Botticelli - Oct. 2020

Thread Games
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Well done, MissTake!

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Yes, Simon Cameron
Were you his first SECTREAS? - Yes, Salmon P. Chase
Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood

On to S…

IQs:

Did you marry the former King Edward VIII?
Was your middle name Kooi?
Have you won an Emmy, served as an astronaut and ruined a gubernatorial campaign?

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My letter is S

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with S
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IQs:
1. Were you played by Elsa Lanchester in The Bride of Frankenstein, in a little prologue before the story?
2. Did you write The Hunger Games?
3. Oh [you], don’t you cry for me?

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I’m not Jack Skellington, Chris Sarandon or Sally

I’m still not Wallis Simpson
No idea
No idea

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Not the way I figured it would go, but Yes, I am Mary Shelley

Nice!

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Whoa! Great guess, DLR!

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Yes, indeedy! Well done, DLR.

Previous IQs:

Did you marry the former King Edward VIII? - Yes, Wallis Simpson
Was your middle name Kooi? - U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson
Have you won an Emmy, served as an astronaut and ruined a gubernatorial campaign? - Homer J. Simpson

Simpson x3!

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Well, THAT was fast. I was going to go with Stephen King as my first answer, then I thought I might as well get the question related to MissTake’s Bride of Frankenstein avatar out of the way first. And here we are!

I am H.

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IQs:

  1. Did you write The 51st Dragon?
  2. Did you recently battle hand-to-hand with Punchline?
  3. Were you an Israeli prophet of doom?
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IQs

  1. Were you obsessed with a young girl whose given name was Dolly?
  2. Was a doomed domed stadium named after you?
  3. Are you the source of the HeLa cell line?
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IQ1: Have Ron Perlman and David Harbour played you in film?
IQ2: Did Jeffrey Combs play you in the Re-Animator movies?
IQ3: Have you been played by Anthony Hopkins and Mads Mikkelsen?

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1. I am not Heywood Broun.
2. I am not Harley Quinn.
3. I am not Habbakuk? If not Habbakuk, take a DQ.

1. I am not Humbert Humbert.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Henrietta Lacks.

IQ1: I am not Hellboy.
IQ2: I am not Herbert “It wasn’t fresh enough” West.
IQ3: I am not Hannibal Lecter.

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yes, Hubert H Humphrey, yes

DQ:
Male?

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IQs

  1. Were you a slightly cross-eyed comedian with a speech impediment?
  2. Did you have to drop out of a film due to aluminum dust?
  3. Did music die when you died?
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I think guessing the person after just two DQs had been answered might be a record. Does anyone remember a faster round?

H it is.

IQs:

Were you forced from office after the loss of the USS Discovery?
Were you “the Unspeakable” in the Lovecraft Mythos?
Did you “build a wall” in Europe long before 2016?

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1. Take a DQ.
2. Are you thinking of Jack Haley? He was actually in The Wizard of Oz; it was Buddy Ebsen who originally had the role of the Tin Man, but had to leave because of health issues relating to the tin makeup.
3. I am not Buddy Holly (oh boy).

Respectively:
I am not HAL 9000.
I am not Hastur.
I am not Hadrian.

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GAH - my dumb self got stuck on my trios - and yeah, got stuck on Buddy Ebsen completely forgetting H

  1. Was Buddy Hackett

DQ

  1. (from above) Male?
  2. Alive?
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Forgot the DQs. Argh.

DQs:
1. male
2. real

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Previous IQs:

Were you forced from office after the loss of the USS Discovery? HAL 9000 was not “in office,” as such. This was Dr. Heywood Floyd, head of the U.S. Astronautics Agency.
Were you “the Unspeakable” in the Lovecraft Mythos? - Yes, Hastur
Did you “build a wall” in Europe long before 2016? - Yes, the Roman Emperor Hadrian

DQ:

Alive?

IQs:

Did you hope to lead the Continental Army but did not object to Washington doing so?
Were you called “the Superb” during the American Civil War?
Were you shot along with Breaker Morant?

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Wow. One day away for a training class and I miss an entire letter!

IQs:
Are you considered the father of history?
Did you briefly legally change your name to Max Power?
Did you allegedly attempt to bribe both LBJ and Nixon into halting nuclear testing in Nevada?