Botticelli - November 2024

Thread Games
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  1. I am not Eunice Shriver
  2. I am not Edith Bunker
  3. I am not… Melissa Etheridge?
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Correct on #1 and #2. #3 was Ellen Foley, who sang on “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” (and also played a public defender on Night Court for one season, btw).

DQ: Female?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a musician who advertised your first band in the phone directory, describing them as “Colored Syncopators”?
  2. Are you a gangsta rapper who recently announced he was about to become a grandfather?
  3. Were you the first female writer to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?
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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not… Snoop Dogg?
  3. Take a DQ
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Real
First name starts with “E"
Male

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  1. was Duke Ellington, and it was 1917, thus the racist language.
  2. Good guess, but Eminem is the rapper about to become Grandaddy Slim Shady.
  3. was Edith Wharton.

DQs:

  1. Surname begins “N” - “Z”?
  2. Alive?
  3. Known for the arts?
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Real
First name starts with “E"
Male
Surname begins “A” - “M”
Deceased
Known for the arts

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May I ask that you number your answers, please, knoodler?

IQs:

Were you Isildur’s dad?
Did you capture Ft. Ticonderoga?
Were you a French artist known for his attraction to ballerinas?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a 1960’s TV boy werewolf?
  2. Did you play Rochester on The Jack Benny Show?
  3. Did John Astin play you, a western antihero, in a made-for-TV movie?
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Done

  1. Hmm… if only there was someone here who might help me figure this… what say you, Heir of Elendil? No, I am not your father.
  2. I am not the furniture maker’s namesake, Ethan Allen
  3. I am not Edgar Degas
  1. I am not Eddie Munster
  2. I am not Eddie Anderson
  3. Take a DQ
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  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E"
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
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Correct, correct, and Evil Roy Slade.

The “Evil” is part of the name.

DQ: Actor?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the subject of a song by the Oak Ridge Boys?
  2. Are you married to Portia de Rossi?
  3. Were you the rush chairman of Delta Tau Chi?
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  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Melissa Ethrige
  3. I am not Otter, er, Eric Stratton
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#1, the song was “Elvira” (not to be confused with the Mistress of the Dark).
#2 is Ellen Degeneres.
Correct on #3.

DQ: Died before 1900?
DQ: Known for literature?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a poet who used punctuation, spacing, and line breaks as literary tools?
  2. Did you play a pregnant teenager in your most famous role, which would seem odd to anyone who only knows you from your current work?
  3. Are you a musician whose greatest hit is most often heard in late May and early June?
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DQs

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with “E”
  3. Male
  4. Surname begins “A” - “M”
  5. Deceased
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died after 1900
  9. Known for literature
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Take 3 DQs

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Swept me!

IQs:

Did you create The Gashlycrumb Tinies?
Were you namechecked in a song by Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins?
Were you a noted Irish freedom-fighter in the 1790s?

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  1. was e.e. cummings. 2. was Elliott Page, a transman who was then known as Ellen Page. 3. was Edward Elgar, composer of “Pomp and Circumstance”.

DQ:

Known for prose?

2 DQs reserved.