Botticelli March 2016

Thread Games
501

I am O:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with O
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 1900
  8. European
  9. Known for politics/military
  10. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  11. Died after 1700
502

Correct, Correct, and Omega.

DQ: Died after 1800?

503

I am O:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with O
  4. Not American
  5. Dead
  6. Not known for the Arts
  7. Died before 1900
  8. European
  9. Known for politics/military
  10. Native speaker of a Germanic Language
  11. Died after 1700
  12. Died after 1800
504

IQ: Were you THE German go-to guy for politics and military affairs of the last half of the 19th Century?

505

Yep, I’m Otto von Bismarck. Congrats Prof!

506

All right, Prof. P.! Congrats yet again.

Previous IQs:

Was perhaps your only redeeming characteristic your opposition to racial segregation? - Lee Harvey Oswald. While living in New Orleans, he made it a point to sit in the “colored section” of the bus.
Were you one of Drew Carey’s two best male pals? - Oswald.
Did you unwittingly have sex with a woman suffering from leprosy? - “Uncle Oswald” from the Roald Dahl stories.

Oswald x3!

507

Obviously, I am P!

508

IQ1: Is your sister the Duchess of Cambridge?
IQ2: Wer you a silk-winder written about by Robert Browning?
IQ3: Did Joy Adamson write two books about you?

509
  1. I am not Pippa Middleton.
  2. I am not Pippa Passes. (?)
    Take a DQ for #3.
510

Correct.
Yes, Pippa from “Pippa Passes.”
Pippa the cheetah (The Spotted Sphinx and Pippa’s Challenge).

Pippas - is one enough? Are three too many?
DQ: Real?

511

DQs:

  1. Fictional
512

IQ1: Are you a purple-skinned foe of Superman who can leech his powers by touching?
IQ2: Were you the police chief of Smallville while Clark Kent lived there?
IQ3: Are you a Golden Age Batman foe whose criminal activity focused on a certain US coin?

513

IQ1: Are you a small dragonlike animal who appears in several SF novels?
IQ2: Are you Philip Pirrip?
IQ3: Are you a boy in an animated film based on a Ray Bradbury story?

514

IQ1: Was your homeworld very hot, and your power related to that?
IQ2: Are you Magnetic Kid?
IQ3: Are you the Kwisatz Haderach?

515

#1. I am not the Parasite. Take 2 DQs for the others.

516
  1. I am not Alan Dean Foster’s Pip.
  2. I am not Charles Dickens’s Pip.
    Take a DQ for this Pip.
517

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not Pol Krinn.
I am not Paul Atreides.

518

1 was Polar Boy, whose people used cold-generating powers to survive the heat. Correct on the other two.

DQ: Male?

IQ1: Did you flee into the future to avoid a foe, only to conflict with a much younger version of him who had time-traveled from an earlier point?
IQ2: Are you an immortal who played in the fog?
IQ3: Were you a child who befriended IQ2?

519

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
520

Take a DQ for #1.
#2. I am not the Phantom Stranger (often seen surrounded by fog).
#3. I am not the Yellow Peri.