Botticelli - December 2019

Thread Games
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November thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=884694

Our next letter is

D

Have at you!

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IQ1: Were you involved recording Sunshine Superman?
IQ2: Were you cast into Hades by a god?
IQ3: Are you suing an Internet cow?

(New at this game, so bear with me.)

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Dunno, not Demeter (guessing), and dunno.

Welcome, Locrian!

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Yes! Glad to have you here Locrian!

IQs:

  1. In Italy are you secretly Paperino?
  2. Did you have a hit with Grandma’s Feather Bed?
  3. Are you in love with Hermia at the start of the play but end up marrying Helena?
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Dunno, not John Denver, and not Demetrius (I just saw A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and was in a high school production of it)

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#1 is Donald Duck (In Italian comic books he’s secretly a superhero.)
Correct on the other two.

DQ: Real?

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  1. Were you a member of a boy band, and brother of an actor and former rapper?
  2. Did you co-star with the brother of the above in probably M. Night’s worst movie?
  3. Was your character, played by two different actors, often annoyed by your wife’s relatives?
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Not Donnie Wahlberg, dunno, and dunno.

D.

  1. real
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IQs:

  1. Does David McCallum play you on NCIS?
  2. Were you the perpetual female foil for the Marx Brothers?
  3. Were you the best known queen of Carthage?
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1. Were you a member of a boy band, and brother of an actor and former rapper?
2. Did you co-star with the brother of the above in probably M. Night’s worst movie?
3. Was your character, played by two different actors, often annoyed by your wife’s relatives?

Right on Donnie, the others were Zooey Deschanel (co-starring with Mark in The Happening) and Darrin Stephens (Bewitched, played by a couple of Dicks)

Male?
Living?

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Dunno, dunno, and not… Delilah?

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. deceased
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D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. deceased
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#1 is Dr. Donald Mallard, usually called Ducky.
#2 was Margaret Dumont.
#3 was Dido (see the Aeneid).

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. American?
  3. Died before 1900?
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Dido, of course!

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. deceased
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. not American
  6. died before 1900
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  1. Are you the current head of Scientology?
  2. Did you play the mayor on Mary Hartman?
  3. Did you play Mary’s mother on that show?
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Not Dtom Dcruise, dunno, and dunno.

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1. Are you the current head of Scientology?
2. Did you play the mayor on Mary Hartman?
3. Did you play Mary’s mother on that show?

David Miscavige, Dabney Coleman, Dody Goodman

Political?
Religious?
European?

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Huh. I didn’t know that about Dabney Coleman.

D.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. deceased
  4. not known for the Arts
  5. not American
  6. died before 1900
  7. not political
  8. not religious
  9. European
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IQs:

  1. Did Joss Whedon gripe about your performance in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, saying you were perpetually mixing up your lines and making up stuff?
  2. Did you have a series of hits with chipmunks in the 1950’s?
  3. Were you a sex bomb who came to fame in the early days of TV?
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Dunno x3.