Botticelli - March 2017

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you die in a helicopter crash, although you were first famous many years earlier? - Yes, Francis Gary Powers, former U-2 pilot (and Botticelli subject)
Did you costar in Hart to Hart? - Stephanie Powers
Did you play cello at the White House for JFK? - Yes, Pablo Casals: https://www.jfklibrary.org/~/media/assets/Foundation/White%20House%20Entertaining/ST-M3-2-61%20original.jpg

DQ:

Main character of the work of fiction in which you first appeared?

IQs:

Did Jack Bauer try to prevent your assassination?
Were you the doomed homecoming queen of Twin Peaks, Wash.?
Did Ike once unexpectedly drop by for a weekend with you?

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Three DQs.

P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with P
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Usually considered a “good guy”
  7. From Literature
  8. Has appeared in a movie
  9. Did not first appear in or after 1975
  10. Not crime/mystery genre
  11. First appeared after 1899
  12. Did not first appear after 1950
  13. From mainstream fiction (not science fiction, fantasy, mystery, western, etc.)
  14. Not the main character of the work of fiction in which I first appeared
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DQ: Are you an antagonist?

184

{uh-oh. Somebody needs to ask if this is Prose literature, rather than poetry or a play.}

IQs:

  1. Did Astrid Lindgren write about you?
  2. Were your first written words “Didja think I was a cowboy?”
  3. Are you the title character of a poem by William Langland?
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Not Pippi Longstocking.
DQ.
Not … Piers Ploughman?

P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with P
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Usually considered a “good guy”
  7. From Literature
  8. Has appeared in a movie
  9. Did not first appear in or after 1975
  10. Not crime/mystery genre
  11. First appeared after 1899
  12. Did not first appear after 1950
  13. From mainstream fiction (not science fiction, fantasy, mystery, western, etc.)
  14. Not the main character of the work of fiction in which I first appeared
  15. Not an antagonist
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Correct, Popeye the Sailor Man, Correct.

(In the Thimble Theatre comic strip, Castor Oyl was the main character. He went on a treasure hunt, needed a boat and a crew. He saw one dismal figure on the dock and asked “Pardon me, are you a sailor?” and Popeye soon overtook the strip.)

DQ: From a work of prose fiction?

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IQs:

  1. Did you star in the 1940 version of The Mark of Zorro?
  2. Did you star with Robert Wagner in Hart to Hart?
  3. Were you Underdog’s girlfriend?
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DQ.
Still not Stephanie Powers.
Not Sweet Polly Purebred.

P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with P
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Usually considered a “good guy”
  7. From Literature
  8. Has appeared in a movie
  9. Did not first appear in or after 1975
  10. Not crime/mystery genre
  11. First appeared after 1899
  12. Did not first appear after 1950
  13. From mainstream fiction (not science fiction, fantasy, mystery, western, etc.)
  14. Not the main character of the work of fiction in which I first appeared
  15. Not an antagonist
  16. From a work of prose fiction
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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Golden Compass?
  2. Did you star in an all-black Broadway production of Hello, Dolly?
  3. Were you nominated for an Oscar for your performance in Being There?
190

Not Philip Pullman.
DQ.
DQ.

191

DQ: Considered to be middle aged?

2 DQs left

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Previous IQs:

Did Jack Bauer try to prevent your assassination? - David Palmer, on 24
Were you the doomed homecoming queen of Twin Peaks, Wash.? - Laura Palmer
Did Ike once unexpectedly drop by for a weekend with you? - Arnold Palmer

Palmer x3!

DQs:

Sidekick to the protagonist?
Associated with NYC?
Signature role for any actor who played him?

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P

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with P
  4. American
  5. Could be alive today, if real
  6. Usually considered a “good guy”
  7. From Literature
  8. Has appeared in a movie
  9. Did not first appear in or after 1975
  10. Not crime/mystery genre
  11. First appeared after 1899
  12. Did not first appear after 1950
  13. From mainstream fiction (not science fiction, fantasy, mystery, western, etc.)
  14. Not the main character of the work of fiction in which I first appeared
  15. Not an antagonist
  16. From a work of prose fiction
  17. Not considered to be middle aged
  18. Supporting character in the book and first movie, but not really a sidekick to the protagonist
  19. Not associated with NYC
  20. Not a signature role for any actor who played him
    Wow - twenty already? I’ll give you (EH, KO, and Prof P) until … tomorrow evening should be enough … to ask your “Are you FirstName LastName” final DQs: 6:30 Eastern, Tuesday.
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DQ: Are you Joel Pepper from The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and later books in the series?

195

My best guess is Alex Portnoy, but he doesn’t fulfill all the DQ criteria. Whoever wants my guess can have it.

196

Re DQ8: Probably much better known from film than from the book(s).

I had meant to post this last night, Prof, so if you want to reword your DQ before I answer it…

197

Yes, please. I’ll think on it some more.

198

Can’t think of any character who fits all these clues. Hmm. Think think think…

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DQ: Are you Ensign Pulver from Mister Roberts?

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Well, I almost got away with it. :smiley: Yes, I am Ens. Frank Thurlowe Pulver, USN, supporting character in book, film, and television***** versions of Mister Roberts, and star****** of my own movie, Ensign Pulver.

  • Played by Jack Lemmon in 1955, by Kevin Bacon in 1984, and by Steve Harmon on TV
    ** Played by Robert Walker Jr.