Botticelli, Nov. 2022

Thread Games
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New month.
I am M

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  1. Do you want your chicks for free?
  2. Did you get out of the dot com bubble quick enough to buy the Mavericks?
  3. Is your brother married to Melissa McCarthy’s cousin?
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M it is!

IQs:

Were you the assassin in The ODESSA File?
Were you a big dumb football player at Riverdale High?
Were you his cute brunette girlfriend that he was crazy-jealous about?

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IQs:

  1. Were you Tom Terrific’s pet, the Wonder Dog?
  2. Are you Hercule Gritpype-Thynne’s much abused French sidekick on the highly-acclaimed windmill-driven 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  3. On that same wonder of the airwaves, are you Henry Crum’s main squeeze, known for your shameful newfangled-type singing?
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Congrats, Chock!

IQs:
IQ1: Did you go on Grim Adventures with Billy?
IQ2: As per Danny Kaye’s “Dodgers Song” “… Sandy Koufax, oh my Drysdale/[you] we love you so”?
IQ3: Does one of your books begin “It was a dark and stormy night” (really!)?

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Not Mark Knofler
Not Mark Cuban
DQ

Not Michael Caine?
Not Moose
DQ

Take 3 DQs

Not Mandy
DQ
Not Madeline L’Engle

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IQ1: Do you come to save the day?
IQ2: Were you told to row your boat ashore?
IQ3: Did John Denver replace you?

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#1 was Mighty Manfred.
#2 is Count Moriarty.
#3 is Minnie Bannister.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with M?
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2 (“Dodgers Song”) was Maury Wills.

1 DQ reserved.

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IQs:
1. Did you get a certain role in Ghostbusters, instead of appropriately-named birthday boy John Candy?
2. Did a character you played watch The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and feel sorry for the monster?
3. Is this a dagger which you see before you?

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M
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with M
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Not Mighty Mouse
Not Michael
DQ

Not Rick Moranis
DQ
Not Macbeth

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3 was Marky Mark Wahlberg

Mark X3!

DQ: Living?

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IQs:

  1. Were you part of a comedy duo with Peter Cook?
  2. Were you part of a comedy duo with Ernie Wise?
  3. Did you play the part of the famous Eccles (among others) on the widely acclaimed all-leather 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
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2 was Marilyn Monroe, in The Seven-Year Itch.

DQs:
1. known from the arts?
2. American?

IQs:
1. Were you Ben’s grandpa on Ben 10?
2. Did you write H is for Hawk?
3. Did you surround yourself with a cadre of female bodyguards, the Revolutionary Nuns?

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Previous IQs:

Were you the assassin in The ODESSA File? - Michael Caine wasn’t in that movie; the German character’s name was Mackensen
Were you a big dumb football player at Riverdale High? - Yes, Moose
Were you his cute brunette girlfriend that he was crazy-jealous about? - Midge

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Did you die at the Reichenbach Falls?
Did you try to shoot a detective from across the street?
Were you British high society’s master blackmailer?

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M
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with M
  4. Dead
  5. Known from the arts
  6. Not American
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Not Dudley Moore
DQ
Not Spike Milligan?

Not Grandpa Max Tennyson
DQ
Not Moamar Ghaddafi, or however it’s spelled (the Libya guy)

Oops, I was thinking of The Ipcress File.

Not Moriarty
Take 2 DQs

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Previous IQs:

Did you die at the Reichenbach Falls? - Yes, Prof. James Moriarty
Did you try to shoot a detective from across the street? - Col. Sebastian Moran
Were you British high society’s master blackmailer? - Charles Augustus Milverton

All in the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

DQs:

European?
Died since 1950?
Best known for the performing arts?
Won a top award in her field?

IQs:

Did you write both the music and lyrics for “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”?
Were you AKA “The Great Santini”?
Were you stabbed to death in your bathtub?

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2 was Helen Macdonald.

DQ: European?

IQs:
1. Do you hang out with a milkshake and fries?
2. Were you Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State?
3. Are you one of the three firefighters in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World?