Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
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Drat. Didn’t think you would know the answers to the first two. I bought my copy the day it appeared in the stores.

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IQ1: Did someone win a bet by taking you to Havana?
IQ2: Were you that someone?
IQ3: Did you write Snow Brother and “A Murder in Eddsford”?

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1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Sam. Sam I am not. Seuss’s Sam-I-Am is not me in this Botticelli plot.
3. I am not Sam Raimi?

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

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#1 was Sabrina Bartlett.
Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

25

Correct, Simon Tregarth Miss Scarlet (Clue).

2 DQs reserved.

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IQs

  1. Can you wield the power cosmic while hanging 10?
  2. On BBC did your starting rolls include a quiz show host, the perfect valet and a small town solicitor?
  3. Did you try to throw a party for time travelers but nobody came?
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That’s better. Much better!

Sarah Brown, in Guys and Dolls
Sky Masterson
S M Stirling


Three DQs reserved. (Hey – everybody else is doing it!)

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Natalie on Sports Night?
  2. Did you play a blithe, cheerful spaceship engineer?
  3. Could you make your husband’s life easier (or more complicated, if you wished) merely by twitching your nose?
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1. I am not the Silver Surfer.
2. I am not Stephen Fry?
3. I am not Stephen Hawking.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Jewel Staite.
3. I am not Samantha Stevens.

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IQs:

  1. Are you the detective in a series by Janet Evanovich?
  2. Are you the title character in Galloway by Louis L’Amour?
  3. Were you married to four women at various times, one being Britt Ekland?
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Correct on all three. The second question refers to his roles on QI, Jeeves and Wooster, and Kingdom respectively.

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DQ: From movies?

1 DQ reserved

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Previous IQs:

Did Brienne slay you on the edge of a wood near Winterfell? - Yes, Stannis Baratheon, in Game of Throne
Did you rescue Mussolini on Hitler’s orders? - Not Stephan Nazi (ha!), but Waffen-SS commando Otto Skorzeny, in 1943
Was Pilate assured you were not in the Jerusalem garrison? - Not Simon the Saducee, but Sillius Soddus (“Silly sod” was not an uncommon British insult c. 1979). See at 1:49 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzgS61zgPEg

DQs:

Other nationality is European?
First appeared before 1950?

IQs:

Did you become Prime Minister at the end of Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals?
Were you the title character in a movie in which it was said, “The Nixon who came back from China was not the Nixon who went there”?
Were you a cheeky little British boy who was usually seen in his bath?

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@Elendil_s_Heir, I think you forgot something in your last post…

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1. I am not Stephanie Plum.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Peter Sellers.

Respectively:
I am not Simon Kerslake.
I am not Simon (the Alan Arkin character).
I am not Simon, on SNL.

Darn. I knew Sillius Soddus was the other example the centurion gives of a gag name, not someone inquired about, so I went with what I guessed was one of the S-names in the pardon scene.

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
7. has appeared in movies, but not best known for them
8. other nationality is European
9. first appeared before 1950

36

Swept me! Simon x3.

IQs:

Did a comedian play you, irritated at his friends, in a 1970s comedy special?
Were you that comedian?
Was one of your last TV appearances on the action series SWAT?

37

Correct, Galloway Sackett, Correct.

L’Amour was all about the Sacketts.

DQs:

  1. First appeared before 1900?
  2. Main character?
38

IQs:

  1. Did you play Bumble in the movie version of Oliver!?
  2. Did Oliver Reed play you in Oliver!?
  3. Did you play Elvis’s love interest in Clambake?
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Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Steve Martin.
I am not Phil Silvers. If not Silvers, take a DQ.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Bill Sykes.
3. Take a DQ.

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
7. has appeared in movies, but not best known for them
8. other nationality is European
9. first appeared before 1950
10. first appeared after 1900
11. originally a side character, also went on to appear as main character in own stories

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#1 was Harry Secombe.
Correct on Bill Sykes.
#3 was Shelley Fabares.

DQ: From science fiction/fantasy?

1 DQ reserved.