Botticelli - May 2017

Thread Games
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April thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=823178

Starting off May with the letter [SIZE=“6”]R[/SIZE]

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IQs:

Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur?
Did you own the Cafe Americain?
Were you Samwell Tarly’s very cold-hearted father?

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IQ1: Are you the primary antagonist in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series?
IQ2: Are you a Tom Clancy character who’s been portrayed by by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski in film?
IQ3: Are you an actor whose first name is an action verb, last name is the past tense of that verb, and who appeared on the Larry Sanders Show?

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IQs:

  1. Do you write the Percy Jackson series of books?
  2. Did you star in the TV sci-fi sitcom Quark?
  3. Were you a Swiss philosopher who argued for the benefits of being a Natural Human?
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2 DQs, not Randyll Tarly

DQ, not Jack Ryan, not Rip Torn

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Not Rick Riordan, DQ, not Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Correct, Richard Benjamin, Correct.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a Trickster God enemy on the TV series The Magicians?
  2. Was one of your radio characters Junior the Mean Widdle Kid?
  3. Was your deputy Droop-Along Coyote?
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IQ1: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”?
IQ2: Did you command a British light infantry company used mainly for reconnaissance during the French and Indian War?
IQ3: Did you write about Fritz Brenner and Dol Bonner?

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DQ, not Red Skelton, DQ

Not Randy Travis, 2 DQs

E

  1. Real
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Randall Flagg

Props to the Prof for the Magicians reference. I really dig the books and the SF series.

DQ: Male?

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IQ1: Are you a heavy metal vocalist who fronted Black Sabbath after Ozzy Osbourne left?
IQ2: Are you a porn actor nicknamed “The Hedgehog?”
IQ3: Are you one of the members of Lynyrd Skynyrd who died in a 1977 plane crash?

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Thanks for the props, KO!

#1 is Reynard the Fox. Correct on Red. #3 was Ricochet Rabbit.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Last name starts with R?
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Not Ronnie James Dio or Ron Jeremy, DQ

R (finger slipped and I wrote “E” last post, I apologize for the typo)

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
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IQs:

  1. Did you play the Sundance Kid opposite Paul Newman?
  2. Are you a former news anchor for the CBS Evening News?
  3. Did you play with Dan Hamilton and Joe Frank Carollo?
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Nitpick: Krasinski will play him on TV, but has never played him in film.

Previous IQs:

Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur? - Roderick, Lord Blaine, in Niven and Pournelle’s classic first-contact sf novel The Mote in God’s Eye
Did you own the Cafe Americain? - Rick Blaine, in Casablanca
Were you Samwell Tarly’s very cold-hearted father? - Yes, Randyll (the SDMB software recognizes “Randall” as being a misspelling in this context!) Tarly

DQs:

American?
Born since 1964?

IQs:

Does a lisping Pontius Pilate order your release?
And yours?
Although famous for something else, did you once appear as an extra in an opera’s party scene with a good friend and colleague?

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Correct.
Robert Rogers (Rogers’s Rangers).
Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe’s chef and one of his part-time assistants).
DQ: Known for the Arts?
One DQ reserved.

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Not Robert Redford, not Dan Rather, DQ

3 DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Last name starts with R
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1964
  7. Worked in the artistic field, but better known for something else

Also, any reason 1964 is used as a birth year for DQs? I’ve seen it a few times and it seems a little arbitrary. :slight_smile:

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Ronnie Van Zant

Ron x 3!

DQ: European?

I’ve also wondered why EH chooses 1964, but I assumed it’s his birth year.

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IQ1: Are you a 1998 Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Texas and the NFL’s leading rusher in 2002 with the Miami Dolphins?
IQ2: Are you a Country Artist known for 1983’s Highway 40 Blues?
IQ3: Are you a British comedian who hosted the Golden Globes from 2010-2012 and is known for laughing hysterically at your own tasteless jokes?