Botticelli - December 2024

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you have a horse named Nelson and a dog named Sweetlips? - Not George Crook, but Washington
Are you the best-known person from New Rumley, Ohio? - George Armstrong Custer (there’s a small roadside monument displaying the Seventh Cavalry flag where the house once stood)
Did you pretend not to know your way around an army base to have more time courting a young woman? - Not George Patton, but Marshall, as he drove her home

George x3!

DQs:

First appeared in print?
Protagonist?
From genre fiction (Western, sf, fantasy, detective, romance, etc.)?

182

Note that if the answer is valid, it doesn’t have to be the person you were thinking of; you don’t get a DQ for it.


DQ1: American creator(s)?
DQ2: Created after 1960?
One DQ reserved.

183

Correct, Correct, and Gugu.

1 DQ reserved.

184

IQs:
1. Did you direct Barbie?
2. Was your first name Mohandas?
3. Did you write Doom Patrol, JLA: Earth 2, Batman and Robin, and Klaus?

185

Correct. Next time, knoodler, you can rephrase your question and try again.

186

I am not Greta Gerwig, I am not Gandhi, and take a DQ.

187

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with G
    4.Created after 1960
  4. I don’t believe his nationality has ever been determined, but a good probability he is American.
  5. Does not appear first in print.
  6. Created by Americans.
  7. Protagonist.
  8. Genre fiction.
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DQs:

Created before 1990?
Appeared in TV/movies?

189

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with G
    4.Created after 1960
  4. I don’t believe his nationality has ever been determined, but a good probability he is American.
  5. Does not appear first in print.
  6. Created by Americans.
  7. Protagonist.
  8. Genre fiction.
  9. Created before 1990.
  10. Has appeared in both TV and in the movies.
190

3 (Doom Patrol etc.) was Grant Morrison.

DQ: first appeared before 1975?

191

IQs:

  1. Did you die at the siege of Barad-dur?
  2. Did you kill the Bull of Heaven and insult the goddess Ishtar?
  3. Did you play on TV a comics character based on the novel Armageddon 2419?
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IQs:
1. Were you actually Mary Ann Evans?
2. Were you the Libertarian Party’s candidate for U.S. president in 2012, and did you not know what Aleppo was?
3. Were you Mabel’s friend in Gravity Falls?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with G
    4.Created after 1960
  4. I don’t believe his nationality has ever been determined, but a good probability he is American.
  5. Does not appear first in print.
  6. Created by Americans.
  7. Protagonist.
  8. Genre fiction.
  9. Created before 1990.
  10. Has appeared in both TV and in the movies.
  11. First appeared before 1975.
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Take3 DQs unless #2 is Gilgamesh.

I am not George Eliot and take 2 DQs.

195

DQ: Appeared on TV before appearing in a movie?

196

IQs:

  1. Were you Ruth Buzzi’s most used character on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In?
  2. Were you Flip Wilson’s drag character on his variety show?
  3. Was your catchphrase “Well, I’ll be a dirty bird.”?
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2 was Gary Johnson; 3 was Grenda.

DQs:
1. first appeared before 1970?
2. from science fiction or fantasy?

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Good to know. I researched both characters, and while there is a marked difference between the two, I can see how my question did not focus on a specific characteristic, enough to define my intent. (E_H, I’ll be more incisive to avoid ambiguity.)

199

IQs:

  1. Did Brendan Fraser portray you on film?
  2. Are you Archie Bunker’s daughter?
  3. Did you die suddenly, leaving your wife in a terrible predicament?
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Take a DQ, I am not Geraldine, take a DQ.

I am not Gloria, take a DQ

But YES!!

I AM GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE!

Congrats knoodler!