Botticelli - May 2021

Thread Games
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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:217, topic:941098, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Not known for acting
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Born after 1950
  11. Not American
  12. European
  13. Not known for the visual arts
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  1. I am not Buck Rogers.
  2. I am not Basil Rathbone.
  3. I am not Rorschach.
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Prof, I think you missed one DQ.

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Yep, I did.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Last name starts with R
  6. Not known for acting
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. Not known for the performing arts
  10. Born after 1950
  11. Not American
  12. European
  13. Not known for the visual arts
  14. Author
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IQs

  1. Going for the obvious: Did the concept for your first book come to you while stuck on a train for four hours?
  2. Are you Enya’s lyricist?
  3. Were you the last editor for Gourmet magazine?
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Sometimes the obvious choice is the right one.

Yes, I am

J. K. Rowling!

Author of the Harry Potter books

Nice job, Miss Take!

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Thanks!

Next up:

I am B

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IQs:

  1. Were you the inspiration for the movie Young Man With A Horn?
  2. Did you star in the 70’s TV series The Magician?
  3. Are you an elected official whose middle name is Robinette?
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I am not Bix Beiderbecke
DQ
I am not Joseph Robinette Biden

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Correct, Bill Bixby, Correct.

DQ: Real?

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I am B

  1. Real
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IQ1: Were you invited to play your musical instrument?
IQ2: Were you the subject of a painting by Gainsborough?
IQ3: Did a joke say that a mental image of Robert Burns might be mistaken for you?

First time I ever heard of him I thought my buddy was saying “Big Spiderback”…

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Swept me, Prof. P., and congrats, MissTake!

Let it B (although we did the letter just a few weeks ago).

IQs:

Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”?
Were you pleased that King Edward was on the throne and that it was the Age of Men?
Did you play a woman jailed in Pittsburgh?

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Bill Bailey?
I am not The Blue Boy
DQ

Three DQs

(I apologize for using a letter recently used - this person popped up in my timeline and I just went for it.)

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Little Boy Blue (come blow your horn).
:white_check_mark:
Robert Browning.


DQ1: Female?
DQ2: Living?

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I am B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
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[There’s no rule against using a letter twice in a short time. I find I get confused about what I asked (or was asked) before, and now, though.]

IQs:

  1. Did you do the voice of the Gollum-like creature in Disney’s The Black Cauldron?
  2. Did you write I’ll Never Fall In Love Again?
  3. Did you star in Designing Women and go on to star in a less-successful spinoff of that show?
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DQ
No idea who wrote it, but now it’s stuck in my head
I am not Delta Burke

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IQ1: Were you the original singer for AC/DC?
IQ2:After IQ1 died, were you the new singer for AC/DC?
IQ3: Did you create a comic featuring a rambunctious 6 year-old boy and his tiger best friend?

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#1 was John Byner.
#2 was Bert Bacharach.
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with B?
  2. American?