Botticelli March 2016

Thread Games
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I’m neither Nick Fury, Franz Ferdinand, nor Der Fliedermaus.

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IQ1: Did you invent a steamboat propelled by oars?
IQ2: Did you design a submarine called the Nautilus?
IQ3: Did your company build the Dr.I and the D.VII, amongst other things?

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Yes, I designed the Nautilus, I’m Robert Fulton. Congrats, SCAdian!

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Good job, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Did Murphy Brown stay at a place named after you? - Betty Ford
Did you give a speech in front of a giant poster of yourself? - Yes, Charles Foster Kane
Did Churchill mock your name? - Churchill once mocked Ike’s SECSTATE, John Foster Dulles, saying “Dull, duller, Dulles.”

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The combination of DQs 8 and 13 made me think he might actually be the right answer.

I am G.

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Fulton also designed a surface warship: United States floating battery Demologos - Wikipedia

On to G…

IQs:

Did Peter Sellers play you, an unlikely presidential candidate?
Did Matthew Broderick play you, a young abolitionist hero?
Did you write the Perry Mason stories?

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I think he’s most famous for a non-military ship - the Clermont.

DQ.
DQ.
Not Erle Stanley Garner.

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Of course. The Demologos is interesting too, though, I thought.

Previous IQs:

Did Peter Sellers play you, an unlikely presidential candidate? - Chauncey Gardiner in Being There.
Did Matthew Broderick play you, a young abolitionist hero? - Robert Gould Shaw (always used his middle name) in Glory.
Did you write the Perry Mason stories? - It’s “Gardner,” but yes.

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Were you Lancelot’s bastard son in some Arthurian legends?
Was your creator never quite sure if you’d been reincarnated?
Did some call you Tharkun?

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DQ.
DQ.
Not Gandalf.

Missed the misspelling of Gardner when I was proofreading. This damn’ keyboard isn’t real good at paying attention - I’m constantly having to go back and insert missing letters. It’s especially bad at double letters - I type two, I hear the keyboard click twice, and then I look at the screen and there’s only one letter there. :mad:
G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
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Previous IQs:

Were you Lancelot’s bastard son in some Arthurian legends? - Sir Galahad.
Was your creator never quite sure if you’d been reincarnated? - The Elf-lord Glorfindel, in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Did some call you Tharkun? - Yes, Gandalf AKA Mithrandir AKA Olorin.

DQs:

Last name start with G?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Are you a notable autistic American woman and author?
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”?
Did you and your wife kill all your children before both committing suicide?

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IQ1: Are you a painter recognized as the “Mother of American modernism”?
IQ2: In Boston, is November 16 a day named after you, as the last person to be hanged for witchcraft there?
IQ3: Did you find a big awful nude painting in the garbage, claim you did it in art class, and convince your friend George Kind to hang it on his wall for two years?

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DQ.
DQ. (I’ll practice kicking myself whilst waiting for your return.)
Not Joseph Goebbels.

Not … Georgia O’Keeffe?
Only person I can think of is Giles Corey, who was pressed, not hanged, so DQ.
DQ.
G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
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correct, Goodwife Ann “Goody” Glover, George Clooney

DQ: From literature?

1 DQ in reserve

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G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
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Previous IQs:

Are you a notable autistic American woman and author? - Temple Grandin
Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, one of my Civil War heroes, of course: George Henry Thomas - Wikipedia
Did you and your wife kill all your children before both committing suicide? - Yes, Joseph Goebbels.

DQs:

American?
Best known for movie(s)?

IQs:

Should you really watch out for that tree?
Did your wife call you “Old Man” before 1960?
Did your brother have an all-time unique royal title?

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Not George of the Jungle.
DQ.
Not George VI.
G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
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IQ1: Was your 1988 presidential run disrupted by your affair with Donna Rice?
IQ2: Did you portray Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump?
IQ3: In Taco’s version of Puttin’ On the Ritz, is the singer dressed up like a million-dollar trooper, tryin’ hard to look like you?

DQ: From advertising?

DQ reserve empty

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Previous IQs:

Should you really watch out for that tree? - Yes, George of the Jungle.
Did your wife call you “Old Man” before 1960? - George Washington.
Did your brother have an all-time unique royal title? - Yes, King George VI, brother of the Duke of Windsor.

DQ:

Best known from TV?

IQs:

Are you SpongeBob’s pet?
Did Donald Trump famously fire you?
Were you accidentally injected on live TV with a needle that someone else had already used?

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Not Gary Hart.
Not Gary Sinise (who came down for a tour of the boat while we were deployed in '03).
DQ for this probable Gary. :smiley:

Not Gary the snail.
DQ.
DQ.

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with G
  4. Would not be alive today if real
  5. Not from literature
  6. Not American
  7. Not best known for movie(s)
  8. Not from advertising
  9. Best known from TV
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Anybody know where the Prof’s been hiding all week?