Botticelli - December 2015

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IQ1: Are you a professor who used time-travel hypnosis on Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson?
IQ2: Are you a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes who married Cosmic Boy?
IQ3: Were you a prospective member of the Legion of Super-Heroes but was actually sent to infiltrate them on behalf of the Khunds?

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Take a DQ for #1.
2. I am not Night Girl.
3. I am not Nemesis Kid.

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Professor Carter Nichols

DQ: Primarily known from movies?

holding a DQ

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with N
  4. Alive
  5. American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Known for the performing arts
  9. Actress
  10. Primarily known from movies
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Can’t think of that many “N” actresses…

IQ1: Did you play James Stewart’s love interest twice in Vertigo?
IQ2: Did you play Lt. Uhura in Star Trek: TOS?
IQ3: Did you play Frazier Crane’s wife Lilith in Cheers?

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You’re right. There aren’t that many N actresses.

Yes, I am Kim Novak! Well done, KO!

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In honor of Vertigo, the next letter is V.

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Good job, KO!

Previous IQs:

Were you a female U.S. senator from Kansas since 1960? - Nancy Landon Kassebaum.
Were you Horace Bury’s longtime servant? - Nabil, in Niven and Pournelle’s The Mote in God’s Eye.
Did Sherman hate you more than any other Confederate officer? - Nathan Bedford “That Devil” Forrest.

On to V, then.

IQs:

Are you the best-known escapee from Larkhill Resettlement Camp?
Are you one of the few non-Presidents to have a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier named after you?
Were you Earl Warren’s predecessor as Chief Justice of the United States?

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IQs:

  1. Are you one of Santa’s reindeer?
  2. Did a newspaper editor assure you Santa exists?
  3. Were you “a sentimental crook, with a touch that lingers in his sandpapered fingers”?
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Well, you obviously thought of three more than I did.
IQ1: Did you write Invasion of the Sea?
IQ2: Did you write Dreamsnake?
IQ3: Did you write A Fire Upon the Deep?

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not Vixen, not Virginia, DQ

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3 DQs

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Correct, correct, and Jimmy Valentine.

DQ: Real?

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Jules Verne (the last of his books published before his death).
Vonda McIntyre.
Vernor Vinge.
DQ: Male?
Two DQs reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Were you Gru’s antagonist in Despicable Me?
  2. Were you one of the Shadow’s agents?
  3. Have you been… Batman?
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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
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don’t remember his name dadgummit, DQ, not Val Kilmer

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  1. “Vector! That’s me! 'Cause I commit crimes with both direction and magnitude!”
  2. Harry Vincent.
  3. correct.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Last name starts with V?
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DQ1: American?
DQ2: Known for the Arts?

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IQs:

  1. Did you star in Midnight Cowboy?
  2. Did you voice Frosty the Snowman?
  3. Were you the title character in a series of 19th century penny dreadfuls?