Botticelli - May 2023

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IQ1: Were you a pianist comedian?
IQ2: Were you a protoge of Prince famous for the song “Nasty Girl”?
IQ3: Did you play a crime boss with a missing briefcase in Pulp Fiction?

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IQs:

  1. In Disney’s Peter and the Wolf, are you the hunter in the middle?
  2. Are you the villain in Ghostbusters II?
  3. Were you an actress remembered for her peek-a-boo hairstyle?
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DQ
Not Prince Valiant
Not … Vinnie?

Not Wernher von Braun
Not Vanna White
DQ

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Not Virginia Dare
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Not Victor Borge
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Not Veronica Lake

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Interesting – Discourse didn’t delete my full quote of the Prof’s post, even though it was the last post before mine.


Got to a doctor (well, an APRN, actually) yesterday – amazinly, only two hours after Lady SCAdian called to get an appointment – and am much more mobile now, so there won’t be such long breaks between my posts. Thank you for your patience!

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V

1. Real
2. First name begins with V
3. American
4. Male
5. Dead
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for the performing arts
8. Died after 1950
9. White
10. Not an unusual first name

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1 (from Who Framed Roger Rabbit) was Eddie Valiant.

DQ: known for acting?

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#1 is Vladimir. (The others are Sasha and Pasha.)
#2 is Vigo.
Correct on Ms. Lake.

DQ: Died after 2000?

1 DQ reserved.

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V

1. Real
2. First name begins with V
3. American
4. Male
5. Dead
6. Known for the Arts
7. Known for the performing arts
8. Died after 1950
9. White
10. Not an unusual first name
11. Known for acting
12. Did not die after 2000

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  1. Not Vincent Price
  2. Correct
  3. Vinny, but close enough.

IQs:

  1. In her first appearance Did Squirrel girl defeat you?
  2. Did you hack up Summer camp counselors with a Machete?
  3. Did you play Riddick in the Chronicles there of?
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Thanks for the update, SCAdian, and I hope you feel better and better!

Previous IQs:

Were you the best-known resident of the Larkhill labor camp? - The title character in V for Vendetta
Were you the first English child born in the New World? - Yes, Virginia Dare, in the Roanoke Colony
Were you a president of Brown University? - Vartan Gregorian, who was my prep school commencement speaker, back in the day

DQs:

Best known for movies?
Won an acting award?

IQs:

Were you an actor who, by name at least, was no child?
Did you play Princess Irulan?
Did you play an Amish man, a Russian thug and a long-awaited monarch?

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Skipping the first two and last two questions, yes, I am Victor Mature.

Congrats, EH – I had it, you got it.

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Thanks! Total shot in the dark - couldn’t think of any other V actors, although I’m sure they’re out there.

Other previous IQs:

Did you play Princess Irulan? - Virginia Madsen
Did you play an Amish man, a Russian thug and a long-awaited monarch? - Viggo Mortensen, in Witness, Eastern Promises and the LOTR movies

Our next letter (it’s been awhile) is

Q

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Good on you, EH!

IQs:

  1. Did you play Mama in the movie Chicago?
  2. Did you voice Olive Oyl and Betty Boop?
  3. Did you direct Pulp Fiction?
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IQs:
1. Were you played by Anthony Hopkins in Amistad?
2. Did you write The Naked Civil Servant?
3. Are you Paul Dini’s most famous original creation?

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Madsen was in David Lynch’s Dune, BTW.

Dunno, dunno and not Quentin Tarantino.

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Not the redoubtable John Quincy Adams, and not Quentin Crisp or…Ellery Queen?

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3 was Harley Quinn.

DQ: real?

178

#1 was Queen Latifah.
#2 was Mae Questal.
Correct on Quentin.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with Q?
  2. Male?
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Q.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with Q
  3. male
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IQs:

  1. Were you an old man whose mind became befuddled thro’ reading too, too many romances?
  2. Are you the colorful alter ego than old man became?
  3. Was Baba Looie your sidekick?