Botticelli - Nov. 2013

Thread Games
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IQ: Are you a former First Lady who is more commonly known by a nickname (which doesn’t start with ‘T’) than by her first name (which does)?

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No, I’m not… Lady Bird Johnson?

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Thelma “Pat” Nixon.

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IQs:

  1. Did you sing with the Captain in the 1980’s?
  2. Did you complain that your mother always liked your brother best?
  3. Were you the daughter of a murderous Vice President?
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Not Toni Tenille (who, among other gigs, sang backup on Pink Floyd’s The Wall!), dunno, and not Theodosia Burr.

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Right on Toni and Theodosia.

#2 was Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers.
Still thinking about good DQs to ask.

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Tommy Smothers, of course - d’oh! :: headsmack ::

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nevermind

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DQ: Famous because she’s married to someone famous?

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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
  14. not famous because she’s married to someone famous

42,000 posts - woohoo!

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[Way to go, EH!]

IQs:

  1. Were you “the most sensational leader of the gang”?
  2. Were you the equivalent of Oddjob in Austin Powers’s first movie?
  3. Were you a crime solver written by Agatha Christie?
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IQ1: Do we not have your father to kick around any more?
IQ2: Are you a gold-medal Olympic figure skater?
IQ3: Did you steal a pig and run away?

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Dunno the first two; not Tuppence?

Not Tricia Nixon; dunno the other two.

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
  14. not famous because she’s married to someone famous
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Yeah, either Tuppence or Tommy.
#1 was Top Cat (a Hanna-Barbera cartoon)
#2 was Random Task.

And I’m still thinking…

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Correct on Tricia Nixon.
Tara Lipinski.
Tom, Tom, the piper’s son / Stole a pig and away he run. (Or so said Mother Goose…)
Is medicine included in science/technology?

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I would say not, but if a majority feels otherwise in the next 24 hours, I will yield the point.

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I’d say yes, medicine and health care are included in science/technology. Pharmacology’s biochemistry after all.

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True, but my point is that a surgeon, general practitioner, ob/gyn, nurse, paramedic, orderly or patient would be involved in medicine, but not “known for contributions to science or technology,” as the DQ was phrased.

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Okay, I can see that. Dr. Jonas Salk, yes, but Clara Barton, not so much.

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Good distinction.