Botticelli - January 2013

Thread Games
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Technically, it’s “Geddy” Lee, but you’re close enough. Correct on Groucho and Gary Gygax, by the way.

Man! You’re really going to make me work for DQs, aren’t you? :slight_smile:

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IQ: Did you suffer an injury that may have exposed doctors to HIV?

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  1. is Garth Hudson, who played keyboards of all types including accordion, saxophone and sang backup vocals for The Band.
  2. is Guy Gavriel Kay, who first published the Fionavar Tapestry, a rather straightforward trilogy that strongly showed Tolkien’s influence (Kay had been one of the editors of The Silmarillion). Since then, many of his works have been based on specific historical periods - Tigana is based on Renaissance Italy, The Lions of Al-Rassan is based on Grenada before it fell to the Spanish Christians, The Sarantine Mosaic is based around Constantinople around the time of the emperor Justinian, etc.
  3. ‘Falstaff’ was Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera, first produced when the composer was in his late 80s. It was also a surprise hit, as Verdi had not written a comedy since the very early ‘Un Giorno di Regno’.

DQ1: Were you born before 1950?
DQ2: Are you known as a political/military figure?
DQ3: Is ‘G’ the initial letter of your last name?

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IQ1: Did you play a colorful but isolated rock star?
IQ2: Did David Ives write a short play David Ives about short play your David Ives buying a short play loaf of bread David Ives loaf of bread short play loaf of bread?
IQ3: Are you a Springfield salesman based partly on a character from Glengarry Glen Ross?

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I think I may know who you mean, but I’m blanking on a name. Take a DQ.

Dunno the first two; but I’m not Gil, The Simpsons’s favorite schlub.

G.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Not involved in the creative arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Known as a political/military figure
  9. G is the initial letter of my last name
326

IQ1: Did you hold a large fake flower whilst reciting poetry?
IQ2: Did you and your wife Magda kill your six children, then commit suicide?
IQ3: Were you Commander in Chief in the West for much of WW II?

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  1. Bob Geldoff, who played Pink in the film adaptation of Pink Floyd’s The Wall.
  2. Phillip Glass. The play (Phillip Glass buys a loaf of bread) apes Glass’s repetitive, minimalist style (hence the question’s wording).

DQ: Were you an elected official?
1 DQ reserved.

328

Dunno the first. Not Goebbels or… Guderian?

G.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Not involved in the creative arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Known as a political/military figure
  9. G is the initial letter of my last name
  10. Not an elected official
329

DQ: Cabinet Secretary?

(I was thinking Greg Louganis for my IQ)

330

IQ1: Are you the composer of operatic versions of ‘Romeo et Juliet’ and ‘Faust’?
IQ2: Are you the composer of operatic versions of ‘The Girl of the Golden West’ and ‘Turandot’?
IQ3: Are you the hero who learned the secret of immortality from Utnapishtim?

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Totally guessing here: Not Giuseppe Verdi, Gustav Holst or Peer Gynt?

G.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Not involved in the creative arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Known as a political/military figure
  9. G is the initial letter of my last name
  10. Not an elected official
  11. Not a Cabinet secretary
332

DQ: Are you known primarily as a military figure?

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G.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Not involved in the creative arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Known as a political/military figure
  9. G is the initial letter of my last name
  10. Not an elected official
  11. Not a Cabinet secretary
  12. Not known primarily as a military figure
334

IQ: Were you the only foreign born Chairman of the Joint Chiefs?

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No, I’m sorry - I’ve already used Giuseppe Verdi and Peer Gynt in this round. Oddly, I’d considered Gustav Holst’s ‘Savitri’ for the operatic trifecta, but I decided that was too obscure to be considered fair…

  1. is Charles Gounod, and those are his two best known works.
  2. is Giacomo Puccini, best known for La Boheme and Madama Butterfly.
  3. is Gilgamesh, king of Uruk from the eponymous Sumerian/Akkadian/Babylonian epic.

Hmm, what’s going to help the most here?

DQ1: Are you a diplomat?
DQ2: Were you born east of the Mississippi?

I think I’ll reserve the last DQ until I hear back from those two…

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Henry Gibson, on Laugh-In.
Correct on Joseph Goebbels.
Gerd von Rundstedt.

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No, I’m not Shalikashvili (but isn’t his first name John?).

G.

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. American
  5. Not involved in the creative arts
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Known as a political/military figure
  9. G is the initial letter of my last name
  10. Not an elected official
  11. Not a Cabinet secretary
  12. Not known primarily as a military figure
  13. Not a diplomat
  14. Not born east of the Mississippi
338

IQ: Were you an economic adviser to US President John F. Kennedy, among others?

339

As soon as I asked, I realized that! my bad. :smack:

IQ: Were you the Fed chairman for most of the 90’s?

340

Not Arthur Goldberg.

Not Alan Greenspan.