Botticelli - Nov 2020

Thread Games
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So here we are, new month, new people to discover.

My letter is A

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IQs:

  1. Were you a Steve Ditko character with Randian morals?
  2. Were you a 16th Century portraitist who made characters out of food?
  3. Are you the king of Dictionopolis?
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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not the … unique… Acrimboldo
  3. Take a DQ
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IQ1: Are you head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs?
IQ2: Are you head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
IQ3: Are you QB of the Green Bay Packers?

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IQ1: Have both Hank Pym and Scott Lang taken on your identity?
IQ2: Are you an animated tough police detective resembling a pair of buttocks?
IQ3: Are you always optimistic that the sun will come out tomorrow?

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Take a DQ
Take a DQ
I am not Aaron Rodgers (HA! We beat the Packers yesterday!)

I am not Ant-Man
Take a DQ
I am not Annie

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#1 is Mr. A.
#2 is correct, Arcimboldo.
#3 is King Azaz from the book The Phantom Tollbooth.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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IQs:
1. Did you sing “Skater Boi”?
2. Were you a tall, bearded US president during the Civil War who wore a stovepipe hat?
3. Are you David Lynch’s comic strip character, a canine “bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis”?

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I am not Averil Levigne
I am not Abe Lincoln
Take a DQ

The letter is A

  1. Real
  2. Male
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Correct, Assy McGee, Correct

DQ: Alive?

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The letter is A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
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IQ1: Did your brother deny knowledge of your murder, sarcastically asking if he was your keeper?
IQ2: Are you an American missionary known for wearing a tin pot as a hat?
IQ3: Did you scream in vain when Lucifer killed the czar and his ministers?

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IQ1: Did your brother deny knowledge of your murder, sarcastically asking if he was your keeper?
IQ2: Are you an American missionary known for wearing a tin pot as a hat?
IQ3: Did you scream in vain when Lucifer killed the czar and his ministers?

I am not Abel
I am not Johnny Appleseed
Take a DQ

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Yes, Yes, Anastasia (Romanova) from a tortured rephrasing of the lyrics to the Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil

DQ: Last name starts with A?

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The letter is A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Last name does not begin with A

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness I had thought of going with Johnny Appleseed, but since his actual last name is Chapman and my apparent inability to clarify things well… I changed direction.

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Andy Reid, Bruce Arians, congrats!

DQ: American?
DQ: Known for the Arts?

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IQ1: Did you and Menachem Begin win the Nobel Prize?
IQ2: Did you play Tom Havelford in Parks and Recreation?
IQ3: Did you play Ben Wyatt in Parks and Recreation?

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3 was the Angriest Dog in the World.

IQs:

1. Do you appear on the US twenty-dollar bill?
2. Did you voice Hollyhock, a relative of BoJack Horseman?
3. 50 B.C.: all Gaul is divided into three parts…except for your small village, which still resists the Romans?

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Take a DQ
I am not Aziz Ansari
I am not Adam Scott?

I am not Andrew Jackson
Take 2 DQs

The letter is A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Deceased
  4. Last name does not begin with A
  5. I am not American
  6. I am partially known for The Arts
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IQ1: Did you direct three adaptations of works by Daphne du Maurier?
IQ2: Are you sometimes considered to be the Father of Comedy, with such works as The Frogs and The Birds?
IQ3: Did the late Sean Connery play you in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits?