[ GAME ] Botticelli - Nov. 2014

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
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IQ) Did you become the new heavyweight boxing champ after Joe Louis retired?

IQ2) Was “After the Loving” your last single to hit the Billboard Top Ten?

IQ3) Did you make your final movie at the invitation of longtime friend Charlton Heston, who hoped you might finally get the Oscar nomination that had always eluded you (you died right after making the movie, and didn’t get the Oscar nomination)?

143

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Engelbert Humperdinck.
I am still not Edward G. Robinson (the movie was Soylent Green).

144

IQ1: Were you succeeded by your half-sister, who was followed by your other (and her) half-sister?
IQ2: Were you one of the princes in the Tower?
IQ3: Were you that prince’s father?

145

Take a DQ for #1. I am not Edward IV or V.

146

The boxer was Ezzard Charles
DQ) Alive?

147

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
148

iq1: Did you find your breakthrough role in 1971’s The Last Picture Show and go on to become one of the few actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting?
iq2: Did you become the world’s first female hispanic astronaut in 1991?
iq3: Did you die of pneumonia before your husband became vice president in 1880?

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  1. I am not Ellen Burstyn. (spelling?)
    Take 2 DQs for the others.
150

Edward VI.
Correct on Edward V.
Correct on Edward IV.
DQ: Died after 1900?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Died after 1900
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Previous IQs:

Did most people think your older sister Jane was the pretty one? - Elizabeth Bennet, in Pride and Prejudice: http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/14800000/Jane-Elizabeth-jane-bennet-14872672-772-499.jpg
Were you rained upon and left groomless at your wedding? - Yes, Elizabeth Swann, in the second Pirates of the Caribbean movie: http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120302082341/pirates/images/1/15/Keira3.jpg
Should your half-sister arguably have had you executed? - The then-Princess Elizabeth, and her half-sister, Queen Mary: England 1558: Why didn't Queen Mary have Elizabeth killed? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board

Three Elizabeths!

DQs:

Last name start with E?
Political/military?

IQs:

Does a statue of you stand outside the county courthouse in Steubenville, Ohio?
Did the troops cheer you before “lights out” in an Australian movie?
Were you Lincoln’s first AG?

153

IQ1) Were you the first black player to win the American League MVP award?

IQ2) Did you win an Edgar award for LaBrava?

IQ3) Did you marry fellow standup comedian Judy Tenuta?

154

IQ1: Did you serve on the Western Front under General Melchett?
IQ2: Did you come after Harry and before John?
IQ3: Did you write about Poloda, Cathne and Athne, and Trohanadalmakus?

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correct, Ellen Ochoa, Ellen MacArthur (wife of Chester A. Arthur, VP under James Garfield) Ellen x3!

DQ1: Born east of the mighty Mississippi?
DQ2: Ever serve in a political office?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. Died after 1900
  6. Last name starts with E
  7. Born east of the mighty Mississippi
  8. Did serve in a political office, but not remembered as a politician.
    Although he served in the military, it’s not why he’s remembered either.
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Take 2 DQs for 1 and 2.
I am not Emo Philips.

“My brother says ‘Hello!’ Hooray for speech therapy!”

158

I am not #3 Edward Bates. Take 2 DQs.

159

Take 3 DQs.

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iq1: Have you played a scientist who turns into a green monster and a Trojan army commander in film?
iq2: In film, did you play a Coca-Cola marketing executive who went to Australia to battle a local soft-drink maker?
iq3: Did write and star in the Beatles mockumentary film, All You Need Is Cash?