Botticelli - June 2019

Thread Games
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No, thanks, you answered correctly before I came back to the thread, fair and square.

182

Phil Coulson, Dak Prescott, Phillip Rivers

DQ: Adapted to film?
DQ: Mystery genre?

holding a DQ

183

IQs:

  1. Did you play the lawyer in Miracle on 34th Street?
  2. Is Tom Holland portraying you in the movies currently?
  3. Did you star with Steve Martin in Pennies From Heaven?
184

Three DQs. (I suppose #1 is another Baratheon…)

DQ.
Not … Peter Parker?
DQ.
P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by an American author (or authors)
  4. First appeared in print
  5. Did not first appear after 1950
  6. From a work of prose fiction
  7. First appeared in 1900 or later
  8. Last name starts with P
  9. Considered a good guy
  10. Adapted to film
  11. Not the mystery genre
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Previous IQs:

Were you Lady Jessica’s only son? - Not a Baratheon, but Paul Atreides, in Dune
Were you a top economist who declined a Federal appointment by JFK? - Paul Samuelson
Did you do metalwork on the frigate USS Constitution? - Paul Revere

Paul x3!

DQs:

Main character of the work in his first appearance?
Usually uses or carries a weapon?
Associated with NYC?

IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg to US Grant?
Did Andre Braugher play you in Homicide?
Were you Harry S Truman’s political patron?

186

#1 was John Payne.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Bernadette Peters.

2 DQs reserved.

187

Not Pemberton.
DQ.
DQ.
P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by an American author (or authors)
  4. First appeared in print
  5. Did not first appear after 1950
  6. From a work of prose fiction
  7. First appeared in 1900 or later
  8. Last name starts with P
  9. Considered a good guy
  10. Adapted to film
  11. Not the mystery genre
  12. Not the main character of the work in my first appearance
  13. Do not usually use or carry a weapon
  14. Not associated with NYC
188

DQs:

  1. From fantasy/horror/science fiction?
  2. From a single work of fiction (rather than a series)?
189

IQ1: Did Mary Shelly write *Frankenstein *while staying at your house?
IQ2: Are you a punk rocker whose real name is James Newell Osterberg Jr.?
IQ3: Are you a character from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy named after a British car?

190

I thought that was Lord Byron, who is definitely not a ‘P’…
DQ.
Not Ford Prefect.
P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by an American author (or authors)
  4. First appeared in print
  5. Did not first appear after 1950
  6. From a work of prose fiction
  7. First appeared in 1900 or later
  8. Last name starts with P
  9. Considered a good guy
  10. Adapted to film
  11. Not the mystery genre
  12. Not the main character of the work in my first appearance
  13. Do not usually use or carry a weapon
  14. Not associated with NYC
  15. Stories include elements of at least one of fantasy/horror/science fiction
  16. Not from a single work of fiction (rather than a series)
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Byron was one of the guests at John Polidori’s house, along with Mary and Pierce Shelley, when they all wrote ghost stories together.
Iggy Pop, correct.

DQ: War genre?

holding 2 DQs

192

P

  1. Fictional

  2. Male

  3. Created by an American author (or authors)

  4. First appeared in print

  5. Did not first appear after 1950

  6. From a work of prose fiction

  7. First appeared in 1900 or later

  8. Last name starts with P

  9. Considered a good guy

  10. Adapted to film

  11. Not the mystery genre

  12. Not the main character of the work in my first appearance

  13. Do not usually use or carry a weapon

  14. Not associated with NYC

  15. Stories include elements of at least one of fantasy/horror/science fiction

  16. Not from a single work of fiction (rather than a series)
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  17. Not war genre, though war (in which I do not take part) is featured in three of the books

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Answers to previous IQs:

IQ1: Were you the assistant to the man who unexpectedly made you CEO of his fictional arms and technology manufacturer? - Pepper Potts, Tony Stark’s assistant whom he promotes in Iron Man II.

IQ2: Were you the actress who played IQ1? - Gwyneth Paltrow.

IQ3: Are you an American downhill skier, whose name makes you sound like a character on Sesame Street? - Picabo (pronounced “Peek-a-boo”) Street.

DQ1: Is the war in your books the Civil War?

DQ2: Is your author male?

Reserving one DQ.

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Previous IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg to US Grant? - Yes, Gen. Pemberton
Did Andre Braugher play you in Homicide? - Det. Pembleton
Were you Harry S Truman’s political patron? - Boss Pendergast

DQs:

Science fiction character?
Has appeared in more than one film?

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P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created by an American author (or authors)
  4. First appeared in print
  5. Did not first appear after 1950
  6. From a work of prose fiction
  7. First appeared in 1900 or later
  8. Last name starts with P
  9. Considered a good guy
  10. Adapted to film
  11. Not the mystery genre
  12. Not the main character of the work in my first appearance
  13. Do not usually use or carry a weapon
  14. Not associated with NYC
  15. Stories include elements of at least one of fantasy/horror/science fiction
  16. Not from a single work of fiction (rather than a series)
  17. Not war genre, though war (in which I do not take part) is featured in three of the books
  18. The war in my books is not the Civil War
  19. My author is male
  20. Not a science fiction character
  21. I have appeared in more than one film
    And that’s 20. KO has two DQs left, and SMV has one. Please ask all remaining DQs no later than noon Eastern tomorrow (Sat 22 Jun).
196

Lovecraft and L. Frank Baum come to mind.

197

“What-you-may-call-um!” or “What-was-his-name!”
But especially “Thing-um-a-jig!”

:smiley:

198

It’s a BOOJUM!!!

199

Could be from Dr. Seuss, too…

200

DQ: Is the time period of the story current with respect to the author’s time?
DQ: First appeared in 1935 or later?