Botticelli - May 2021

Thread Games
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IQ1: Did you play a bigot’s daughter and a meathead’s wife?
IQ2: Did you gush that right now, the Oscar voters like you?
IQ3: Were you created by Dr. Finkelstein?

303

IQs

  1. Did your diary offer a lot of information about both the English Plague and the Great Fire of London?
  2. Were you best known for writing *“Waiting for Godot”?
  3. Did you have a problem with reptiles on a flying conveyance?
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Bella, bella, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did a historian say that, on not your best day, you expected to be surprised? - U.S. Grant, caught flat-footed by a Confederate attack on the first day of the Battle of Shiloh (but he won on the second)
Were you that person’s spouse, who loved to travel? - Julia Grant; after leaving the White House, they went on a gala round-the-world trip
Did Ryan O’Neal give you a sly salute in the San Francisco airport? - Cary Grant; O’Neal said his apocryphal catchphrase “Judy, Judy, Judy” there in What’s Up, Doc?

Grant x3!

On to S.

IQs:

Did you often visit your sweetie at Ft. Belvedere?
Did you and your family do more than anyone to ruin a fictional gubernatorial campaign?
Were you that person’s wife?

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  1. I am not Sally Struthers.
  2. I am not Sally Field.
  3. I am not Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.
  1. I am not Samuel Pepys.
  2. I am not Samuel Beckett.
  3. I am not Samuel L. Jackson.

Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did you often visit your sweetie at Ft. Belvedere? - Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII: Fort Belvedere, Surrey - Wikipedia
Did you and your family do more than anyone to ruin a fictional gubernatorial campaign? - Homer Simpson, when Mr. Burns ran
Were you that person’s wife? - Marge Simpson, who served a mutated three-eyed fish at dinner

Simpson x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with S?

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were your brothers Robert and Renly?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
308

Qs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were your brothers Robert and Renly?
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I am not Simon Cameron.
I am not Edwin Stanton.
I am not Stannis.

309

IWs:

  1. Did you portray a policemen who went back 33 years after a car accident?
  2. Are you the character in #1?
  3. Are you a heavily made up bassist?
310

#3. I am not Gene Simmons.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

311
  1. John Simm, playing 2. Sam Tyler in Life on Mars

DQs:
Alive?
Known for The Arts?

312

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:307, topic:941098, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
313

Swept me!

IQs:

Were you lured into an underground hideout and killed by a horrible older man?
Did a relative of yours found Kenyon College?
A Democrat, were you a Governor of Vermont in the 1970s?

314

Sweep!

IQ1: Have you played an engineering technician, a repo man and a major saint?
IQ2: Were you forced to leave your prosthetic leg behind at the Battle of Cerro Gordo?
IQ3: Did you write The Art of War?

315

Take 3 DQs.

#3. I am not Sun Tzu.
Take 2 DQs.

316

Harry Dean Stanton, in Alien, Repo Man, and The Last Temptation of Christ, respectively.
Mexican General Santa Anna
Correct

DQ1: Died after 1950?
DQ2: Known for sports?

317

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not known for sports
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Previous IQs:

Were you lured into an underground hideout and killed by a horrible older man? - Susie Salmon, in The Lovely Bones
Did a relative of yours found Kenyon College? - Salmon P. Chase
A Democrat, were you a Governor of Vermont in the 1970s? - Tom Salmon

Salmon x3!

DQs:

American?
Political/military?
Died before 1866?

IQs:

Were you a sf writer with a fishy name?
Were you the Man with the Golden Gun?
Did you command the notorious commerce raider CSS Alabama?

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:317, topic:941098, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not known for sports
  8. American
  9. Not political/military
  10. Died after 1866
320

IQs:

  1. Were you the first person to mass produce whirlybirds?
  2. Did you design the Gateway Arch?
  3. Did you create a hypothetical regarding a dead/not dead cat?
321

#3. I am not Erwin Schrodinger.
Take 2 DQ’s.