Botticelli - May 2019

Thread Games
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See post #257.

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DQs:

  1. Died before 1900?
  2. American?
263

IQs:

  1. Were you Daisy Moses’s son-in-law’s banker?
  2. Were you part of a comedy duo with a singer named Rossi?
  3. Did you play the protagonist in the movie Serial?
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1 was Mr. Mxyzptlk; 3 was Desmond Morris.

IQs:

  1. Does your lone narrative film have a cameo from Dan Aykroyd as a Mountie?
  2. Is a kind of dessert and toast named after you?
  3. Do you keep getting dragged off by your grandfather for high-concept sci-fi rigmarole?
    DQ: known from the arts?
265

See post #260.

Dunno, not Martini, and not… Matthew McConnahey?

Not Michael Moore, Dame Melba or Morty Smith.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with M
  5. died before 1900
  6. American
  7. known, in part, from the Arts
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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Did you write Billy Budd? - Correct, Herman Melville.

IQ2: Were you an earlier First Sea Lord (under Pitt), and the last person in the UK to be impeached (for improper use of public money)? - Another Melville; Henry Dundas, first Viscount Dundas. I thought you might know him if you were at all familiar with Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin novels.

IQ3: Were a possibly-apocryphal American colonist who jumped in to take her husband’s place on a gun crew, when he was killed in the Battle of Monmouth? - Correct, Moll Pitcher.
IQ1: Are you the embodiment of France, akin to Uncle Sam and John Bull?

IQ2: Are you a character in the BBC’s Sherlock who does not come from the Conan Doyle canon?

IQ3: Were you an American surrealist artist, whose most famous artwork depicts a woman’s nude back with a pair of f-holes?

DQ1: Visual arts?

267

Whoops! Henry Dundas was the the Viscount of Melville.

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IQs:

  1. Did you write the carol Angels From The Realms Of Glory?
  2. Did you play False Face on the 1960’s Batman TV show?
  3. Were you Larry Hagman’s mother?
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A clean sweep!

IQs:

  1. Does the movie Southside with You depict you and your husband’s first date?
  2. Are you the feline friend of archy the cockroach?
  3. According to production notes, do you have a “garden of deadly nightshade, henbane and dwarf’s hair”?
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Not Marianne, dunno, and dunno.

Not Gregor Mendel, dunno, and not Mary Martin.

Not Michelle Robinson, dunno, and dunno.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with M
  5. died before 1900
  6. American
  7. known, in part, from the Arts
  8. visual arts
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IQ1: Is your name – — .-. … .?

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Morse code?

Matt Ryan, Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes

DQ: Died before 1850?
DQ: Born east of the Mississippi?
DQ: Born north of Mason-Dixon line?

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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Are you the embodiment of France, akin to Uncle Sam and John Bull? - Correct, Marianne.

IQ2: Are you a character in the BBC’s Sherlock who does not come from the Conan Doyle canon? - Molly Hooper.

IQ3: Were you an American surrealist artist, whose most famous artwork depicts a woman’s nude back with a pair of f-holes? - Man Ray. The work in question is of a woman’s back shaped roughly like a cello, with two f-holes painted along her spine.

New IQs:

IQ1: Did you write The Magic Mountain?

IQ2: Did you zhank heaven for leetle girls, because leetle girls get bigger everi day?

IQ3: Are you a Hall of Fame pitcher, ironically nicknamed “Mad Dog”, who earned a Cy Young Award with the Braves?
DQ1: Painter?

DQ2: Best known for single work?

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Dunno.

Not Montreasieux (sp?), not Maurice Chevalier, and not Greg Maddux.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with M
  5. died before 1900
  6. American
  7. known, in part, from the Arts
  8. visual arts
  9. died after 1850
  10. born east of the Mississippi
  11. born north of Mason-Dixon Line
  12. painter
  13. not best known for a single work
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2 was Mehitabel; 3 was Morticia Addams.
IQs:

  1. Are you one of a certain group with a mustache?
  2. Are you one of the same group with an accent?
  3. Are you one of this group who never talks?
    DQ:
    Known primarily from the arts?

One DQ reserved.

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Not Groucho, Chico or Harpo Marx.

M.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with M
  5. died before 1900
  6. American
  7. known, in part, from the Arts
  8. visual arts
  9. died after 1850
  10. born east of the Mississippi
  11. born north of Mason-Dixon Line
  12. painter
  13. not best known for a single work
  14. not known primarily from the Arts
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You don’t know what your name is?

Painter and inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse.
DQ: Died a natural death?

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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Did you write The Magic Mountain? - Thomas Mann.

IQ2: Did you zhank heaven for leetle girls, because leetle girls get bigger everi day? - Correct, Maurice Chevalier.

IQ3: Are you a Hall of Fame pitcher, ironically nicknamed “Mad Dog”, who earned a Cy Young Award with the Braves? - Correct, Greg Maddux, who was known for his control; thus the irony of his nickname.
New IQs:

IQ1: Were you a 16th c. philosopher, known for his essays?

IQ2: Were you a famous composer and pianist, whose catalog includes the immortal canto “Leck mich im Arsch” (“Lick Me In The Ass”)?.

IQ3: Are you a French-Canadian hockey player who made history when you donned goalie pads for the Atlanta Knights, a farm team for the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning, becoming the first woman to play professional hockey for a men’s league?

DQ: Primarily known for politics?

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Another clean sweep!

IQs:

  1. Are you Chuck’s injured cousin?
  2. Are your notebooks radioactive?
  3. Did you write Letters from the Earth?
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Dingdingding! I am indeed

Samuel F.B. Morse

A noted painter and inventor, best remembered today for the code that still bears his name: Samuel Morse - Wikipedia

Good job, SCA!