Botticelli July 2016

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Were you a folk singer known as “the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement”?
  2. Are you Superman’s Pal?
  3. Were you the original star of the Thimble Theatre comic strip?
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DQ (this has the feel of one I should know, like O’Neill…duh), not Jimmy Olson, DQ.

Answers to DQ’s:

  1. Fictional.
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IQs:

Were you Titania’s husband?
Were you an Alsatian cleric and peacemaker thought of as the Gandhi or MLK of your time?
Were you Queen Cersei’s lover, tortured into revealing their affair?

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#1 was Odetta. Correct on James Bartholomew. #3 was Castor Oyl, brother of Olive, whose strip was usurped by a sailor.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Created by an American author?
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Answers to DQ’s:

  1. Fictional.
  2. Male.
  3. Created by an American author.
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Not Oberon, DQ, DQ.

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IQs:

  1. Are you the lead male character in Disney’s The Aristocats?
  2. Were you Philmon’s slave mentioned in Paul’s letter?
  3. Are you Queen of Oz?
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Not O’Reilly, DQ, not Ozma of Oz.

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Previous IQs:

Were you Titania’s husband? - Yes, Oberon, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (I played him in a high school production).
Were you an Alsatian cleric and peacemaker thought of as the Gandhi or MLK of your time? - John Frederick Oberlin, after whom Oberlin College was named.
Were you Queen Cersei’s lover, tortured into revealing their affair? - Ser Osmund Kettleblack, in Game of Thrones.

DQs:

Last name starts with O?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you date and eventually marry your law-firm supervisor?
Are you a famous person whom I kissed in 2010?
Is your book purposefully not displayed or sold by the Ford’s Theatre gift shop?

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Answers to DQ’s:

  1. Fictional.
  2. Male.
  3. Created by an American author.
  4. First name starts with O.
  5. So far as is known, would still be alive today (but not real).
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DQ, how the hell would I know, and I’m betting based on the parallel-theories it’s Lee Harvey Oswald.

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#1 is Thomas O’Malley.
#2 is Onesimus.
Correct on Ozma.

DQs:

  1. From a movie or TV show?
  2. Created after 1980?
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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Only The Lonely?
  2. Did you have a hit with Caribbean Queen?
  3. Did you have a hit with I’ve Got A Tiger By The Tail?
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Previous IQs:

Did you date and eventually marry your law-firm supervisor? - Barack Obama
Are you a famous person whom I kissed in 2010? - Michelle Obama: In which I meet the President and smooch the First Lady - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board
Is your book purposefully not displayed or sold by the Ford’s Theatre gift shop? - Bill O’Reilly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/bill-oreillys-lincoln-book-banned-from-fords-theatre-because-of-mistakes/2011/11/11/gIQAhJpyFN_story.html

DQs:

Character is American?
Considered a “good guy”?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you the longtime and acclaimed conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra?
Were you Keiko’s husband and Molly’s dad?
Did you hold the same job as men named Pelosi, Schaeffer and Schmoke?

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Not Roy Orbison, not Billy Ocean, DQ.

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Answers to DQ’s:

  1. Fictional.
  2. Male.
  3. Created by an American author.
  4. First name starts with O.
  5. So far as is known, would still be alive today (but not real).
  6. From a TV show.
  7. Created before 1980.
  8. Character is American.
  9. Considered a ‘good guy.’
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DQ, not Miles O’Brien, DQ.

I keep narrowly avoiding sweeps…

You’re not seriously claiming a DQ from a thread 5 years before I joined the board, are you?

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I’ve cited to it several times since, but if it vexes you, no, I don’t have to. DQ waived.

Previous IQs:

Were you the longtime and acclaimed conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra? - Eugene Ormandy.
Were you Keiko’s husband and Molly’s dad? - Yes, Miles O’Brien on ST:TNG and ST: DS9.
Did you hold the same job as men named Pelosi, Schaeffer and Schmoke? - Martin O’Malley was Mayor of Baltimore, just as they were.

DQs:

Associated with NYC?
In law enforcement?

IQs:

Did you live in a trash can and snarl at people?
Were you Felix Unger’s housemate?
Did you bark orders at the Fanuccis?

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IQs:

  1. Did Mork report to you at the end of each episode?
  2. Were you the Sheriff of Mayberry’s little boy?
  3. Are you Thor’s dad?
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Never heard of it myself, hence the ‘how the hell would I know.’ :slight_smile:

Not Oscar the Grouch, not Oscar Madison, and tickling the memory but DQ.