Botticelli - October 2018

Thread Games
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Take 3 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with A
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Not known for the Arts, but known from the Arts
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. The subject of an artistic, dramatic, etc. work
  10. Known for a business or product
  11. Subject of a song
  12. Greatest fame before 1980
  13. Not associated with NYC or LA
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  1. I am not Adam Ant.
  2. I am not Buzz Aldrin (??)
  3. Take a DQ.
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Andy Reid, Anthony Lynn, Adam Gase

DQ: Associated with the self improvement business? (weight loss, job performance, etc)

holding 2 DQs

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with A
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Not known for the Arts, but known from the Arts
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. The subject of an artistic, dramatic, etc. work
  10. Known for a business or product
  11. Subject of a song
  12. Greatest fame before 1980
  13. Not associated with NYC or LA
  14. Not associated with the self improvement business
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Previous IQs:

Were you a rocker with an alliterative name? - Yes, Adam Ant
Were you a lunar rebel? - Adam Selene, in Heinlein’s The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Were you the longtime Congressman from Harlem? - Adam Clayton Powell

Adam x3!

DQs:

Rock and roll song?
Best known because of the song?
Is your name part of the song title?

IQs:

Did you joke that your codename was the same as your actual name?
Were you that person’s dad?
Did Chevy Chase appear in a music video about you?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with A
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Not known for the Arts, but known from the Arts
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Not considered a beauty
  9. The subject of an artistic, dramatic, etc. work
  10. Known for a business or product
  11. Subject of a song
  12. Greatest fame before 1980
  13. Not associated with NYC or LA
  14. Not associated with the self improvement business
  15. Not a rock & roll song, though a rock & roll version was released by the same artist later
  16. Best known because of the song
  17. Name is part of the song title
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#3. I am not Al (well, you can call me Al).
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Previous IQs:

Did you joke that your codename was the same as your actual name? - Al Gore, who confessed in his 1996 DNC speech that his Secret Service codename was “Al Gore”
Were you that person’s dad? - Sen. Al Gore Sr.
Did Chevy Chase appear in a music video about you? - Yes, for Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al”

Al x3!

DQs:

Male singer?

Two DQs reserved.

IQ:

Did you once serve a bunch of hippies a Thanksgiving meal that just couldn’t be beat?

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(Remember Alice? This is a song about Alice.)
Yes, indeedy, I am Alice Brock, made famous by Arlo Guthrie’s song Alice’s Restaurant Massacree. Well done, EH!

And all you gotta do to join is to sing it the next time it comes around on the guitar with feelin’.

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You gotta sing loud if you wanna end war and stuff!

Thanks, Prof. P. That’s a good one. I always liked that song - I can remember my dad putting the 8-track tape of it on.

As suggested, we’ll continue our march through the alphabet with

B

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IQs:

  1. Were you known as The Great Profile?
  2. Are you a cartoon character who last had her own cartoon in 1939 but is still popular among teenage girls today?
  3. Did you and your horse Starlite save the seven Color Kids?
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Not Lionel Barrymore, Betty Boop or… dunno.

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Correct, Correct, and Rainbow Brite.
DQ: Real?

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You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant (‘sceptin’ Alice)

IQ1: Are you head coach of the Houston Texans?
IQ2: Are you head coach of the New England Patriots?
IQ3: Are you head coach of the New York Jets?

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IQs:

  1. Are you Snuffy Smith’s city cousin?
  2. Are you legendarily one of the Three Kings?
  3. Have you often reminded us to spay and neuter our pets?
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And they all kinda moved away from me on the Draft Board bench, there…

Dunno, not Bill Belicheck (sp?), dunno.

Dunno, not Balthasar, and not Bob Barker.

B.

  1. real
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IQs:

  1. Were you the father of Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace?
  2. Were you an American presidential candidate and opponent of the gold standard?
  3. Are you the director of An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Anastasia, and other animated films?
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Dunno, not William Jennings Bryan and not Don Bluth.

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IQ1: Did you serve with Jack Kennedy, know Jack Kennedy, and Jack Kennedy was a friend of yours?
IQ2: Is confusion over the spelling of your name frequently cited as an example of the Mandela effect?
IQ3: Do rowdy crowds refer to you as “asshole” every time anyone says your name?