Botticellii -- Dec 2025

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New game!

(fraktur w - Google Search)

I am W

Botticelli- November 2025
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Somebody else take the game, please. I’m getting seriously fed up with Discourse’s refusal to let me post an image.

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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Second Coming?
  2. Did Molly Ivins nickname you “Shrub”?
  3. Were you “the grey-eyed man of destiny” who attempted to build a slave empire in Central America?
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Rules here.

IQs:
1. Did you use the alias “Carlos Danger”, and have an unfortunate real name for a politician in a sex scandal?
2. Did Johnny Depp play you in a biopic by Tim Burton?
3. Are you a Saturday Night Live cast member who performs songs on Weekend Update?

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Were you the first President of the United States?

Were you the first Democratic President elected in the twentieth century?

Were you the newsman described as “the most trusted man in the United States?”

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Welcome, f.coli!

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Since nobody else has stepped in, I’ll take over for SCAdian.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not George W. Bush.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Ed Wood.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not George Washington.
  2. I am not Woodrow Wilson.
  3. I am not Walter Cronkite.
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1 was Anthony Weiner; 3 was Jane Wickline.

DQs:
1. real?
2. male?

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#1 was Walker Percy. Correct on #2 (George Walker Bush). #3 was William Walker.

Walker x3!

DQs:

First name begins with W?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with W
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Were you Harry Potter’s roommate at Hogwarts?

Were you portrayed on live action TV by Michael Dorn?

Were you portrayed on an animated series by Michael Dorn?

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IQs:
1. Did Bryan Cranston play you on Breaking Bad?
2. Does your recipe for what must be a very large cake begin “Take fifty eggs…”
3. Were you the late star of GetEven, The Art of Dying, Rubber, Vice Squad, and No Safe Haven?

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  1. I am not Ron Weasley.
  2. I am not Worf.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Walter White.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
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2 was Martha Washington; 3 was Wings Hauser.

DQs:
1. created after 1930?
2. main character?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with W
  4. Created after 1930
  5. Supporting character
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Previous thread: Botticelli- November 2025

IQs:

Were you supposedly introduced by your Scottish nanny to your namesake on a Manhattan street?
Were you, after 1950, one of the first elected mayors of a national capital?
Did you win the mayor’s post in a major American city despite racist campaign buttons appearing against you?

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IQs:
1. Did you give a car to everyone in the audience?
2. Did your father name his business after you? (Well, your nickname. Your actual first name is Melinda.)
3. Did you work with Alice, Ashok, Loud Howard, and another guy?

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IQs:

  1. Are you an NBA player nicknamed “Wally Who”?
  2. Were you a large, black assassin played by Earl J Brown?
  3. Did you and your husband live on 201 Cobblestone Lane?
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Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Oprah Winfrey.
  2. I am not Wendy Thomas.
  3. I am not Wally.

Take 3 DQs.

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A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Were you the drummer in the White Stripes?
2. Were you a Planeteer?
3. Did you co-found Apple?