Botticelli - October 2013

Thread Games
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Over the years, were both your father and your husband Presidential candidates? - Nancy Landon Kassebaum’s dad Alf Landon got creamed by FDR in 1936; her husband Howard Baker didn’t make it out of the GOP primaries in 1980.
Were you a European cleric who gave his name to an American university? - Ignatius Loyola.
Did Hugh Grant not know who you were in Notting Hill? - Leonardo DiCaprio (Grant’s character assumed he was Italian).

DQs:

Ever held elected Federal office?
Republican?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you legally, and simultaneously, run for election to two different Federal offices in a year before 1972?
Did you legally, and simultaneously, run for election to two different Federal offices in a year after 1982?
Did you and other women deny your men sex until they stopped fighting?

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Not Livy. DQs for the other two, though I’ll kick myself when I see the answers…

DQ.
DQ.
Not Lysistrata.

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L

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. American
  4. Last name does not start with L
  5. Died since 1900
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Not famous for the Arts
  8. Female
  9. Not famous for scientific advancements (or failures)
  10. Political
  11. Not born east of the Mississippi River
  12. Died since 2000
  13. Caucasian
  14. Never held elected federal office
  15. Not Republican
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IQ: Were you a First Lady with an Avian nickname?

85

IQ1: Were you a medieval chessplayer whose rook endgame analysis is still used today? :cool:

IQ2: Did you torture James Bond with a carpet beater? :eek:

IQ3: Are you a BBC Teletubby?

86

Livy is correct, of course. #2 is Lars Porsena, the king of the Etruscans, and the youth who burned his hand off is Mucius Scaevola.

#3. is Laertes.

I’m going to hold on to my DQs for now; I need to sort through in my mind what American political offices are elected and which appointed.

87

Thank you for asking. :stuck_out_tongue: Yes, I am Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson, commonly known as “Lady Bird.”

88

No idea who any of these are, but no DQs for you… :slight_smile:

Too late… :smiley:

89

All hail Prof. P.!

IQs:

Did you legally, and simultaneously, run for election to two different Federal offices in a year before 1972? - This was Lady Bird’s husband Lyndon, who ran for reelection as a U.S. senator from Texas and as a candidate for Vice President in 1960, after state law was changed to let him do so.
Did you legally, and simultaneously, run for election to two different Federal offices in a year after 1982? - This was Lloyd Bentsen, who did the same thing (and for the same two offices as LBJ!) in 1988.
Did you and other women deny your men sex until they stopped fighting? - Yes, Lysistrata.

90

Lucena (born 1465) has a useful rook ending manouevre named after him

Le Chiffre whacked Bond’s private bits in the book Casino Royale

Lala is a popular children’s character on the BBC

91

Political female, but not elected put me in mind of a First Lady.

And now…

I am R. What’s my name?

92

IQ1: Are you the sheriff of Conniption?
IQ2: Did you perform an important function one foggy night?
IQ3: Did you cover a Buck Owens song, then perform it as a duet with him?

93

Take 2 DQs…3 if #3 isn’t Randy Travis. {I’m not Randy Travis.}

94

IQ: Were you an advisor to a royal family that was slaughtered by the new government?

95

IQ1: Were you a chess prodigy, originally from Poland who moved to the US?

IQ2: Did you try to kill James Bond with a poison blade in your shoe? (N.B. the first name starts with R.)

IQ3: Were you a Timelord who accompanied Doctor Who?

96

IQs:

Did your first wife say you liked to have sex right after you got out of the shower?
Did Doonesbury say you were angling for a loved one to get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Did you appear in a recent movie with bird poop in your hair?

97

IQ1: Are you one of the best-known figures of the French Revolution?
IQ2: Are you the current Iranian president?
IQ3: Are you a Belgian surrealist artist?

98

Nyet! I’m not Rasputin.

99

I’m not Romana. Take DQs for the first two.

100

And take 3 DQs.