Botticelli March 2024

Thread Games
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Getting an early start on the next month, but welcome to the March 2024 Botticelli thread! Here’s last month’s thread, which contains an excellent summary of the rules, written by @De_La_Rue, that I am shamelessly plagarizing:

So, on to the next letter:

I am R
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First! :smiley:


IQ1: Were you the only POTUS to be awarded the Medal of Honor?
IQ2: Did you write The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty?
IQ3: Are you #2, when using your real name?

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First DQs, too, if you’re quick enough.

  1. I am not Theodore Roosevelt.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
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correct
A N Roquelaure (I think I spelt that correctly)
Ann Rice


DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?

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IQs:

  1. Is your name used as a measure of speed?
  2. Are you the author of the Cormoran Strike mysteries?
  3. Did you die screaming to the applause of the crowd?
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Take 3 DQs. (I feel like I’m going to facepalm when you say what 1. is, but I can’t think of it).

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#1. Faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
#2 is Robert Galbraith, who is actually J. K. Rowling.
#3 was the French revolutionary Robespierre.

3 DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
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DQs:

  1. Last name starts with R?
  2. From film or TV?
  3. American creator?
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DQs:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Only name starts with “R”.
  4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology.
  5. Not an American creator.
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IQs:
1. Were you a jazz bandleader who never slept and claimed to come from Saturn?
2. Were you Fat Amy in Pitch Perfect?
3. Were you “born in a house my father built”?

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IQs:

  1. Are you Poseidon’s mom?
  2. Are you a Norse goddess of the sea?
  3. Are you the Nome King in the Oz books?
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  1. I am not…Jelly Roll Morton?
  2. I am not Rebel Wilson.
    3.Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Rhea.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
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Correct on Rhea.
#2 is Ran.
#3 is Ruggedo.

DQ: from Classical mythology (Greek or Roman)?

1 DQ reserved…

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1 was Sun Ra; 3 was Richard Nixon, according to the first line of his memoir.

DQs:
1. divine?
2. heroic?

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DQs:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Only name starts with “R”.
  4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology.
  5. Not an American creator.
  6. Not from Classical mythology.
  7. Divine.
  8. Heroic.
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DQ: From Egyptian mythology?

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DQs:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Only name starts with “R”.
  4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology.
  5. Not an American creator.
  6. Not from Classical mythology.
  7. Divine.
  8. Heroic
  9. Not from Egyptian mythology.
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IQs:
1. Were you appointed to the US Supreme Court by George W. Bush?
2. Are you the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle who wears red?
3. Do you write the Temperance Brennan books?

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  1. I am not John Roberts.
  2. I am not Raphael.
  3. I am not Kathy Reichs.