Botticelli June 2015

Thread Games
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Not Jazia Dax or Daredevil
Take a DQ for #1 (I’m the only Doper who never, ever got into Dr. Who).

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correct x2, Davros

holding 2 DQs

IQ: Did you invent the game Monopoly?

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David Dixon Porter.
Correct.
David Thewlis (Harry Potter flicks, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Macbeth).

Huh. And here I thought I was…

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YESSSS!!! I am Charles Darrow, the man widely (but not universally) regarded as the creator of Monopoly.

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Previous IQs:

Did you star in Timecop? - Yes, Jean-Claude van Damme.
Do you work for the PHB? - Yes, Dilbert, inflicted with the Pointy-Haired Boss.
Did your show set the TV Tropes standard for older actors playing younger characters? - The title character of Dawson’s Creek: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DawsonCasting.

DQ:

Invented a toy?

IQs:

Did you play Kolchak?
Were you Rudy Giuliani’s predecessor as Mayor of NYC?
Did you ask, "“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”

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I had just read an article in Games magazine about the origins of Monopoly. It was originally intended as a visual aid for keeping track of finances by somebody else. Darrow found out about it and came up with the game concept.

The new letter is R.

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IQ1) Did your first major league team regard you as a bust, and trade you for Jim Fregosi?

IQ2) Were you a British Home Secretary regularly mocked (and compared to a fish) on Monty Python’s Flying Circus?

IQ3) Did you die on the couch while being interviewed about health food on The Dick Cavett Show?

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D’oh! New page.

Congrats once more, KO.

Previous IQs:

Did you play Kolchak? - Darrin McGavin.
Were you Rudy Giuliani’s predecessor as Mayor of NYC? - David Dinkins.
Did you ask, "“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” - Charles De Gaulle.

On to R…

IQs:

Did picking a liberal Penna. Republican running mate not help you clinch the nomination?
Did you hang out around Rhosgobel?
Did you create the space probe Nomad?

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Congrats from me as well, KO!

IQs:

  1. Are you aka Chen Lu?
  2. Did you write the Fu Manchu stories?
  3. Did you sue Bette Midler and the producers of For The Boys for using your life without paying?
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not Rod Carew(?), dunno x2

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dunno x2, not Roykirk

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take 3 DQs

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#1 is Marvel’s Radioactive Man.
#2 is Sax Rohmer.
#3 is Martha Raye.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Alive?
  3. Male?
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IQ1: Did you lead the first party to reach the South Pole?
IQ2: Did you lead the second party to reach the South Pole?
IQ3: Did Harold, Phil, Don and Lew wonder what had happened to you?

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Previous IQs:

Did picking a liberal Penna. Republican running mate not help you clinch the nomination? - Ronald Reagan, in his 1976 challenge to Gerald Ford.
Did you hang out around Rhosgobel? - Radagast the Brown, a wizard in LOTR.
Did you create the space probe Nomad? - Yes, Jackson Roykirk in ST:TOS “The Changeling.”

DQs:

Last name start with R?
American?

IQs:

Were you a British statesman who wrote biographies of both Gladstone and Churchill?
Did you never visit your son at school despite his heartbreaking notes begging you to?
Did you and Jim Baker swap jobs in 1985?

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IQs:

  1. Did you appear in both Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life?
  2. Did Clarice sing “There’s Always Tomorrow” to you?
  3. Did you play piano for Jimmy Dean on his show?
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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Alive
  3. Female
  4. First name starts with R
  5. American
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take 3 DQs

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dunno x2, not Donald Regan

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I’m on a roll today

Take 3 DQs