Botticelli - April 2019

Thread Games
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Correct, George Chapman (immortalized in Keats’ poem On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer), Correct.

DQ: Created after 1899?

22

Not Jimmy Carter, Jiminy Cricket or… d’oh, I should know that, but I forget.

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
  7. created after 1899
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DQ: Protagonist/good guy?

1 DQ left

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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
  7. created after 1899
  8. not protagonist/good guy
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IQs:

  1. Are you Earl Der Biggers’ best known character?
  2. Were you the Catman in the rock group KISS?
  3. Are you currently playing Queen Victoria in the BBC series Victoria?
26

Dunno, not Peter Criss, and dunno.

27

#1 was Charlie Chan.
Correct on #2.
#3 is Jenna Coleman.

DQs:

  1. From genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)?
  2. Created after 1969?
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IQs:

  1. Did you fall victim to a wafer thin mint?
  2. Are you Scott Summers’s superhero alter ego?
  3. Were you Minnie Bannister’s boyfriend on the highly acclaimed 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
29

3 was Cliff Edwards.

IQs:

  1. Did you play the mysterious woman pursuing Jake and Elwood in The Blues Brothers?
  2. Did you have a hit in 2011 with “Call Me Maybe”?
  3. Were you a radical temperance activist who went into bars and smashed bottles with a hatchet?
    DQ: created before 1960?
30

Not Mr. Creosote, dunno, and dunno.

Dunno, not Carlie Ray Jepsen (sp?), and not Carrie Nation.

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
  7. created after 1899
  8. not protagonist/good guy
  9. arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)
  10. not created after 1969
  11. not created before 1960
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IQ1: Were you murdered in the bath by a gladiator?

IQ2: Are you a club-footed ruler whose life was fictionalized in two novels by Robert Graves?

IQ3: Are you a heavyweight boxer who famously converted to Islam?

DQ: Are you countercultural?

32

Correct on #1.
#2 is Cyclops.
#3 was Henry Crun (voiced by Spike Milligan).

2 DQs reserved.

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DQ: Adapted into film or TV?

IQ1: Were you The Doctor before Jodie Whitaker?
IQ2: Were you IQ1’s first companion?
IQ3: Do you play Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones?

34

Not Commodus, Claudius or Cassius Clay.

Dunno, dunno and not Emilia Clarke. Mrowwrrrr.

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
  7. created after 1899
  8. not protagonist/good guy
  9. arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)
  10. not created after 1969
  11. not created before 1960
  12. not what would usually be called countercultural*
  13. adapted into film or TV

*Given the examples provided in the opening paragraph here: Counterculture - Wikipedia

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IQ1: Are you the first American novelist of international reputation?

IQ2: Are you the writer of whom Hemingway said “All modern American literature comes from one book by [you] called…"?

IQ3: Are you a Spanish woman whose divorce from her Anglo-Welsh husband led to far-reaching changes in English law and culture?

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1 was Carrie Fisher.

IQs:

  1. Aside from your acting and directing career, were you mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA?
  2. Is your favorite cereal Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs?
  3. Were you a paleontologist and rival of Othniel Charles Marsh in the Bone Wars?
    DQ: from fantasy/sci-fi?
37

Peter Capaldi, Clara Oswald - I wanted the 3rd IQ to be about Jenna Coleman, the actress who played her, but she was already used upthread.

DQ: Did you die in the original story?

holding a DQ

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DQ: considered a bad guy/villain?
1 DQ reserved

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Not Samuel Clemens, or Willa Cather, and dunno.

Not Clint Eastwood, not Calvin (or Hobbes), and dunno.

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
  7. created after 1899
  8. not protagonist/good guy
  9. arguably from genre literature (fantasy, sci-fi, western, horror, mystery, etc.)
  10. not created after 1969
  11. not created before 1960
  12. not what would usually be called countercultural
  13. adapted into film or TV
  14. not from fantasy/sci-fi
  15. did not die in the original story
  16. not considered a bad guy/villain in the story
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DQ: From a mystery?