Botticelli April 2016

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IQ1: Are you the Master of the Panflute and alleged to have sold more records than Elvis and the Beatles?
IQ2: Did you play guitar, jamming good with Wierd and Gilly and The Spiders from Mars?
IQ3: Were you President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor? (Let’s see you spell that one correctly, Mr. Vocabulary)

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IQs:

  1. Did Carol Cleveland play you in Monty Python and the Holy Grail?
  2. Are you the last villain (alphabetically speaking) in the Marvel Universe?
  3. Were you a Hebrew prophet who prophesied during the time of Darius the Great?
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Previous IQs:

Did you twice play the mom of doomed young women? - Grace Zabriskie, on Twin Peaks and Seinfeld.
Did you play the heavy in Titanic? - Billy Zane.
Was Ike a fan of your writing? - Yes, Zane Grey.

DQs:

First appeared since 1964?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you discover the major peak that bears your name?
Did you (almost) always come last in a British children’s book?
A former general, did you die after eating iced fruit?

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Zanfir?
Ziggy played guitar. Ziggy Stardust.
I shall spell this response perfectly: DQ. Alas, it did not require any Latin grammar. :slight_smile:

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I’m not Zoot.
I’m not Zzzyx or some such, who I don’t know directly but vaguely remember seeing as a repeated question here…
Zebadiah?

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I’m not Zebulon Pike.
DQ.
DQ.

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I am Z and I am:

  1. Not Real
  2. Male
  3. Last Name starts with Z
  4. Not from a work of prose fiction
  5. Not originally from a movie
  6. Not a protagonist
  7. First appeared since 1964
  8. Would not be alive today if real, barring plot twist(s).
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Correct on Zoot. #2 is Zzzax, so close enough. #3, however, is Zechariah.

DQ: From a TV show?

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Zamfir (close enough), correct, Zbigniew Brzezinski

DQ: Scifi/fantasy genre?

holding 3 DQs

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Batman foe who thinks he’s a Greek god?
  2. Are you a Superman foe who was freed from the Phantom Zone?
  3. Are you a purple alien creature who is a foe of Firestorm?
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IQ1: Are you a Decapodian staff doctor for The Planet Express?
IQ2: Did you invent the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster?
IQ3: Are you the Smilodon companion of jungle warrior Ka-Zar?

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I’m not Zeus? (guessing, as I’m pretty sure Zsasz doesn’t think that), General Zod, DQ.

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#1 is Maxie Zeus. Close enough, I guess.
#2 is correct.
#3 is the Zuggernaut.

1 DQ reserved.

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Yes, I’m Doctor John A. Zoidberg.

Probably not the hardest to guess guest ever, but to follow Y I wanted to choose someone who I could hint at with letter color, though he’s a bit more orange.

Congrats KO!

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Well done, KO. I’d’ve gotten there, but it would have taken a bunch more DQs.

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The “Would be alive today” question is a tricky one, for a series set in the future, but with time travel.

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Good job, KO! Congrats!

I’d answer “No” to that question, as he’s been not born yet and the series is mostly set in the future.

Previous IQs:

Did you discover the major peak that bears your name? - Yes, Zebulon Pike of Pike’s Peak.
Did you (almost) always come last in a British children’s book? - Zachary Zween: http://www.amazon.com/Story-Zachary-Zween-Mabel-Watts/dp/B0006BQ30E/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461962026&sr=1-1&keywords=zachary+zween
A former general, did you die after eating iced fruit? - Zachary Taylor.

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Sweet! I’ll start a new month thread.

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