Botticelli - January 2015

Thread Games
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DQ: Is your story of British origin?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist of some Dashiell Hammett novels?
  2. Did you play the protagonist in the film Swashbuckler?
  3. Did you play the Scarecrow in the old, old Broadway musical version of The Wizard of Oz?
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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
  9. Story is of British origin
    astorian, ask another DQ - EH had already asked your first one.
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Not Sam Spade.
DQ.
DQ.

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Correct on Sam. #2 was Robert Shaw. #3 was Fred Stone.

DQs:

  1. from a comedy?
  2. protagonist?
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IQs:

  1. Were you a superhero whose sidekick was called Pinky?
  2. Did you write The Time Of Your Life?
  3. Were you an ancient Greek playwright?
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Steve Buscemi, correctx2

holding a DQ

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Previous IQs:

Were you one of the protagonists of Jeffrey Archer’s First Among Equals? - Tory politico Simon Kerslake
Did a comedian say that you were obsessed with fellatio? - Richard Simmons
Were you that comedian? - Sam Kinnison

DQs:

science fiction/fantasy?
considered a “good guy”?
contemporary story (i.e. set roughly at the time it first appeared)?

IQs:

Was your dad a chef and your son an author?
Did T’Pring prefer you to the other guy?
Were you the other guy?

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DQ.
DQ.
Not Sophocles.

DQ.
DQ.
Not Spock.

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
  9. Story is of British origin
  10. Not from a comedy
  11. Not a protagonist
  12. Not science fiction/fantasy
  13. Not considered a “good guy”
  14. Not a contemporary story (i.e. set roughly at the time it first appeared)
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#1 was the imminently forgettable Mr. Scarlet. #2 was William Saroyan.
Correct on Sophocles.

DQ: Villain?

1 DQ reserved.

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IQs:

  1. Did you sail with Captain Flint?
  2. Did you sail with Captain Hook?
  3. Did you sail with Captain Bluebeard in the book On Stranger Tides?
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Yes! I am Long John Silver, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (portrayed by Tim Curry in my favourite film version of the story).

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My grandson loves Muppet Treasure Island. We must’ve watched it twenty times together.

aaaand… I am V!

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Grats, Prof! I hereby renew the DC comics challenge.

IQ1: Are you an Alan Moore creation inspired by Guy Fawkes?
IQ2: Are you Superman’s idea of a son, born from a hallucination when Mongul gave him the Black Mercy?
IQ3: Were you originally Lois Lane’s counterpart to Batman?

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Again? Oh, well.

  1. I am not V.
    Take a DQ for #2.
  2. I am not Vicki Vale.
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IQ1) Did you win the Cy Young Award and the Rookie of the Year award in the same season?

IQ2) Did you coin the phrase “conspicuous consumption”?

IQ3) Was your catch phrase, “Know what I mean, Vern?”

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I am not Jim Varney. Take 2 DQs for the first two.

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Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodgers won the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards in 1981.

Thorstein Veblen’s ***Theory of the Leisure Class ***gave us the phrase “conspicuous consumption.”
DQ1) Real person?

DQ2) Male?

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IQ1) Did you write and sing a song telling the true story of how your mother only revealed the identity of your father after he died?

IQ2) Did Bob Gaudio write most of the songs you turned into hit singles?

IQ3) Did Frank Zappa name you the Fluorescent Leech (“Flo” for short)?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female