Botticelli - November 2023

Thread Games
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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:38, topic:992551, full:true”]

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
  14. Although appearing in many, best known for one TV show
  15. Amazingly, never won an Emmy
  16. Best known show not a sitcom
  17. Greatest fame in the 1950s
  18. Genre show
  19. Not from a Western
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  1. I am not Tycho Brahe (??)
  2. I am not Teddy Ruxpin.
  3. Take a DQ.

And that puts us at 20 DQs or more. Please ask all remaining DQs by 7pm EST tomorrow.

This shouldn’t be that hard. It’s as plain as the nose on my other face.

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Yes, Yes, Tritia Toyota

DQ: From a superhero show?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Last name starting with T.
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for the performing arts
  8. Died before 2000
  9. Actor
  10. Not considered traditionally handsome
  11. Best known from TV, did some movies
  12. Greatest fame before 1970
  13. Supporting, character actor
  14. Although appearing in many, best known for one TV show
  15. Amazingly, never won an Emmy
  16. Best known show not a sitcom
  17. Greatest fame in the 1950s
  18. Genre show
  19. Not from a Western
  20. From a Superhero TV show

Checking, it looks like Buck Godot has one DQ remaining.
Anyone who has earned a DQ may ask the “Are you FirstName LastName?” question at any time.

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Okay, please ask your FirstName LastName questions by 7pm EST tomorrow. Good luck.

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Are you Phil Tead? Your hint is quite helpful

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Yes, indeed!

I am Phillips (Phil) Tead, actor extraordinaire,

best known around here for playing the part of Prof. Pepperwinkle on The Adventures of Superman!

Well done, Chock!!

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One of these days I’ll remember that actor’s name. :roll_eyes:

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Yep, this time the actor’s name finally stuck, after seeing it as an IQ in several P and T games.

Next up, S

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Kidnapped?
  2. Did you write The Faerie Queene?
  3. Did you write The Baroque Trilogy?
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Not Robert Louis Stevenson
Take 2 DQs

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IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR?
Were you his second?
Were you his SECSTATE, and Andrew Johnson’s, too?

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Correct on Bob.
#2 was Edmund Spenser.
#3 was Neal Stephenson.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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Take 3 DQs

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S

  1. Real
  2. Male
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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Still Crazy After All These Years?
  2. Are you the title character of a novel by George Eliot?
  3. Did you write The Second Sex?
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Not Paul Simon
Not Silas Marner
DQ

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  1. Are you a fictional character often called “A modern day Robin Hood” and who was created by Leslie Charteris?

  2. In the Dragonriders of Pern books, did you marry Menolly?

  3. Did you write a trilogy about a cat named Carbonel?

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Correct, correct, and Simone de Beauvoir.

DQ: Living?

60

IQs:

  1. Were you a Biblical figure who have his name to a sin much deprecated by the medieval Church (no, no the masturbation one).
  2. Were you the last peer beheaded at the Tower of London?
  3. Were you a Mike Myers SNL character who liked to make “drawerings” from his bathtub?