Botticelli - January 2025

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. Created after 1960
  6. American creators
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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I thought that was Percival Lowell. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Cronos.

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Cole, Christine Baranski, Gail Carriger.

DQ:
First appeared on TV?

2 DQs reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s first SECTREAS? - Yes, Salmon P. Chase
Were you Lincoln’s first SECWAR? - Yes, Simon Cameron (of whom it was said, “He probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove”)
Did you accept the formal surrender of Confederate forces at Appomattox? - Brevet Maj. Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, a hero of Gettysburg

DQ:

Main character?

IQs:

Were you a US senator after whom a major student loan was named?
Did Al Franken make a joke about your unpopularity among some senators?
Are you the most famous former Goldwater Girl from the 1964 election?

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Chongo
Clyde Tombaugh
correct (Cronus, actually, I believe, but close enough)


DQ: First appeared on TV?
One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. Created after 1960
  6. American creators
  7. Not from TV
  8. Not the main character of the whole work, but the main character of the section of the work in which she appears

SCA, kitap already asked about TV, so take another DQ.

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#2. I am not Ted Cruz.
Take 2 DQs.

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Well, she has a lot of nerve! :smiley:


DQ: First appeared in a movie?
One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. Created after 1960
  6. American creators
  7. Not from TV
  8. Not the main character of the whole work, but the main character of the section of the work in which she appears
  9. Appeared in a movie
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DQ: Created after 1990?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. Created after 1960
  6. American creators
  7. Not from TV
  8. Not the main character of the whole work, but the main character of the section of the work in which she appears
  9. Appeared in a movie
  10. Created before 1990
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DQs:

  1. Created before 1975?
  2. First appeared in newspapers?
  3. Character’s age under 21?
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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. Created after 1960
  6. American creators
  7. Not from TV
  8. Not the main character of the whole work, but the main character of the section of the work in which she appears
  9. Appeared in a movie
  10. Created before 1990
  11. Created after 1975
  12. Did not appear in newspapers
  13. Character’s age not given, but most probably over 21
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IQs:

  1. Did you travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows?
  2. Were you named Euphrasie by your birth mother?
  3. Were you a member of the American Philosophical Society before organizing the influential Bread and Cheese Club?
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IQs:

  1. Did you travel with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows?
  2. Were you named Euphrasie by your birth mother?
  3. Were you a member of the American Philosophical Society before organizing the influential Bread and Cheese Club?
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#1. I am not Calamity Jane.
Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a US senator after whom a major student loan was named? - Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.)
Did Al Franken make a joke about your unpopularity among some senators? - Yes, Sen. Ted Cruz (“I like Ted Cruz better than most of his Republican colleagues do, and I hate Ted Cruz”)
Are you the most famous former Goldwater Girl from the 1964 election? - Hillary Clinton

DQs:

First appeared in a movie?
American character?

IQs:

Did your alleged aunt repeatedly explain she was from Brazil, “where the nuts come from”?
Did John Forsythe provide your voice although you never showed your face?
Are you the protagonist of the John Scalzi crime comedy novel Starter Villain?

Highly recommended, BTW.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. Created after 1960
  6. American creators
  7. Not from TV
  8. Not the main character of the whole work, but the main character of the section of the work in which she appears
  9. Appeared in a movie
  10. Created before 1990
  11. Created after 1975
  12. Did not appear in newspapers
  13. Character’s age not given, but most probably over 21
  14. Only appearance is in one movie
  15. American character
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  1. I am not Chaley, from Charley’s Aunt and Where’s Charley?
  2. I am not Charlie from Charlie’s Angels.
  3. I am not Charley, but take a DQ. I enjoyed Starter Villain this last year, but don’t recall his actual name.
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  1. Cosette, Les Miserables
  2. James Fenimore Cooper

2 DQs reserved

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Swept me! The third, in Starter Villain, was Charlie Fitzer. You got all three Charlie/Charleys, so I won’t take a DQ.

IQs:

Were you Galadriel’s husband?
Were you lord of the Grey Havens?
Were you the greatest ring-maker of the Elves?