IQ1: Did you survive the torpedoing of the USS Indianapolis, and 30 years later make your living as a shark hunter for hire? Quint from Jaws (1974)
IQ2: Did YOUR BUDDY ever offer your girlfriend’s father chocolate-covered pretzels with an unwashed hand? T.S. Quint from Mallrats (1995)
IQ3: Are you (most likely) Starling City’s wealthiest vigilante? Oliver Queen, the alter-ego of the Green Arrow
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If I’m following this correctly, from posts #551 and #554 above, I have three DQs. I will withhold them until the number of DQs I have is confirmed.
Yep, that’s a total of 3 DQ for you. Green Arrow I thought was Star City, but I guess they changed that over the years. The ‘most likely’ part is just in case Batman comes to town.
Nah, that sort of thing is totally fine, the Arrow TV series is probably more valid pop culture than the comics these days, I’m just making lame excuses.
Though it hasn’t come to that lately, the questioners as a whole get only 20 DQs in total before we go to a sort of phase 2, where you can’t ask any more IQs and the only allowed DQs are in the form of #6 above.
At this stage, questions like that should probably be asked as IQs, as they’re sort of free that way and don’t count toward the group’s total of 20. So, that’s a longwinded way of saying that I’m going to count #6 above as an IQ.
I’m not Jonny Quest.
I’m going to answer the other two as DQs below, you still have one DQ remaining to you bordelond, and may also ask up to another 3 IQs. (If it’s unclear, each player may have up to 3 IQs outstanding; once an IQ has been responded to one way or the other you may ask new ones again to the 3 limit.)
Thanks, Tim. I went with the Jonny Quest DQ as an attempt at “solving the puzzle” (to borrow Wheel of Fortune parlance).
So … when someone feels they know the answer … do they use a “banked” DQ to solve, or do they just blurt out the “solving question”, whether or not they’ve got a DQ to use?
I had sussed out most of the ground rules by reading through the thread … but I didn’t know about the “20 DQ” limit. Thanks for tipping me off.
If you suspect you know who the mystery person is, bordelond, best to phrase it as an IQ until 20 DQs have been asked and answered. If you are correct, the GM must say so.
Previous IQs:
Did Andrew Jackson think you and Henry Clay ripped him off? - Yes, John Quincy Adams.
Did you help James Bond on Jamaica? - Q wasn’t in Dr. No; that was Maj. Boothroyd, the armourer. I was thinking of Quarrel.
Were you one of “the rude mechanicals”? - Peter Quince, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
DQs:
First appeared in or before 1964?
First name start with Q?
IQs:
Were you the Shatneresque captain of the starship Protector?
Did you twice dress as a post-WWIII judge?
Were you a mystery writer’s pen name?
Yes, technically “are you X” is a valid DQ, just not a wise one at this stage.
Basically, if you ask a question for which the target is a valid response, and I don’t know another valid response to give, I have to admit I’m that target and give you the win. You can infer that every time I award a DQ the target doesn’t match the question.
Oh, and during the game I’m allowed to read up specifically about my chosen target for purposes of being sure that I follow the rules and answer correctly; I’m not to research more generally for IQs nor are you all, otherwise this would just be a google search game.
