Botticelli - May 2022

Thread Games
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Thanks. Lestrade would have been born in the 1840s or so, but I expect much the same would be true.

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Some catch up

Should have done these in the opposite order
#2 - Donald Glover, as young Lando Calrissian in Solo
#1 - Glover’s musical alter-ego Childish Gambino

Next up…J
https://www.grabo-balloons.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/290B-Letter-J-Blue.jpg

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IQs:

  1. Were you, according to Matthew, the father of Joseph, husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus?
  2. Did your brother save the life of Robert Todd Lincoln when he was accidentally pushed into the path of an oncoming train?
  3. Did you invent the concept of the collective unconscious?
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2 DQs
Not Carl Jung

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#1 was Jacob. (but Luke says it was Eli)
#2 was John Wilkes Booth, whose actor brother Edwin saved Lincoln’s son.
Correct on Jung.

DQs:

  1. Real;?
  2. Last name starts with J?
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J

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with J
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IQs:

Was a large version of your signature painted on the stern of the US Navy warship that bore your name?
Were you told not to use a phone you were perfectly entitled to use?
Did Churchill joke about your name, revealing how he felt about you?

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Not John Hancock?
2 DQs

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Correct:

John F. Kennedy, while a very young-looking member of the House, was told by a US Capitol Police officer, “Those phones are just for Congressmen, son.” And Churchill joked about John Foster Dulles, Ike’s SECSTATE: “Dull, Duller, Dulles.”

John x3!

DQs:

Male?
Living?

IQs:

Did you work for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems?
Did you, too?
And did you?

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J

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
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Not John Bigboote or any of the other Johns whose last names I forget.
Take 2 DQs

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IQs:

  1. Did you write A Pilgrim’s Progress?
  2. Are you the subject of Rabbi Gordis’s The Book of God and Man?
  3. Are you the subject of the song Suite Judy Blue Eyes? (last name required)
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2 DQs
Not Judy Collins

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1 was John Bunyan.
2 was Job (from the Old Testament)
Correct on Judy.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Died after 1900?
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J

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Did not die after 1900
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IQs:

  1. Did you encourage your followers to drink Kool-Aid?
  2. Did you play Stupefyin’ Jones in the original stage production of Li’l Abner?
  3. Are you a Jamaican model who appeared in A View to a Kill?
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Not Jim Jones - pedant says “well, actually, it was Flavor-Aid”
DQ
Not Grace Jones

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Correct, Julie Newmar, Correct.

DQ: Known for the Arts?

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J

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with J
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Did not die after 1900
  7. Not known for the Arts
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Previous IQs:

Did you work for Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems? - Yes, John Bigboote (“Tay! Tay!”)
Did you, too? - John Yaya
And did you? - John Smallberries

Those are my favorites, anyway (I once, on a dare, made a dinner reservation under the name “John Yaya”), all of course from Buckaroo Banzai. For more: Who are all the Lectroids named John?

John x3 redux!

DQs:

Political/military?
Died after 1800?

IQs:

Did you say, “In the long run, we’re all dead”?
Were you a young US Army general at the Battle of Gettysburg with a simian name?
Are you Chief Justice of the United States?