Botticelli, March 2014

Thread Games
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IQ1: Were you a member of Police Squad?
IQ2: Did your order at the drive-in restaurant cause your car to tip over when it arrived?
IQ3: Were you Rachel’s boyfriend on “Glee”?

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IQs:

Was Richard Lugar indirectly responsible for you losing your job?
Did Monty Python mock you for your insincerity and monstrous ego?
Was a solitary man delighted to learn of your existence?

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1: Pass
2: I am not Flash Gordon
3: I am not Enrico Fermi

1: Pass
2: I am not Fred Flintstone
3: I am not Finn

1: pass
2: Pass
3: I am not Man Friday

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Correct on Fred Flintstone and Finn. The Police Squad member was Frank Drebin, played by Leslie Nielsen.

DQ: Real?

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Prof. Pepperwinkle View Post

#1 was Ferdinand, from the eponymous story by Munro Leaf.

DQ: Male?

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IQs:

  1. Are you you?
  2. Did you write The Idiot?
  3. Was a famous painting by you featuing lovers and a swing parodied in the movie Frozen?
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Previous IQs:

Was Richard Lugar indirectly responsible for you losing your job? - Ferdinand Marcos. Lugar, chair of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, helped persuade the Reagan Administration to do nothing to prop up Marcos when a popular revolt began in the Philippines.
Did Monty Python mock you for your insincerity and monstrous ego? - David Frost, for whom several of the Python cast had worked, in this thinly-veiled portrayal: Monty Python Flying Circus (sub ita) - Timmy Williams Coffee Time - YouTube
Was a solitary man delighted to learn of your existence? - Yes, Robinson Crusoe’s pal Friday.

DQs:

American?
Last name start with F?

IQs:

Did you famously say, “Good morning, daughter of the Devil!”
Were you a jazz clarinetist and Sovietologist who became a college president?
Did you star in Sky Hei$t?

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IQ1: Are you a pro football quarterback who also co-hosted a reality TV show in the 1980s?
IQ2: Did you popularize the catchphrase, “Ayyy”?
IQ3: Did you go a-courtin’ and you did ride, with a sword and pistol by your side, uh-huh?

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DQ 1: I am real
DQ 2: I am male
DQ 3: I am American
DQ 4: My last name begins with F.

I am not fanganga
I am not Franz Kafka
pass

Pass on all 3

Pass
I am not Arthur Fonzarelli
I am not Froggy

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Correct on #1. #2 was Feodor Dostoevski, not Kafka. #3 was Jean-HonoreFragonard.

DQs:

  1. Known for the Arts?
  2. Living?
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IQs:

  1. Were you a fantastic creation of Roald Dahl?
  2. Did you write The Star-Spangled Banner?
  3. Are you the subject of an “opera” written by Randy Newman, which originally featured James Taylor as God?
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Previous IQs:

Did you famously say, “Good morning, daughter of the Devil!” - Charles Grandison Finney, a Bible-thumping president of Oberlin College, who did not approve of women being educated there and greeted one of them with that phrase. The story goes that she demurely replied, “Good morning, father.”
Were you a jazz clarinetist and Sovietologist who became a college president? - S. Frederick Starr, a later president of Oberlin College and now head of the Aspen Institute.
Did you star in Sky Hei$t? - Frank Gorshin.

DQs:

Born since 1900?
Born east of the Miss. River?
Born north of the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

Did Joe Pendleton assume your identity?
Are you, more than any other individual, credited with inventing TV?
Did you establish a big Boston business?

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Correct on Fonzie and Froggy. The quarterback/TV host was Fran Tarkenton, who was one of the hosts of “That’s Incredible.”

Two DQs reserved for now.

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I am not Mr. Fox
I am not Francis Scott Key
pass

pass
While nationalistic pride makes me inclined to support Baird’s claim, I am not Philo Farnsworth.
Pass
DQ 1: I am real
DQ 2: I am male
DQ 3: I am American
DQ 4: My last name begins with F.
DQ 5: I am currently alive
DQ 6: I am not known for the arts
DQ 7: I was born since 1900
DQ 8: I was born WEST of the Mississipi
DQ 9: I was born NORTH of the Mason-Dixon line

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#3 is Faust.

DQ: Known for your work in science?

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IQs:

  1. Are you Thor’s earthly girlfriend?
  2. Did you play Crazy Guggenheim on the Jackie Gleason Show?
  3. Did you play Klinger on MAS*H?
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(Where’d SCAdian go?)

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Dunno - good question.

Previous IQs:

Did Joe Pendleton assume your identity? - Leo Farnsworth, in the 1978 romantic comedy Heaven Can Wait.
Are you, more than any other individual, credited with inventing TV? - Yes, Philo Farnsworth.
Did you establish a big Boston business? - Mr. Filene.

DQs:

Born since 1980?
Political/military?

IQs:

Were you hit in the face by a bird while riding a rollercoaster?
Were you noted for your paintings of burly swordsmen and busty women?
Was your catchphrase “Wacka wacka”?

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Pass
I am not … Franzetta?
I am not Fozzie Bear

I am not Jane Foster
pass
pass

DQ 1: I am real
DQ 2: I am male
DQ 3: I am American
DQ 4: My last name begins with F.
DQ 5: I am currently alive
DQ 6: I am not known for the arts
DQ 7: I was born since 1900
DQ 8: I was born WEST of the Mississipi
DQ 9: I was born NORTH of the Mason-Dixon line
DQ10: I am NOT known for science
DQ11: I am NOT known for political or military endeavours
DQ12: I was born BEFORE 1980.

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[QUOTE]

IQs:

  1. Are you Thor’s earthly girlfriend?
  2. Did you play Crazy Guggenheim on the Jackie Gleason Show?
  3. Did you play Klinger on MAS*H?

I am not Jane Foster
pass
pass

Correct on #1. #2 was Frank Fontaine. #3 was Jamie Farr.

DQ: Known for business?

1 DQ reserved.