Botticelli March 2025

Thread Games
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Okay…so reading MAD finally paid off.

So, let’s see…

I am B.

For Bavaria, the Birkebeiner and bleps.

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Mr. Haney on Green Acres?
  2. Were you the only woman in the regular cast of The Andy Griffith Show?
  3. Were you the role played by #2 on that show?
3

I am not Pat Buttram, Francis Bavier or Aunt Bea.

4

B it is!

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first AG, a Missouri-born veteran of the War of 1812?
Did you win the insulting nickname “Spoons” in Nawlins?
Did your shipmates joke that your vocabulary was pretty much limited to the word “Right”?

5

Take 3 DQs.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a string-and-cardboard boy scout who is always getting deaded on the highly acclaimed, badger-coated, silver-throated, completely immersible 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Did you single-eggedly save Dorothy from the Nome King?
  3. Are you typically listed as one of the two lowest-ranked Presidents of the United States?
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IQ1: Were your associates a dog, a lion and an elephant?
IQ2: Were you kicked out into the rain with nothing but a comb?
IQ3: Did you first appear in a book written by an author who is also noted for writing the memoir of a fictional prostitute?

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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you homestead on Ganymede in a Heinlein juvenile?
  2. Did you play the matriarch of the Weir family in Freaks and Geeks?
  3. Were you the butler to the Ross family on Jessie?

ETA: Withdrew first shot at third question; decided a real-life dog was not a good celebrity.

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IQs:
1. Did you lead the Iceni against the Romans?
2. Did you write Big Trouble? (I am not making this up.)
3. Oh, was Mickey so fine, was he so fine he blew your mind?

10

Take a DQ, I am not Billina and I am not Buchanan.

Take 3 DQs

Take 3 DQs

I am not Boadicea. Or was it Boudicca? I am not Dave Barry, I am not Toni Basil.

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Bill Lermer, Becky Ann Baker and Bertram Winkle.

DQs:

Real?
Male?
First name begins with B?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name does not start with B.
13

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Is your house at 239 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA?
2. Did you play Dick Tracy?
3. Did YOU play Dick Tracy?

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Bingo, of the Banana Splits
Bill Bailey
Bambi


DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: American?
DQ3: Living?


IQ1: Did you marry Angier Duke?
IQ2: Were you #1’s father?
IQ3: Did you and your friend sell your victims to a doctor, to be used in anatomy lessons?

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Take a DQ, I am not Warren Beatty and I am not Ralph Bellamy.

Take 2 DQs and I am not Burke.

I can’t even tell. Is Angier a man or woman?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name does not start with B.
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. American
  6. Living
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Cordelia Biddle
Anthony J Drexel Biddle
correct

(Angier was a man.)


Two DQs reserved.

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1 was Betsy Ross; 3 was Ralph Byrd.

DQs:
1. known for the performing arts?
2. born after 1960?

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#1 was Bluebottle. Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name does not start with B.
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. American
  6. Living
  7. Known for the Performing Arts
  8. Born before 1960.