Botticelli - Nov. 2013

Thread Games
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Not Tammy Fae Bakker, Tina Fey or TubaDiva.

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IQ1: Are you a woman who came to fame through her association with a particular railroad?

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IQ1: Did you sing “Music! Music! Music!”?
IQ2: If you can’t go to Heaven when you die, would you like to go to Texas?
IQ3: Did you not want to play house?

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Dunno any of those four. Take yer DQs.

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I was being a bit coy here, the railroad to which I referred was merely a codename - I was referring to Harriet Tubman of Underground Railroad fame.

DQ: Known for your contribution to science or technology?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a different Doper mod?
  2. Was Mighty Manfred your pet Wonder Dog?
  3. Were you the Russian author of Fathers and Sons?
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Teresa Brewer.
Tanya Tucker.
Tammy Wynette.
DQ1: Died after 1950?
DQ2: Last name starts with T?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Was your husband an artillery officer who later held a top job?
IQ2: Is your surname sometimes compared with Oscar’s?
IQ3: Were you an undersized general?

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Not tomndebb, dunno, and not Turgenev.

Not Bess Truman, dunno, or Gen. Tom Thumb.

T.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. American
  4. dead
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died since 1900
  7. not known for contributions to science or technology
  8. died after 1950
  9. first name starts with T
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Correct on Bess Truman and Tom Thumb.
Oscar was Wilde, but Thornton Wilder.
DQ1: Sports figure?
One DQ reserved.
IQ1: Did your ex-husband try to reduce the competition?
IQ2: Did you command a French submarine that had sunk, and then been salvaged and put into service by your country?
IQ3: Are you Darrin and Samantha’s daughter?

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#2 was Tom Terrific, cartoon character from Captain Kangaroo’s Treasure House.

DQ: Political?

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I don’t get it. Or should there be a “was” between the last two names…?

Dunno the first two; not Tabitha.

T.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. American
  4. dead
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died since 1900
  7. not known for contributions to science or technology
  8. died after 1950
  9. first name starts with T
  10. not a sports figure
  11. not political

At least, not in the sense usually meant in this game.

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IQs:

  1. Are you the eponymous protagonist of a little-performed Shakespearean play?
  2. Were you a talking cat in a short story by Saki?
  3. Were you a cat with three lives in a Disney film?
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Ice skater Tonya Harding, whose ex hired someone to break Nancy Kerrigan’s leg.
Georg Ritter von Trapp.
Correct on Tabitha Stephens.

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Or a gapping comma, yes. Sorry about that…

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Not Titus Andronicus, and dunno the other two.

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For #1 I had in mind Timon of Athens, but Titus Andronicus works as well.
#2 was Tobermory; #3 was Thomasina (from The Three Lives of Thomasina)

DQs:

  1. Criminal?
  2. Died after 1990?
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T.

  1. real
  2. female
  3. American
  4. dead
  5. not known for the arts
  6. died since 1900
  7. not known for contributions to science or technology
  8. died after 1950
  9. first name starts with T
  10. not a sports figure
  11. not political
  12. not a criminal
  13. died after 1990
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IQs:

  1. Are you Dick Tracy’s wife (maiden name, please)?
  2. Did Spike Milligan voice your character on the highly esteemed Goon Show?
  3. Was your big line: “God bless us, every one!”
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Not Tess Trueheart, dunno the second, and not Tiny Tim.

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#2 was Throat.

I’ll hold off on the DQ until I can think of a good one.