Botticelli - July 2019

Thread Games
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No, just forgot to include “animated”

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I guess you don’t watch Marvel movies. It’s the only thing Groot says, but the way he says it can have different meanings. Rocket Raccoon and Thor seem to be the only ones who understand him.

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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
  10. Not an animal
  11. First appeared after 1980
  12. Did not first appear in animated cartoon/film
  13. Superpowered
  14. From a fictional world, not Earth
  15. First appeared after 1999
  16. A protagonist
  17. Not originally from a comic book, but from a similar source
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3 DQs for you

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IQ: Do you travel with a band of heroes, one of whom is a Dwarf cleric of Thor, and another is a Halfling barbarian with a pet cat?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a young Starfleet officer initially on good terms with Spock? - Valeris, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Have you played a Russian innocent, a plucky adventurer and a shrewd robot? - Alicia Vikander, in Anna Karenina, Tomb Raider and Ex Machina
Were you Jimmy Smits’s breakout role? - Victor Sifuentes, on LA Law

DQs:

A DC or MC character? (may be answered simply “Yes” or “No”)

Two DQs reserved.

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Victor Emmanuel II.
Victor Emmanuel III.
Cousin Vinny.
Three DQs reserved. Having read the Prof’s latest IQ, I think there’s no point in asking them before seeing its answer…

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Yes, I am Vaarsuvius from Order of the Stick!

The artist never indicated Vaar was one gender or the other. The closest was a flashback scene with Vaar’s wife and two adopted kids, which still didn’t settle the matter.

Grats Prof!

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That was Vaar’s spouse (not necessarily wife).

Onwards! I am W.

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Thought so…
IQ1: Was your right arm six inches longer than your left?
IQ2: Did your son marry Victoria, the Princess Royal?
IQ3: Did you travel in Sigma 7?

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Take 3 DQs.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Kaiser Wilhelm I.
Wally Schirra.
DQ1: Fictional?
DQ2: Female?
One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
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Well done, Prof. P. It’s been awhile since I’ve read OOTS, but I remember the character.

IQs:

Were you Harriet Tubman’s landlord for awhile?
Did a character based on you cite the work of Bishop Ussher in a play?
Did your partner mispronounce the name of a notorious French writer?

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Karma will bite you in the butt, man. SCAdian pointed out to me that I was wrong in one of my IQs; the Romano-British king who asked the Angles, Saxons and Jutes to come to Britain to help defend it against the Picts, whom I identified as Vercingetorix, was actually Vortigern. Vercingetorix was the Gaulish commander that Julius Caesar fought in what is now France. Out of all my IQs to get wrong, naturally I screwed up the one I teased Knowed Out about not knowing. Some form of Gaudere’s Law, I’d say.

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Take 3 DQs.

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DQ:
3) Known for the Arts?
IQ1: Were you really Virginia Pugh?
IQ2: Did Arthur Bremer try to kill you?
IQ3: Is the Duke of Rothesay your father?

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Hah! Just for that, the outcome is … exactly the same.

IQ1: Are you QB for the Seattle Seahawks?
IQ2: Are you QB for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
IQ3: Are you QB for the Houston Texans?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Known for the Arts
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Take 3 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.