Botticelli - October 2016

Thread Games
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I didn’t know her name, so I guess it should go back to SCAdian.

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If y’all are in agreement, then:

I am F.

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IQs:

Were you RNC Chair in the Eighties?
Was the only known movie footage of you taken at someone else’s wedding?
Did your coworkers watch the home movie of your wedding and riff on it?

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IQs:

  1. Were you Walter Mondale’s VP candidate?
  2. Did you write Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening?
  3. Did you play Porthos in The Three Musketeers opposite Michael York, Oliver Reed & Richard Chamberlain?
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F! How’d that F get in there? I wanted to be E, dammit!

Three DQs.

Not … Geraldine Ferarro?
Not Robert Frost.
DQ.
Go ahead and ask your DQs and next set of IQs while I think of an F…

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Correct on Geraldine and Robert.
#3 was Frank Finlay.

DQ: Real?

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F

  1. Real
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IQ1: Is the second-most populous county in Washington state named for you?
IQ2: Do you occasionally wear the number 4 1/2?
IQ3: Were you the one who arbitrarily-at-the-time labeled one type of electric charge as ‘positive’ and the other as ‘negative’ (and are thus the reason why we do the math with imaginary electric current flowing in the opposite direction as do the actual electrons)?

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Welcome back…, Tim!

IQs:

  1. Were you Bambi’s skunk friend?
  2. Were you called “the poor man’s Ricardo Montalban”?
  3. Are you Sheldon’s girlfriend on The Big Bang Theory?
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DQ.
DQ.
Not … Faraday?

Not Flower.
DQ.
DQ.

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#1 is correct.
#2 was Fernando Lamas.
#3 is Amy Farrah Fowler.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Alive?
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Pierce County is named for Franklin Pierce, who was the President at the time. Rumor had it that the honor was intended to smooth the path to statehood(s) within Oregon Territory.
Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four comics.
And 3 was actually Benjamin Franklin, who did a lot of the early scientific work with electricity.

Franklin x3!

DQ1: First name beginning with F?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

Holding one DQ.

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DQ1: Did you leave your estate 20%-20%-30%-30% to your four children, and have they since had bitter trademark disputes over the use of your/their last name?
DQ2: Did you write a book that is now very well known before you died at age 15?
DQ3: Were you an athlete and sportscaster whose family posthumously revealed that you had suffered all your life from traumatic brain injuries from playing pro football?

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F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name begins with F
  5. Not known for the Arts
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DQ.
DQ.
Not … Fran Tarkington?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the president with the New Deal?
  2. Were you a talking mule?
  3. Are you a fictional ping-pong player who met Nixon and a lot of other people?
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Not FDR.
Not Francis.
DQ.

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Frank Zappa, Anne Frank, and Frank Gifford. (Is Fran Tarkenton dead?)

Dweezil Zappa has been forbidden by his two younger, majority-owning siblings from advertising his performances as “Zappa plays Zappa”, citing trademark infringement. Ugly.

DQ1: Born before 1850?
DQ2: Known for politics and/or the military?
DQ3: American?

holding one DQ.

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IQ1: Did your widow become infamous for her enormous collection of shoes?
IQ2: Were a Large and a Small Cloud named after you?
IQ3: Did you write a song about a siege during the War of 1812?

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Not Ferdinand Marcos.
Not Ferdinand Magellan.
Not Francis Scott Key.

F

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name begins with F
  5. Not known for the Arts
  6. Not born before 1850
  7. Not Known for politics and/or the military
  8. Not American

No idea if Tarkenton is dead or not – he was the only football-playing ‘F’ I could think of…