Botticelli - October 2021

Thread Games
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1 was correct; 2 was Capability Brown; 3 was correct.

DQ: known from acting?

(you’re welcome!)

22

I am C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not known for acting
23

Correct on Claude Monet.
#2 was Carlo Collodi.
Correct on Michael Crichton.

DQ: Died before 1950?

24

IQs:

  1. Were you and your husband a successful dance team in MGM musicals?
  2. Were you the inspiration for Pepe le Pew?
  3. Were you Agamemnon’s unfaithful wife?
25

IQs:
1. Speaking of vampires, while Nandor, Laszlo, and Nadja are the conventional blood-drinking type, are you an energy vampire on What We Do in the Shadows?
2. Did you write Silent Spring?
3. Did you write The House on Mango Street?

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I am C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died before 1950
27

The only C I can think of is Cyd Charisse - if not her, take a DQ, DQ, I am not Clytemnestra

I am not Colin Robinson, DQ, DQ

28

1 was correct; 2 was Rachel Carson; 3 was Sandra Cisneros.

DQs:
1. known from writing?
2. European?

29

#1 was Marge Champion. Her husband was Gower Champion.
#2 was Charles (“Come weeth me to zee Casbaah”) Boyer.
Correct on Clytemnestra.

DQ: Died before 1900?

1 DQ reserved.

30

I am C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing (ie putting words on paper)
  10. European
  11. Died after 1900
31

Charles Laughton,director of Night of the Hunter
Carrie White, title character of Carrie
Correct

DQ: Known for visual arts (painting, photography, sculture, etc)?
DQ: From the British Isles?

32

I am C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing (ie putting words on paper)
  10. European
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Not known for the visual arts
  13. Not from the British Isles
33

DQ: Known for music?

34

I am C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing (i.e. putting words on paper)
  10. European
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Not known for the visual arts
  13. Not from the British Isles
  14. Known for music
35

IQ1: Did you write Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Nocturnes?
IQ2: Do you provide the voice for an arthropod restaurant owner?
IQ3: Did you play the Invisible Man?

Edit: Just noticed Monet was already asked. Replaced IQ2 with a new question.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a master blackmailer taken on by Sherlock Holmes? - Yes, Charles Augustus Milverton
Are you the monarch by the end of Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals? - King Charles III, after his mother’s 1991 abdication
Did you record “letters” to your spinster sister back in Boston? - Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester, on MASH

Charles x3!

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Did your Elven spouse have a ridiculous alternative name?
Were you the only Elf in Tolkien’s writings known to have a beard?
Were you AKA Saruman?

37

I am not Claude Debussy, DQ, I am not Claude Rains

DQ, DQ, DQ
Probably should consider reading LotR at some point…

38

I am C

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with C
  4. Deceased
  5. Known from the Arts
  6. Not American
  7. Not known for acting
  8. Died before 1950
  9. Not known for writing (i.e. putting words on paper)
  10. European
  11. Died after 1900
  12. Not known for the visual arts
  13. Not from the British Isles
  14. Known for music
  15. Born west of Vienna
  16. Born north of Vienna
39

IQs:

  1. Did you compose the opera Giselle?
  2. Did you write or compile a collection of Uncle Remus stories?
  3. Did you write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner?
40

Read LOTR, MissTake? Yes, you should! Most definitely.

Previous IQs:

Did your Elven spouse have a ridiculous alternative name? - Oops, I got this backwards; I’ll rephrase
Were you the only Elf in Tolkien’s writings known to have a beard? - Cirdan the Shipwright
Were you AKA Saruman? - Curunir

DQs:

French?
Best known as a singer?

IQs:

You were Galadriel’s husband; did you have a ridiculous alternative name?
Were you Lord Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar?
Did Johnny Depp play you in a movie with Eva Green?