Botticelli June 2016

Thread Games
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For the first game in June, let’s start with E.

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The May thread: Botticelli May 2016 - Thread Games - Straight Dope Message Board

E it is.

IQs:

Is your desk in the possession of the Jefferson County, Ohio Historical Society?
Was your ship turned into what we know as Venus?
Did you wield Narsil?

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IQ:

  1. Were you the Wizard of Menlo Park?
  2. Did you discover the Theory of Relativity?
  3. Are you not-so-secretly Ralph Dibny?
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DQ, DQ, not Elendil :slight_smile:

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not Thomas Edison, not Albert Einstein, DQ

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Correct, correct, and the Elongated Man.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a young Muppet who hasn’t mastered pronouns?
  2. Were you the first movie Tarzan?
  3. Are you the patron saint of sailors?
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Previous IQs:

Is your desk in the possession of the Jefferson County, Ohio Historical Society? - Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s SECWAR.
Was your ship turned into what we know as Venus? - Earendil the Mariner, in Tolkien’s The Silmarillion.
Did you wield Narsil? - Yes, Elendil the Tall.

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with E?

IQs:

Famous in your own right, was your son later elected mayor of a major city?
Were you U.S. Solicitor General under Johnson and Nixon?
Are you a noted legal writer with a four-syllable last name?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with E
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me not Elmo, me not Ron Ely, DQ

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3 DQs

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Previous IQs:

Famous in your own right, was your son later elected mayor of a major city? - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel; his son was later a very popular mayor of Hamburg, West Germany.
Were you U.S. Solicitor General under Johnson and Nixon? - Erwin Griswold (also dean of Harvard Law School).
Are you a noted legal writer with a four-syllable last name? - Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky.

Erwin x3!

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?
First appeared since 1964?

IQs:

Were you comically hard of hearing?
Were you the subject of a one-woman show on Broadway?
Was your “Americanization” the subject of a film?

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#1 was indeed Elmo.
#2 was not Ely, but Elmo Lincoln (silent film).
#3 was St. Elmo.

Elmo X3!

2 DQs reserved.

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with E
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive if real
  6. First appeared since 1964
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not Echo (let me make a case that she is a deaf person in the comics), not Ethel Merman(?), DQ

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DQs:

  1. Originally from TV or a movie?
  2. By an American author?
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IQs:

  1. Were you one of the Monty Python troupe?
  2. Did you star on CHiPs?
  3. Were you the distaff member of the Fatal Five?
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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with E
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive if real
  6. First appeared since 1964
  7. Not originally from TV or movies
  8. By an American author
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not Eric Idle, not Eric Estrada, DQ

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Previous IQs:

Were you comically hard of hearing? - Not Echo, but Emily “Never mind!” Litella.
Were you the subject of a one-woman show on Broadway? - Emily Dickinson.
Was your “Americanization” the subject of a film? - Emily: The Americanization of Emily - Wikipedia

Emily x3!

DQs:

European?
First appeared since 1980?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Does Cate Blanchett hope to play you several more times?
Did a blacksmith initially refuse to call you by your first name?
Were you from the Bowes-Lyon family?