Botticelli March 2023

Thread Games
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I’ll take SCA’s last DQ: Did you draw cats?

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K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Known for the Arts
  4. Dead
  5. Last name begins with K
  6. Not an actor
  7. American
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Not known for writing
  12. Caucasian
  13. Died after 1960
  14. Did not die after 1990
  15. Known for visual arts
  16. Not a painter
  17. Not a sculptor
  18. Cartoonist
  19. Died after 1975
  20. Not a creator of animated cartoons
  21. Not known for writing and drawing comic strip per se, but some of his work does repeat on various online sites such as GoComics and ComicsKingdom
  22. My work occasionally appeared in Playboy
  23. I drew cats
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Prof.Pepperwinkle: With that last DQ I think you should do the honors…

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Concur.

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Very well.

Are you B. Kliban?

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YES!! I am B. Kliban

Probably best known today for his much-merchandised cat cartoons in the 70s and 80s, but a prolific contributor to Playboy starting in the 60s.

Congratulations, Prof.

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Great choice!

I am

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IQ1: Were you Bertie to your family, but not to the realm in general?
IQ2: Were you David to your family, but not to the realm in general?
IQ3: Were you Manasseh’s younger brother?

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Congrats, Prof.!

1. Is element 99 named after you?
2. Were you the steak-loving Lisa from Temecula on Saturday Night Live?
3. Are you mentioned as being kicked in “I Am the Walrus”?

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IQ1: Did you write an illustrated guide about how to avoid both Death and Taxes.
IQ2: Does your tummy speak to you demanding a particular brand of porridge
IQ3: Is the NFL team in the town in which you died named after one of your most famous works.

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Congrats!

  1. Are you a princess and a major character in The Chronicles of Prydain series by Lloyd Alexander?
  2. Are you the main character in Patricia Wrede’s The Raven Ring?
  3. Did you sing about rocking down to Electric Avenue?
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Thanks to all!

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Albert Einstein (??).
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Edgar Allan Poe.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Edward Hopper (??).
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Eddie Grant.
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1 was correct; 2 was Ego Nwodim; 3 was correct.

DQ: real?

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DQ:

  1. Fictional
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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:312, topic:980525”]

  1. Will Eisner’s Gleeful Guide How to Avoid Death & Taxes and Live Forever.
  2. Edgar from the Malto meal commercials
  3. Baltimore Ravens named after Edgar Allen Poe’s poem.

Sorry about the inadvertent Poe duplicate with De_La_Rue. Ironically this was a last minute entry to replace a different DQ that I had mistakenly thought overlapped a different of De_La-Rue DQ.

DQ1: From Film, TV or Theater?
DQ2: Male?

Reserve 1DQ.

PS: Did anyone else first read De_La_Rue’s DQ as “kicked in the ‘I am the Walrus’” and assumed that “I am the Walrus” was an unusual euphemism for crotch? No? Just me I guess.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. From film, TV or theater
  3. Female

Buck, you don’t get the 3rd DQ because it was a repeat of DLR’s, however inadverent. It happens all the time, though.

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Edward VII
Edward VIII
Ephraim


DQ1: American creator(s)?
DQ2: American character?
DQ3: Created after 1960?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. From film, TV or theater
  3. Female
  4. American creator
  5. Not American character (but that’s debatable)
  6. Created after 1960
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IQ1: Whilst running away, did you cross the Ohio River on the ice?
IQ2: Did Professor Higgins give you elocution lessons?
IQ3: Were you Henry and Anne’s daughter?

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IQs:
1. Did you steal a quintuplet with H.I. McDunnogh in Raising Arizona?
2. Did you invent a vote-counting machine?
3. Did you voice Ms. Potato Head?