Botticelli - December 2017

Thread Games
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Ok, I’m R.

Nah, just kidding - I’ll be I.

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Grats DC!

IQ1: Did you claim to write Howard Hughes’s autobiography?
IQ2: Are you the secret identity of the mascot of Marvel Comics’ Not Brand Ecch?
IQ3: Did you write Rip Van Winkle?

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IQs:

  1. Are you an English 17th Century Architect who designed St. Paul’s Church?
  2. Were you more qualified than Michael Cassio?
  3. Did you write the hymn When lawless men succeed?
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Well, this shouldn’t take long - can’t even think of any guesses for these. Oh, wait - was it Washington Irving who wrote Rip Van Winkle? And for When Lawless Men Succeed I’ll take a wild stab at Irving Berlin. Take two or three DQs each, accordingly.

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#1 was Inigo Jones.
#2 was Iago, from Shakespeare’s Othello.
#3 was Christopher Idle.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Alive?
  3. Male?
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Clifford Irving, Irving Forbush, correct

Irving x 3!

DQ: Last name start with I?

holding a DQ

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IQ1: Did you play rhythm guitar for Guns ‘n’ Roses?
IQ2: Do you play Heimdall in the Thor movies?
IQ3: Were you the vocalist for The Stooges?

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  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. First name starts with I

KO, I have a feeling you’re getting three more DQs, as I don’t even know the gender of Heimdall, but I’ll take a guess at Isla Fisher anyway. Can’t even make a viable guess for the other two.

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Izzy Stradlin, Idris Elba, Iggy Pop

DQ: European?
DQ: Known for the Arts?

holding 2 DQs

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  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. First name starts with I
  5. European
  6. Known for the Arts (on a general interpretation of the term)
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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit in the US in the 1960’s with Society’s Child?
  2. Did you hide from a nuclear blast in a refrigerator?
  3. Does legend have you selling your jewels to fund Christopher Columbus?
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DQ: From the UK?

holding 1 DQ

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November’s thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=840307

If you mean St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, 'twas Sir Christopher Wren wot designed it.

IQs:

Did River Phoenix play you as a young man?
Were you Sid Caesar’s female partner in comedy?
Were you derisively known for your extensive shoe collection?

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Inigo Jones designed St. Paul’s Cathedral, Covent Garden.

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Not a cathedral (that is, the seat of a bishop): St Paul's, Covent Garden - Wikipedia

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  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. First name starts with I
  5. European
  6. Known for the Arts (on a general interpretation of the term)
  7. Not from the UK

Is number 3 Queen Isabella of Spain? I don’t know the others, so at least 2 DQs to you.

Not Imelda Marcos, but take 2 DQs.

No indeed, but to be fair the original question did indeed reference St Paul’s Church (not cathedral), so was completely fair. I did wonder if it was an error, but knowing the cathedral was designed by Wren, I suspected it was a different church being referred to.

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#1 was Janis Ian.
#2 was Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Correct on Isabella.

DQs:

  1. Died before 1900?
  2. Known for writing?
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Haven’t seen that Indy film, but now you mention it, I possibly should have been able to guess it! List below updated:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Male
  4. First name starts with I
  5. European
  6. Known for the Arts (on a general interpretation of the term)
  7. Not from the UK
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Known for writing
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IQs:

  1. Did you write the James Bond novels?
  2. Were you a Nobel Prize-winning author who wrote in Yiddish?
  3. Are you the title character of an H. G. Wells novel?
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  1. I am not Ian Fleming.
  2. I suspect she neither won a Nobel nor wrote in Yiddish, but I’ll take a guess at Iris Murdoch
  3. I am not The Invisible Man