Botticelli - January 2018

Thread Games
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Happy New Year Botticelians one and all!

I am M!

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Thanks, KO, and to you, as well! Here’s last month’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=843551

IQs:

Were you James Bond’s first, curmudgeonly boss?
Was this his actual name?
Did Peter Lorre play you, a criminal on the run?

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not M, DQ, not M

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Good job, KO! I don’t recall ever hearing of Mr. Lemon.

IQs:

  1. Were you Barnabas Collins’s gypsy housekeeper?
  2. Are you the current First Lady?
  3. Did you host a sing-a-long TV series in the 1960’s?
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Previous IQs:

Were you James Bond’s first, curmudgeonly boss? - Yes, M
Was this his actual name? - Admiral Sir Miles Messervy
Did Peter Lorre play you, a criminal on the run? - Yes, also M

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did your theories of naval power influence TR and others?
Were you Keiko’s husband and Molly’s dad?
Were you the nebbishy producer of FYI?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
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DQ, not Melania Trump, DQ

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DQ, not Miles O’Brien, not Michael Harris

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#1 was Magda.
Correct on Melania.
#3 was Mitch Miller.

DQs:

  1. Created by an American author or authors?
  2. Male?
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IQs:

  1. Are you aka Bobbie Morse?
  2. Were you Secret Squirrel’s sidekick?
  3. Did you behead Macbeth?
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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Created by an American author or authors
  3. Female
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not Captain Marvel ?
DQx2

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#1 is Mockingbird. (Capt. Marvel is Carol Danvers.)
#2 was Morocco Mole.
#3 was Macduff.

DQs:

  1. Created after 1900?
  2. From a work of prose literature?
  3. Considered a good person?
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Previous IQs:

Did your theories of naval power influence TR and others? - Alfred Thayer Mahan
Were you Keiko’s husband and Molly’s dad? - Yes, Miles O’Brien, on ST: DS9.
Were you the nebbishy producer of FYI? - Miles Silverberg, on Murphy Brown

DQs:

Has appeared in a movie?
Considered a beauty?

IQs:

Did you ask Sherlock Holmes to investigate the Baskerville case?
Did your followers much later apologize for your virulent anti-Semitism?
Was your symbol a winged lion?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Created by an American author or authors
  3. Female
  4. Created after 1900
  5. Not from prose literature
  6. Good person
  7. Has appeared in a made-for-TV movie
  8. Considered a beauty
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Gahhh my mind is blanking on these. The 2nd was in the news recently. Take 3 DQs.

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IQs:

  1. Were you the librarian of River City, Iowa?
  2. Were you the singer for The Doors?
  3. Did you have epic battles with Oilcan Harry?
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IQs:

Did you ask Sherlock Holmes to investigate the Baskerville case? - Dr. Mortimer
Did your followers much later apologize for your virulent anti-Semitism? - Martin Luther
Was your symbol a winged lion? - St. Mark, patron saint of Venice

DQs:

First name start with M?
First appeared on TV?
First appeared after 1950?

IQs:

Were you a longtime Congresswoman from the Northeast?
Did you head The Citadel after WWII?
Should Wes Studi have won an Oscar playing you in The Last of the Mohicans?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Created by an American author or authors
  3. Female
  4. Created after 1900
  5. Not from prose literature
  6. Good person
  7. Has appeared in a made-for-TV movie
  8. Considered a beauty
  9. First name starts with M
  10. Did not first appear on TV
  11. First appeared after 1950
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DQ, not Jim Morrison, DQ