Botticelli - February 2017

Thread Games
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I am not.

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Okay, taking EH’s offer.

DQ: Are you Edward J. Smith, captain of the Titanic?

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DINGDINGDING!!

Yes, that is correct! Congrats, Prof. P!!!

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Thank you! And, since I borrowed EH’s DQ, it’s his turn to host.

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No, thanks, you go ahead, Prof.

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All righty then,
I am S!

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IQs:

Did Jack Burden work for you?
Was Robb your eldest child?
Were you a noted leader of the Green Mountain Boys?

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#3. I am not Sethan Sallen.

Oh, all right, take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did Jack Burden work for you? - Gov. Willie Stark, in All The King’s Men
Was Robb your eldest child? - Eddard “Ned” Stark, in Game of Thrones
Were you a noted leader of the Green Mountain Boys? - John Stark

Stark x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with S?

IQs:

Was your middle name McMasters?
Did a political foe concede that you probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove?
Were you a noted New York man-about-town and diarist in the 1860s, quoted at length in Ken Burns’s The Civil War documentary?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
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  1. I am not Edwin M. Stanton.
    Take 2 DQs.
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IQ1: Are you a loud screaming stand-up comic who died in a car crash in 1992?
IQ2: Are you credited with bringing Texas into the US as a state?
IQ3: Are you an actor who played a gangster quoting scripture as he brandished a gun in a diner?

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  1. I am not Sam Kinison.
  2. I am not Sam Houston.
    Take a DQ for #3.
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Samuel L. Jackson (in Pulp Fiction)

DQ: From the movies?

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ID1: Are you the cartoonist for The Straight Dope?
ID2: Are you the cartoonist of Maus?
IQ3: As artist/writer of Thor, did you create the character Beta Ray Bill?

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Previous IQs:

Was your middle name McMasters? - Yes, Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln’s second SECWAR
Did a political foe concede that you probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove? - Simon Cameron, the notoriously crooked Penna. pol and Lincoln’s first SECWAR
Were you a noted New York man-about-town and diarist in the 1860s, quoted at length in Ken Burns’s The Civil War documentary? - George Templeton Strong (voiced on the show by George Plimpton)

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Were you written by Robert Lawson as a rabble-rouser and a mooch?
Did you later say your military service in the Civil War was limited to hiding out in the woods with your buddies?
Were you James T. Kirk’s doomed brother?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with S
  4. Has been in movies, but not exclusively known from them
  5. Not American
  6. Wouldn’t be alive today, if real
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  1. I am not Slug Signorino.
  2. I am not Art Spiegelman.
  3. I am not Walt Simonson.
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Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Were you written by Robert Lawson as a rabble-rouser and a mooch? - Sam Adams, in Mr. Revere and I.
Did you later say your military service in the Civil War was limited to hiding out in the woods with your buddies? - Sam Clemens AKA Mark Twain.
Were you James T. Kirk’s doomed brother? - Sam Kirk, who looked an awful lot like William Shatner: George Samuel Kirk | Memory Alpha | Fandom

Sam x3!

DQs:

European?
First appeared in or after 1964?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Were you the respected late governor of your state in a pre-1970 novel?
Were you that man’s son, a surgeon?
Or his daughter, a spinster?