Botticelli - September 2018

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you play Lois Lane in the first big-budget *Superman *movie? - Yes, Margot Kidder
Did you (perhaps apocryphally) help load and fire a cannon during the Battle of Monmouth? - Molly Pitcher
Did Kathy Bates play you, a real person, in a historical drama? - “The Unsinkable” Molly Brown, in Titanic

DQs:

Died since 1980?
Won a top award in his field?

IQs:

Did you play the Princess Irulan?
Did you play an angel, a pervert and a vampire’s familiar?
Are you a noted jazz saxophonist?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Deceased
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Sciences
  9. Died since 1980
  10. Has won numerous awards, some could be considered top awards in his field.
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  1. I am not Branford Marsalis. Take 2 DQs.
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  1. is Melissa Mathison (the screenwriter of ET.)
  2. is Tim Matheson (the portrayed of Otter).

IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with the song “Paper Planes” ?
  2. Did you invent the recoil-operated machine gun?
  3. Did you play the sinister Dr. Brenner on Stranger Things?
    DQs:
    Died after 2000?
    Known for politics?
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Deceased
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Sciences
  9. Died since 1980
  10. Has won numerous awards, some could be considered top awards in his field.
  11. Died after 2000
  12. Known for politics

De La Rue: You swept me. Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did you play the Princess Irulan? - Virginia Madsen, in David Lynch’s Dune
Did you play an angel, a pervert and a vampire’s familiar? - James Mason, in Heaven Can Wait, Lolita and 'Salem’s Lot
Are you a noted jazz saxophonist? - I’ll rephrase

DQs:

Held elective office?
Held Federal office?

IQs:

Are you a noted female jazz saxophonist?
Were you a longtime U.S. senator from Washington State?
Were you a top aide to LBJ who went on to a long PBS career?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Deceased
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Sciences
  9. Died since 1980
  10. Has won numerous awards, some could be considered top awards in his field.
  11. Held elective office
  12. Did not hold federal office
    EH, Take 3 DQs. You also swept me.

A note: this morning I am having a bit of dental surgery, so I may not be on again today.

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DQ: Have you been a governor of a state?

Hurricane Florence is about to hit my region, so I might be without power eventually.

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IQ1: Are you an NFL quarterback who went to prison for 21 months for involvement in a dog fighting ring?
IQ2: Is your favorite response to a potentially risque line “That’s what she said”?
IQ3: Did you bite Evander Holifield’s ear during a boxing match?

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Be well, Prof. P., and be safe, KO!

Previous IQs:

Are you a noted female jazz saxophonist? - Mindi Abair
Were you a longtime U.S. senator from Washington State? - Warren G. Magnuson
Were you a top aide to LBJ who went on to a long PBS career? - Bill Moyers

DQs:

A Democrat?
Held elective office east of the Miss. River?
Held elective office north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Did you hold the post once held by Nancy Pelosi’s dad?
Did you sometimes pretend to be an elevator operator for tourists?
Were you an assassin in* The ODESSA File*?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Deceased
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Sciences
  9. Died since 1980
  10. Has won numerous awards, some could be considered top awards in his field.
  11. Held elective office
  12. DID hold federal office

I screwed up worrying about my dental surgery (which went fine).

Anyone who wants to can re-ask any DQs.

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  1. was singer M.I.A. (with the hit “Paper Planes” )
  2. was Sir Hiram Maxim (inventor of the machine gun)
  3. was Matthew Modine (portrayer of Dr. Brenner on Stranger Things. Also Private Joker in Full Metal Jacket)

IQs:

  1. Were you Bill Clinton’s secretary of state?
  2. Did you write A Wrinkle in Time?
  3. Did you write novels about a hard-boiled private detective, then play him in a 1963 movie?
    DQs:
    Served in the military?
    Two DQs reserved.
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Thanks, Prof. P. These are unchanged.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Deceased
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Sciences
  9. Died since 1980
  10. Has won numerous awards, some could be considered top awards in his field.
  11. Held elective office
  12. DID hold federal office
  13. Served in the Military
  14. Republican
  15. Held elective office west of the Mississippi River
  16. Held elective office south of the Mason-Dixon Line (extended)
    16a) Not a state governor
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Take 3 DQs.

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  1. I am not Madeline Albright.
  2. I am not Madeline L’Engle.
  3. I am not Mickey Spillane.
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Previous IQs:

Did you hold the post once held by Nancy Pelosi’s dad? - Martin O’Malley and Pelosi’s dad were each mayor of Baltimore, many years apart
Did you sometimes pretend to be an elevator operator for tourists? - Justice Thurgood Marshall at the Supreme Court, when he wasn’t recognized
Were you an assassin in The ODESSA File? - Mackensen

DQs:

First elected in or after 1945?
In the U.S. Senate?
Held a leadership post in either house of Congress?

Let’s say, either Speaker, President pro tem, majority leader, minority leader or whip

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IQ1: Are you an NFL quarterback who went to prison for 21 months for involvement in a dog fighting ring?
IQ2: Is your favorite response to a potentially risque line “That’s what she said”?
IQ3: Did you bite Evander Holifield’s ear during a boxing match?

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A clean sweep. Good job, Prof.!

IQs:
#1: Are you the criminal anti-hero of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil’s The Threepenny Opera?
#2: Are you a 1980s fast food advertising character, named after the song about #1?
#3: Are you Chuck Berry’s cousin?

DQ: Served in Vietnam?
One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Deceased
  4. Male
  5. American
  6. Died since 1950
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Sciences
  9. Died since 1980
  10. Has won numerous awards, some could be considered top awards in his field.
  11. Held elective office
  12. DID hold federal office
  13. Served in the Military
  14. Republican
  15. Held elective office west of the Mississippi River
  16. Held elective office south of the Mason-Dixon Line (extended)
    16a) Not a state governor
  17. First elected after 1945
  18. Senator (and formerly Representative)
  19. Highly influential, but not in a leadership post higher than Committee Chair
  20. Served in Vietnam

I’m gonna call it here (mainly because I picked a really easy target), and give everyone until 10am EDT tomorrow to make their final guesses in the form of “Are you Firstname Lastname”?