Botticelli September 2023

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Welcome to the September 2023 Botticelli thread, with me, your host W. De La Rue. Here is the previous month’s thread, here is an explanation of the rules from a thread earlier this year, here is a thread for questions about the game, and here is the most requested picture from the US National Archives.

I am S.

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S it is!

Did you order a ceasefire for a foe’s wedding night?
Did you write a book about coming to grips with playing the title role of Shakespeare’s Richard III?
Did you and another man of the same name once simultaneously step out onto the main stage of SNL?

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IQs:

  1. Have you played a mathematician, an astrophysicist, and a Saxon warchief?
  2. Did you win a famous race by such a large margin that your competitors aren’t even in the photo of you crossing the finish line?
  3. Were you excommunicated by your religious community, for your naturalistic conception of God, denial of the immortality of the soul, and, most damning of all, denial that the Torah was given by God and that its precepts were still binding on Jews?
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  1. Were you the ranger companion to the Avatar in the Ultima games, representing the virtue of spirituality?
  2. Did you recommend that your clients purchase of a Laser Tag franchise, but was turned down (for reasons partially motivated by spite) in favor of a car wash.
  3. Did you end up running said car wash?
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Respectively:
I am not Saladin.
I am not Sal Pacino.
I am not Paul Simon.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Secretariat?
3. I am not Baruch Spinoza.

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

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  1. Shamino
  2. Saul Goodman (from Breaking Bad)
  3. Skyler White (Walter White’s wife)

DQ:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?

1 DQ reserved

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IQs:

  1. Did you star with Tom Hanks on Bosom Buddies?
  2. Did you play the wife on McMillan and Wife?
  3. Are you the Special Council behind 2 federal investigations of Donald Trump?
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Previous IQs:

Did you order a ceasefire for a foe’s wedding night? - Yes, Saladin, during the Crusades
Did you write a book about coming to grips with playing the title role of Shakespeare’s Richard III? - British actor Simon Callow
Did you and another man of the same name once simultaneously step out onto the main stage of SNL? - Yes, Paul Simon, both the singer and the US Senator

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Did Brienne slay you on the edge of a wood near Winterfell?
Did you rescue Mussolini on Hitler’s orders?
Was Pilate assured you were not in the Jerusalem garrison?

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Correct on Secretariat and Spinoza; No.1 was Stellan Skarsgaard, in Good Will Hunting, Thor, and King Arthur.

DQ: Living?

IQs:

  1. Were you a Dominican monk who was burned at the stake for criticizing the Papacy?
  2. Were you a Sicilian-American mobster who, unusually for the time, started as a protege of a Jewish gambler, and was closely associated with two Jewish mobsters?
  3. Were you one of those Jewish gangsters?
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1. I am not Peter Scolari.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Jack Smith.

Respectively:
I am not Stannis Baratheon.
I am not Stephan Nazi.
I am not Simon the Saducee.

1. I am not Savonarola.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Bugsy Siegel?

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. American
4. is neither living nor dead but a fictional character

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You shure you’re not thinking of Anthony Sher?

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Correct on 1 and 3. 2 was a bit of a trick question, since Salvatore Lucania was better known as Charlie “Lucky” Luciano.

DQ: From literature?

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Pretty sure it was Callow. :thinking:

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  1. Were you created by Leslie Charteris?
  2. Did you travel from Earth to the Witch World?
  3. Are you probably Lesley Ann Warren’s most famous role?
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Correct, Susan St. James, Correct.

DQ: Last name starts with S?

Fictional characters can be living or dead. In A Christmas Carol, “Marley was dead to begin with, dead as a doornail.”

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IQ1: Were you one of the main characters in an oversized comic book released in '75 or '76?
IQ2: Were you also of the main characters in that comic book?
IQ3: Were you a Mexican president and general?

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I go by the character’s status at the end of the story - “believed to be dead” (eg, Jane at the end of Tarzan the Untamed), “known to be dead” (eg Paulvitch at the end of The Son of Tarzan), or “still living when last seen” (eg, Carson Napier at the end of The Wizard of Venus).

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1. I am not the Saint.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

IQ1: I am not Superman.
IQ2: I am not the Amazing Spider-man.
IQ3: I am not Santa Anna.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. American and other nationality
4. is a living character in-story/stories
5. not from prose literature
6. first name starts with S

Not everything that applies to real people applies to fiction. Fictional characters are, by definition, neither living or dead–they’re fictional. Of course, fictional characters can be living or dead in-story. It’s a “This is not a pipe” thing.

In the spirit of being nice, I have re-interpreted SMV’s question to be whether the character is living in-story.

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I would say that’s the default interpretation in the context of these games.

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IQs:

  1. Sapristi nuckos! Were you a busty, attractive female British TV personality often mentioned longingly in the highly acclaimed, all-talking, plasma-scented 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?

  2. Are you initially disliked by the dominant character in the book Green Eggs and Ham?

  3. Did you apologize to comic book fans for your script and direction in the third of a series of superhero movies?