Botticelli May 2016

Thread Games
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DQ, not Alice Cooper, not Amy

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DQ

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Archie Campbell. (Here is one such duet - Archie’s the one on the right. WARNING: Earworm!)
DQ: Created before 1900?
Yes, I know I said I was going to drop out for a while, but I couldn’t resist this IQ… :smiley:

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a spinoff series from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
  2. Were you an abstract artist who came to fame with a series of paintings of squares?
  3. Were you Shakespeare’s wife?
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OK, thanks.

Previous IQs:

Have you played a princess, a nun, a reporter and a pregnant Southerner? - Amy Adams, in Enchanted, Doubt, Batman v. Superman and Junebug.
Were you known, among other things, for your drug use and eye makeup? - I’ll rephrase.
Did Kevin Smith direct a movie about you? - Yes, the title character of Chasing Amy.

DQs:

First appeared in a novel?
Associated with NYC?

IQs:

You are a now-deceased woman. Were you known, among other things, for your drug use and eye makeup?
Is there a small museum in San Francisco dedicated to you?
Were you, by your own admission, obnoxious and disliked?

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DQ Roundup

1: Fictional
2. Male
3. Last name starts with A
4. Not from a movie
5. Created before 1950
6. By an American author
7. Not considered a good guy
8. Would not alive today if real
9. First appeared in print
10. Not an American character
11. Created after 1900
12. First appeared in a novel
13. Not associated with NYC

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not Angel, not Andy Warhol, not Anne somebody

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not Amy Winehouse, DQ DQ

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Correct on Angel.
Andy didn’t do squares. Joseph Albers did.
Anne Hathaway.

I’m taking 2 DQs for that.

DQ: From mainline fiction (not a science fiction story, nor a fantasy, western, horror or mystery)?

1 DQ reserved.

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DQ Roundup

1: Fictional
2. Male
3. Last name starts with A
4. Not from a movie
5. Created before 1950
6. By an American author
7. Not considered a good guy
8. Would not alive today if real
9. First appeared in print
10. Not an American character
11. Created after 1900
12. First appeared in a novel
13. Not associated with NYC
14. Not from mainline fiction

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DQ: From science fiction?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish?
  2. Did you write the Foundation trilogy?
  3. Did you write Watership Down?
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DQ Roundup

1: Fictional
2. Male
3. Last name starts with A
4. Not from a movie
5. Created before 1950
6. By an American author
7. Not considered a good guy
8. Would not alive today if real
9. First appeared in print
10. Not an American character
11. Created after 1900
12. First appeared in a novel
13. Not associated with NYC
14. Not from mainline fiction
15. Science fiction not the main genre, but is a secondary gendre

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Not Douglas Adams, not Isaac Asimov, not Richard Adams

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Previous IQs:

You are a now-deceased woman. Were you known, among other things, for your drug use and eye makeup? - Yes, Amy Winehouse.
Is there a small museum in San Francisco dedicated to you? - Ansel Adams.
Were you, by your own admission, obnoxious and disliked? - John Adams.

DQs:

Human?
The main bad guy in the novel in which he first appeared?

IQs:

Was Salieri your nemesis?
Did you formulate a policy that bore your boss’s name?
Did a TV show depict you having sex with your husband the moment he got home after a long time away?

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DQ Roundup

1: Fictional
2. Male
3. Last name starts with A
4. Not from a movie
5. Created before 1950
6. By an American author
7. Not considered a good guy
8. Would not alive today if real
9. First appeared in print
10. Not an American character
11. Created after 1900
12. First appeared in a novel
13. Not associated with NYC
14. Not from mainline fiction
15. Science fiction not the main genre, but is a secondary genre
16. Human
17. Not the main bad guy in the novel in which he first appeared

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not Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, DQ, DQ

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Correct X3.

IQs:

  1. When you were a teenager did your father, an American Ambassador to France, take you with him, and agreed to let you travel to Russia to act as a translator for the American Ambassador to Russia, after which assignment you completed, did you return across Europe to France and your father by yourself?
  2. Were you the first casualty?
  3. Are you a teenage witch of Discworld?
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Hmm. Thought this might be Auric Goldfinger, but that would be a British author, and he was the main bad guy.

Previous IQs:

Was Salieri your nemesis? - Yes, Amadeus.
Did you formulate a policy that bore your boss’s name? - John Quincy Adams, as SECSTATE, came up with the Monroe Doctrine.
Did a TV show depict you having sex with your husband the moment he got home after a long time away? - Abigail Adams, on the HBO miniseries that bore her husband’s name.

Two DQs reserved. What else do we need to know, sportsfans?

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Oops. Never mind my #1, 'cause that was also John Quincy Adams.