Botticelli - April 2017

Thread Games
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The March thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=820323

Our first letter for April is

G

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IQs:

  1. Were you a neighbor of Donald Duck’s who had an anthropomorphic light bulb for an assistant?
  2. Were you a lion tamer with Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus?
  3. Did Mark Twain publish your memoirs?
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IQ1: Are you the twin sister of Leto II?
IQ2: Are you a minstrel and Paul Atreides’ weapons teacher?
IQ3: Are you Baron Harkonnen’s oldest nephew, aka “The Beast”?

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Dunno x2; not U.S. Grant

Dunno x3 (I thought Rabban was “the Beast”?)

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Ghanima Atreides, Gurney Halleck, Glossu Rabban

DQ: Real?
DQ: Male?
DQ: Last name start with G?

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IQ1. Was one of your most famous novels a lipogram that omitted a letter of the alphabet, despite your full name containing this letter four times?
IQ2. Were you born in an Italian restaurant and quickly put up for adoption because your food addiction led to declining restaurant sales?
IQ3. Were you a UN High Commissionner for Refugees before being promoted to a higher position?

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Ah, I didn’t realize Rabban had a first name. I thought of Duncan Idaho but couldn’t remember Gurney Halleck’s name.

Dunno, not Abe Simpson, and not Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary-General.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. only name starts with G
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#1 was Gyro Gearloose.
#2 was Gunther Gebel-Williams.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Created before 1900?
  2. Created by an American or Americans?
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First one was Georges Perec, who wrote a 300-page book without the letter e. Second question was referring to Garfield, whose obsession for lasagna forced the owners of an Italian restaurant to put him up for adoption. Correct on Guterres.

DQ1: From literature?
DQ2: Human?

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Hi, guy! Welcome back!

IQs:

  1. Were you Mary Richards’ TV boss?
  2. Are you an epic Akkadian hero?
  3. Are you often mistaken for Rosencrantz?
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Not Lou Grant, dunno, and not Guildenstern.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. only name starts with G
  4. created before 1900
  5. not created by an American or Americans
  6. from literature, broadly speaking
  7. human
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Correct, #2 is Gilgamesh, correct.

DQ: Created by a European author or authors?

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Thank you. :slight_smile:

IQ1: Are you the Smurfs’ arch-foe?
IQ2: Did you discover an organelle essential to proteine processing?
IQ3: Are you aka Olorin?

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IQ1: Are you a robot controlled by Little Jimmy Sparks?
IQ2: Are you a giant lizard who frequently destroys Tokyo?
IQ3: Are you the tree member of Guardians of the Galaxy?

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Not Gargamel (sp?), Gregor Mendel or Gandalf.

Dunno; not Godzilla or Groot.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. only name starts with G
  4. created before 1900
  5. not created by an American or Americans
  6. from literature, broadly speaking
  7. human
  8. created by a European author or authors
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IQs:

  1. Did you hang around with Pantagruel?
  2. Were you Sir Lancelot’s illegitimate son?
  3. Did you battle the Green Knight?
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Gigantor

DQ: From a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme?

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IQ1: Are you destined to be defeated by the Messiah in Revelations?
IQ2: Are you a blue Muppet who rarely uses contractions?
IQ3: Did you help Frodo reach Rivendell as her was pursued by the Nazgul?

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Correct on Gargamel and Gandalf. The second one was Camillo Golgi, who discovered the Golgi apparatus. I don’t recall Mendel having discovered any organelle.

DQ: Created by someone from the British Isles?

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Dunno, not Sir Galahad, not Sir Gawain.

Not Golgotha (?), not Grover, and not Glorfindel.

G.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. only name starts with G
  4. created before 1900
  5. not created by an American or Americans
  6. from literature, broadly speaking
  7. human
  8. created by a European author or authors
  9. not from a children’s story/fairy tale/nursery rhyme
  10. not created by someone from the British Isles