Botticelli - November 2015

Thread Games
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correct (Adam Wagnalls), correct, Marsha Warfield

DQ: American?

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IQ1: Are you a ventriloquist who invented and patented the first artificial heart?
IQ2: Did you write the *Illuminatus *trilogy with Robert Shea?
IQ3: During the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, did students throw copies of your book The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play the villain in Tron?
  2. Did you co-found a Laboratory with Dr. Chu?
  3. Did you edit A Nonsense Anthology?
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Three DQs.

Three DQs.
W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name does not start with W
  5. American
    Where’d everybody else run off to?
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#1 was David Warner. #2 was Dr. An Wang of Wang Labs. #3 was Carolyn Wells.

DQs:

  1. Born after 1970?
  2. Known for the arts?

1 DQ reserved.

Well, it’s W… so I guess Walla Walla, Washington.

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**astorian **did say he was going to be gone a while.

Paul Winchell, Robert Anton Wilson, Wilhelm Reich

DQ: Born (W)est of the Mississippi?

holding 2 DQs

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W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name does not start with W
  5. American
  6. Not born after 1970
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi
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DQ: Known for the performing arts?

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IQs:

Did you say, “Just because one is born in a barn does not make one a horse”?
Did you write to the elders of Truro Synagogue?
Were you a widow with children who married a man with whom you then had no additional offspring?

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DQ.
Not … George Washington?
Not … Martha Custis Washington?
W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name does not start with W
  5. American
  6. Not born after 1970
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi
  9. Known for the performing arts
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IQs:

  1. Were you the second president of the Royal Academy in London?
  2. Do copies of your baseball card often sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
  3. Did you star in the TV series Barbary Coast?
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IQ1: Were you FDR’s opponent in the 1940 presidential election, then later appointed by him to ambassador-at-large?
IQ2: Are you a five-term Virginia Senator who was also the 6th husband of Elizabeth Taylor?
IQ3: Did your widow recently confirm you had Lewy body dementia?

DQ: Author?

1 DQ in reserve

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Authors are not performing artists, so perhaps Knowed Out would like to ask another DQ?

Previous IQs:

Did you say, “Just because one is born in a barn does not make one a horse”? - Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, born in Dublin to Anglo-Irish parents.
Did you write to the elders of Truro Synagogue? - Yes, George Washington, in 1790, in an important early statement about religious tolerance: http://www.tourosynagogue.org/index.php/history-learning/tsf-intro-menu/slom-scholarship/86-washington-letter
Were you a widow with children who married a man with whom you then had no additional offspring? - Yes, Martha Washington.

DQ:

Actor?

IQs:

Were you the pilot of Serenity?
Did you perhaps meet the famous man after whom you were named while you were still an infant?
Was your dad a cartoon cop?

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I somehow saw a “Not” in front of 9.

holding 2 DQs

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DQ.
Not Honus Wagner.
DQ.

Not Wendell Willkie.
Not John Warner.
DQ.

Not … Wash?
DQ.
DQ.
W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name does not start with W
  5. American
  6. Not born after 1970
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi
  9. Known for the performing arts
    [DEL]10. Not an author[/DEL] :smiley:
  10. Actor
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#1 was Benjamin West. Correct on Honus. #3 was William Shatner.

DQs:

  1. Known primarily from movies?
  2. Known as a leading man?
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Robin Williams

holding 3 DQs

78

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name does not start with W
  5. American
  6. Not born after 1970
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi
  9. Known for the performing arts
    [DEL]10. Not an author[/DEL] :smiley:
  10. Actor
  11. Not known primarily from movies (though I have been in some)
  12. Not, I think, known primarily as a leading man
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Previous Qs:

Were you the pilot of Serenity? - Yes, Hoban “Wash” Washburne.
Did you perhaps meet the famous man after whom you were named while you were still an infant? - Washington Irving, apocryphally presented to the first President by his nanny in the streets of NYC.
Was your dad a cartoon cop? - Never mind. Withdrawn.

DQ:

Has won an Emmy?

IQs:

Have you played a CIA agent, a train engineer and an infantryman?
Did Peter Falk appear in one of your best-known films?
Did your actor boyfriend get a tattoo with your name?

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Three DQs.

W

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name does not start with W
  5. American
  6. Not born after 1970
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not born (W)est of the Mississippi
  9. Known for the performing arts
    [DEL]10. Not an author[/DEL] :smiley:
  10. Actor
  11. Not known primarily from movies (though I have been in some)
  12. Not, I think, known primarily as a leading man
  13. Has won an Emmy