Botticelli, Oct. 2022

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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Hey, yeah - happy birthday, Prof. P., and many happy returns!

Previous IQs:

Did soldiers give you three cheers at lights-out in Breaker Morant? - King Edward VII
Were you a noted music producer of Turkish descent? - Ahmet Ertegun
Was one of your songs an important plot point in Inception? - Edith Piaf: Inception soundtrack created entirely from Edith Piaf song | Music | The Guardian

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Considered a beauty?
White?

IQs:

Does a famous painting of you show you wearing a dress with eyes all over it?
Were you Duke of Normandy in both 1977 and 2019?
Were you a second daughter who married a man with the first name Fitzwilliam?

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IQs:
1. Did you paint The Gross Clinic?
2. Were you leader of Albania for 41 years?
3. Did you play Jessica Marbles in Murder by Death, about forty years after your most famous and iconic film role?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. White
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#1. I am not J. Edgar Hoover. :laughing:
Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Thomas Eakins.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Elsa Lanchester.
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2 was Enver Hoxha.

DQ: last name begins with E?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. White
  10. Last name begins with E
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IQ1: Are you the only singer of a Bond-movie theme to appear on-screen singing the song during the opening credits?
IQ2: Did you appear between Kathy Gale and Tara King?
IQ3: Did your father’s company name one of its biggest marketing failures after you?

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#3. I am not Edsel Ford.
Take 2 DQs.

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DQ: Known for the performing arts?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. White
  10. Last name begins with E
  11. Not known for the performing arts
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Previous IQs:

Does a famous painting of you show you wearing a dress with eyes all over it? - Queen Elizabeth I: The Eyes have It - streetsofsalem
Were you Duke of Normandy in both 1977 and 2019? - Queen Elizabeth II: Duke of Normandy - Wikipedia
Were you a second daughter who married a man with the first name Fitzwilliam? - Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, who married Mr. Darcy

Elizabeth x3!

DQs:

Best known for politics/military?
Won a top award in her field?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you and your ship transformed into what we now know as Venus?
Were you that person’s son?
Were you either of that person’s twin sons?

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Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only
Emma Peel, from the Avengers
Correct

DQ: Known for writing?

Holding one DQ

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IQs:
1. Did you call genius 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration?
2. Were you Amelia, the single mom of a troubled child, in The Babadook?
3. Does one of your paintings depict a person making this sort of noise?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. White
  10. Last name begins with E
  11. Not known for the performing arts
  12. Not known for politics/military
  13. Won top awards in her field
  14. Known mainly for writing, but not exclusively
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Take 3 DQs. This smacks of the Silmarillon, but I don’t know exactly who.

  1. I am not Thomas Edison.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Edvard Munch.

The person shown in The Scream, BTW, is NOT screaming. He is reacting to the scream of nature in a cruel world.

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2 was Essie Davis.

DQ: died after 2000?

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Held DQ: Mostly known for writing genre fiction?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. White
  10. Last name begins with E
  11. Not known for the performing arts
  12. Not known for politics/military
  13. Won top awards in her field
  14. Known mainly for writing, but not exclusively
  15. Died after 2000
  16. Not known for genre fiction
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Previous IQs:

Were you and your ship transformed into what we now know as Venus? - Earendil the Mariner in, yes, Tolkien’s The Silmarillion
Were you that person’s son? - Elrond
Were you either of that person’s twin sons? - Elladan and Elrohir, Arwen’s older brothers

DQs:

Greatest fame after 1970?
TV personality?
Noted for social activism?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you the outspoken wife of a 2004 VP candidate?
Did you play a very nice teacher in Matilda?
Did you rant about things that you hadn’t heard very clearly in the first place?