Botticelli - January 2019

Thread Games
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Happy New Year!

I am K.
Link from last year’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21404437#post21404437

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Happy New Year to all! Off we go…

IQs:

Were you digitally recreated for a recent Transformers movie?
Did you appear in just one panel, no more, no less, of the graphic novel Watchmen?
And did you?

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#2. I am not Henry Kissinger.
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Previous IQs:

Were you digitally recreated for a recent *Transformers *movie? - John F. Kennedy
Did you appear in just one panel, no more, no less, of the graphic novel Watchmen? - Not Dr. Kissinger, who appears several times in the NORAD scene, but John Kennedy Jr., when Dr. Manhattan meets JFK at the White House
And did you? - Caroline Kennedy, ditto

Kennedy x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with K?

IQs:

Did you write the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln?
Have you been played by Bob Hoskins and Steve Buscemi?
Have you been played by Blair Brown and Natalie Portman?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
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#2. I am not Nikita Khrushchev (??)
Take 2 DQs for the others.

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Previous IQs:

Did you write the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s movie Lincoln? - Tony Kushner
Have you been played by Bob Hoskins and Steve Buscemi? - Yes, Nikita Khrushchev, in Enemy at the Gates and* The Death of Stalin*
Have you been played by Blair Brown and Natalie Portman? - Jackie Kennedy, in *Kennedy *and Jackie

DQs:

American?
Living?

IQs:

Are you the best-known fictional person to hail from Toledo, Ohio?
Were you a fictional clone of an assassinated leader?
Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
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  1. I am not Kilgore Trout.
  2. Take a Kilgore DQ.
  3. I am not Bill Kilgore.
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Hey, where is everyone?

Previous IQs:

Are you the best-known fictional person to hail from Toledo, Ohio? - I’ll rephrase.
Were you a fictional clone of an assassinated leader? - Joshua Francis Kellogg, in the novel Joshua, Son of None
Did you love the smell of napalm in the morning? - Yes, Col. Kilgore from Apocalypse Now

DQs:

Best known for politics/military?
Born since 1950?

IQs:

Are you the best-known fictional TV character to hail from Toledo, Ohio?
Did your boss joke that he would announce your appointment in such a way that no one would notice?
Were you recently played by the same actor who played a Chicago detective, a CIA agent and a top Nazi?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
    EH, Take 3 DQs. Maybe the others will come back soon.
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Previous IQs:

Are you the best-known fictional TV character to hail from Toledo, Ohio? - Max Klinger, on MASH*
Did your boss joke that he would announce your appointment in such a way that no one would notice? - JFK joked that he would announce the appointment of his brother as Attorney General by opening his front door at 2am, looking both ways up and down the street, and then whispering, “It’s Bobby.”
Were you recently played by the same actor who played a Chicago detective, a CIA agent and a top Nazi? - Jason Clarke played Ted Kennedy in Chappaquiddick, having earlier appeared in The Chicago Code, Zero Dark Thirty and The Man with the Iron Heart

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Has won a top award in his field?
Has a famous wife?

IQs:

Were you a noted investment advisor?
Were you one of OJ Simpson’s lawyers?
Was one of your compositions heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife

and take 3 more DQs, EH.

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IQ1: Did you play an anchorman for WJM?
IQ2: Are you a former Indiana Hoosiers head basketball coach who won the second-highest NCAA Division I men’s college basketball games of all time?
IQ3: Are you the current head basketball coach for Duke, currently winning the most NCAA Division I men’s college basketball games of all time?

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Welcome back, KO!

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted investment advisor? - Mr. Kiplinger
Were you one of OJ Simpson’s lawyers? - Robert Kardashian
Was one of your compositions heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey? - Aram Khachaturian: Aram Khachaturian - Gayane Ballet Suite (Adagio) - YouTube

DQs:

Best known for the visual arts (acting, painting, photography, sculpture, etc.)?
Associated with NYC?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in Breaker Morant?
Were you a noted Irish boxer from Cleveland?
Were you Capt. Benjamin Sisko’s merchant-captain sweetheart?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
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Yes, welcome back! And take 3 DQs.

#3. I am not Kasidy Yales. Take another 2 DQs.

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Ted Knight (Mary Tyler Moore show), Bobby Knight, Mike Krzyzewski

DQ: Actor?

holding 2 DQs

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with K
  4. American
  5. Living
  6. Not known for politics/military
  7. Born before 1950
  8. Best known for the Arts
  9. Has not won a top award in his field
  10. Does not have a famous wife
  11. Not known for the visual arts
  12. Not associated with NYC
  13. Not an actor
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DQ: Known for the Performing Art?

1 DQ left