Botticelli - July 2019

Thread Games
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Happy July. I am V.

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IQ1: Were you a 15th century Wallachian prince called the “Son of the Dragon”?
IQ2: Did you play music by Joe Green?
IQ3: Were you Joe Green?

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Last month’s thread.

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IQs:

  1. Did you compose the songs for Babes in Toyland?
  2. Were you Bond’s love interest in Casino Royale?
  3. Did you write *Journey to the Center of the Earth *?
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Good job, KO! Congrats.

Previous IQs:

Have you played a lawyer, an airport manager and POTUS? - Blair Underwood, in LA Law, LAX and The Event
Were you supposed to be “Johnny on the spot” in Saving Private Ryan? - Cpl. Upham
Did you sing “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love”? - Yes, Usher: Usher - DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love (Official Music Video) ft. Pitbull - YouTube

On to V…

IQs:

Were you a scruffy street musician in London?
Did you play a dentist in the Wild West?
Was a doctor friend of yours nicknamed “Stinky”?

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Nice catch, Knowed Out!

IQ1: Did you invite some soldiers to come to your country to fight against your enemies, only to realize you’d invited soldiers to come invade your country?
IQ2: Did you choose a different regnal name than your first name of Alexandrina?
IQ3: Did your unhealthy obsession with chewing gum ultimately lead to your being taken away to be juiced?

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not Vlad the Impaler, DQ, DQ

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DQ, DQ, not Jules Verne

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take 3 DQs

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DQ, not Queen Victoria, DQ

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Correct.
Victor Borge.
Giuseppe Verde.
IQ1: Real?
IQ2: Male?

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#1 was Victor Herbert.
#2 was Vesper Lynd.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with V?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Gender unknown
  3. Only name starts with V
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DQ: Created by an American author or authors?

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IQs:

  1. Did Tom Hardy play you in a recent movie?
  2. Did you appear briefly topless on a PBS TV presentation of the play Steambath in the 1970’s?
  3. Did you play the title role in the movie The Man Who Laughs?
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IQ1: Did your grandfather invent a new type of baking powder?
IQ2: Were you a cartoon character created by Sparky Schulz?
IQ3: Were you the main character in a comic strip called “the greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years” by the Duke of Windsor?

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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Did you invite some soldiers to come to your country to fight against your enemies, only to realize you’d invited soldiers to come invade your country? - Vercingetorix, the probably-mythical British king who invited the Angles, Saxons and Jutes to come to Britain.

IQ2: Did you choose a different regnal name than your first name of Alexandrina? - Correct, Queen Victoria.

IQ3: Did your unhealthy obsession with chewing gum ultimately lead to your being taken away to be juiced? - Violet Beauregarde, from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
New IQs:

IQ1: Were you a journeyman quarterback who had an undistinguished career with the Jets, Browns, Cowboys, Patriots, and Ravens, despite having won the Heisman at Miami? (This should be right in your wheelhouse, Knowed Out!)

IQ2: Were you the man who remembered, oh so well, the night they drove Old Dixie down?

IQ: Are you a masked vigilante in a dystopian fascist alternate Britain, whose visage has been adopted in real life by Anonymous?

DQ1: From a graphic novel?

DQ2: From a work of speculative fiction?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a scruffy street musician in London? - Vinculus, in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
Did you play a dentist in the Wild West? - Val Kilmer, in Tombstone
Was a doctor friend of yours nicknamed “Stinky”? - Valentine Michael Smith, in Stranger in a Strange Land

DQs:

Human?
First appeared in print?
First appeared after 1950?

IQs:

Were you the last governor of New France?
Were you a prominent Appalachian potter in early 1800s who established a pottery which remained active until 1928?
Did you provide the voice of the title character in The Iron Giant?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Gender unknown
  3. Only name starts with V
  4. Created by an American author or authors
  5. Not originally from a graphic novel, but has been published in that form
  6. Genre is not specifically speculative
  7. Not human
  8. Did not first appear in print
  9. First appeared after 1950
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not Venom, dunno, not Conrad Veidt (that movie reminded me of Mr. Sardonicus, which I watched on The Great Gillooley the other night)