Botticelli - August 2017

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
362

Take 3 DQs.

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  1. I am not Orion.
  2. I am not Oberon.
    Take a DQ for #1.
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Odysseus (using the Mycenaean spelling, Odikweos), in S M Stirling’s Nantucket trilogy.
Correct.
Correct.
DQ: Created after 1900?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Created before 1900
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IQ1: Do many of your films focus on controversial American political and cultural issues and conspiracies during the late 20th century and early 21st century?
IQ2: Are you the 1st Lord Protector of the UK, nicknamed “Old Ironsides”?
IQ3: Did Fawn Hall destroy your documents?

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Previous IQs:

Was perhaps your one redeeming feature your refusal to respect segregation laws? - Lee Harvey Oswald would make it a point to sit in the back of the bus in New Orleans
Were you that person’s wife? - Marina Oswald
Were you one of Drew Carey’s Cleveland slacker pals in his sitcom? - Oswald

Oswald x3!

DQs:

European?
Considered a “good guy”?
Appeared in more than one work?

IQs:

Did you politely ask for more gruel?
Did Tilda Swinton play you early in her career?
Were you “the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table”?

368

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Created before 1900
  5. European
  6. Considered a good guy
  7. Only appeared in one work
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  1. I am not Oliver Stone.
  2. I am not Oliver Cromwell.
  3. I am not Oliver North.
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  1. I am not Oliver Twist.
  2. I am not Virginia Woolf’s gender-shifting Orlando.
  3. I am not Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Swept 'em! Good job.

IQs:

Did you help train Cal Rodgers for his eventual feat?
Did you write that “in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire”?
Did you own a yacht named the Sperm?

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IQ1: Did you compose The Infernal Galop, which popularized the can-can dance?
IQ2: Are you an accident-prone German conductor who had to sit down during performances because you tried to put out a bed fire with camphor?
IQ3: Are you credited with unifying Germany in the 19th century?

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Take 3 DQs.

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  1. I am not Offenbach.
    Take a DQ for #2.
  2. I am not Otto von Bismarck.
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#2 is Otto Klemperer, who is also the father of Hogan’s Heroes actor Werner Klemperer.

DQ: Originally from prose fiction?

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IQ1: Are you currently the longest-serving Republican Senator in U.S. history?
IQ2: Were you recently criticized for not opening your church’s doors to flood victims in Texas?
IQ3: Were you frequently the grand marshal of Valparaiso Indiana’s Popcorn Parade?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Created before 1900
  5. European
  6. Considered a good guy
  7. Only appeared in one work
  8. From a play

Do plays count as prose, or is drama a separate area?

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  1. I am not Orrin Hatch.
  2. I am not Joel Osteen.
    Take a DQ for #3.
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Separate, I’d say. Prose, to me, is novels and short stories; drama (or more broadly, the theater) is just the opposite of comedy. Plays are part of the theater.

Previous IQs:

Did you help train Cal Rodgers for his eventual feat? - Orville Wright, before Rodgers became the first to fly across America “crash by crash”
Did you write that “in our youths, our hearts were touched with fire”? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., discussing his generation’s Civil War service
Did you own a yacht named the Sperm? - Uncle Oswald in the Roald Dahl stories

DQs:

British?
Written by a Brit?
First name start with O?

IQs:

Did you long feud with your sister, another actress?
Were you an early female member of the U.S. Cabinet?
Were you an animal who wanted to be another kind of animal?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American
  4. Created before 1900
  5. European
  6. Considered a good guy
  7. Only appeared in one work
  8. From a play
  9. Not British
  10. Written by a Brit
  11. Only name starts with O