Botticelli - March 2015

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you play Professor Spats in The Night They Raided Minsky’s?
  2. Were you an English wildlife artist who became better known for his poetry?
  3. Are you the eponymous heroine of a novel by Richard Doddridge Blackmore?
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Lana Del Ray

holding a DQ

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IQ1: Are you a feline humanoid who was aged 12 years because of a defective suspension capsule?
IQ2: Are you a cartoon Texan voiced by Brittany Murphy?
IQ3: Are you a one-eyed mutant voiced by Katey Sagal?

424

Previous IQs:

Did you run a “grocery” when it meant something different than it does now? - Abraham Lincoln briefly ran a small tavern in addition to serving as postmaster.
Did an actress have to really bulk up to play you since 1998? - Sally Field, to play Mary Todd Lincoln in Spielberg’s movie Lincoln.
Did you look quite a bit like Leonardo DiCaprio as a young man? - Robert Todd Lincoln: http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/images/people/lincoln/lincoln_rob_21.jpg

DQs:

First appeared since 1950?
American?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a sf editor who gave his name to a publishing house?
Did your brother Thomas serve with you but later become an alcoholic?
Did you run simultaneously for two Federal offices in 1988, as permitted by state law?

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with L
  4. Did not originate in film or television
  5. Not American
  6. First appeared before 1950
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Not Lloyd Bridges or Louis L’Amour
Take a DQ for #3

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Not Bert Lahr

Take DQs for 2 and 3

428

Not Leela or Luanne Platter

Take a DQ for #1

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Not Lloyd Bentsen (ran for VP and US Senator from Texas)

Take DQs for 1 and 2

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Wow, I didn’t think anybody’d get the Bert Lahr one. Full marks.
#2 was bird artist and limerick writer Edward Lear.
#3 was Lorna Doone, for whom the cookie was named.
DQs:

  1. European in origin?
  2. From literature?
431

IQs:

  1. Were you the editor of The Quibbler?
  2. Are you Pozzo’s slave (more or less)?
  3. Are you a crime-solving antiques dealer?
432

Correct.
Correct>
Lefty.
DQ reserved.

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with L
  4. Did not originate in film or television
  5. Not American
  6. First appeared before 1950
  7. European
  8. First appeared in a work of literature
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Not Lucky or Lovejoy

Take a DQ for #1

435

Correct on the two. #1 was Xenophilus Lovegood, from the Harry Potter books.

DQ: First appeared before 1900?

436

IQs:

  1. Are you Mrs. Rolf Scamander?
  2. Are you one of #1’s sons?
  3. Are you the second of #1’s sons?
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Lion-o from the Thundercats

DQ: From the UK?
DQ: Crime/mystery genre?

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with L
  4. Did not originate in film or television
  5. Not American
  6. First appeared before 1950
  7. European
  8. First appeared in a work of literature
  9. Not in the crime/mystery genre
  10. First appeared after 1900
  11. Hmmmm… this is a huge hint: not from a country presently in the UK, but WAS a citizen of the UK at the time my original story took place
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*Note to other players: that would most probably be Ireland. *

Reasking:

IQs:

  1. Are you Mrs. Rolf Scamander?
  2. Are you one of #1’s sons?
  3. Are you the second of #1’s sons?
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IQ1: In Black Adder, did you kill Queen Elizabeth I and her court and take her place?
IQ2: Were you the first to find the Wardrobe entrance to Narnia in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
IQ3: Are you a pirate quartermaster who named your parrot after your captain?