Botticelli - May 2023

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with B
  4. Known for the Arts
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Dead
  7. American
  8. Known for acting
  9. Best known for movies
  10. Considered a beauty
  11. White
  12. Did not win an Oscar
  13. Died before 2000
  14. Died before 1970
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Previous IQs:

Did a novelist suggest a well-known character of yours later died in a plane crash along with UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold? - Ingrid Bergman’s Casablanca character Ilsa Lund
Were you a noted feminist Congresswoman? - Yes, Bella Abzug
Are you one of several members of the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolamaloo? - You’ve got your choice of Bruces, mate: HELLO BRUCE !!! - YouTube

DQs:

Best known as a leading actress?
Famous husband?

IQs:

Were you a young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle’s mentor?
Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration?
Did you try to help the wounded President James A. Garfield, but failed, probably through no fault of your own?

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IQs:
1. Are you a gay former congressman from Massachusetts?
2. Have you played Veronica Mars and Eleanor Shellstrop?
3. Is the Good Smile Company selling an articulated figure based on one of your most famous paintings, complete with a backdrop and clamshell for her to stand on?

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IQ1: Were you a silent-film actress who starred as Cleopatra?
IQ2: Did you play the mother in the original Yours, Mine and Ours?
IQ3: Were you the mother whose family that film was based on?

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Yes, I am

Theda Bara, “The Vamp!”

Despite being best known for playing Cleopatra, there are no known copies of the movie, just stills. There are actually only a handful of her movies that have survived to this day.

You have done well yet again, SCAdian!

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Wow that was fast. Over before I even got off work enough to submit my first IQs.

Congrats SCAdian.

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My turn in the barrel again, eh?

I am

‘Y’.

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Congrats, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Were you a young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle’s mentor? - Dr. Joseph Bell, whose acute powers of observation helped inspire Conan Doyle to create Sherlock Holmes
Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration? - Griffin Bell
Did you try to help the wounded President James A. Garfield, but failed, probably through no fault of your own? - Alexander Graham Bell, who invented an early metal detector but was unable to locate the bullet which had wounded Garfield, perhaps because his doctors refused to move him from a metal-framed bed

Bell x3!

Hmm, that’s an odd-looking Y. Here we go:

IQs:

Did Chandler and Joey really enjoy watching you on TV in slo-mo?
Did you star in Witchblade?
Was a catchphrase of yours, “I love this country”?

249

IQs:

  1. Were you Rizzo’s girlfriend in The Muppets Take Manhattan?
  2. Were you the artist son of Victor Vasarely?
  3. Are you one of three little maids from school?
250

Congrats, SCAdian!

IQs:
1. Did you play for the Yankees?
2. Were you Maid Marian in Robin Hood: Men in Tights?
3. Take your wife…please?

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IQ:

  1. Are you a rabbit samurai?
  2. Are you a Warner Brother with a sister named Dot?
  3. Were you also Giantman, Antman, and Goliath?
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Take three. (Chandler and Joey - Friends?)

DQ
DQ
Not Yum Yum

Not … Cy Young?
DQ
Not Henny Youngman.

DQ
Not Yakko.
Not Yellowjacket.

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1 was Yogi Berra; 2 was Amy Yasbeck.

DQs:
1. real?
2. last name starts with Y?

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  1. I was thinking of Usagi Yojimbo, but as I just now glanced at the linked wikipedia page I was going to reference see that while the comic goes by that name the character is Miyamoto Usagi, with Yojimbo, meaning bodyguard, being a descriptor. So this IQ is withdrawn.

2 and 3 correct.

255

#1 was Yolanda.
#2 was Yvaral.
Correct on the bride Yum-Yum.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
256

IQ:
1.Were you Steve Dallas’ prom date?
2. Did you have a spectacular concert at the Acropolis in Athens?
3. Is there a statue of you in Salt Lake city with your back to the church and your hand held out to a bank?

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IQ1: You know the gate. You are the gate. You are the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in you?
IQ2: Did you cross-dress in order to study the Talmud?
IQ3: Did you direct half of the Harry Potter films?

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IQs:
1. Were you 1960s TV’s Batgirl?
2. Did you co-found Yahoo!?
3. Are you a green dinosaur in the Mario Bros. video games?

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Previous IQs:

Did Chandler and Joey really enjoy watching you on TV in slo-mo? - Yasmine Bleeth on Baywatch (yes, that’s C&J of Friends)
Did you star in Witchblade? - Yancy Butler
Was a catchphrase of yours, “I love this country”? - Yakov Smirnov

DQs:

American?
Last name start with Y?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Does the Planetary Society celebrate you yearly?
Were you a fellow of infinite jest?
Were you part of a famous folk music trio?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Tea For Two?
  2. Do you frequently get upset with Hathor and Cthulhu forget your birthday?
  3. Did you appear in the first newspaper comic strip? (Actually, just one panel)