Botticelli - December 2019

Thread Games
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  1. I am not Mumbles.
  1. I am not Muttley.
    Take a DQ for #3.
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3 was Eadweard Muybridge… that’s not a misspelling.

Adapted for film?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Known from literature
  3. Not the hero
  4. Male
  5. Not American
  6. Not a good guy, but trying to make up for it
  7. First appeared before 1900
  8. European
  9. From a story frequently adapted for film
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Ahem.

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Oops.

  1. I am not Johnny Marcone from the Dresden Files.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Arnold Moony (sp??).
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Previous IQs:

Were you a fictional gangster with an interest in the occult? - Not who I was thinking of; I’ll rephrase
Were you nicknamed “the Vilnius Schoolmaster”? - Soviet Navy Capt. Marko Ramius in The Hunt for Red October (Sean Connery’s character in the movie)
Were you defeated in the most recent US Senate race in Alabama? - Roy Moore

DQs:

From the British Isles?
First appeared before 1800?

IQs:

In a work by Stephen King, were you a gangster with an interest in the occult?
Did you head the Citadel military institute after WWII?
Have you played a queen, a witch, a detective and a gangster’s moll, among other roles?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Known from literature
  3. Not the hero
  4. Male
  5. Not American
  6. Not a good guy, but trying to make up for it
  7. First appeared before 1900
  8. European
  9. From a story frequently adapted for film
  10. British
  11. First appeared after 1800
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#3. I am not Helen Mirren (just a wild guess).
Take 2 or 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

In a work by Stephen King, were you a gangster with an interest in the occult? - Hubie Marsden in 'Salem’s Lot
Did you head the Citadel military institute after WWII? - Gen. Mark Clark
Have you played a queen, a witch, a detective and a gangster’s moll, among other roles? - Yes, Helen Mirren, in The Queen, Excalibur, Prime Suspect and The Long Good Friday

DQs:

Associated with London?
From a contemporary story, at the time it was written?

IQs:

Were you Scrooge’s former business partner?
Were you James Bond’s boss?
Were you Keiko’s husband?

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  1. In the Voltaire song, When You’re Evil, are you this to the gentlemen?
  2. Were you a controversial photographer who featured gay themes and sexuality in your work?
  3. Did you play god in the movie, Second Time Lucky?
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“In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley!”

Well done, EH!

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1. In the Voltaire song, When You’re Evil, are you this to the gentlemen?
2. Were you a controversial photographer who featured gay themes and sexuality in your work?
3. Did you play god in the movie, Second Time Lucky?

Miss Fortune, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Morley

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Good one, PP, and appropriate for the season! Thanks.

Other previous IQs:

Were you James Bond’s boss? - M (Adm. Sir Miles Messervy)
Were you Keiko’s husband? - Miles O’Brien, on ST:TNG and ST: DS9

Lemme see… our next letter will be

E

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IQs:

  1. Is Aragorn your heir?
  2. Were you Adam’s mate?
  3. Was your body possessed by the essence of John Whorfin?
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  1. Were you the first name mentioned in Tim Curry’s, I Do the Rock?
  2. Did your character think Ferris Beuller was a righteous dude?
  3. Did you play wacky characters on a late night talk show?
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Not Elendil the Tall, Eve, or Dr. Emilio Lizardo (a role for which John Lithgow should’ve won an Oscar, dammit!)

Dunno x3.

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Correct on all three. I agree about Lithgow.

IQs:

  1. Did you play Penny Priddy in Buckaroo Banzai…?
  2. Did you crash a wedding and give Zeus a golden apple that brought suffering and tears?
  3. Were you the Muse of Lyric Poetry?
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I’m blanking on the actress’s name, although I can see her clearly in my mind; not Eris, and not Euterpe.

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#1 was Ellen Burstyn. Correct on the mythology quiz.

DQ: Real?

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Just checked Wiki, and it was actually Ellen Barkin. But she’s still an E.

E.

  1. not real