Botticelli - June 2018

Thread Games
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IQ1: Are you Skeletor’s second-in-command?
IQ2: Are you one of Thor’s Asgardian enemies in the comics, a seductress who sometimes allies with Loki?
IQ3: Are you a dual sai-wielding love interest of Daredevil?

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So who was this?

Dunno x2; not Elektra.

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Evil-Lyn, Enchantress, correct

DQ: Comedy genre?

holding a DQ

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Previous IQs:

  1. El-ahrairah, indeed from Watership Down (Are you a prince with a thousand enemies, and also a rabbit?)
  2. Elvis Costello (Were you born Declan Patrick McManus?)

IQs:

  1. Did you write the screenplay for and star in the 1995 film of Sense and Sensibility?
  2. Aside from playing a bookish Hogwarts student, are you a UN Women goodwill ambassador?
  3. Were you a humorist with a syndicated newspaper column about suburban family life, and the author of a Cope Book?

DQs:

From an American film?
From a live action film?

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Prof. Pepperwinkle View Post
IQs:

…3) Were two of your brothers Atlas and Prometheus?
So who was this?
Oops. Sorry, life’s gotten busy.

Prometheus (Forethought) had a younger brother named Epimetheus (Afterthought), whom the gods cursed with a wife: Pandora.

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[quote=“Elendil_s_Heir, post:255, topic:815899”]

I’m not Eliza Doolittle, Esther Williams or Eva Peron.

All correct: swept!
/QUOTE]

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Thanks, Prof. P.

Not the multitalented Emma Thompson, Emma Watson or Erma Bombeck.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. first name starts with E
  3. female
  4. not originally from literature
  5. not from a work originally from the 20th century
  6. not a main character
  7. originally from film
  8. from a film made in the 2000s
  9. from a film set in the present time contemporaneous to the release of the film, mostly
  10. from a film with some laughs but not an outright comedy
  11. from an American film
  12. not from a live-action film
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IQ1: Were you known as the “Million Dollar Mermaid”?
IQ2: Were you the mother of the family in Good Times?
IQ3: Did you play IQ2?

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DQ: Was the movie released in or since 2014?

0 DQs left

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IQ: Are you the most fabulous fashion designer for superhero costumes in the history of forever?

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Dingdingding! Yes, dahling, I am indeed

Edna Mode

Tiny but imperious, as seen in this now-iconic scene from The Incredibles, and in the movie’s more recent sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R2aW03pwL0

Well done, Prof. P.!

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Way to go EH!

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Thanks. Now I am C.

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IQs:

Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar?
Did you marry your first cousin, who was concerned you might go to Hell?
Were you a Tory grandee who was not above occasional backstabbing in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals?

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Take 3 DQs.

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IQs
1)Did you win an Oscar for It happened one night?
2)Did you win an Oscar for It Happened one Night?
3) Did you win an Oscar for It Happened one Night*?*

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  1. I am not Clark Gable.
  2. I am not Claudette Colbert.
  3. I am not Frank Capra.

If I’m wrong on any of those, take a DQ.

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NO you’re perfect, I’m swept

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post #276 is a mistaken repeat; no DQS

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Previous IQs:

Were you Nelson’s #2 guy at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood
Did you marry your first cousin, who was concerned you might go to Hell? - Charles Darwin; his theory of evolution troubled her
Were you a Tory grandee who was not above occasional backstabbing in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with C?

IQs:

Were you the last person of your title to enter a particular room in England?
Were you his son?
Did you dictate letters to your spinster sister in Boston?