Botticelli - October 2024

Thread Games
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Well, I missed that in his bio.

Yes, I am

Ivan Dixon!

Good job, knoodler.

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Thanks Prof!

Let’s try:

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IQs:

  1. Is there a shrine to you in Chester, England?
  2. Were you the artist Alexander Calder’s mentor?
  3. Are you a Russian composer whose work appeared in Fantasia?
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  1. I am not Mussorgsky (?), composer of Night On Bald Mountain (a favorite of mine)

Take 2 DQs

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Congrats!

  1. Did you play Burt Gummer in 7 movies?
  2. Did you direct the movie Thunderheart?
  3. Are you married to former US Congresswoman Gabby Giffords?
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  1. I am not Mark Kelly

Take 2 DQs

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Congrats, Knoodler!

IQs:
1. Were you a rock musician and are one of the celebrities who faked their deaths in Death Becomes Her?
2. Did you write H is for Hawk?
3. Were you called “the Elephant Man”?

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  1. I am not John Merrick

Take 2 DQs

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1 was Jim Morrison; 2 was Helen Macdonald; close enough on Joseph Merrick.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with M?

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M

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with M
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#1 is the Roman goddess Minerva (equivalent to Greek Athena).
#2 was Piet Mondrian, who thought Calder’s idea of a 3D representation of his abstract works was a terrible idea. Calder didn’t listen, hence we have the mobile.
Correct on Mussorgsky.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
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Michael Gross, Michael Apted, correct.

2 DQs reserved

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M

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with M
  3. Male
  4. Dead
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IQs:

  1. Did you play a Starfleet officer and voice an alien in the same episode of Star Trek?
  2. Did you play bass for the Bangles?
  3. Did you play a computer hacker, a teen slackoff, and the commander of a Black Union infantry regiment?
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IQs:
1. Did you have to regretfully tell your daughter the amusement park Funtown was closed to her, as you mentioned in a letter you wrote from jail?
2. Did Cary Grant play you in Arsenic and Old Lace?
3. Were you a Material Girl?

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Take 3 DQs

  1. I am not Mortimer [something]?
  2. I am not Madonna

Take 1 DQ

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Malachi Throne (in “The Menagerie”).
Michael Steele.
Matthew Broderick (Wargames, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Glory)

DQ: Died before 1900?
DQ: Known for the arts?

1 DQ reserved.

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M

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with M
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. Did not die before 1900
  6. Known for the arts
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1 was Martin Luther King, Jr. Close enough on Mortimer Brewster.

DQ: known for acting?

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M

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with M
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. Did not die before 1900
  6. Known for the arts
  7. Known for acting