Botticelli - Sept. 2024

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Thanks, all. Gatsby’s been on my mind lately. I re-read the novel not long ago, and over the summer saw the (pretty good) musical in NYC.

I hope that poking around wasn’t while the game was underway, though, knoodler. Botticelli is not a game of Google skills.

Our next letter will be

G

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IQs:

  1. Did you command the Pennsylvania Reserves at the Battle of South Mountain?
  2. Were you the TV father of Batgirl?
  3. Did you win an Oscar for An Officer and a Gentleman?
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IQs:

  1. Are you the villain incarnate of most of the episodes of the highly esteemed, vertically challenged, snow-capped 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Are you the father of Pantagruel?
  3. Are you Kite Man’s love interest in the current cartoon series Harley Quinn?
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Sorry for giving that impression; what I meant was that I’d pretty much given up guessing the correct name. If by chance either names were correct, I’d have taken a pass.

Back to the game:

IQs:

  1. Did you make your fortune in the early oil exploration boom?
  2. Were you a fun-loving surf-crazy teeny bopper in the 60s?
  3. Do you love lasagna?
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IQs:

  1. Were you the narrator and heroine of Mary Stewart’s book Wildfire at Midnight?
  2. Are you the housekeeper in the Nancy Drew books?
  3. Are you the eponymous main character played by Joshua Sasse for two seasons on TV?
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Not George G. Meade, dunno and not Louis Gossett Jr.

Not Mr. Goon, dunno and dunno.

Not George H.W. Bush, Gidget or Garfield (either the POTUS or the pussycat).

Dunno x3.

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Correct on 1 & 3. #2 was Police Commissioner James Gordon.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Did you play an astronaut revived after 504 years in space who helped protect Earth against Ardala and the Draconians?
  2. Did you play the love interest of the astronaut in #1?
  3. Did you write the comic book The Umbrella Academy?
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#1 was the sinister Hercules Grytpype-Thynne.
#2 was Gargantua, from the books by Rabelais.
#3 is Golden Glider.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with G?

1 DQ reserved.

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Gianetta Brooke, Hannah Gruen, Galavant.

3 DQs reserved

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  1. John P Getty, Sr (the Bush clan made their money through investment banking)
  2. correct
  3. correct

1 DQ reserved

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Not Gil Gerard, not Erin Gray (on whom I had a huge crush back in the day) and dunno.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with G
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IQs:

  1. Are you affiliated with the Man with the Yellow Hat?
  2. Do you own a maid named Rosey?
  3. Were you also known as Dippy Dawg?
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I am not Curious George, George Jetson or George Washington Weimaraner. George x3!

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Almost: #3 is Goofy!

DQs:

  1. Are you human?
  2. Last name begin with G?
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DQ: Created after 1950?

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Who didn’t?

DQ: From a work of prose fiction?

IQs:

  1. Were you recently sacked as coach of the U.S. men’s national soccer team?
  2. Did the actor who played you once go on a date with his on-screen mother?
  3. Were you a member of the first two Super Bowl-winning teams as an offensive tackle?
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IQs:

  1. Did you play Francis on Car 54, Where Are You?
  2. Are you a British historian known for your extensive biography of Winston Churchill?
  3. Are you Ariadne’s cursed brother on KAOS?
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Dunno, not Greg Brady (I know they were actors, but still, ewwww!) and dunno.

Not Fred Gwynne, dunno (not Manchester or Jenkins; those aren’t Gs) and not Goliath.

Ask another DQ, please, knoodler, as the name starting with his initial has already been established.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with G
  4. human
  5. created after 1950
  6. not from a work of prose fiction
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#1 was Gregg Berhalter.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Forrest Gregg.

Greg(g) x 3!

DQs:

Created by an American?
From TV or movies?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the last of the original Mercury astronauts to fly in space?
  2. Were you a fictional DJ in Cincinnati?
  3. Are you a Canadian singer well-known for singing about a shipwreck?