Botticelli - February 2018

Thread Games
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IQ1: Were you Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor?
IQ2: Are you a scientist who took Flash Gordon to the planet Mongo to fight Ming the Merciless?
IQ3: Do you play Jessica Day on The New Girl?

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  1. No I am not Zbigniew Brzenski
    2)Dunno: DQ
    3)Dunno: DQ

Onward!

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#1 is Correct.
#2 was Ludwig Zamenhof.
#3 was Zasu Pitts. For future reference, if you have a guess, go ahead and take it.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Created by an American author or authors?
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1)Yes, male.
2) Yes , Created by American authors.

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1 was Zorro, played by Antonio Banderas who then voiced Puss in Boots in the Shrek series. Do I still get a DQ even though you successfully answered Zorro to a later IQ? Happy for it to be ruled out of order if the crowd feel the IQ was a little obtuse!

2 is Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean) and 3 is Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan.

DQ: human?
DQ: first published in 1945 or later?

DQ answer summary for our benefit:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by American authors
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Shoot I’d throw you the DQ.
1)Yes, human
2)Yes, first published in 1945 or later

267

correct, Dr. Zarkov, Zooey Deschanel

holding 2 DQs

MM, the host of the round keeps the list of DQs, like this.

DQ Summary

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by American authors
  4. Human
  5. First published 1945 or later
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Very well, KO I will start doing so…

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IQs:

  1. Have you been called the Father of Television?
  2. Are you arguably the last villain named in any of Marvel’s alphabetical indexes of comic book characters?
  3. Did you write J’Accuse?
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  1. Dunno
  2. Dunno
  3. I am not Emile Zola
    As the person who’s “IT” should I also run pending DQ totals?
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#1 was Zworykin.
#2 is Zzzax.
Correct on Zola.

  1. Originally from a work of prose fiction?
  2. Created after 1980?
    You can run pending DQ totals if you like, but it’s not required (or usual).
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Agreed. Just update the list of already-answered DQs (see previous rounds for examples). Thanks.

Previous IQs:

You are not Zapata. Were you a slain revolutionary leader in a movie? - The title character of Costa-Gavras’s drama Z.
Did Strauss write a tone poem about you? - Yes, Zarathustra
Did you, to your horror, film the assassination of a man you greatly admired? - Yes, Abraham Zapruder

DQ:

Ever appear in a movie?

IQs:

Were you the Bartlets’ youngest daughter?
Did Sean Connery star in a movie about you?
Were you Ike’s favorite author?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play a stunningly pretty new schoolteacher in The Bridge To Terabithia?
  2. Did you play the title role in the movie The Phantom?
  3. Were you the wife of the author of The Great Gatsby?
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DQs

  1. No, I was not originally from a work of prose fiction.
  2. No, I was created before 1980.
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DQ

  1. Yes I have appeared in a movie.

IQ

  1. Dunno
  2. No, I am not Zardoz.
  3. No, I am not Zane Grey
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IQs
1)No idea.
2)Dunno
3) No, I am not Zelda Fitzgerald.

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#1 is Zooey Deschanel.
#2 is Billy Zane.
Correct on #3.

I misspoke because I didn’t understand. Yes, please run pending DQ totals.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with Z?
  2. Originally from film or TV?
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  1. My last name does not start with ‘Z’
  2. Originally from film or TV
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…and pending DQ totals:

Dead Cat: 1
Elendil’s Heir: 1
Knowed Out: 2
Prof. Periwinkle: 0

Let me know if that agrees with your notions of held DQs. Thanks.

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Oh, I thought you meant pending DQs as:

DQ Summary

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by American authors
  4. Human
  5. First published 1945 or later
  6. Yes I have appeared in a movie.
  7. My last name does not start with ‘Z’
  8. Originally from film or TV

which makes it easier to consult and lets us know how many DQs have been asked out of our 20.