Botticelli - May 2014

Thread Games
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Vera Miles, who played Lila Crane, sister of Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), in Psycho.

DQ: Did you win any major awards in your field?

IQ1: Was your catchphrase “You’re so money”?
IQ2: Was your catchphrase “Jinkies!”
IQ3: Is the time you informed your son of his paternal heritage frequently misquoted?

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Dunno the first two; not Darth Vader.

V.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with V
  5. died since 1900
  6. not American
  7. European
  8. known for the arts
  9. known for the performing arts
  10. died before 1980
  11. won a major award in his field

This last one is a little tricky, but I think this is the most accurate response.

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IQs:

  1. Do you turn letters for a living?
  2. Were you one of the stars of Tenspeed and Brownshoe?
  3. Were you Napoleon Solo?
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Correct on Vincent Price and Victor Borge.
Andreas Vesalius, “The Father of Modern Human Anatomy.” (Dissecting humans being illegal, Galen dissected Barbary apes and other critters, and assumed humans were built the same way.)
DQ: Known for music (vocal/instrumental/&c)?
IQ1: Were you the eponymous here of a long-running newspaper strip?
IQ2: Did Esther take your place?
IQ3: Did you succeed two of your uncles in a top job?

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Not Vanna White, dunno, and not Robert Vaughn.

Not Prince Valiant, not Viola (guess), not King Victor Emmanuel (also a guess).

V.

  1. real
  2. dead
  3. male
  4. last name starts with V
  5. died since 1900
  6. not American
  7. European
  8. known for the arts
  9. known for the performing arts
  10. died before 1980
  11. won a major award in his field
  12. known for music (vocal/instrumental/&c)
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#2 is Ben Vereen, who starred opposite Jeff Goldblum.

DQ: British?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Mr. Mushnik in the musical Little Shop of Horrors?
  2. Are you a Ukranian figure skater who won a medal at the 1988 Olympics?
  3. Did you star in both Deliverance and Midnight Cowboy?
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  1. Vince Vaughn, in the movie Swingers
  2. Velma Dinkley, of Scooby-Doo fame.
  3. Correct

I’ll hold onto my DQs for now, but throw out this one.

IQ: Did you overdose on heroin, possibly intentionally, the day you were released on bail to await trial for your girlfriend’s murder?

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Damn, you’re good! Yes, I am

Sid Vicious

For more: Sid Vicious - Wikipedia

Well done, ChockFull!

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Cool! The hesitant “won a major award” answer got me thinking about non-Grammy music awards, and I came up with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Pistol’s “piss-stain” protest. I realized Sid matched all the DQs so far, and threw him out there.

Next up…

P

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Well done!

IQs:

  1. Did you pick a peck of pickled peppers?
  2. Are you a flying boy with pirate enemies?
  3. Are you a superheroine whose secret identity is Karen Starr?
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1: Not Peter Piper
2: Not Peter Pan
3: Not Power Girl? There’s only 2 things I remember about that title, and her secret identity isn’t either of them.

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Correct on Prince Valiant.
Esther took Queen Vashti’s place after the King banished her for non-cooperation.
Queen Victoria.
IQ1: Are you T’challa, son of T’chaka?
IQ2: Were you a lesbian acrobat in a secret-agent novel?
IQ3: Did you constantly worry about the health of your supposedly fragile nephew, who lived with you after his parents were killed?

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Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you give man fire?
  2. Did you once lasso a tornado?
  3. Are you the actor who played Prof. Pepperwinkle on TV?
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1: Take a DQ
2: Not Pussy Galore
3: Take a DQ - unless it’s Petunia Dursley, which I doubt. My recollection is that while she treated Harry less crappy than Vernon and Dudley, she wasn’t very concerned about him.

  1. Not Prometheus
  2. Not Pecos Bill
  3. Sorry for not knowing about your namesake. Take a DQ
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Yes, it was Sid’s posthumous Rock Hall honor that I was thinking of.

On to P…

IQs:

Were you First Speaker in an Asimov story?
Were you a power hitter of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Seventies and Eighties?
Were you Brett’s best friend and colleague belowdecks?

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Correct on 1&2. #3 is Phil Tead.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Did Groucho play you in The History of Mankind?
  2. Did you stomp on a bug that was giving you advice?
  3. Are you the hero in a science fiction series with over 2,700 installments?
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  1. Not Preem Palver
    Take DQs for the other 2

No

3 DQs for you. #2 sounds familiar but I can’t place it.

Summary:
P

  1. Not real
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Previous IQs:

Were you First Speaker in an Asimov story? - Yes, Preem Palver of the Second Foundation.
Were you a power hitter of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Seventies and Eighties? - Dave Parker.
Were you Brett’s best friend and colleague belowdecks? - Parker, in Alien.

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with P?

IQs:

Were you Hotlips’s eventual husband?
Are you a cause celebre among American Indian activists?
Was Liet Kynes an admirer of yours?