Botticelli - November 2017

Thread Games
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It was an IQ/guess, and you hit the right answer.

IQ1: Were you World Chess Champion in the 1920s/1930s?
IQ2: Are you an author mainly known for writing a series of books about a teenage James Bond-style character?
IQ3: Are you an Argentinian golf major winner?

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#1 was Alvar Aalto.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Absalom, son of King David.

DQs:

  1. Animal?
  2. Created after 1960?
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IQs:

  1. Are you Hanna-Barbera’s myrmecoid superhero?
  2. Did you tell Hercules “hold this for me a minute”?
  3. Did you lose to Athena in a contest you won?
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IQ1: Did you lose a race because you were distracted by golden apples?
IQ2: Did someone ask who mourned for you?
IQ3: Did you write violin concerti named L’inverno and L’estate?

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Damn, you’re good! Yes, I am the (a bit twitchy) science officer of the USCSS Nostromo,

Ash

as seen in Alien: Ash (Alien) - Wikipedia.

Well done, KO!

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Good job, KO!

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I was thinking about robots all day. Sometimes I find the right path.

So I am B!

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IQs:

  1. Does Michael Weatherly play you in a currently running TV series?
  2. Did you write the poem To a Louse?
  3. Did you invent the photophone?
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IQs:

Are you the second officer of the starship Orville?
Are you Denethor’s elder son?
Were you often Capt. Aubrey’s coxswain?

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not Bull, DQ, this sounds like something out of Superman, but I don’t remember

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DQ (going to binge this series later), not Boromir, DQ

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Correct on Bull.
#2 was Robert Burns.
#3 was Alexander Graham Bell. It wasn’t as successful as his other invention.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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IQ1: Are you one of The Five?
IQ2: Are you a naval commander with oddly specific taste in drinks?
IQ3: Are you an Australian comedian most famous for performing in drag?

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Previous IQs:

Are you the second officer of the starship Orville? - Bortus
Are you Denethor’s elder son? - Yes, Boromir
Were you often Capt. Aubrey’s coxswain? - Bondin

DQs:

American?
Last name start with B?

IQs:

A fictional character, did you fall in love with a man with the first name FitzWilliam?
Were you that person’s elder sister?
Did Donald Sutherland play you in a 2005 movie?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Face in the Frost?
  2. Did you write All the Bells on Earth?
  3. Did you write Madeline?
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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Last name starts with B
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DQ, DQ, not whatever Dame Edna’s real name is

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take 3 DQs

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take 3 DQs

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Borodin (one of the group of Russian romantic period composers known as “The Five”), James Bond (hope you’re kicking yourself :)), and Barry Humphries. Not sure if your last answer escapes a DQ or not so I’ll pose 2 for now:

DQ: Alive?
DQ: Known primarily for accomplishments in the Arts?