated with Occidental Petroleum?
  2. Were you an 8th Century B.C. prophet?
  3. Was your father co-editor of the standard dictionary of Ancient Greek?
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IQ1: Did your song “Massachusetts” become the official folk song of that state?
IQ2: Are you the original host of Jeopardy?
IQ3: Did you write a parody of Jeopardy based on a Greg Kihn song?

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Not Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton or Alexander the Great.

Not Armand Hammer, not Amos, and dunno.

Not Arlo Guthrie, Art Fleming or Weird Al Yanokovic.

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. last name starts with A
  5. not known for the Arts
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Abram and his wife Sarai were in their 90s when God changed their names to Abraham and Sarah.
Correct.
Correct.
DQ: Known for military/political achievements?
IQ1: Are you playing Illya in the new UNCLE movie?
IQ3: Did you play one of the eight Bradford children?
IQ3: Did you play one of the eight Bradford children?

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Correct on Armand and Amos.
Henry Liddell of Liddell & Scott’s Greex Lexicon had several daughters, one named Alice. The Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson would take them all on picnics and tell them stories, one of which became Alice in Wonderland.

1 DQ reserved.

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IQ1: Did you represent Georgia at the Continental Congress and found the first state-chartered public college in the United States, the University of Georgia?
IQ2: Did you portray Jerry Markovic on ER?
IQ3: Did you once try to manage a general store in New Salem Illinois, and eventually serve as a captain during the Black Hawk war?

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Dunno. Not Adam the little kid. Dunno the other.

Dunno the first two; not Abraham Lincoln.

A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. last name starts with A
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. known for military/political achievements, broadly speaking
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DQ: Born after 1960?

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A.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. living
  4. last name starts with A
  5. not known for the Arts
  6. known for military/political achievements, broadly speaking
  7. born after 1960
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Abraham Baldwin, Abraham Benrubi, correct

DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?
DQ: Known for a single historical event?

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IQ1: Did you play yourself in the autobiographical film To Hell and Back?
IQ2: Did you serve in the USMC before going into show business for 7 decades, including starring roles in two major sitcoms, as well as becoming an animal rights activist?
IQ3: Did you serve in the US Coast Guard before returning to golf and becoming the youngest Master’s Tournament winner in 1958?