Botticelli- November 2025

Thread Games
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Got it, thanks!

DQs:

Known for science?
Dead before 1950?

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:20, topic:1024476”]
DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Both names start with G
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. Dead
  6. Caucasian
  7. Not American
  8. Known for science
  9. Died before 1950
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IQs:

  1. Were you nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Dances with Wolves?
  2. Were you nominated for Best Actress for Goodbye Mr. Chips?
  3. Were you nicknamed “the Swedish Sphinx” for your aversion to publicity?
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  1. I am not Greta Garbo.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Graham Greene
Greer Garson
Correct

Alliterative G’s x3!

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DQs:

European?
Died before 1850?

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:22, topic:1024476”]
DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Both names start with G
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. Dead
  6. Caucasian
  7. Not American
  8. Known for science
  9. Died before 1950
  10. European
  11. Died before 1850
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  1. Did William Petersen play you on CSI?
  2. Did you play Nick Stokes on CSI?
  3. Did you play Warrick Brown on CSI?
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Previous IQs:

Are you usually considered the creator of D&D? - Yes, Gary Gygax
Did you come up with a comedy routine about how the US states got their postal abbreviations? - Gary Gulman (a great bit)
Did a key British spy during WWII use your last name as his codename? - This was Garbo, too

DQs:

Known as an inventor?
Native English speaker?

IQs:

Was a Starfleet shuttlecraft named for you… and then another?
Were you Elphaba’s frenemy?
Were you a giant robot with a powerful laser weapon in your head?

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Marjoe Gortner
Viscount Greystoke
correct

DQ: Died before 1750?
One DQ reserved.

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Yes, i am

Galileo Galilei.

Well done, EH!

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Thanks! For those who were wondering about the shuttlecraft: Galileo | Memory Alpha | Fandom

My other IQs:

Were you Elphaba’s frenemy? - Galinda or Glinda, in Wicked
Were you a giant robot with a powerful laser weapon in your head? - Gort, in The Day the Earth Stood Still

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #137 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter is

H

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Previous IQs:

Gil Grissom, George Eads, GaryDourdan.

On to H.

IQs:

  1. Are you The Ship Who Sang?
  2. Did you star in Safety Last! and other movies?
  3. Did you coin the phrase the banality of evil?
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Good job EH!

IQs:

  1. Did you win a Best Actress award for playing a mute woman?
  2. Did you “hitchhike your way across the USA”?
  3. Are you an American Geisha, and not a prostitute?
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IQ1: Did you write The Pursuit of the Pankera?
IQ2: Did you write about Arrakis?
IQ3: Did you write about the June Rebellion?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have to give up the manufacture of immense oak pyramids for the 1950s BBC because you couldn’t get the wood, you know?
  2. After you finished school and went into government work, did you marry a professional quidditch player?
  3. Were you a regular Welsh cast member on the cracker-filled, nardle noo of the 1950s Bbc radio series, The Goon Show, who also starred in the legit British theater?
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Dunno, not Harold Lloyd (great movie, and he could really act, unlike most other actors of that era) and not Hannah Arendt.

Not H. Marlee Matlin, dunno and dunno.

Dunno, not Frank Herbert and dunno.

Dunno, not Harry Potter and dunno.

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Good one E_H!

H it is.

IQs:

  1. Were you the Greek writer of Histories?
  2. Were you the Greek writer of Theogony?
  3. Were you the Japanese founder of the company that made the Odyssey?
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#1 was the inimitable Henry Crun.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Harry Secombe.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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  1. Holly Hunter (The Piano) – where did you get the H. Marlee Matlin?
  2. Holly Woodlawn (“Walk on the Wild Side”)
  3. Holly Golightly (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”)

Holly x3!

3 potential DQs reserved