Botticelli - March 2018

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did Marni Nixon sing for you in your best known movie musical?
2. Did you write the hymn Come, ye thankful people, come and edit and annotate the Greek New Testament?
3. In David Gerrold’s novel The Flying Sorcerers, is the character named Purple a thinly disguised version of you?

Not Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, dunno, and dunno.

@AlonzoSWhitebeard

IQs:

1. Are you a musketeer?
2. Are you a murine ballerina? Okay, a fictional murine ballerina. Though if you can find a real one, I won’t quibble.
3. Did you turn a voyeur into a deer?

Not Aramis, Ariel or Aphrodite.

@Knowed_Out

IQ1: Did Robin Williams play you as a Vietnam War radio DJ?
IQ2: Did you defeat the vikings at the Battle of Edington?
IQ3: Did you play Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation?

Not Adrian Kronauer (sp?), Aethelred or… dunno.

A.

1. fictional
2. human
3. created by American(s)
4. created after 1900
5. appears in more than one written work of fiction

[AlonzoSWhitebeard]

Ariel isn’t murine, she’s syrenian. Angelina Ballerina was the mouse in question. She’s featured on TV as well as books - even in the LOTFAHOTB - so she should be fair game. And it was Artemis rather than Aphrodite who was caught out having a bath.

Hence two DQs:

1. Have you been represented in a filmed work of entertainment?
2. Were you created after 1970?

[Dead_Cat]

IQ: Did you have a hit with Sk8er Boi?
IQ: Are you a TV news reporter who has four unusually-gened friends?
IQ: Are you an actor whose most famous character famously had specific tastes in wine?

[Knowed_Out]

IQ1: Did Robin Williams play you as a Vietnam War radio DJ?
IQ2: Did you defeat the vikings at the Battle of Edington?
IQ3: Did you play Tom Haverford in Parks and Recreation?

Not Adrian Kronauer (sp?), Aethelred or… dunno.

correct, Alfred the Great (son of Aethelred) and Aziz Ansari.

holding 2 DQs

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Dead_Cat

IQ: Did you have a hit with Sk8er Boi?
IQ: Are you a TV news reporter who has four unusually-gened friends?
IQ: Are you an actor whose most famous character famously had specific tastes in wine?

Dunno x3.

A.

1. fictional
2. human
3. created by American(s)
4. created after 1900
5. appears in more than one written work of fiction
6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment
7. created after 1970

[AlonzoSWhitebeard]

DQs

1. Does your authority derive from a moistened bint?
2. Are you the Kingkiller’s nemesis?
3. Are you a French mediaeval philosopher manipulated in puppet form by John Cusack, before he discovers the portal into Malkovich?

[AlonzoSWhitebeard]

It’s bedtime over here, so if you pass on any of those, here’s an IQ: is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written).

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did Marni Nixon sing for you in your best known movie musical?
2. Did you write the hymn Come, ye thankful people, come and edit and annotate the Greek New Testament?
3. In David Gerrold’s novel The Flying Sorcerers, is the character named Purple a thinly disguised version of you?
   Not Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, dunno, and dunno.

Correct. #2 was Henry Alford. #3 was Isaac Asimov.

DQs:

1. Last name starts with A?
2. Protagonist?

[Dead_Cat]

@Dead_Cat

IQ: Did you have a hit with Sk8er Boi?
IQ: Are you a TV news reporter who has four unusually-gened friends?
IQ: Are you an actor whose most famous character famously had specific tastes in wine?

Avril Lavigne, April from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Anthony Hopkins (“A nice Chianti”).

DQ: Are you a main character in a Hollywood feature film (or films)?
DQ: Would you be alive if real?
DQ: Male?

IQ: Are you a large, blonde comedienne who has starred in several Hollywood films?
IQ: Was a New York sports arena named after you?
IQ: Are you the author of a well-known book on quitting?

[AlonzoSWhitebeard]

What, if any, is the convention here on surnames and forenames? Avril Lavigne would be an L in almost all civilised games of this type.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@AlonzoSWhitebeard

DQs

1. Does your authority derive from a moistened bint?
2. Are you the Kingkiller’s nemesis?
3. Are you a French mediaeval philosopher manipulated in puppet form by John Cusack, before he discovers the portal into Malkovich?

Those are IQs (indirect questions, asked in order to win a DQ or direct question), not DQs. But I am not Arthur, King of the Britons; dunno, and not… Abelard?

@AlonzoSWhitebeard

It’s bedtime over here, so if you pass on any of those, here’s an IQ: is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written).

Now I’m confused. This looks like a DQ, and I don’t think you have any earned ones that you haven’t already asked.

@Dead_Cat

…

IQ: Are you a large, blonde comedienne who has starred in several Hollywood films?
IQ: Was a New York sports arena named after you?
IQ: Are you the author of a well-known book on quitting?

Dunno x3.

@AlonzoSWhitebeard

What, if any, is the convention here on surnames and forenames? Avril Lavigne would be an L in almost all civilised games of this type.

She could be either an “A” or an “L” in this game. You’d have to use a DQ (as Prof. P. just did in this round) to find out if her first or last name began with the letter in question.

A.

1. fictional
2. human
3. created by American(s)
4. created after 1900
5. appears in more than one written work of fiction
6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment
7. created after 1970
8. first name starts with A
9. not really the protagonist

[AlonzoSWhitebeard]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Those are IQs (indirect questions, asked in order to win a DQ or direct question), not DQs. But I am not Arthur, King of the Britons; dunno, and not… Athaenasius?
Now I’m confused. This looks like a DQ, and I don’t think you have any earned ones that you haven’t already asked.

Correct. Ambrose. Abelard.

It was an advance DQ in case you picked these up yesterday. Can I resubmit it, and hold another in reserve.

I don’t know why I labelled some IQs as DQs, I thought I’d grasped the conventions after a quick look at the thread, but clearly got confused at some point. Although the surname thing is still confusing me rather.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Before your post, I corrected my last answer to Abelard.

“Advance DQs” are going to be very confusing - I suggest you not ask them. At this point you have one earned DQ, from your Ambrose IQ. Did you still wish to ask “is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written)” as your next DQ?

As to surnames, you may use either the first or last name of a well-known person in this game. George Washington would be either a “G” or a “W,” and Margaret Thatcher would be an “M” or a “T.” You won’t know if the letter the GM has announced for that round is for a first or a last name unless you use a DQ to find out. People with just a single commonly-known name, like Madonna or Bono, will appear just as an “M” or a “B,” respectively, and a DQ will elicit an answer like, “Only name starts with [letter].” People who are always known by three names or initials, like J. Edgar Hoover or John Wilkes Booth, could appear under any of their respective three letters, and again, you’d have to use a DQ to find out which it is.

[AlonzoSWhitebeard]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Before your post, I corrected my last answer to Abelard.

Good stuff.

“Advance DQs” are going to be very confusing - I suggest you not ask them. At this point you have one earned DQ, from your Ambrose IQ. Did you still wish to ask “is the fiction set in contemporary America (ie, at the time when it was written)” as your next DQ?

Yes please.

As to surnames, you may use either the first or last name of a well-known person in this game. George Washington would be either a “G” or a “W,” and Margaret Thatcher would be an “M” or a “T.” You won’t know if the letter the GM has announced for that round is for a first or a last name unless you use a DQ to find out. People with just a single commonly-known name, like Madonna or Bono, will appear just as an “M” or a “B,” respectively, and a DQ will elicit an answer like, “Only name starts with [letter].” People who are always known by three names or initials, like J. Edgar Hoover or John Wilkes Booth, could appear under any of their respective three letters, and again, you’d have to use a DQ to find out which it is.

A comprehensive answer, thanks. It seems very, very odd to me. But all boards have their idiosyncrasies.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you have a leading role in the sitcom Good Times but left when the show started around a young character with an annoying catchphase?
2. Does the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha revolve around your sacrifice?
3. Were you a Dadaist poet and painter who called yourself “Hans” when writing in German, and “Jean” when writing in French?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

IQs:

1. Did you have a leading role in the sitcom Good Times but left when the show started around a young character with an annoying catchphase?
2. Does the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha revolve around your sacrifice?
3. Were you a Dadaist poet and painter who called yourself “Hans” when writing in German, and “Jean” when writing in French?

Not John Amos, dunno, and dunno.

A.

1. fictional
2. human
3. created by American(s)
4. created after 1900
5. appears in more than one written work of fiction
6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment
7. created after 1970
8. first name starts with A
9. not really the protagonist
10. fiction set in contemporary America (i.e., at the time when it was written)

[Knowed_Out]

DQ: Military genre?

holding a DQ

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Did you have a leading role in the sitcom Good Times but left when the show started around a young character with an annoying catchphase?
2. Does the Islamic holiday Eid al-Adha revolve around your sacrifice?
3. Were you a Dadaist poet and painter who called yourself “Hans” when writing in German, and “Jean” when writing in French?
   Not John Amos, dunno, and dunno.

Correct on #1.
#2 was the Biblical patriarch Abraham.
#3 was Hans/Jean Arp.

DQs:

1. Male?
2. Created after 2000?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

A.

1. fictional
2. human
3. created by American(s)
4. created after 1900
5. appears in more than one written work of fiction
6. has been represented in a filmed work of entertainment
7. created after 1970
8. first name starts with A
9. not really the protagonist
10. fiction set in contemporary America (i.e., at the time when it was written)
11. not in a military genre
12. male
13. created before 2000

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

IQs:

1. Are you Bruce Campbell’s best known role?
2. Did you die after your hair was caught in low-hanging branches as you rode under it, separating you from your mount, which allowed the enemy soldiers to dispatch you?
3. Are you the Greek equivalent of the goddess Diana?