Botticelli - September 2015

Thread Games
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IQ: Were you a prolific 18th/19th-century English painter known for landscapes?

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I am not Thaddeus Brown.
Take a DQ for #2.
I am not Tony Zucco.

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I am not J. M. W. Turner.

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First person that came to mind when I saw “European” and “painter.” I didn’t think it would really be that easy. :slight_smile:

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IQ1: Is a shade of red named for you?
IQ2: Are you best known by a nickname that is a diminutive of the Italian word for dyer?
IQ2: Were you an 18th-century Venetian painter?

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I am not Titian. I am not Tintoretto. Take a DQ for the 3rd.

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Correct.
Correct.
Tiepolo.
DQ: Native speaker of a Romance language?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Known for the visual arts
  9. Painter
  10. Native speaker of a Romance language
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IQ1) Have both Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo played you in movies?

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Take a DQ.

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Previous IQs:

Did Burt Young play your best-known-character’s brother? - Talia Shire played Adrian in the Rocky movies.
Did you play Jesse Stone? - Tom Selleck.
Were you played by the nephew of the actor who played you as an older man? - Tom Riddle.

DQs:

Born in or east of Paris?
Died since 1900?
Successful during his own lifetime?

IQs:

Did a top American general have your name as his middle name?
A leader, did you order a writer protected even though he was very critical of you?
Were you a snappish top aide to that leader?

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Jose Ferrer and John Leguizamo both played Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in different movies called ***Moulin Rouge.

DQ) French?

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Tim Trench

the sharks are circling the waters as I hold a DQ

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IQ1: Are you a French artist who sketched portraits of fellow POWs when you were taken prisoner by the Germans in WWII, then went on to paint Moroccan landscapes after the war, and then moved to Hollywood to paint portraits of celebrities?
IQ2: Are you a French artist commissioned to do surrealist paintings by Andre Breton?
IQ3: Are you a Venician painter and printmaker who painted ceiling frescoes in the Royal Palace of Madrid?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. European
  8. Known for the visual arts
  9. Painter
  10. Native speaker of a Romance language
  11. French, born in the port of Nantes
  12. Died after 1900
  13. Successful in his own lifetime

Astorian, take another DQ

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I am not Tecumseh.
Take 2 DQs.

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Non, take three DQs, s’il vous plait.

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Jean Tabaud, Yves Tanguy, Givanni Tiepolo

DQ: Known for surrealism?

holding 3 DQs

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Tanguy I should have guessed. SCAdian already guessed Tiepolo, so that one’s out.

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Previous IQs:

Did a top American general have your name as his middle name? - Yes, Tecumseh, of William T. Sherman later middle-name fame.
A leader, did you order a writer protected even though he was very critical of you? - Margaret Thatcher ordered Salman Rushdie’s Special Branch police protection after the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Satanic Verses fatwa.
Were you a snappish top aide to that leader? - Norman Tebbit.

DQs:

Died after 1950?
Best known for landscapes?

IQs:

Were you a Norwegian diplomat who won a top international post?
Were you often shown in your book-jacket portraits wearing a Marine Corps hat?
Did you follow another candidate of the same ethnic background and from the same state four years later, seeking the same post?