Botticelli - June 2013

Thread Games
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Yes, I’m Pablo Neruda! Felicitaciones, Señor le Ministre!

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Tres bon, Le Ministre! I would NOT have got that one. Congrats!

My other #1 was Neville Longbottom, from the Harry Potter series.

283

Many thanks! I’ll think someone up and start another round in the morning.

284

Here we go - I am I.

285

(I am I, Don Quixote, the Lord of La Mancha…)

IQs:

  1. If I cut you, do you not bleed?
  2. Were you Fritz’s successor?
  3. Did you refuse the role of Dumbledore because you wanted to avoid playing the same kind of roles you had in the past?
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All I’ve got for #1 is Shylock, which can’t be right…
#2 - no idea
#3 - No, I’m not Ian McKellan.

At least 2 DQs for you…
PS. Glad somebody picked up on that; I’ve had that for an earworm ever since I wrote it.

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Okay, aargh, early, I was thinking it was Iago, but, of course, you are right, it’s Shylock.
[Shakes head to wake up. Hopefully two brain cells will collide and we’ll have ignition.]
Fritz was Dr. Victor von Frankenstein’s hunchback assistant in the 1931 thriller with Karloff. Since then it’s largely been Igor in that role.

DQ1) Real?

288
  1. Real
289

IQ1: Did you mistake a sheepskin for your older son?
IQ2: Did John Cleese once refer to you as “the lost Python”?
IQ3: Did you serve two years in prison for insider trading?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a long-haired popular classical pianist of Polish heritage?
  2. Were you a brick-hurling mouse?
  3. Were you Ivan the Terrible’s less terrifying son and successor?
291

No, I’m not Isaac. Two DQs for you.

No, I’m not Ignatz Paderewski (sp.?). 2 DQs for the mouse and the Tsar.

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Yep, Ignatz (or Ignaz) Paderewski. Ignatz is the mouse from the old, avant-garde comic strip “Krazy Kat”. Feodor Ivanovich was Ivan the Terrible’s mentally deficient heir.

DQ1: Male?
DQ2: Living?

293
  1. Yes
  2. No
    Summary -
  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead

2 DQs outstanding to Enginerd.

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IQs:

  1. Were you the wife of the Silver Age Flash?
  2. Were you “the woman” to Sherlock Holmes?
  3. Are you the title character of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta?
295

No, I’m not Irene Adler nor Iolanthe. DQ for The Flash.

296

Barry Allen’s wife Iris.

DQ: European?

297

Yes.

Summary -

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. European
    2 DQs outstanding to Enginerd.
298

IQs:

  1. Were you the leading female player on Your Show of Shows?
  2. Are you the Urban Spaceman?
  3. Will you go to extraordinarily lengths to retrieve your hat?
299

#3 must be Indiana Jones. The other two I feel like I should know, but I’ll have to give you a pair of DQs…

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IQ1: Did you use the pen name “Paul French” for writing kids’ SF?
IQ2: Are you the US’s top-scoring fighter ace?
IQ3: Did Johnny Cash sing a song about you?