Bottticelli -- Oct 2017

Thread Games
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I am V.
Previous thread here.

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IQs:

  1. Are you your favorite painter?
  2. Are you the guy you always guess with the Joe Green joke?
  3. Were you fired from a TV series that had your name?
3

IQ1: Are you Mini Me?
IQ2: Did you retire as CBS’s leading college football play-by-play announcer last year?
IQ3: Did you play Santa Clause’s brother Fred in 2007?

4

Not Jan Vermeer.
Not Victor Borge.
DQ.

Not Vern Troyer.
DQ.
DQ.

5

IQs:

Were you the best-known resident of Larkhill Resettlement Camp?
Were you the best-known celebrity to endorse Al Haig for President in 1988?
Were you a robot assigned to the scoutship Palomino?

6

Not … V (for Vendetta)?
DQ.
DQ.

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Correct on 1 and 2. #3 was Valerie Harper, fired from her own show, Valerie for wanting a bigger salary and more control.

DQ: Real?

8

correct, Verne Lundquist, Vince Vaughn

DQ: Last name begins with V?
DQ: Male?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Brown Eyed Girl?
  2. Are you a noted fantasy and science fiction artist from Peru?
  3. Does Camila Mendes play you on a TV series on the CW?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the best-known resident of Larkhill Resettlement Camp? - Yes, V from V for Vendetta
Were you the best-known celebrity to endorse Al Haig for President in 1988? - Victor Borge
Were you a robot assigned to the scoutship Palomino? - VINCENT, voiced by Roddy McDowall, in Disney’s The Black Hole

DQs:

American?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you known for your cheesecake illustrations?
Were you played by a famous actor and also by his nephew?
Are you a major character in Dangerous Liaisons?

11

Not Van Morrison.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Vargas.
DQ.
DQ.

V

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with V
  3. Female
  4. American

Note that Prof P had already asked about Victor Borge.

12

#1 is correct.
#2 is Boris Vallejo.
#3 is Veronica Lodge on Riverdale, based somewhat on the Archie comics group.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for the Arts?
13

V

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with V
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
14

IQ1: Did Soviet organizers of the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 ask Kruschev if it was OK to name you the winner?
IQ2: Did Jennifer Goldstein play you in Aliens, the female lieutenant Private Hudson asked was ever mistaken for a man?
IQ3: Did you play Lila Crane in the classic 1960 film Psycho?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a black jazz singer of the 1940’s who had hits with Body and Soul and Tenderly?
  2. Did you star in Room 222?
  3. Were you a blonde actress known for being one of the first to copy Marilyn Monroe’s look?
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Ah. Withdrawn, then.

IQs:

Were you known for your cheesecake illustrations? - Yes, Vargas
Were you played by a famous actor and also by his nephew? - Voldemort was played by Ralph Fiennes and, as a boy, by his nephew
Are you a major character in Dangerous Liaisons? - Valmont

DQs:

Actress?
Died since 1975?

IQs:

Did your husband considerately wait outside until you were done “entertaining” your lover?
Were you Jimmy Smits’s first big TV role?
Did Steve Winwood sing about you?

17

Not … Vladimir Hoowitz?
DQ.
DQ.

Take three.

DQ.
DQ.
Not … Valerie?

V

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with V
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not an actress
  8. Did not die after 1975
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#1 was Sarah Vaughan.
#2 was Karen Valentine.
#3 was Marie van Doren.

DQs:

  1. Died after 1950?
  2. Known for the performing arts?
  3. Last name begins with “Va”?
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V

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with V
  3. Female
  4. American
  5. Dead
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Not an actress
  8. Did not die after 1975
  9. Died after 1950
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. Last name begins with “Va”
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IQs:

  1. Were you the subject of the “trial of the century” in the 1930’s?
  2. Did you have a hit with Chariots of Fire?
  3. Did you come up with a system of magic in your short stories that was incorporated (to much complaint) in the 1st edition of Dungeons & Dragons?