Botticelli - August 2017

Thread Games
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DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
322

Very nice pick on that last round, KO!

IQs:

  1. Are you the hapless heroine of The Old Curiosity Shop?
  2. Are you the title character of a song by Elton John?
  3. Are you the title character of a song by Stephen Foster?
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DQ, not Norma Jean, DQ

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#1 was Little Nell. (“It was take a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell.” - Oscar Wilde)
#2 is a good answer. Not who I was thinking of, so I’ll rephrase and ask that again later.
#3 is Nelly Bly.

DQs:

  1. Is N the first letter of your last name?
  2. Created on or after 1900?
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DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. N is not the first letter of the last name
  4. Created on or after 1900
326

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character of a song by Elton John that isn’t Norma Jean?
  2. Are you quite possibly the most famous girl detective of all?
  3. Did you play Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman?
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IQ1: Did you famously flip off a college student in the mid-1970s?
IQ2: Were you the mother of a murderous motel owner?
IQ3: Were you a fictional mill worker involved in unionising your workplace?

328

not Nikita, if she’s so famous how come I never heard of her, DQ

329

not Richard Nixon?, not Norma Bates, DQ

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  1. Correct on Nikita.
  2. Nancy Drew, Girl Detective. I’d be really surprised if you haven’t heard of her.
  3. Noel Neill.

DQs:

  1. Originally from a work of fiction?
  2. By an American author or authors?
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Previous IQs:

Did you supposedly say that one should get there “fustest with the mostest”? - Yes, Confederate cavalry Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Does a statue of you stand on the grounds of CIA HQ? - Nathan Hale
Were you George Washington’s best general in the South? - Nathaniel Greene

Nathan x3!

DQs:

Would be alive today, if real?
First appeared in a novel or short story?

IQs:

Did you first play a notable fictional woman in red?
Are you that character?
Was your dad a retired Seattle cop?

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IQs:

  1. Were you the title character in a hit song by Sylvia?
  2. Were you Tin’s girlfriend in The Metal Men?
  3. Was your name Magill, but you called yourself Lil?
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Nelson Rockefeller.
Correct.
Norma Rae.
DQ: Protagonist?
One DQ reserved.

334

She is fictional. Did you mean something more specific than “work of fiction?”

335

Ouch. I meant “prose fiction”.

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DQ Prospectus

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. N is not the first letter of the last name
  4. Created on or after 1900
  5. By an American author or authors
  6. Would likely be alive today if real
  7. Did not first appear in a novel or short story
  8. Not a protagonist
337

Ask another DQ, since I already answered that with #7.

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DQ, DQ, not Nelson Frazier

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DQ, DQ, not Nancy as everyone knew her

(Completely forgot about Nancy Drew)

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DQ: From a song?