Botticelli - March 2020

Thread Games
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I am G!

Previous thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=889499

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And off we go!

IQs:

Were you nicknamed, among other things, “Old Slow Trot”?
Did you write a famous 1790 letter to Jewish leaders in Rhode Island?
Did the same actor play you and a crusty old Minnesota businessman?

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Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Were you nicknamed, among other things, “Old Slow Trot”? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas of Civil War fame (from his time as a cavalry instructor at West Point)
Did you write a famous 1790 letter to Jewish leaders in Rhode Island? - President George Washington: https://www.tourosynagogue.org/history-learning/gw-letter
Did the same actor play you and a crusty old Minnesota businessman? - Harve Presnell played both Gen. George C. Marshall in Saving Private Ryan and the old coot from *Fargo *

George x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
American?

IQs:

Were you Ted Baxter’s girlfriend and later wife?
Were you Mr. Darcy’s innocent little sister?
Did Gen. Washington approve a plan to kidnap you while you were visiting NYC?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not an American, but created by American authors
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#1. I am not Georgette.
#2. I am not Georgianna.
#3. I am not George III. That’s probably wrong, so take a DQ.

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IQs:

Were you Ted Baxter’s girlfriend and later wife? - Yes, Georgette, on The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Were you Mr. Darcy’s innocent little sister? - Yes, Georgiana (one “n”), in Pride and Prejudice
Did Gen. Washington approve a plan to kidnap you while you were visiting NYC? - Actually 'twas the future George IV, when he was a young prince visiting the colonies during the Revolution

DQ:

Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did a cartoon show you scaring a farmer by your forceful questioning?
Did a biographer say you’d done little but work on your stamp collection and shoot small animals?
Did you marry a Bowes-Lyon girl?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not an American, but created by American authors
  4. Would most probably not be alive today if real, although with some stories you never can tell
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Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did a cartoon show you scaring a farmer by your forceful questioning? - King George I
Did a biographer say you’d done little but work on your stamp collection and shoot small animals? - George V
Did you marry a Bowes-Lyon girl? - The future George VI, father of Queen Elizabeth II

George x3 redux!

DQs:

European?
Last name start with G?
First appeared since 1950?

IQs:

Is a Ramsay portrait of you mentioned in First Among Equals?
Were you a noted New York financier and diarist during the Civil War?
Did you provide that person’s voice in a Ken Burns documentary?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not an American, but created by American authors
  4. Quasi-Europeanish, if you squint really hard and look at it like one of those magic pictures from the 90s
  5. Both names start with G
  6. First appeared after 1950
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  1. I am not George Washington. (?)
    Take 2 DQs for the other Georges.
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  1. Did you write My Side of the Mountain?
  2. Did you sing Wichita Lineman?
  3. Are you perhaps best known for singing about a ship’s demise?
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#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Glen Campbell.
#3. I an not Gordon Lightfoot.

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#1 is Jean Craighead George.

DQ:

From a movie?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not an American, but created by American authors
  4. Not European
  5. Both names start with G
  6. First appeared after 1950
  7. Not from a movie

The more I thought about #4, the more I realized my previous answer was going to probably mislead.

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Previous IQs:

Is a Ramsay portrait of you mentioned in First Among Equals? - No, I already asked a George Washington question - this was King George III; the Ramsay portrait hangs in Buckingham Palace
Were you a noted New York financier and diarist during the Civil War? - George Templeton Strong
Did you provide that person’s voice in a Ken Burns documentary? - George Plimpton, in The Civil War

George 3x redux redux!

DQs:

First appeared after 2000?
First appeared in print?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you indict Clay Shaw but not win a conviction?
Were you a firebreathing abolitionist editor?
Did you complain bitterly when a local paper wrote about your fancy big new house?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not an American, but created by American authors
  4. Not European
  5. Both names start with G
  6. First appeared after 1950
  7. Not from a movie
  8. First appeared before 2000
  9. Only appeared in print
  10. Alive at the end of the story

This is the best possible answer to your question.

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  1. I am not William Lloyd Garrison.
    Take 2 DQs.
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Previous IQs:

Did you indict Clay Shaw but not win a conviction? - Jim Garrison, the hero (wrongly IMHO) of Oliver Stone’s JFK
Were you a firebreathing abolitionist editor? - Yes, William Lloyd Garrison of The Liberator
Did you complain bitterly when a local paper wrote about your fancy big new house? - Garrison Keillor

Garrison x3!

DQs:

Protagonist?
Born in the Northern Hemisphere?

IQs:

Did Conan O’Brien come to your apartment door and you turned him away, much to his regret?
Were you a notable alien prostitute in THGTTG?
Did two spinster sisters say that a character you played was “pixilated”?