Botticelli - November 2024

Thread Games
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An excellent choice, knoodler!

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Good one, knoodler!

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Thanks all! Let’s try someone whom everyone should know:

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IQs:

  1. Were you married to John Lloyd?
  2. Are you the namesake villain of an educational video game franchise?
  3. Were you Frank Hardy’s steady gal?
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Take 3 DQs!

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Tennis star Chris Evert, Carmen Sandiego, and Callie Shaw, respectively.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. First name begins with C?
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Good one, knoodler. I’ve certainly heard of Euell Gibbons, but only know him as the healthy-cereal TV pitchman.

On to C!

IQs:

Were you the only known bearded Elf in all of Tolkien’s writings?
Was your other name (giggle) Teleporno?
Were you a giant evil dog in the Middle-earth legendarium?

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I feel I should one of these, but… Take 3 DQs

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DQ:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
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IQs:

  1. Did you come into ownership of a chocolate factory?
  2. Did you help a small girl from Kansas find her way home?
  3. Are you frequently in the company of the jazz-dancin’ honey, Minnie Bannister, on the high-esteemed, perpetually bewildering, moss-covered, orthopaedic 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
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  1. I am not Charlie Bucket
  2. I am not… the Wizard? Take a DQ
  3. Take a DQ
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Correct on Charlie.
#2 was the Cowardly Lion.
#3 is Henry “You can’t get the wood any more” Crun.

DQs:

  1. American creator(s)?
  2. Created after 1950?
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IQs:

  1. Did you wear herring boxes as sandals?
  2. Did you write My Horizontal Life: A Collection Of One Night Stands?
  3. Are you Pacha’s wife in The Emperor’s New Groove?
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  1. Take a DQ
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Chica
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DQ:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. American creator
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Created before 1990
  7. Not best known from TV or movies
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#1 was My Darling Clementine.
#2 is Chelsea Handler.
#3. Correct on Chicha.

DQs:

  1. Created after 1990?
    2( Best known from TV or movies?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the only known bearded Elf in all of Tolkien’s writings? - Cirdan the Shipwright
Was your other name (giggle) Teleporno? - Celeborn, Galadriel’s husband
Were you a giant evil dog in the Middle-earth legendarium? - Carcharoth

DQs:

American character?
Considered a good guy?
From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, spy, horror, etc.)?

IQs:

Were you mentioned in the title of Col. Sherman Potter’s favorite movie?
Were you the first to fly across America, and did so “crash by crash”?
Did you create Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino?

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E_H: Take 3 DQs and call me in the morning

DQ:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. American creator
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Created before 1990
  7. Not best known from TV or movies
  8. American character
  9. Considered a good guy
  10. Not from genre fiction
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I actually read at least one (Stalking the Wild Asparagus for sure) of Gibbons’s books. I enjoyed it/them.

IQs:
1.Are you the author of The Parasol Protectorate series of books?
2. Were you the title character of Thorne Smith’s most famous book?
3. Did you play Mary Campbell on Soap?

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Take 3 DQs.

I’m kicking myself for not knowing #3 – I’m a big fan of the show.