Botticelli, Nov. 2022

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you compose Baby Elephant Walk?
  2. Did you have a hit with Quinn the Eskimo?
  3. Did you star opposite Cyril Ritchard in Peter Pan?
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Previous IQs:

Were you traditionally considered one of the Three Wise Men? - Yes, Melchior (sp)
Are you a cute girl mouse in a series of kids’ books and on TV, with an alligator for a friend? - Maisy
Did you head the USIA starting in 1961? - Edward R. Murrow, recruited by JFK

DQs:

Best known as a solo artist?
Best known for rock or pop?

IQs:

Did you head The Citadel after WWII?
Were you a noted US Navy carrier officer of WWII with an alliterative name?
Did Paul Sheldon write 'way too many books about you, he thought?

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1. Were you an NYPD detective and confidante of the Manhattan clan of gargoyles?
2. Did you organize the periodic table of the elements?
3. Did you refer to the “magic trick” of your brother–who immediately corrected you, distinguishing between the different terms?

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M

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with M
  4. Dead
  5. Known from the arts
  6. Not American
  7. European
  8. Died since 1950
  9. Best known for the performing arts
  10. Did not win a top award in his field
  11. Died before 1990
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic language, according to most linguists
  13. Not known for acting, but has acted.
  14. From the U.K. or Ireland
  15. Best known for music
  16. Not best known as a solo artist
  17. Best known for rock or pop
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Not Henry Mancini
Not Manfred Mann
DQ

Take 2 DQs
Not Misery Chastain

DQ
Not Melendeev (sp?)
DQ

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Previous IQs:

Did you head The Citadel after WWII? - Gen. Mark Clark
Were you a noted US Navy carrier officer of WWII with an alliterative name? - Adm. Marc Mitscher
Did Paul Sheldon write 'way too many books about you, he thought? - Yes, Misery Chastain, in Misery by Stephen King

DQs:

Lead singer of a group?
Died of natural causes?

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M

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with M
  4. Dead
  5. Known from the arts
  6. Not American
  7. European
  8. Died since 1950
  9. Best known for the performing arts
  10. Did not win a top award in his field
  11. Died before 1990
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic language, according to most linguists
  13. Not known for acting, but has acted.
  14. From the U.K. or Ireland
  15. Best known for music
  16. Not best known as a solo artist
  17. Best known for rock or pop
  18. Not the lead singer of a group, although did sing lead on a few songs
  19. Did not die of natural causes
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IQ:

Were you a British musician who had the same last name as a heavenly body?

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Not Freddie Mercury

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Well played.

IQ:

You weren’t Freddie Mercury. Were you another British musician who had the same last name as a heavenly body?

51

Hmm… Mick Mars is American… I can’t think of another deflection…

YES!! I am Keith Moon
original drummer for The Who, already deceased the first time I saw them in 1982 on their “farewell tour”.

Great job, EH!!

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Good job, EH!

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Thanks! You can’t dust for vomit, you know…

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #97 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter is

T

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IQs:

  1. Did the Dwarves call you Forn?
  2. Did you create the first translation of the New Testament from Greek into English?
  3. Did you write Rock Of Ages, Cleft For Me?
55

Not Thor, dunno and dunno.

56

#1 was actually Tom Bombadil.
#2 was William Tyndale, who was burned at the stake for his efforts.
#3 was Augustus P. Toplady.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with a T?
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T.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. only known name starts with T
58

IQs:
1. Were you on Sister, Sister?
2. Were YOU on Sister, Sister?
3. Did four plumbers take a photo in your bathtub?

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IQ1: Were you the title character of Joan Crawford’s final film?
IQ2: Did you slay the Minotaur?
IQ3: Are you half of a flatulent Canadian comedy duo who nearly brought about the apocalypse?

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Dunno x2, and not William Howard Taft.

Dunno, not Theseus and not Tbob or Tdoug.