Botticelli - May 2018

Thread Games
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I totally would have used Desmond Llewelyn in an IQ if I had thought of him :).

I have no idea on your IQs but will take a stab at Thomas Jefferson for the first. Please excuse my ignorance.

DQ answers:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with J
  3. Male
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DQs:
1)Alive?
2)American?
3)From performing arts?

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IQs:

  1. Does the TV series Trust revolve around your family?
  2. Did you ask the question “Why so serious?”?
  3. Did you have a hit with the song Valotte?
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Way to go, DC!

Previous IQs:

Are you prominently mentioned in a recent novel, the audiobook of which includes a passage read by humorist David Sedaris? - Willie Lincoln, the Lincolns’ deceased young son, in Lincoln in the Bardo
Did you die soon after returning from a trip to Europe with your mom? - Tad Lincoln
Did you personally accept the surrender of the British army at Yorktown? - Benjamin Lincoln (no relation)

Lincoln x3!

On to J…

IQs:

Did a cop tell you not to use a phone you had every right to use?
Were you that person’s wife?
Were you that person’s only child alive today?

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You swept me - take three more DQs.

Ah, I seem to remember this coming up recently, but I can’t remember the answer. Is the first one Lyndon Johnson? Even if so, I don’t know his wife and children. Take two or three DQs.

DQ answers:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Not from the performing arts
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#1 is J. Paul Getty.
#2 is the Joker (in The Dark Knight)
#3 was Julian Lennon.

DQs:

  1. Died before 1900?
  2. Common first name?
  3. Known for politics or military?
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IQ1: Are you a weight loss guru for whom a diet plan is named?
IQ2: Are you Taram Killam’s mega-bitch 1860s newspaper critic?
IQ3: Are you also known as The Weeping Prophet?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the present owner of the title car from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
  2. Did you and your friends travel by peach?
  3. Did you pilot Friendship 7?
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IQs

  1. Were you a football coach for the Cowboys?
  2. Are you lately known as the portrayer of Black Widow?
    3)Were you ever impeached?
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Previous IQs:

Did a cop tell you not to use a phone you had every right to use? - A very young JFK, newly-elected to the House, was told by a Capitol Police officer, “Those phones are for Congressmen, son.”
Were you that person’s wife? - Jackie Kennedy
Were you that person’s only child alive today? - Oops, withdrawn. This is Caroline Kennedy, former ambassador to Japan, but she’s not a “J”

DQs:

Associated with NYC?
Best known for a single incident?

IQs:

Are you stuck in the friendzone with Danaerys?
Are you the Kingslayer?
Are you Rhaegar’s secret son?

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  1. I am not Jane Fonda
  2. Don’t know, take a DQ
  3. I am not… Jude?
  1. I am not… Jay Leno?
  2. I am not Roald Dahl’s James (I forget his surname, possibly it was either Sponge or Spiker, after one of his aunts, but maybe they were both aunts by marriage)
  3. I am not… Jabba the Hut? Assuming this will be a DQ
  1. I am not Joe Montana (actually now I think about it, he was a 49er wasn’t he - guessing on the off-chance he went on to coach the Cowboys, I know it’s unlikely but it’s better than nothing)
  2. Don’t know, take a DQ
  3. I am not William Jefferson Clinton - feel free to re-ask if you were thinking of someone else and I’ll take another guess!

Ah yes, now I recall it - I was one president out! Think it came up in the recent K game.

I know virtually nothing about GoT so you have more DQs coming - I’ll guess Jon Snow for the first one. Yes, you may laugh.

DQ answers:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Not from the performing arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Common first name
  9. Not primarily known for politics/military
  10. Associated with NYC
  11. Not best known for a single incident
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I was thinking of Jenny Craig, but I guess Jane Fonda is also correct - Jebediah Atkinson, Jeremiah

DQ: Known for a product, business, or service?
DQ: Died on or after 1970?

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  1. Real
  2. First name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Not from the performing arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Common first name
  9. Not primarily known for politics/military
  10. Associated with NYC
  11. Not best known for a single incident
  12. Not known for a product, business, or service
  13. Died on or after 1970
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#1 Chitty is owned by LOTR director Peter Jackson.
#2 Correct on James.
#3 was astronaut John Glenn.

DQs:

  1. Known for the visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture, design, etc.)?
  2. Died after 2000?
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Darn, I thought Jay Leno was one of my better guesses! Good question.

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Not from the performing arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Common first name
  9. Not primarily known for politics/military
  10. Associated with NYC
  11. Not best known for a single incident
  12. Not known for a product, business, or service
  13. Died on or after 1970
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Died before 2000
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IQs:

  1. Did you write Rabbit, Run?
  2. Did you write On The Road?
  3. Did you write the poem My House Burned Down Today?
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  1. I am not John Updike
  2. I am not Jack Kerouac
  3. I am not John Betjeman (guess - take a DQ if wrong)
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There were two answers I thought right for #3:Andrew Johnson or W. Jefferson Clinton. I was curious which might be offered. Correct.

DQs

  1. Known from athletics?
  2. Are you Jim Thorpe?
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Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was James Cavenaugh.

1 DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Are you stuck in the friendzone with Danaerys? - Ser Jorah Mormont, from Game of Thrones
Are you the Kingslayer? - Ser Jaime Lannister
Are you Rhaegar’s secret son? - This is Jon Snow

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you hoodwinked by the Red-Headed League?
Did a fan suggest your middle name was “Hamish”?
Were you Duke Leto’s concubine?