Botticelli - May 2024

Thread Games
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Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed

Doctor Tarr

from this 1845 Poe short story (at the bottom of the article is a link to the story itself): The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether - Wikipedia

And here’s the 1976 Alan Parsons Project song you referred to.

Well done, Prof. P.!

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Thank you. Onwards to…

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G it is.

IQs:

Are you AKA Tharkun?
Does your husband have arguably the silliest alternative name in Middle-earth?
Were you Aragorn’s mom?

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Congrats!

  1. Did you write the Parasol Protectorate series?
  2. Were you a Wisconsin Senator who founded Earth Day?
  3. Did you play Nick Stokes on CSI?
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I am not Gandalf.
I am not Galadriel.
I am not Gladys-Jean Wolfstomper, D.D.S.

  1. I am not Gail Carriger.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Yes, yes (Celeborn = Teleporno) and [spit take] no. It was Gilraen, actually.

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Are you a plant-based being which can only verbally express itself by introducing itself?
Did you chill with the Lilliputians and the Yahoos, among others?
Are you the top dude in Downton Abbey?

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Three sure things in life: death, taxes, and that @Elendil_s_Heir will ask a Botticelli question about Teleporno, and @Prof.Pepperwinkle will ask one about the Goon Show.

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Just one more service I offer. :wink:

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So, on to the OGs, fr fr:

IQs:

  1. In response to a writer who complained about your “alien and uninspiring court”, did you retort, “I may be uninspiring, but I’m damned if I’m alien!”?

  2. Did you once hold your hand in a candle flame, to show your toughness and loyalty to a leader on whose behalf you committed burglary?

  3. According to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, did you once spend fifty years hiding in the body of a man called Miles Davis?

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Tarr and Fether. Never let it be said Poe didn’t have a sense of humor! Congrats, @Prof.Pepperwinkle !

IQs:

  1. Are you a football coach who had a cameo on the final episode of Ted Lasso?
  2. Are you a football coach who won Super Bowls with three different quarterbacks?
  3. Are you the eldest child of a famous TV blended family?
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I am not Groot.
I am not Lemuel Gulliver.
Take a DQ.

#3. I am not Gabriel?

Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

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DQ:

  1. Real
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Correct on #3. #1 was King George V, in response to H.G. Well’s comment on his court. #2 was G. Gordon Liddy.

DQs:

  1. Female?
  2. American?

IQs:

  1. Were you a poet featured in a limerick, the first line of which was “There’s a wonderful family called Stein”?
  2. Were you a slave and swineherd who earned his freedom squiring for his master’s son, Wilfred of Ivanhoe?
  3. Are you a singer known as the “Mexican Madonna”?
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Previous IQs:

Are you a plant-based being which can only verbally express itself by introducing itself? - Yes, Groot
Did you chill with the Lilliputians and the Yahoos, among others? - Yes, Lemuel Gulliver
Are you the top dude in Downton Abbey? - Lord Grantham

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
In an HBO miniseries, did you advise a French ambassador to “Tread carefully, sir”?
Did you tell Harry Truman he was too old to rejoin the Army?

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DQ:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
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  1. I am not Gertrude Stein.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not George Henry Thomas.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not George S. Patton (?)
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Correct on Gertrude Stein; the limerick is,
There’s a wonderful family named Stein
There’s Gert and there’s Ep and there’s Ein.
Gert’s poems are bunk,
Ep’s statues are junk,
And no one can understand Ein.

#2 was Gurth the Swineherd, from Scott’s Ivanhoe #3 is Gloria Trevi

DQs:

  1. Known from the arts?
  2. Last name begins with “G”?
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DQ:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Dead
  5. Not known from the arts
  6. Last name begins with “G” but sometimes his last name is confused as being his first name.
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#1 was Pep Guardiola, who has coached for FC Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City.
#2 was Joe Gibbs, who has coached for the club now known as the Washington Commanders.
#3 was Greg Brady.

DQ1: Died before 1900?
DQ2: Known from politics or the miltary?

1 DQ reserved.

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Or Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.