[GAME] Botticelli - Sep 2014

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Having just done ‘A,’ shall we take another trip through the alphabet?

I am B.

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IQ: Are you the namesake of this game?
IQ2: Did you martyr the “Great Emancipator”?

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Not Sandro Botticelli.
Not John Wilkes Booth.

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IQ: Did you rise from butler to lieutenant governor?

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Not Benson.

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IQ1: Are you the primary founder and the first Prime Minister of Israel?
IQ2: Are you a German composer whose favorite tavern was the Red Hedgehog?
IQ3: Are you an English rock musician also known as The God of Hellfire?

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IQs:

  1. Did you battle Grendel?
  2. Did you accompany Dorothy in her battle against the Nome King?
  3. Did you sing with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band?
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IQ: Were you the 1st American rock star to stage a full fledged rock concert in the USSR?

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IQ1) Do you answer every request with the words, “I would prefer not to”?

IQ2) Did you smash your guitar on stage in the movie Blow Up?

IQ3) Were you the first New York Yankee to win the Cy Young award?

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IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself?
In trying to keep photos of your house from being published, did you draw much more attention to them?

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IQ) Are you an elephant king?

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IQ: Did you write your iconic, misunderstood, hit after reading the memoir of previous Botticelli target Ron Kovic?

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Not David Ben-Gurion.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Beowulf.
DQ.
DQ.

DQ.

Three DQs.

Not … Ambrose Burnside?
DQ.
Not Barbra Streisand.

Not Babar.

Welcome to the game!

DQ.

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Previous IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Yes, Ambrose Burnside.
Did you fake an assassination attempt on yourself? - The title character in the political satire Bob Roberts.
In trying to keep photos of your house from being published, did you draw much more attention to them? - Yes, Babs herself: Streisand effect - Wikipedia

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did The Capitol Steps joke that your Social Security number was 7?
Did you write Enemy Mine?
Did you front The Go-Gos?

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DQ.
Not Barry Longyear.
DQ.

B

  1. Real
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correct, Johannes Brahms, Arthur Brown

DQ: Male?
DQ: Living?

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IQ1: Did you play Milburn Drysdale in The Beverly Hillbillies TV series?
IQ2: Are you an actor who in 2005 was acquitted of charges of murdering your wife Bonnie Lee Bakley?
IQ3: Are you the TV detective he played from 1975 to 1978?

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Bartleby the Scrivener (title character of a famed Herman Melville story) replied “I would prefer not to” to every request his boss made.

Bob Turley was the first Yankee pitcher to win the Cy Young award.

The Yardbirds appeared in the movie Blow Up, and Jeff Beck smashed his guitar on stage while the band played “Stroll On” (a new version of “The Train Kept a-Rolling” with different lyrics).

I will reserve 3 DQs for a little later.
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IQ1) Did you sing lead on “Tales of Brave Ulysses”?

IQ2) Did you win the singles, doubles AND mixed doubles championships at Wimbledon in 1939?

IQ3) Did you finally succeed where previous nominees Abe Fortas, Clement Haynsworth and G. Harold Carswell failed?

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Correct on Beowulf. Billina the hen appeared in The Road to Oz. (Eggs are poisonous to Nomes.)
I really don’t wanna stop the show, but I thought you might like to know That the singer’s gonna sing a song, you he’d like you all to sing along.
So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears! with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Last name starts with B?