Botticelli - May 2017

Thread Games
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Good job, Prof. P.! I actually was thinking that I might use Rubik myself in some future round…

Previous IQs:

Did you insist on being paid in $1 bills early in your career? - Yes, Ray Charles (after being ripped off by concert promoters who insisted they were giving him larger denominations)
Were you featured in a short story originally titled “Odd Playmate”? - Robbie the robot, in the early Asimov tale
Were you “the dog that saved Hollywood”? - Yes, Rin Tin Tin

On to S.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his SECSTATE?

42

I am not Simon Cameron.
I am not Edwin Stanton.
I am not William Seward.

43

Martha Stewart, Stewart Copeland

Real?
Last name start with S?

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IQ1: Did you star as Valeria opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Barbarian?
IQ2: Did you portray Starbuck in the Battlestar Galactica reboot?
IQ3: Have you portrayed both a member of the rebooted Star Trek crew and one of the Guardians of the Galaxy?

45

Swept mine.

IQs:

Did you become Prime Minister in one version of Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals?
Were you the title character of an Alan Arkin comedy?
Did Mike Myers play you as a little British boy in a bathtub?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with S
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#3. I am not Zoe Saldana.
Take 2 DQs.

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#2. I am not Simon.
Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did you become Prime Minister in one version of Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals? - Simon Kerslake
Were you the title character of an Alan Arkin comedy? - Yes, Simon
Did Mike Myers play you as a little British boy in a bathtub? - Another Simon

Simon x3!

DQs:

Male?
Living?

IQs:

Were you a Watergate conspirator?
Did you long perform at the Carlyle Club in NYC?
Did you once play a man trying to get a piano up a very steep hill?

50

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with S
  3. Female
  4. Deceased
51
  1. I am not Gordon Strachan.
    Take 2 DQs.
52

Sandhall Bergman, Katie Sackhoff, correct

American?
Known for the arts?

53

IQ1: Have Jim Gaffigan, Norm McDonald, George Hamilton and Robb Riggle portrayed you in commercials?
IQ2: Were you the producer of the film Gone With the Wind?
IQ3: Was your biggest hit single “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with S
  3. Female
  4. Deceased
  5. American
  6. Known for the Arts
55

Take a DQ for #1.
2. I am not David O. Selznick.
3. I am not Allan Sherman.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a Watergate conspirator? - I’ll rephrase
Did you long perform at the Carlyle Club in NYC? - Bobby Short
Did you once play a man trying to get a piano up a very steep hill? - Stan Laurel: - YouTube

DQs:

Actress?
Died since 1950?

IQs:

You were a lawyer and not Gordon Strachan. Were you a Watergate conspirator?
Were you a French writer of detective fiction?
Were you the best digger in Cairo?

57

And my daughter just bought a Cube yesterday…

I thought that was Won Ton Ton…

IQ1: Did you write about a Swiss mercenary in the Serbian Army?
IQ2: Did you invent a vaccine for infantile paralysis?
IQ3: Did you play a cook on board a US battleship?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with S
  3. Female
  4. Deceased
  5. American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not an Actress
  8. Died after 1950
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Georges Simenon.
  3. I am not Sallah.
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Take 3 DQs.