Botticelli March 2025

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first AG, a Missouri-born veteran of the War of 1812? - Edward Bates
Did you win the insulting nickname “Spoons” in Nawlins? - Gen. Benjamin Butler, for allegedly stealing silverware from the homes in which he stayed while military governor there during the Civil War
Did your shipmates joke that your vocabulary was pretty much limited to the word “Right”? - Brett, the doomed assistant engineer, in Alien

DQs:

Actress?
Considered a beauty?
Greatest fame before 1980?

IQs:

Was your pet name for your famous lover “Steve”?
Did you break up with a guy because he was just too damn upbeat and cheerful?
Did you (undeservedly IMHO) win an acting Oscar for L.A. Confidential?

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IQs:

  1. Did you design a time machine… out of a Delorean?
  2. Did you design the oscillation overthruster?
  3. Did you design the U.S. Capitol building?
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Take 3 DQs

I am not Doc Brown and take 2 DQs

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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.
  9. Actress
  10. Not, to my knowledge, considered a beauty. By which I mean she is not hired because “she’s pretty”
  11. Greatest fame before 1980.
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Correct on the first. The next two are Buckaroo Banzai and Benjamin Latrobe, respectively.

DQs:

First name starts with A-M?
Born before 1945?

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DQ: Known mainly from TV?

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IQs:
1. Back in the 90s, were you in a very famous TV show (Horsin’ Around)?
2. Did you write Ten Days in a Madhouse?
3. Were you a British diplomat best known for vanishing in 1809?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play the town drunk in The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming?
  2. Do you play Wong in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
  3. Did you write the poem, How Do I Love Thee?
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Take a DQ, I am not Nellie Bly, I am not Benjamin Bathurst.

Take 2 DQs and I am not a Browning. Elizabeth Barrett, maybe.

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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.
  9. Actress
  10. Not, to my knowledge, considered a beauty. By which I mean she is not hired because “she’s pretty”
  11. Greatest fame before 1980.
  12. First name begins with A-M.
  13. Born after 1945.
  14. Not known mainly from TV.
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Previous IQs:

Was your pet name for your famous lover “Steve”? - That’s what Lauren Bacall called Bogie
Did you break up with a guy because he was just too damn upbeat and cheerful? - Phoebe Buffay, on Friends
Did you (undeservedly IMHO) win an acting Oscar for L.A. Confidential? - Kim Basinger (she was fine, but not that good, I thought)

DQs:

Greatest fame before 1965?
Won an Oscar?
Best known for a single role?

IQs:

You were a real person; did your daughter have an encounter with a fictional character in a sitcom?
Where you a pugnacious feminist Congresswoman with two two-syllable names?
Did your subordinates sign a petition to the President, asking that you be relieved of command?

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1 was BoJack Horseman (on BoJack Horseman).

DQ: best known from movies?

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IQs:
1. Are you currently preserved as an “auto-icon”?
2. Are you the mascot of the Michelin tire company?
3. Were you Zelda on Sabrina the Teenage Witch?

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Take a DQ, I am not Bella Abzug, take a DQ.

I don’t know what an auto-icon is.
Tske a DQ
I am not Beth Broderick

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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.
  9. Actress
  10. Not, to my knowledge, considered a beauty. By which I mean she is not hired because “she’s pretty”
  11. Greatest fame before 1980.
  12. First name begins with A-M.
  13. Born after 1945.
  14. Not known mainly from TV.
  15. Greatest fame after 1965
  16. Has not won an Oscar
  17. Best known for a single role
  18. Best known from movies

And that’s it for asking IQs.

Please ask.all DQs by 8 PM Pacific Time Monday.

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1 was Jeremy Bentham; 2 was Bibendum.

DQ: best known for iconic sci-fi, fantasy, or horror movie?

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.
  9. Actress
  10. Not, to my knowledge, considered a beauty. By which I mean she is not hired because “she’s pretty”
  11. Greatest fame before 1980.
  12. First name begins with A-M.
  13. Born after 1945.
  14. Not known mainly from TV.
  15. Greatest fame after 1965
  16. Has not won an Oscar
  17. Best known for a single role
  18. Best known from movies
  19. Best known from an iconic science fiction, fantasy or horror movie
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#1 was Ben Blue.
#2 was Benedict Wong.
Correct on Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

2 DQs reserved.

IQ:

  1. Did you play a possessed child in The Exorcist?
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Yes! i am actress Linda Blair!!

Good job, Prof. Pepperwinkle!

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Well done, Prof. P.! I was a long way from guessing her.

Previous IQs:

You were a real person; did your daughter have an encounter with a fictional character in a sitcom? - Ingrid Bergman’s daughter Isabella Rosellini met Ross Geller in an episode of Friends
Where you a pugnacious feminist Congresswoman with two two-syllable names? - Yes, Bella Abzug
Did your subordinates sign a petition to the President, asking that you be relieved of command? - Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, arguably the worst general of the war (Jefferson Davis did not oblige them)