Botticelli - October 2024

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We have

D!

September thread: Botticelli - Sept. 2024 - #252 by SCAdian

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Congratulations, Prof! I had guessed the previous was Mary Richards. On to D!

  1. Were you either of a pair of brothers who founded a car company and built the first American car to win the French Grand Prix?
  2. Perhaps surprisingly to most people, were you an actual person, a travel writer and food critic who wrote a compilation of restaurants nationwide called Adventures in Good Eating?
  3. As part of your campaign to win Abraham Lincoln the 1860 Republican presidential nomination, did you hire a man – even though he was a Democrat – reputed to have the loudest voice in southern Illinois, and bring him to Chicago to holler every time Lincoln’s name was mentioned?
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IQs:

  1. Are you a rapper who had a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation?
  2. Did you compare yourself to Shakespeare in a Nobel banquet speech?
  3. Were you the receptionist for the Blue Moon Detective Agency?
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IQs:
1. Did you cover “Misirlou”?
2. Were you a female writer on Star Trek, the original series?
3. Does a message congratulating you on your recent wedding appear at the end of An American Werewolf in London?

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Good job Prof!

IQs:

  1. Are you part of a stop-motion animation with Biblical overtones?
  2. Were you a former child star who became part of a famous quartet?
  3. Did you encounter a mythical person named Slickerty Sam?
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Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Snoop Dogg (??)
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Miss Agnes DePesto.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not D. C. Fontana.
  3. I am not Princess Diana.

Take 3 DQs.

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  1. is Frank and August Duesenberg, who pioneered hydraulic brakes.
  2. was Duncan Hines, who sold use of his name to a maker of boxed cake mix.
  3. was David Davis, whose shenanigans like that helped Lincoln steal the Republican nomination from the favorite, William Seward.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
  3. Surname begins with “D”?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
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1 was Dick Dale.

DQ: living?

IQs:
1. Are you a Thai hippo?
2. Did you represent Jabez Stone against an infernal legal opponent?
3. Did you write 101 Dalmatians?

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#1 was Drake.
#2 was Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate in Literature.
Correct on #3.

2 DQs reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Dead
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Daniel Webster.
  3. I am not Roald Dahl (??)
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DQ: Born before 1900?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Dead
  5. Born before 1900
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1 (hippo) was Moo Deng; 3 (The 101 Dalmatians) was Dodie Smith.

DQs:
1. born after 1700?
2. known from the arts?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with D
  4. Dead
  5. Born before 1900
  6. Born after 1700
  7. Known from the Arts
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DQ: American?

IQs:

  1. Did you break with your party in Parliament over the Corn Laws?
  2. Were you a Delaware governor who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988?
  3. Were you an American poet who, surprisingly, married an English literary scholar and writer?
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IQ1: Did you paint a picture of extremely limp timepieces?
IQ2: Did you write Little Dorrit?
IQ3: Did you write Lest Darkness Fall?

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IQs:
1. Were you nicknamed “the Misery Chick” in high school, though your personality is not so much moody and depressive but more deadpan and sarcastic?
2. Are your kids Cole and Ella?
3. Did John Goodman play a stand-in for gimmicky horror director William Castle in your movie Matinee?

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  1. Davey & Goliath
  2. Davy Jones
  3. Davy Crockett

DQs:

  1. Are you known from stage?
  2. Are you European?
  3. Were you married once?