Botticelli - June 2019

Thread Games
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Correct.
Correct.
Erwin Rommel.
DQ: Real?
IQ1: Were you a British field marshal commonly called “Bobs”?
IQ2: Did John Polidori write about you?
IQ3: Were you the deputy sheriff of Conniption?

222

Wow, quick round - good work, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did you command the Protector? - Capt. Peter Quincy Taggart in Galaxy Quest
Did Anthony Hopkins once play you? - John Quincy Adams in Amistad
Are you perhaps the most famous fictional Cayman Islander? - Yes, Quarrel, in Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die and Doctor No

On to R, then…

IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of the Bastards?
Was your brother named Stannis?
Was yours, too?

223

Take 3 DQs.

#2. I am not Robert Baratheon.
Take 2 DQs.

224

DQ:

  1. Fictional
225

IQ1: Are you QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers?
IQ2: Are you QB for the Seattle Seahawks?
IQ3: Are you QB for the Green Bay Packers?

226

Take 3 DQs.

227

Good heavens, “Q” didn’t last long, did it? The answers to my other two IQs were the literary critic Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who compiled the massive Oxford Book of English Verse, and the writer, actor, and gay icon Quentin Crisp.

“R”, huh? Okay,

IQ1: Were you one of two historically attested female pirates, who, by odd coincidence, both belonged to the same ship?

IQ2: Were you the captain of that ship, and one inspiration for the character of Captain Jack Sparrow?

IQ3: Are you the narrator and protagonist of Trainspotting?

228

Previous IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of the Bastards? - Ramsay Bolton, in Game of Thrones
Was your brother named Stannis? - Yes, Robert Baratheon, ditto
Was yours, too? - Renly Baratheon

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with R?

IQs:

Do you have an airplane, a police car and an SUV on display together in your museum?
Are you that person’s wife?
Are you that person’s best-known child?

229

Who else would be called “Bobs” but a man named “Roberts”? :smiley:

Field Marshal Lord Roberts.
Lord Ruthven, the vampyre.
Rick O’Shay.
DQs:
2) Male?
3) Originally appeared in prose fiction?
4) Created by an American (or by Americans)?

230
  1. I am not Mary Read.
  2. I am not Keith Richards (???)
    Take 1 or 2 DQs.
231

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Only name starts with R
  4. Originally appeared in prose fiction
  5. Not by an American author

SCA take another DQ. EH already asked about gender.

232

Take 3 DQs.

233

Ben Rothlesberger, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers

DQ: Human?
DQ: Adapted to film?
DQ: From children’s lit?

234

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Only name starts with R
  4. Originally appeared in prose fiction
  5. Not by an American author
  6. Nonhuman
  7. Adapted to film
  8. From children’s lit
235

Previous IQs:

Do you have an airplane, a police car and an SUV on display together in your museum? - Ronald Reagan: https://fthmb.tqn.com/g4Wi6qcae5E8KgkBTPfUaEyvKks=/960x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/ronald-reagan-air-force-one-with-motorcade-522678754-5a5c2874980207003706bf37.jpg
Are you that person’s wife? - Nancy Reagan
Are you that person’s best-known child? - Ron Jr.

DQs:

First appeared in the English language?
An Earth animal?
First appeared since 1950?

IQs:

Are you the only child of a fictional kangaroo?
Did you write the sentence, “‘Shut up,’ he explained”?
Did you play a bad guy from the first episode of Alias?

236

Yes – he seems to have snuck a post in while I was typing mine.

  1. First appeared in 1950 or later?

IQ1: Were you a 1920s canine movie star, or one of the several who were named after said movie star?
IQ2: Did you hang out with a mole?

237

And now he’s done it again… :frowning:

DQ reserved.

238

IQ3: Are you Lester Dent under a commonly used pseudonym?

239

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Only name starts with R
  4. Originally appeared in prose fiction
  5. Not by an American author
  6. Nonhuman
  7. Adapted to film
  8. From children’s lit
  9. First appeared in English
  10. Earth animal
  11. First appeared before 1950
240
  1. I am not Roo.
  2. I am not Ring Lardner.
    Take a DQ.