Botticelli - April 2019

Thread Games
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Previous thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=871652

And on we go to

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IQs:

  1. Are you the best known person born in Tacoma, WA?
  2. Did you hang around with Howland Owl and Porky Pine?
  3. In the words of a filk song, is your ghost haunting Space Station Three?
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Dunno x3

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#1 is Bing Crosby.
#2 was Churchy LaFemme (from Pogo)
#3 is Carmen Miranda.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with C?
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IQ1: Are you an English-born actor who once entered a lookalike contest of your iconic character…and lost?

IQ2: Are you a former first baseman(?) for the Cleveland Indians, whose name sounds like a children’s cereal?

IQ3: Are you a pop singer whose hit songs include one telling women to take their makeup off and let their hair down?

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IQ1: Did you write a series of books starting with The Teachings of Don Juan?
IQ2: Are you a Christian fundamentalist cartoonist whose work frequently appeared under windshield wipers?
IQ3: Was one of your characters Al Sleet, the Hippie-Dippie Weatherman?

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Not Charlie Chaplin (allegedly), Co Co Crisp or… Cyndi Lauper?

Dunno, and not Jack Chick or George Carlin (“Let’s just take a look at the weather map… which the dudes have moved over here”).

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
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Carlos Castaneda

DQ: Originally from film?

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IQ1: Are you QB for the Carolina Panthers?
IQ2: Are you QB for the Oakland Raiders?
IQ3: Are you QB for the Minnesota Vikings?

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  1. Yes, Charlie Chaplin. 2. Yes, Coco Crisp. 3 No, Colbie Calliat; the song is called “Try”.

1 DQ reserved.

IQ1: Are you an American author known for your crime novels featuring Kay Scarpetta?

IQ2: Are you a former British intelligence office and author, known for your realistic and somewhat bleak spy novels?

IQ3: Are you a British author of military historical fiction, primarily known for a series of novels set in the Napoleonic Wars and featuring a whore’s son who rises to become an officer and hero in Wellington’s army?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the wife of Agamemnon?
  2. Were you a wise centaur who mentored Herakles?
  3. Are you the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Demeter?
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IQs:

  1. Are you the friendly ghost?
  2. Were you reportedly the subject of a bet to make you say at least three words?
  3. Are you a comedian who shares a name with a suburb of Washington DC in Maryland?
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Dunno x3

Not Catherine Cornwall (?), not John Le Carre, and not Bernard Cornwell

Not Clytemnestra, dunno, and not Ceres

Not Casper, Calvin “You lose” Coolidge or Chevy Chase

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
  4. not originally from film
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1 is Patricia Cornwell. But I’d say that’s close enough. 2 - Yes, John Le Carre. But I was thinking of his real name, David Cornwall. 3 - Another Cornwall. I had a Cornish theme going.

Still reserving a DQ.

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Correct, Chronos was the centaut, Correct.

DQ: Created by an American author or authors?

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Cam Newton, Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins

DQ: Originally from literature?

holding 2 DQs

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C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with C
  4. not originally from film
  5. created by an American author or authors
  6. originally from literature
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IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist in The Catcher In The Rye?
  2. Did you famously translate The Odyssey?
  3. Did you discover King Tut’s Tomb?
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I’m not Holden Caulfield, dunno, and not Howard Carter.

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All correct.

IQs:

  1. Were you a peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia?
  2. Were you Pinocchio’s conscience in the 1940 film?
  3. Did you play #2?