Botticelli - April 2020

Thread Games
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Last month’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=891165

Our new letter is

F

Bring it!

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IQs:

  1. Are you Geppetto’s pet cat?
  2. Are you one of Merryweather’s sisters?
  3. Were you Ebenezer Scrooge’s employer at one time?
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Not Figaro, dunno, and not Fezziwig.

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Correct, Either Flora or Fauna, Correct.

DQ: Real?

IQs:

  1. Did Dickens’ base you character on Ikey Solomon?
  2. Did you write The Riftwar Saga?
  3. Are you the title character in the Broadway musical that featured the song “A Little Tin Box”?
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IQs:

  1. Do you pal around with Blake, Dinkley, Rogers, and Rogers’ dog?
  2. Have you voiced the above character since 1969?
  3. Did you write The Book of the Damned, “a procession of data that Science has excluded”?
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Not Fagin, dunno, and dunno.

Dunno x3.

F.

  1. fictional
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  1. Were you an extremely fussy neat freak who drove your roommate crazy?
  2. Were you a CIA agent who was a friend of James Bond’s?
  3. Are you Oliver Queen’s soulmate?
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Correct on Fagin.
#2 is Robert E. Feist.
#3 is Fiorello La Guardia. The musical is Fiorello!

DQs:

  1. American in origin?
  2. Male?
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1 (pals around with Blake, Dinkley, Rogers, and Rogers’ dog) was Fred Jones; 2 (has voiced Fred since 1969) was Frank Welker; 3 (wrote The Book of the Damned) was Charles Fort.

IQs:

  1. Were you a bongo-playing physicist whose autobiography is subtitled Adventures of a Curious Character?
  2. Was an animated series in the '90s about The Twisted Tales of you?
  3. Are you the pseudonymous author of My Brilliant Friend?
    DQs:
  4. created between 1920-1970?
  5. from a film or TV show?
  6. main character?
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Not Felix Unger, Felix Leiter or Felix… Smith?

Not Dr. Feynman, not Ian Fleming and dunno.

F.

  1. fictional
  2. not American in origin
  3. male
  4. not created between 1920-1970
  5. not from a film or TV show
  6. not the main character
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IQs:

  1. Did you play the lead in Oz the Great and Powerful?
  2. Did you play Neil Darrell (sp?) on The Bold Ones?
  3. Did you play the female lead in Saturn 3?
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Not James Franco, James Franciscus or Farrah Fawcett-Majors.

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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Did you play Max in The Great Race?
  2. Did you and Wagnalls put out editions of unabridged English dictionaries?
  3. Did James Cagney reprise his role as George M. Cohan in a movie about you starring Bob Hope?
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dupe

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2 was Felix the Cat; 3 was Elena Ferrante.

IQs:

  1. Did you design a line of rainbow-hued stickers and school supplies, made by the company named after you?
  2. Is Why Not Me? the account of your political campaign and ensuing 144-day presidency?
  3. Are you the most famous fictional son of a Genevan syndic?
    DQs:
  4. created before 1920?
  5. from prose fiction?
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Dunno, not Funk, and dunno.

Dunno, not Al Franken, and dunno.

F.

  1. fictional
  2. not American in origin
  3. male
  4. not created between 1920-1970
  5. not from a film or TV show
  6. not the main character
  7. created before 1920
  8. from prose fiction
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Correct, correct and Felicity Smoak. I ran out of Felixes.

DQ:
Created after 1850?

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#1 was Peter Falk.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Eddie Foy.

DQ: First name starts with F?

1 DQ reserved.

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1 (designer of rainbow-hued stickers and school supplies) was Lisa Frank; 3 (most famous fictional son of a Genevan syndic) was Victor Frankenstein.

DQs:

  1. created by a European?
  2. from a novel?
    IQs:
  3. Did you write Seduction of the Innocent?
  4. Are you the protagonist of the Half-Life video game series?
  5. Was your most famous role played by Naomi Watts in a 2005 remake?
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Dunno x3

F.

  1. fictional
  2. not American in origin
  3. male
  4. not created between 1920-1970
  5. not from a film or TV show
  6. not the main character
  7. created before 1920
  8. from prose fiction
  9. created before 1850
  10. only name starts with F
  11. created by a European
  12. from a novel