Botticelli March 2016

Thread Games
81

IQ1: Did a fictionalized version of you marry the tenth Doctor Who?
IQ2: Did Madonna play you in a biographical film?
IQ3: Did you marry the man for whom you had been nominally working as his private secretary, and then both commit suicide only a few days later?

82

DQ.
DQ.
Not Eva Braun.

E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
83

Queen Elizabeth I, Eva Peron (Evita), and you were correct on Eva Braun.

DQ1: born before 1900?
DQ2: American?

Holding 1 DQ.

84

IQ1: Did your uncle, the sitting President of the United States, formally give you away at your wedding, as your father was dead?
IQ2: Were you a queen after whom a book of the Bible is named?
IQ3: Is a prominent substance abuse facility named in your honor?

85

DQ.
Not Esther.
Not Elizabeth “Betty” Ford.

E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not born before 1900
  7. American
86

Teddy gave away his niece Eleanor Roosevelt to (future president and distant cousin) FDR.

Correct on the last two.

87

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s second SECWAR? - Close enough - it was Edwin, not Edward, Stanton.
Were you a king again in Robert Harris’s alt-history novel Fatherland? - Yes, Edward VIII of Great Britain.
Did you play Capt. Bryant in Blade Runner? - Noted character actor M. Emmet Walsh.

DQs:

Political/military?
Born since 1964?

IQs:

Did you end up marrying a guy with the first name FitzWilliam?
Was your husband born on Corfu?
Do some credit you with requiring a new automotive-safety feature?

88

Not … Jane Eyre? (I’ve no idea what book Fitzwilliam Darcy was in.)
Not Elizabeth II.
DQ.

E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not born before 1900
  7. American
  8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations)
  9. Not born after 1964
89

Elizabeth Vargas

DQ: Known for business?

90

#1 was Eddie van Halen. #2 was Eddie Vedder. Correct on Eddie-son. :slight_smile:

2 DQs reserved.

91

IQ1: Were you the female companion of both Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
IQ2: Did you kill Robert Ford, slayer of Jess James?
IQ3: Were you the only one of three brothers to die at the OK Corral gunfight in 1881?

92

DQ.
DQ. (I really should know both of these. :mad:)
As I recall, the only ones killed in that fight were Billy Clanton and Frank and Tom McLaury. DQ if you know of somebody else.

E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not born before 1900
  7. American
  8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations)
  9. Not born after 1964
  10. Not known for business
93

Previous IQs:

Did you end up marrying a guy with the first name FitzWilliam? - Yes, she married Mr. Darcy, but that was Elizabeth Bennet, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Was your husband born on Corfu? - Yes, Queen Elizabeth II.
Do some credit you with requiring a new automotive-safety feature? - The third brake light was required on new U.S. cars during Elizabeth Dole’s service as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Elizabeth x3!

DQs:

Best known for her work for a particular social reform?
Born east of the Miss. River?

IQs:

Were you a noted American suffragette?
Were you another noted American suffragette?
Were you a noted female American advocate of temperance?

94

Etta Place, Edward O’Kelley
Toss #3. I thought Morgan Earp died too, but it was a year later.

DQ: Born north of the Mason Dixon line?

holding a DQ

95

Drawing a blank here - the only ‘E’ I can think of is Emmeline Pankhurst, and she was English. Two DQs for the suffragettes.
DQ for the temperance lady, too.
Away, away with rum, by gum!

E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not born before 1900
  7. American
  8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations)
  9. Not born after 1964
  10. Not known for business
  11. Not best known for work for a particular social reform
  12. Born east of the Miss. River
  13. Born north of the Mason Dixon line
96

IQ1: Are you a Melnibonean who wields Stormbringer?
IQ2: Are you the daughter of King Verence II and Queen Magrat of Discworld, whose name includes “Note Spelling” because the Queen didn’t want the priest conducting the naming ceremony to misspell your middle name?
IQ3: Are you a 5 time cover model for Sports Illustrated’ Swimsuit Issues and portrayer of Bruce Wayne’s girlfriend in Batman and Robin?

97

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted American suffragette? - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Were you another noted American suffragette? - Emma Goldman
Were you a noted female American advocate of temperance? - Withdrawn; I was thinking of someone else.

Three DQs reserved.

98

Not Elric.
DQ.
DQ.

99

correct, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre (just Esmerelda would have counted), Elle McPherson

DQ: Athlete?

holding 2 DQs

100

E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not born before 1900
  7. American
  8. Not political/military (but definitely political associations)
  9. Not born after 1964
  10. Not known for business
  11. Not best known for work for a particular social reform
  12. Born east of the Miss. River
  13. Born north of the Mason Dixon line
  14. Not an athlete