Botticelli May 2015

Thread Games
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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
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The last page of the April thread, with the first few questions of the current game, is here.

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IQ1: Did you portray Dorf?
IQ2: Were you married to Ike?
IQ3: Did you oversee an orphanage in Calcutta?

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Thomas Paine, correct, John Taylor

holding 2 DQs

5

Not Tim Conway, Tina Turner, or Mother Theresa

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Correct on all three.

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IQ1: Did you play the commander of a space station that was not in the Solar System?
IQ2: Was someone hired to injure your principal athletic rival just prior to competition?
IQ3: Were you a popular televangelist until a scandal broke?

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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T
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#1 was James Thurber. #2 was Tom Waits. #3 was Bolivar Trask.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Known for the Arts?
  3. American?
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IQs:

  1. Are you a recently retired SDMB Moderator?
  2. Were you a radio and TV commentator known as “the world’s foremost globetrotter”?
  3. Are you an accordion-playing comedienne who was married for a time to Emo Phillips?
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IQ1. Did you invent the world wide web?
IQ2. Did you play a sweet transvestite?
IQ3. Did you open a doughnut shop on Ottawa Street in Hamilton?

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IQ1: Was Henry II’s alleged utterance, “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” interpreted as a command to have you assassinated?
IQ2: Are you a Victorian-age poet who wrote a play about IQ1?
IQ3: Are you an American playwright who wrote Murder in the Cathedral, inspired by IQ1’s death?

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Not Tonya Harding or Tammy Bakker.

Take a dq for 1

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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
  3. Alive
  4. Not in the arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with T
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Not…TubaDiva or Judy Tenuta

Take a Dq for 2

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Not Tims Berners-Lee, Curry or Horton

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Not Thomas a Becket or TS Eliot

Dq for 2

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Correct on TubaDiva and Tenuta. #2 was Lowell Thomas.

DQs:

  1. European?
  2. Known for science?
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IQs:

  1. Did you play the ingenue in I’ll Take Sweden?
  2. Did Debbie Watson play you in a 1960’s TV series?
  3. Did you play Lurch on The Addams Family?
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Alfred Lord Tennyson

holding 3 DQs

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SUMMARY

  1. Real person
  2. Female
  3. Alive
  4. Not in the arts
  5. Not American
  6. Last name starts with T
  1. European
  1. Hmmm… not a scientist, but still sort of known for science (big hint)