Botticelli March 2023

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you accidentally drown yourself after your potential love interest mistakenly stabbed your father to death, but before your brother stabbed him?
  2. Are you a courtier in the court where all the above took place?
  3. Are you “the Moor of Venice”?
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1 was Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega; 2 was Odie, in Garfield.

IQs:
1. Speaking of Jennas, were you the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor’s companion?
2. Were not one but two car brands named after you?
3. Were yo known for your enormous sculptures of everyday objects?

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  1. I’m not Ophelia
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I’m not Othello
  1. Speaking of Jennas, were you the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctor’s companion?
  2. Were not one but two car brands named after you?
  3. Were yo known for your enormous sculptures of everyday objects?
  1. I’m not Claire (damn it what was her last name, begins with an “O”) O’Donnel?
    2-3) take two DQs

Yes, originally from a comic format.

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Correct, Osric, correct.

DQ: Human?

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Yes, Human (Homo sapiens in case anyone was wondering about mutants or the like)

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Actually, I was thinking of Opus, from Bloom County.

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IQs:

  1. Did you star with Judy Garland in Meet Me In St. Louis?
  2. Did you win an Oscar for your performance in Lawrence of Arabia?
  3. Are you aka the Penguin in DC comics?
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I just wanted to cover all bases to remove any ambiguity particularly since I said we are dealing in a comic medium (note that this shouldn;t be taken as a hint in any particular direction).

  1. I’ve seen the movie but can’t remember the lead. Take a DQ
  2. I’m not Peter O’Tolle
  3. I’m not Oswald Cobblepot.
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Please update the list of DQ answers, BuGo.

Previous IQs:

Were you one of Drew Carey’s best sitcom pals? - Oswald
Did you, to your credit, refuse to obey the Nawlins segregation laws? - Lee Harvey Oswald (perhaps his only redeeming characteristic)
Did you have a yacht called Sperm? - The title character in Roald Dahl’s My Uncle Oswald (because it was “a whale of a ship”)

Oswald x3!

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you an Alsatian priest considered the Gandhi of his day?
Were you the little boy in the animated TV movie The Point?
Were you the officer sung of in “Alice’s Restaurant”?

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1 was Clara Oswald; 2 was Ransom E. Olds; 3 was Claes Oldenburg.

3 DQs reserved.

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DQs

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story)
  4. American Creation
  5. After 1900
  6. O is not last name
  7. Not really a Main Character
  8. American Character
  9. Good Guy
  10. Created after 1950
  11. Created after 1980
  12. Not originally from film TV etc.
  13. Originally from comic format (comic book,or strip)
  14. Human Homo sapien

Take 3 DQ
I loved “The point” and remember the dog’s name “arrow” but can’t get the name of the kid off the tip of my tongue. I’m sure I’ll remember when I see it.

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IQ1: Are you and your dogs seen only at night?
IQ2: Are you better known as Ramsses II?
IQ3: Did you follow Hillary and Laura?

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IQs:
1. Did Wanda tell you that apes can read philosophy–they just don’t understand it?
2. Speaking of Wandas, do you play the Scarlet Witch?
3. Were you Little Sure Shot?

DQs:
1. created after 1990?
2. from comic books?

1 DQ reserved.

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  1. I’m not Orion
  2. I’m not Ozymandias?
  3. I’m not Michelle Obama
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correct x3

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  1. Not the lead but a star in her own right, Margaret O’Brien.
    Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

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  1. Take a DQ, although it sounds familiar
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I’m not Annie Oakley
  1. Male

  2. Fictional

  3. Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story)

  4. American Creation

  5. After 1900

  6. O is not last name

  7. Not really a Main Character

  8. American Character

  9. Good Guy

  10. Created after 1950

  11. Created after 1980

  12. Not originally from film TV etc.

  13. Originally from comic format (comic book,or strip)

  14. Human Homo sapien

  15. Created between 1980 and 1990

  16. Not from Comic books (although may appear in books of collected comics)

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That’s 16 DQs plus 5 outstanding = 21. The cut off point is 20, actually, so you’ll want to post a statement of “That’s it for the IQ’s. Please ask all DQs by…” and state a time convenient for yourself, that’s 24 hours or so away. (Or less, if you want.)

DQ: Caucasian?

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Thanks for the hint, I didn’t know that reserved DQs counted against the total, although that makes sense.

That’s it for the IQs get all your DQs in by Tuesday 9 PM Eastern Daylight time

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Not from Prose (ie not novel or short story)
  4. American Creation
  5. After 1900
  6. O is not last name
  7. Not really a Main Character
  8. American Character
  9. Good Guy
  10. Created after 1950
  11. Created after 1980
  12. Not originally from film TV etc.
  13. Originally from comic format (comic book,or strip)
  14. Human Homo sapien
  15. Created between 1980 and 1990
  16. Not from Comic books (although may appear in books of collected comics)
  17. Not Caucasian
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1 was Otto, in A Fish Called Wanda; 2 was Elizabeth Olsen.

DQs:
1. from a comic strip?
2. African-American?

1 DQ reserved.