Botticelli - June 2018

Thread Games
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The new letter is O.

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IQs

  1. Was your character strong because she could say, " I am no man!"
  2. Was your daughter the youngest Oscar winner?
  3. Did you play the sheriff of DeadWood ?
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take 3 DQs

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The May thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=854444

O it is.

IQs:

Did you say, “I am in a battle to the death with this wallpaper; one of us has to go”?
Were you the title character of a Stallone comedy?
Did you defeat an alien patterned after Cyrano de Bergerac?

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3 DQs for you

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Legolas in the LOTR movie trilogy?
  2. Were you known as “the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement”?
  3. Are you the previous president’s youngest daughter?
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Previous IQs:

Did you say, “I am in a battle to the death with this wallpaper; one of us has to go”? - Oscar Wilde, on his deathbed
Were you the title character of a Stallone comedy? - Oscar
Did you defeat an alien patterned after Cyrano de Bergerac? - Oscar, the hero in Heinlein’s Glory Road

Oscar x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with O?

IQs:

Did your future husband ask you out several times before you said yes?
Did your mom sometimes wake you up to do homework?
Did you only meet your son once before you died in a car crash?

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Not Orlando Bloom, DQ, not Sasha Obama?

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DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
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dunno, dunno, not Berry Oakley?

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Previous IQS:

  1. Miranda Otto in LOTR before she kills the witch-king because she’s a woman.
  2. Ryan O’Neal’s daughter Tatum is the youngest winner.
  3. Timothy Olyphant in Deadwood.

DQs

    • Alive?*
    • Known from performing Arts?*
    • American?*
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Correct on #1 and #3.
#2 was the folk singer Odetta.

1 DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Did your future husband ask you out several times before you said yes? - Michelle Obama
Did your mom sometimes wake you up to do homework? - Barack Obama
Did you only meet your son once before you died in a car crash? - The former President’s father, also named Barack Obama

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Does Mitt Romney hope to succeed you in January?
Did you pitch for both the Dodgers and the Indians in World Series?
Were you a female Cabinet secretary in the Eisenhower Administration?

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DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Unamerican
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not Orrin Hatch, not Mell Ott?, dunno

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DQ: Born after 1959?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Japanese conductor who was with the Boston Symphony Orchestra among others?
  2. Did you play Commissioner Gordon in the Christian Bale Batman movies?
  3. Are you a son of Darkseid?
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DQ roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. Alive
  5. Known for the performing arts
  6. Not American
  7. Born after 1959
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Previous IQs:

Does Mitt Romney hope to succeed you in January? - Yes, Orrin Hatch, in the U.S. Senate
Did you pitch for both the Dodgers and the Indians in World Series? - Orel Hershiser
Were you a female Cabinet secretary in the Eisenhower Administration? - Ovetta Culp Hobby

DQs:

Actor?
European?

IQs:

Were you a Russian folk hero?
Were you an Egyptian god?
Were you Adrian Veidt’s alter ego?

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not Seiji Ozawa, not Gary Oldman, not Oberon (whom I swear he said he was Jewish in a Mister Miracle comic, but I can’t find proof)