Botticellii -- Dec 2025

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Xavier McDaniel
Xavier Worthy
Xavier Legette

Xavier x3!

DQs:

  1. Died after 1900?
  2. American?
  3. Known for a particular battle?

1 DQ reserved

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X.

  1. real
  2. only name starts with X
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. died after 1800
  6. known for military/politics
  7. died before 1900
  8. not American
  9. kinda sorta known for a particular battle
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IQs:

  1. Were you a philosopher who argued that gods were human projections of themselves?
  2. Were you a Spanish organist and composer?
  3. Were you the first woman to win a Triton Super High Roller Series title?
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Dunno, dunno and not Xaviera.

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  1. Xenophanes
  2. José Ximénez
  3. Xuan Liu

DQs:

  1. European?
  2. Achieved rank of general or higher?

2 DQs reserved

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IQs:
1. Were you a bandleader?
2. Yo dawg, we heard you like trivia, so we put a question in your question so you can answer while you answer: 3. Did you record Brat?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a French diplomat involvedin the XYZ Affair?
  2. Are you a Titan who battled the Avengers and the Defenders in Marvel comics?
  3. Were you a 20th Century Greek Classical composer who taught at Indiana University for a few years?
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Damn, you’re good! Yes, I am

X

AKA this guy: Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer - Wikipedia

For more: XYZ Affair - Wikipedia

Well done, Prof. P.

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Thank Og! I was out of ideas for more X’s.

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Yhat was a complete out of the blue guess. I just remembered there were 3 Frenchmen involved, called X, Y and Z. I couldn’t have told you their actual names.

Very nice choice, EH!

Let me putter about a bit and think of someone.

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Congrats, Prof! I can’t help thinking of the time Jeopardy did this game with themed categories.

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Wow! I’m glad to know that archive site exists!
Thanks.

And so …

I am

L!

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IQs:

Did you hang around the house barefoot sometimes, as you said, to let your feet “breathe”?
Were you his more prim, proper and disapproving wife?
Were you their eldest son, and their only child to live into old age?

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IQs:

1. L’etat, c’est you?
2. Did you cover “Dirty Deeds” on When Pigs Fly, an album of songs covered by artists one would never associate with them?
3. Do you and your sister, who had the same profession, get a mention in Adam Sandler’s “The Hannukah Song”?

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IQs:

  1. Did you spend three nights and days searching for a fine little girl?
  2. Were you once a close friend of Clark Kent?
  3. Were you an old flame of Clark’s?
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Great get with X! Now to L

IQs:

  1. Were a woman who became superpowered after accidentally ingesting a drug that gave her the ability to use more of her brain?
  2. Did you direct the movie where #1 was the lead character?
  3. Are you a member of the indie supergroup boygenius?
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  1. I am not Abraham Lincoln.
  2. I am not Mary Todd Lincoln.
  3. I am not Robert Todd Lincoln.

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  1. C’est mois non, I am not Louis XIV.
  2. I am not Lyle Lovett (??) on what sounds like a Sandra Boynton album.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Lex Luthor, at least in the Silver Age.
  3. I am not Lana Lang.
  1. I am not Lucy.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Correct on #1. #2 was Luc Besson and #3 was Lucy Dacus.

Luc(y) x3!

DQs:

Real?
Female?

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2 (“Dirty Deeds”) was Lesley Gore, better known for “It’s My Party”; 3 (mentioned in " The Chanukah Song") is Ann Landers.

DQs:
1. first name begins with L?
2. has some Christmas connection?

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DQs

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with L
  4. No obvious Christmas connection