Botticelli - December 2014

Thread Games
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Kicking off a new game thread for December. I am K.

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IQs:

  1. Are you one of the Men in Black?
  2. Are you the protagonist of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis?
  3. Did you create Batman?
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IQ1) Were you given the fraternity name “Flounder”?

IQ2) Did you propose that beauty is truth and truth beauty?

IQ3) Are you the title character of an opera that recently stirred controversy in New York?

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pass, forgot Gregor’s last name, not Bob Kane

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not Larry Kroger, pass x2

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#1 was K, portrayed by Tommy Lee Jones.
I goofed on #2. I meant Kafka’s The Castle, whose protagonist was also named K. You are right in Gregor Samsa being in The Metamorphosis.
Correct on #3.

DQ: Real?

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Larry Kroger was Pinto- Kent Dorfmann was Flounder!

DQ1) Last name start with K?

DQ2) American?

DQ3) Male?

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IQs:

  1. Are you aka Catwoman?
  2. Are you aka Superman?
  3. Are you aka Dr. Fate?
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IQ1: Did you wield the baseball bat, Excalibur?
IQ2: Did you play the role of a wandering demigod in a television series?
IQ3: Did you play the role of Silent Bob?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with K
  3. American
  4. Male
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not Selena Kyle
not Clark Kent
pass

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dunno
not Kevin Sorbo
not Kevin Smith

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Beat me to John Payne by an hour… :frowning:
IQ1: Were you also known as Grasshopper?
IQ2: Were you a fictional secret agent in the British Raj in the late 1800s?
IQ3: Were you a fictional secret agent in the British Raj in the early 1900s?

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Correct on 1 and 2. Kent Nelson is Dr. Fate (or, at least, was).

DQ: Alive?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Critique of Pure Reason?
  2. Do they celebrate your birthday in Hawaii on June 11th?
  3. Are some of the Psalms attributed to your sons?
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IQs:

Did you like to sail on the Victura?
Were you a famous woman first married in Rhode Island?
Were you POTUS in the novel Fatherland?

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IQ1 was Kevin Matchstick, in Matt Wagner’s Mage; the other two were correct.

IQ1: Were you a consultant for the movie Interstellar?
IQ2: Did you play an undercover agent infiltrating a group of surfing bank robbers?
IQ3: Did you play a US Naval officer assigned to investigate the suspicious death of a woman who you and your boss had each been secretly having an affair with?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with K
  3. American
  4. Male
  5. Alive
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Not Kwa-chang Kang (from the TV series Kung Fu, played by David Carradine, I’m sure I butchered the spelling)
pass x2

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take 3 DQs