Botticelli - March 2019

Thread Games
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1 is Will Byers (from Stranger Things). 2 is Willis O’Brien.

IQs:

  1. Is the object of a series of books by Martin Handford to find you?
  2. Did you help design the V-2 rocket?
  3. Was your debut album called The Return of Bruno?
    DQ: created before 1970?

One DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a painter who was close friends with JFK and Jackie Kennedy? - Not Andy Warhol (too early, pretty much), but William Walton
Were you a big Nixon donor who became ambassador to the Court of St. James’s? - Walter Annenburg
Did you succeed Fred Vinson in a big job? - Earl Warren, as Chief Justice of the United States

Guns, because only a stereotypical few types of characters usually carry them, and NYC, because it’s a common setting for books, movies, TV shows, etc., and its exclusion can rule a lot of things either in or out.

DQs:

First appeared in comics?
Associated with NYC?
Considered handsome?

IQs:

Are you Dilbert’s lazy but funny coworker?
Did Richard Cordray get a job that many thought you should get?
Did your character run through white-trash women’s names with a talking teddy bear?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. American
  5. Would be alive if real (as far as I know)
  6. Created since 1950
  7. Not originally from literature
  8. Created before 1990
  9. Not considered a “good guy” (but has passed himself off as such)
  10. Has been on streaming TV, but not originally
  11. Genre character (detective, spy, sf, Western, fantasy, etc.)
  12. Did not first appear in movies
  13. Has been known to carry a gun, but usually doesn’t need it
  14. Created before 1970
  15. First appeared in comics
  16. Associated with NYC
  17. Not considered handsome, but don’t tell him that
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not Waldo, DQ, DQ

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not Wally, DQ, not Mark Walburgh (his hamburger restaurant got closed down in Raleigh due to mismanagement)

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with W
  4. American
  5. Would be alive if real (as far as I know)
  6. Created since 1950
  7. Not originally from literature
  8. Created before 1990
  9. Not considered a “good guy” (but has passed himself off as such)
  10. Has been on streaming TV, but not originally
  11. Genre character (detective, spy, sf, Western, fantasy, etc.)
  12. Did not first appear in movies
  13. Has been known to carry a projectile weapon
  14. Created before 1970
  15. First appeared in comics
  16. Associated with NYC
  17. Not considered handsome, but don’t tell him that

After research, I changed #13

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Previous IQs:

Are you Dilbert’s lazy but funny coworker? - Yes, Wally
Did Richard Cordray get a job that many thought you should get? - Elizabeth Warren; Cordray and not she was appointed by President Obama to head the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau
Did your character run through white-trash women’s names with a talking teddy bear? - Yes, Mark Wahlberg (sp) (NSFW after 1:24): Ted (6/10) Movie CLIP - White Trash Names (2012) HD - YouTube

DQ:

Marvel character?

IQs:

Do some speculate that your middle name was Hamish?
Were you the young head of the Baker Street Irregulars?
Did you play Stapleton in a movie adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles?

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2 was Wernher von Braun; 3 was Bruce Willis.

IQ: Are you a heavyset (but strong) businessman and crimelord who first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #50, in 1967?

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Yes, I am Wilson Fisk, aka the Kingpin! Vincent D’onofrio portrayed him in the Daredevil Netflix series.

Congrats De, you get X!

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Well done, DLR!

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Thanks, everyone!

I am X.

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IQs:

  1. Did you write Anabasis?
  2. Do you have a school of mutant teenagers?
  3. Are you known as “the happy hooker”?
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IQ1: Are you a bandleader who was married to Charo?
IQ2: Are you a pro wrestler who is a member of New Day?
IQ3: Does Nicholas Brendan play you in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

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  1. I am not Xenophon.
  2. I am not Professor Charles Xavier.
  3. Take a DQ.

IQ1: I am not Xavier Cugat.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Xander Harris.

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All right, DLR! Good job.

Previous IQs:

Do some speculate that your middle name was Hamish? - Dr. John H. Watson
Were you the young head of the Baker Street Irregulars? - Wiggins
Did you play Stapleton in a movie adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles? - William Shatner

On to X…

IQs:

Was your fleet defeated at the Battle of Salamis?
Did you play a turncoat Secret Service agent?
Were you Luna Lovegood’s papa?

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Xavier Woods

DQ: Real?

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iQ1: Does the bard Gabrielle help you stay on the good path?
IQ2: Were you a mistress of the Toltec Emperor Tecpancaltzin?
IQ3: Are you an ancient Greek historian who chronicled the last years of the Peloponnesian War?

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Correct, Correct, Xaviera Hollander.

DQ: Male?

IQs:

  1. Are you an Aztec god of games and dance?
  2. Are you the current president of China?
  3. Did you play Red John on The Mentalist?
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Respectively:
I am not Xerxes.
Take a DQ.
I am not Xenophilius Lovegood.

IQ1: I am not Xena.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Xi Jinping.
  3. Take a DQ.
    DQs:
  1. real
  2. male
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#1 was Xochipilli.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Xander Berkeley.

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Last name starts with X?