Botticelli July 2016

Thread Games
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So begins the month of independence…

This episode brought to you by the letter L.

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IQ1) Are you a fictional Pulitzer-winning journalist with a high-ranking military dad?
IQ2) Are you the high-ranking military dad?
IQ3) Did your eight-year-old son set fire to your living room rug years after a shady drifter predicted he would?

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Ka-BLAM! Take your 3 DQ’s.

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Lois Lane, Gen. Sam Lane, and Lorraine McFly. :slight_smile:

DQ1) Female?
DQ2) Fictional?
DQ3) Is L the first letter of your last name?

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I should’ve known all three of those… Hello, McFly! :smack:

  1. Male.
  2. Real.
  3. Last name starts with L.
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IQ1) Was your coffin opened five times in fifty years after your death to ensure that you were still in there?
IQ2) Have you portrayed a White House speechwriter, a deaf-mute, and an Outsider?
IQ3) Did you direct what might have been the first dystopian sci-fi film?

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Draelin! Welcome back!

IQs:

  1. Is your death the point of a Cheapass Game?
  2. Are you Superman’s mermaid love?
  3. Did you paint oversized comic book panels and proclaim it was art?
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Abraham Lincoln, Rob Lowe, and Fritz Lang.

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  1. Not a clue. DQ city.
  2. Lori errm…can I get a ruling on this? Can’t remember her last name.
  3. Another one I’ll probably kick myself for. DQ.
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#1. The game is Kill Doctor Lucky.
#2. Lori Lemaris. Given the propensity for Superman to have LL’s in his life, I rule myself a DQ on that.
#3. Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?
  3. Known for government/politics/the military?
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Haha yeah, Lois Lane and Lana Lang…I still wouldn’t have remembered Lemaris. :slight_smile:

  1. Male.
  2. Real.
  3. Last name starts with L.
  4. Living.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for government/politics/the military.
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IQs:

  1. Did you write It Can’t Happen Here?
  2. Did you write the poem The Congo?
  3. Did you play the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz?
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The June game thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=794928

IQs:

Did you play Dr. Holly Goodhead?
Were you a longtime Governor of Florida?
Did you sing “Cowboy Casanova”?

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  1. Sinclair Lewis
  2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
  3. Bert Lahr
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Lois Chiles and two DQ’s.

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Correct on Lewis & Lahr. #2 was Vachel Lindsay.

1 DQ reserved.

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IQs:

Did you play Dr. Holly Goodhead? - Yes, Lois Chiles, in Moonraker. A beauty but far from a great actress.
Were you a longtime Governor of Florida? - Lawton Chiles.
Did you sing “Cowboy Casanova”? - Withdrawn - I was thinking “C” and not “L.” This was Carrie Underwood.

DQ:

Best known for the arts?

IQs:

Does an exhibit in your husband’s museum show you mourning as rain falls outside?
Was your last public appearance in 1922?
Did you die on the night of a big party your parents threw?

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  1. Male.
  2. Real.
  3. Last name starts with L.
  4. Living.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for government/politics/the military.
  7. Best known for the arts.
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Time for some utter, wild-ass guesses:

LBJ, no idea at all, Heath Ledger.

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DQ: Born after 1980?

IQs:

  1. Are you the author of The Birthgrave who died last year?
  2. Have you played a traitorous wizard, Dracula and Sherlock Holmes?
  3. Did you play the Catwoman in the 1960’s Batman movie?