Botticelli - October 2021

Thread Games
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A clean sweep! (Including, yes, General Eisenhowler.)

IQs:
1. Did you play Hutch in Rosemary’s Baby (though you’re probably better known for your role in another 1968 movie, this one science fiction)?
2. Did you claim to be working on a device for speaking with the dead?
3. In Greek mythology, did you fall in love with Narcissus, Narcissus?

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DQ
DQ
I am not Echo

343

1 was Maurice “Dr. Zaius” Evans; 2 was Thomas Edison (he was later quoted secondhand as saying he was joking).

DQs:
1. European?
2. first name begins with E? (just to confirm it)

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I am E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Deceased
  5. Not known for The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born before 1859
  8. Not known for The Sciences
  9. Caucasian
  10. First name begins with E
  11. European
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IQs:

  1. Were you the first movie Tarzan?
  2. Are you a stand-up comic with a wandering falsetto sort of voice?
  3. Are you the Muse of erotic poetry?
346

DQ
I am not Emo Phillips
I am not Erato

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IQs:
IQ1. Are you the host of [your] Snifter of Blood, an anthology comics series of tales inspired by your short stories and poems (and do you often appear in some form on its covers)?
IQ2. Did you write about the Trick or Treat for UNICEF program in your “My Day” column, in October 1957?
IQ3. Are you the main character of…OOOOooooooOOOooooooh…Ghost World?

348

#1 was Elmo Lincoln. Correct on the others.

DQ: Known for government?

349

I am not Edgar Allen Poe
I am not Erma Bombeck?
DQ

350

I am E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Deceased
  5. Not known for The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born before 1859
  8. Not known for The Sciences
  9. Caucasian
  10. First name begins with E
  11. European
  12. Indirectly related to politics; however, not her claim to fame
351

1 was correct; 2 was Eleanor Roosevelt (but good guess); 3 was Enid Coleslaw.

DQs:
1. from the British Isles (including Ireland?)
2. born before 1600?

352

I am E

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with E
  4. Deceased
  5. Not known for The Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born before 1859
  8. Not known for The Sciences
  9. Caucasian
  10. First name begins with E
  11. European
  12. Indirectly related to politics; however, not her claim to fame
  13. Not from the British Isles
  14. Born before 1600
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IQs:

  1. Did you have a minor hit with Rubber Biscuit?
  2. Were you an expatriate American poet who helped the careers of James Joyce and T. S. Eliot?
  3. Are you one of the main witches in the Discworld novels?
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DQ
I am not Ezra Pound
DQ

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IQs:

  1. Were you a female noble woman who got walled up alive for killing virgin girls for their blood so you could bathe in it?
  2. Did you write The Flame Trees of Thika?
  3. Is you good friend a rabbit named Harvey?
356

#1 was Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd).
Correct on Ezra.
#3 is Mistress Esmerelda Weatherwax.

DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?

1 DQ reserved.

357

YES! I am Elizabeth Bathory!

Figured squeeze in one more Halloween person before the witching hour arrives…

358

Very well done, kitap! Happy Halloween, all!

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Woot! The other two were Elspeth Huxley and Elwood C. Dowd.

I’ve started the November 2021 thread here: November Botticelli