Botticelli - January 2015

Thread Games
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I have heard of the movie, but never saw it.

202

I know the movie, and remember the ending well (I was stunned when Frank got shot before getting to Switzerland). But I never would have guessed it.

203

Ditto on both counts. Good one, SCAdian.

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I’ve never seen the movie either, but I did read the book when I was a kid. That was over 50 years ago, though, so I really don’t remember much other than that I enjoyed it. Time for a reread, I think…
In the meantime - I am S.

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IQs:

  1. Are you a bad old puddy tat?
  2. Did you write Corridors of Power?
  3. Did you weasel your way out of writing the Declaration of Independence?
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Not Sylvester.
DQ.
Not Roger Sherman (a simple cobbler, he!).

207

Correct on 1 and 3.
C. P. Snow wrote Corridors of Power.

DQ: Real?

208

IQs:

  1. Were you one of the scholars who helped translate the New Testament in the King James Version (and one of my ancestors to boot)?
  2. Did you write The Vampire: His Kith and Kin?
  3. Have you, on occasion, been the Easter Beagle?
209

IQs:

Other than Dean Martin, are you arguably the best-known person ever born in Steubenville, Ohio?
Did an interviewer forget your wife had died?
Did two unrelated men of this same name appear simultaneously on SNL?

210

DQ.
DQ.
Not Snoopy.

Three DQs.

S

  1. Fictional
211

IQ1: Are you an actor who was also a volunteer fireman and helped with rescue efforts during the 9/11 tragedy?
IQ2: Are you one of the two founders of Apple Inc.?
IQ3: Are you the other founder?

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#1 was John Spencer, part of the Westminster group that worked on the New Testament Epistles.
#2 was Montague Summers.
Correct on Snoopy.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Best known from a movie or movies?
213

IQs:

  1. Were you Supergirl’s pet?
  2. Were you the Star-Spangled Kid’s partner?
  3. Did your father sing about your “laughing face”?
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Previous IQs:

Other than Dean Martin, are you arguably the best-known person ever born in Steubenville, Ohio? - Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s SECWAR
Did an interviewer forget your wife had died? - Martin Short: Kathie Lee Gifford forgets MARTIN SHORT wife is dead on Today Show: HUGE MISTAKE May 30 2012... - YouTube
Did two unrelated men of this same name appear simultaneously on SNL? - There’s only one thing better than a single Paul Simon…: https://screen.yahoo.com/paul-simon-monologue-000000150.html

DQs:

American?
Last name start with S?
First appeared since 1964?

IQs:

Did you call a timeout during a war for a foe’s wedding night?
Did your name become a watchword for brutal labor management?
Did you like to play chess on set with your castmembers?

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IQ) Did you travel around having drunken adventures with Dean Moriarty?

IQ2) Did you create a popular sitcom and write numerous bestselling trashy romance novels?

IQ3) Did you write “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”?

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DQ.
Not Steve Jobs.
Not Steve Wozniak.

Not Streaky.
DQ.
DQ.

Not Saladin (who seems to have been the only decent leader on either side during the entire series of Crusades).
Not Simon Legree.
DQ.

Three DQs.

S

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Probably best known from a movie or movies
  4. Not American
    5, Last name starts with S
  5. Did not first appear after 1964
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Previous IQs:

Did you call a timeout during a war for a foe’s wedding night? - Yes, Saladin, during the Crusades
Did your name become a watchword for brutal labor management? - Yes, Simon Legree, from Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Did you like to play chess on set with your castmembers? - Stanley Kubrick

DQ:

European?

IQs:

Were you one of the protagonists of Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals?
Did a comedian say that you were obsessed with fellatio?
Were you that comedian?

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IQ) Did you travel around having drunken adventures with Dean Moriarty?

Sal Paradise (Jack Kerouac’s alter ego) cavorted with Dean Moriarty (Neal Cassidy’s alter ego) in the novel*** On the Road.***

IQ2) Did you create a popular sitcom and write numerous bestselling trashy romance novels?

In addition to writing trashy romance novels, Sidney SHeldon created I Dream of Jeannie

**
IQ3) Did you write “Beyond Freedom and Dignity”? **

Behavioral psychologist BF Skinner

DQ1) European?
DQ2) Did you originally appear in a novel or short story?
DQ3) Created by an American?

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Correct on Streaky.
#2 was Stripesy.
#3 was Nancy Sinatra. Frank sang “Nancy with the Smiling Face”, so I goofed and no 2nd DQ for me.

1 DQ reserved.

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Three DQs.

S

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Probably best known from a movie or movies
  4. Not American
    5, Last name starts with S
  5. Did not first appear after 1964
  6. European
  7. Originally appeared in a novel or short story
  8. Not created by an American
    astorian, ask another DQ - EH had already asked your first one.