Botticelli March 2023

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Here’s a link:

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian
16. Not known for singing rock.
17. First name begins with PA- to PE-.
18. Probably equally well known for singing in a group and for solitary singing.
19. Not known for pop music
20. Not known for Country-Western music
21. Also played an instrument
22. Last name does not start with A to MZ.
23. Not known for Jazz/big band/swing music
24. Won a couple of Grammys
25. Last name starts with S-Z.

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DQ: known for folk?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQ1: Died after 2015?
DQ2: Died of natural causes?
One DQ reserved.

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Thanks again

I searched for Bottecelli (as in the title of this thread) but that thread spelled it Botticelli so I didn’t see it. I’d look up which one is correct but as I just read, research is not allowed. :wink:

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Previous IQs:

Did you win the Battle of Lake Erie? - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Are you the lead character of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War? - Major John Perry
Are you an unlikely spy who often goes up against Dr. Doofenschmirtz? - Perry the Platypus, in Phineas and Ferb

Perry x3!

Can’t figure out who this is. I yield my four earned DQs to other players, one each.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. Male
  4. Fame overlapped the decades 1950-1990.
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Common first name
  9. Died after 2000
  10. American
  11. Not an actor
  12. Known for music

13.Known for singing
14. Died after 2010
15. Caucasian
16. Not known for singing rock.
17. First name begins with PA- to PE-.
18. Probably equally well known for singing in a group and for solitary singing.
19. Not known for pop music
20. Not known for Country-Western music
21. Also played an instrument
22. Last name does not start with A to MZ.
23. Not known for Jazz/big band/swing music
24. Won a couple of Grammys
25. Last name starts with S-Z.
26. Known for folk
27. Died before 2015
28. Died of natural causes.

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Taking one of EH’s DQs:

Are you Pete Seeger?

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Yes! I am legendary folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger!

Well done!

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Thanks!

(and thanks to whoever corrected the spelling in the thread title!)

And on to

Z!

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IQ1: Are you a big-nosed pantless sad-sack who has many misfortunes?
IQ2: Are you the reggae-singing son of a legendary reggae singer?
IQ3: Did you take it all too far, but boy could you play guitar?

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Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Did you direct a trilogy of sci-fi films from 1985-1990 in which the bully character (and his past and future relatives) was played by an actor who coincidentally shares the name of the creator of a big-nosed pantsless sad-sack who has many misfortunes?
2. Were you an unsuccessful presidential assassin?
3. Are you one of the real-life 1920s people Gil meets in Midnight in Paris, accompanied by your equally-well-known writer husband?

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Hey! I was going to ask that with my last DQ!

(Had no idea if he was dead or not, but what the heck…)

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  1. I am not Ziggy.
  2. I am not Ziggy Marley.
  3. I am not Ziggy Stardust.
  1. I am not Robert Zemeckis.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Zelda Fitzgerald.

In the immortal words of the great Sandro Botticelli: “Hey, ya snooze, ya lose!” :upside_down_face:

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2 was Giuseppe Zangara, who attempted to assassinate FDR.

DQ: real?

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Swept me!

IQ1: Were you Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor?
IQ2: Are you the princess of Hyrule?
IQ3: Was you biggest hit song named after a sitcom car?

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IQs:

  1. Did you rule Ix?
  2. Do people add “the Greek”" to your name?
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IQs:
1. Did your father direct House of Games?
2. Are large floating things named after you?
3. Were you a cinematographer?

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DQ:

  1. Fictional