Botticelli -- June 2020

Thread Games
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Not Cecil.
Not … Clytemnestra?
Not the amazing Colin Mochrie.

Three DQs.

ETA: Previous game – https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=895601

2

Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Are you aka Selina Kyle?
  2. Are you a superhero that appeared on Fairly Oddparents who was voiced by Jay Leno?
  3. Did you write the Father Brown mysteries?
3

IQs:

  1. Are you an artist noted for your mobiles?
  2. Are your whereabouts the subject of educational computer games, a kids’ game show, and two animated series?
  3. Were you nicknamed the “Georgia Peach”?
4

IQs:

Did you dictate “letters” to your sister back in Boston?
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals?
Did Sam Neill play you in Restoration?

5

Not Catwoman.
DQ (though I should know this).
Not Chesterton.

DQ.
Not Carmen Sandiego.
DQ.

Not Charles Emerson Winchester.
DQ.
DQ.

6

Correct, The Crimson Chin, correct.

DQ: Real?

7

IQs:

  1. Were you a major Bulgarian artist who died this week?
  2. Are you a grandmother who is the title character of a Pixar film?
  3. Did you encounter Jesus on the Road to Emmaus?
8

1 (mobiles artist) was Alexander Calder; 3 (nicknamed the “Georgia Peach”) was baseball player Ty Cobb.

DQs:

  1. male?
  2. last name start with C?
    IQs:
  3. Do you wait dreaming in R’lyeh?
  4. Did you have a chain of electronics stores where the prices were insane?
  5. Do you share your stage name with a suburb in Maryland?
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Previous IQs:

Did you dictate “letters” to your sister back in Boston? - Yes, Dr. Charles Emerson Winchester on MASH*
Were you a Tory grandee in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour
Did Sam Neill play you in Restoration? - King Charles II

Charles x3!

DQs:

American?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you play Galadriel?
Were you purposefully made less attractive for your role in Being John Malcovich?
Are you Harrison Ford’s wife?

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  1. Tad Cooper in Galavant
  2. Benjamin Capps
  3. Connie Stevens

DQs:

  1. First name starts with C?
  2. Best known from politics?
  3. Born after 1900?
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C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with C
  4. American
  5. First name does not start with C
  6. Not best known from politics
  7. Not born after 1900
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DQ.
DQ.
Obviously not Saul of Tarsus, and I doubt Jesus met himself :D, so DQ.

Not Cthulhu.
DQ.
DQ.

Three DQs.
Well, this is obviously going to be a short game…

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2 (had a chain of electronics stores where the prices were insane) was Crazy Eddie; 3 (shares a stage name with a Maryland suburb) was Chevy Chase.

DQs:

  1. from prose?
  2. main character?
14

#1 was Christo.
#2 is Coco.
#3 was Cleopas.

DQs:

  1. Originally from a work of prose fiction?
  2. Protagonist?

1 DQ reserved.

15

dupe

16

Computer troubles. Please excuse the duplication, and drop the DQs since DLR just asked 'em.

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Previous IQs:

Did you play Galadriel? - Cate Blanchett, in the LOTR and Hobbit movies
Were you purposefully made less attractive for your role in Being John Malcovich? - Cameron Diaz
Are you Harrison Ford’s wife? - Calista Flockhart (formerly of Ally McBeal)

DQs:

Has appeared in movie(s)?

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top?
Did a political foe say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe”?
Did Meryl Streep play you in a movie which Seinfeld later spoofed?

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Not Chamberlain.
DQ.
DQ.
C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with C
  4. American
  5. First name does not start with C
  6. Not best known from politics
  7. Not born after 1900
  8. Has appeared in a movie
    They haven’t fixed the 502/504 problems yet, I see…
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Oops…

C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with C
  4. American
  5. First name does not start with C
  6. Not best known from politics
  7. Not born after 1900
  8. Not from prose
  9. Not originally the main character
  10. Has appeared in a movie
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Previous IQs:

Were you a hero of Little Round Top? - Yes, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, at Gettysburg
Did a political foe say that you “looked at foreign policy through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe”? - Churchill said this of Neville Chamberlain, who was a former mayor
Did Meryl Streep play you in a movie which Seinfeld later spoofed? - Lindy Chamberlain: In Australia, do dingoes really eat babies? - The Straight Dope

Chamberlain x3!

DQs:

Created by American(s)?
First appeared in a movie?
Born after 1800?
Antagonist of any kind?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar?
Were you a longtime CBS TV newsman of the same last name?
Were you the hapless PM whom FU brought down?