Botticelli October 2023

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did an expy of you appear in Gone Girl? - Nancy Grace
Were you, in some tellings of Arthurian legend, the sickly but powerful son of Sir Launcelot? - Yes, Sir Galahad
Did you joke that you knew only two songs - one was “Yankee Doodle,” and the other wasn’t? - Yes, U.S. Grant, who was tone-deaf

Two DQs reserved.

Thinking…

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DQ: best known for work in late 60s to 70s?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with G
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. Female
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Known for Acting
  8. Caucasian
  9. Born in or before 1960
  10. Born after 1940
  11. First name begins with N-Z
  12. Has had leading roles, usually known for supporting roles
  13. Best known for film work
  14. Considered a beauty
  15. Retired from acting at the present
  16. Known for comedy roles
  17. Oscar-nominated, but not an Oscar-winner
  18. Best known for her work from the mid-1970’s through the 1980’s
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IQs:

  1. Did you play Gary Seven’s secretary on an episode of Star Trek?
  2. Did William Petersen play you on CSI?
  3. Are you the author of the Finishing School quartet of books, among others?
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Yes! I am

Teri Garr!

known also for playing Inga in Young Frankenstein, John Denver’s wife in Oh, God! and Dustin Hoffman’s almost girlfriend in Tootsie, along with many, many other roles.

Great job, kitap!

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Roll, roll, roll in ze hay…

247

She was the only actress I could think of.

  1. Gil Grissom, 3 Gail Carriger

Now!

Onto M

As in Mouse, Mali and Moose.

Ask away!

248

“What knockers!”
“Zank you, Dokterr!”

Good one, kitap!

IQs:

  1. Were you a malcontent geneticist who discovered a Savage on an New Mexican Native American reservation, and brought him back to England to embarrass your boss?
  2. Were you the world leader who ultimately sent #1 into exile on an island?
  3. Have you played an evil alien scientist, a depraved emperor, a depraved Beethoven fan, and Mr. Roark?
249

Only Murders In The Building IQs:

  1. Are you one of the co-stars?
  2. Are you another of the co-stars?
  3. Did you guess star on the most recent season?
250

Take 2 DQs and I am not Ricardo Montalban and his rich Corinthian leather.

I am not Steve Martin, Martin Short or Meryl Streep.

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Three DQs, I’m afraid. #1 was Bernard Marx, from Huxley’s Brave New World. #2, from the same work, was the World Controller Mustapha Mond. #3 was Malcolm McDowell, who played the El-Aurian scientist Tolian Soren in Star Trek Generations (a/k/a “the one with Kirk and Picard”), Caligula in the eponymous art-slash-porno film, Alex DeLarge in Clockwork Orange, and, weirdly enough, Mr. Roark, in a very short-lived reimagination of Fantasy Island.

DQs:

  1. Fictional?
  2. Living, or would be if real person?
  3. Female?
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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you turn Ozma into a boy?
  2. Did you write the scripts for the highly acclaimed all-talking 1950’s BBC radio series The Good Show?
  3. Did you write The Vampire: Its Kith And Kin?
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Congrats, Kitap!

IQs:
1. Did you have “binders full of women”?
2. Does Shep leave you for Gillian Holroyd in Bell Book and Candle?
3. Did you write H is For Hawk?

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IQ1: Were you the angel of death, who hid under the name Wolfgang Gerhard.
IQ2: Did you represent the devil in his dealings with Faust?
IQ3: Did you tell people they were soaking in it?

255

I am not Mombi and take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

Take a DQ, I am not Mephistopheles, and I am not Madge, or Palmolive, for that matter.

256

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Living
  3. Male
257

1 was Mitt Romney; 2 was Merle; 3 was Helen Macdonald.

DQs:
1. born after 1960?
2. American?
3. known from the arts?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Living
  3. Male
  4. Born before 1960
  5. Not American
  6. Known for the arts.
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Josef Mengele
yes, yes

DQ: European?

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Correct on Mombi.
#2 was Spike Milligan.
#3 was Montague Summers.

DQs:

  1. Known for the visual arts?
  2. Born before 1900?