Botticelli, March 2012. Game 2: Z

Thread Games
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I don’t know the first two and I am not George Wallace.

Take two for starters.

I am not George Meany, Rosey Greer or G. Von Trapp.

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Well done, Johnny Q. :slight_smile:

(I’m happy that I asked if Z was human… :cool:)

IQ1: Are you a private detective who is also a great dancer?

IQ2: Did you lose a World Chess Championship match to Steinitz?

IQ3: Were you the first person to orbit the Earth?

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Well done, indeed, Johnny Q!

Just to clear up -

The answers are Zeitoun and Zeno - Enginerd was referring to Zeno’s general love of paradox, I was obliquely referring to the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise.

So, G -

IQ1: Are you a famously eccentric Canadian pianist?

IQ2: Are you a jazz musician who starred in ‘Round Midnight’?

IQ3: Are you a French opera composer?

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Unsure on the first two, but I am not Yuri Gagarin.

Take two.

I am not Glenn Gould or Dexter Gordon.

The French opera composer eludes me, but I’ll take a wild stab and say Gounod. Chances are good you’ve scored a DQ here.

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Archie Goodwin works for Nero Wolfe and dances regularly with Lily Rowan at the flamingo club.

Isidor Gunsberg played Steinitz in 1890.
He was one of the Mephisto chess automaton operators!

DQ1: Are you male?

DQ2: Are you fictional?

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I am:

  1. Male
  2. Real
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William Gladstone, British Prime Minister, drew whips in his diary on the nights when he walked the London streets, trying to “reform” prostitutes. Historians still differ as to what form those “reforms” took.
C. Boyden Gray was the first President Bush’s lawyer.
George Wallace was never recalled. I was thinking of Gray Davis, ill-starred Governor of California.

DQs:

Last name starts with “G”?
American?
Now alive?

IQs:

Were you a noteworthy alien prostitute?
Were you a mad fleet captain?
Did Sherlock Holmes have your picture hanging in his rooms?

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I am:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Lat name starts with G
  4. Not American
  5. Dead

I am not Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple breasted whore from Eroticon Six.

The others elude me. Take 2 more DQs.

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IQ1: Were you the longest-living Stoor?

IQ2: Were you a Warrior whose name is also an exclamation?

IQ3: Did you walk by (head bowed) as another character says “…stand up. Your father’s passing”?

50

IQ1: Are you a pinch-hitting hero on a bum leg?

IQ2: Have your creations defined generations of nerds?

IQ3: Are you a long-time (and still active) parliamentarian?

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Oops. :smack: …for IQ3 I meant the actor (who won an Oscar for the role), not the character.

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No, the French opera composer does not elude you - Gounod was who wrote ‘Faust’ and ‘Roméo et Juliette’, and was who I had in mind. Well done.

IQ1: Are you the Indian divinity associated with beginnings?

IQ2: Are you a member of ‘The Tragically Hip’?

IQ3: Are your mysteries named for English pubs?

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I’m not Geronimo or Gregory Peck. The first one is a mystery. Take a DQ.

No clue. Take 3

I am not Lord Ganesh. The other two slide by me. Take your two.

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  1. Kirk Gibson
  2. Gary Gygax
  3. George Clinton

DQ1: Are you European?
DQ2: Did you die after 1900?
DQ3: Are you an artist?

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I am:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Lat name starts with G
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. dead after 1900
  8. An artist
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Correct as to Eccentrica Gallumbits from The Hitchhiker’s Guide.
The second is Fleet Captain Garth of Izar from Star Trek’s “Whom Gods Destroy.”
The third is Gen. Charles “Chinese” Gordon.

DQs:

A painter?
French?

IQs:

Did your best friend have the name of his show emblazoned on his hat?
Did you have a dog named Sweetlips and a horse named Nelson?
Did you “lose control” of your horse at an opportune moment?

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I am:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Lat name starts with G
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. dead after 1900
  8. An artist
  9. Not a painter
  10. French

I’m 0 for 3. take your DQs

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Ganesh is quite right.

‘The Tragically Hip’, an iconic Canadian rock band, actually has two Gordons - Gord Downie, who is the lead singer and does the bulk of the lyric writing, and Gordon Sinclair, the bass player/backing vocalist.

Martha Grimes has a mystery series featuring Inspector Richard Jury and Melrose Plant. The titles of these books derive from rather unusual names of British pubs - The Dirty Duck, The Anodyne Necklace, The Man with a Load of Mischief…
DQ: Are you a sculptor?

DQ: Are you Parisian?

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I am:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Lat name starts with G
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. European
  7. dead after 1900
  8. An artist
  9. Not a painter
  10. French
  11. not a sculptor
  12. probably Parisian
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IQ1: Are you an academy award-winning actor who grew disgusted with your most famous role?

IQ2: Are you somebody’s giant?

IQ3: Are you the title character in a John Irving novel?