Botticelli - May 2018

Thread Games
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Last month’s thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=852366

I’ve checked the last couple of months and I don’t think we’ve done P too recently, so let’s go with that. Fire at will!

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Hiya Kitty! Let’s play!

IQs

  1. Are you a neck tie wearing comidienne?
  2. Did you make a 1968 presidential run out of your *Smothers Brothers *appearances?
  3. Were you an original Mousketeer who went on to play on The Donna Reed Show?
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  1. I am not Sue Perkins.
  2. No idea.
  3. I only know the names of 3 Mousketeers and none of them has a name beginning with P, so take a DQ here, too.
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IQs:

  1. Were you the actor who played Prof. Pepperwinkle in the 1950’s TV series The Adventures of Superman?
  2. Were you Charlemagne’s papa?
  3. Are you Tony Stark’s love interest in the movies?
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Wow, I forgot how ignorant I feel being ‘it’ :).

Not having ever seen the relevant material, I can’t even guess at 1 or 3. I feel I ought to know 2 but it’s not really coming to me. I’ll take a bit of a stab at… Phillip? Take 2 or 3 DQs.

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#1 was Phil Tead.
#2. Big Karl was the son of Pepin the Short and Bertha Bigfoot. Really.
#3 is Pepper Potts.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with P?
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  1. I was thinking of Paula Poundstone.
  2. that was Pat Paulsen
  3. Paul Petersen was the mouser in question, here.

Your call, of course, on whether #1 is worthy of a DQ.

I absolutley empathize with that feeling of ignorance when your “IT”. I flail hopelessly when I’m queried about anything re SciFi. Onward.

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The way we usually play is that if an IQ is answered with a valid person, no DQ is earned, even if it wasn’t the same person the questioner was thinking of. I believe Sue Perkins is a valid answer, though perhaps she is not so closely associated with the necktie as your choice?

DQ answers so far:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with P
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DC, that’s the way I’ve always played as well so a pair of DQs.

DQs
Known from the performing arts?
Alive today?

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IQs:

  1. Were you Alexander the Great’s father?
  2. Are you the protagonist of Dickens’s Great Expectations?
  3. Do “the Frenchies seek you everywhere”?
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Previous round IQs:

Did a young George Washington probably have a crush on your wife? - Lord Fairfax
Did Churchill make an unflattering pun about your name? - Speaking of John Foster Dulles, he said, “Dull, Duller, Dulles.”
Should Scrooge have learned more from you early in his career as to both capitalism and Christmas? - Yes, Fezziwig

On to P…

IQs:

Were you recently played by Matt Smith?
Were you a fictional and not especially bright crime boss?
Were you his brother?

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  1. I am not… Phillip of Macedon?
  2. I am not Phillip Pirrip aka Pip.
  3. I am not the Scarlet Pimpernel (whose real name I have forgotten even though he was the subject of a Botticelli game not too long ago).

I’m drawing a blank here - take 3 DQs.

DQ answers so far:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Not known from the performing arts
  5. Dead
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You swept me!
IQs:

  1. Were you the only actor in the Lethal Weapon film franchise to win an Oscar?
  2. Were you the Black Lectroid who delivered the message to Buckaroo Banzai?
  3. Were you Ophelia’s dad?
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Suspect you’ve swept me right back!

  1. I don’t think Paul Newman was in the franchise but he is an Oscar-winner so may as well take a stab in the dark.
  2. No idea.
  3. I am not Perseus (wild guess).
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Previous IQs:

Were you recently played by Matt Smith? - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in The Crown
Were you a fictional and not especially bright crime boss? - Doug Piranha, on Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Piranha Brothers - YouTube
Were you his brother? - Dinsdale Piranha, ditto

DQs:

American?
Political/military?
Died since 1900?

IQs:

Did you travel around Western Europe to learn, among other things, shipbuilding?
Were you an only child who, a coworker knew, didn’t have a brother with a first name starting with the same letter, despite you saying you did?
Did Judi Dench play you in a recent movie?

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I am not Marco Polo (stab in the dark), no idea but I like the question, and I am not Philomena (can’t remember her surname despite seeing the movie and reading the book).

DQ answers so far:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Not known from the performing arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1900
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Previous IQs:

Did you travel around Western Europe to learn, among other things, shipbuilding? - Peter the Great of Russia
Were you an only child who, a coworker knew, didn’t have a brother with a first name starting with the same letter, despite you saying you did? - Pavel Chekov, under the influence of an alien entity, once thought he had a brother, Piotr, who had been killed by the Klingons, but Sulu knew better (in the original Star Trek episode “Day of the Dove”)
Did Judi Dench play you in a recent movie? - Yes, the title character of Philomena

DQs:

Died before 1850?
Businessman/inventor?

IQs:

Are you much better remembered than Dawes, who did the same thing as you?
Did you once fly a flag with white words on a blue field?
Did you surrender Vicksburg to Grant in 1863?

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IQs

  1. Though fictional do you always have an unrealistically optimistic view?
  2. Did you harvest a hectare of hot habaneros?
  3. Were you the high-singing tenor for Earth, Wind and Fire?
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#1 was Joe Pesci.
#2 was John Parker.
#3 was Polonius.

3 DQs reserved.

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I’ll take a stab at Phileas Fogg for the first one, but I suspect you have swept me again.

I am not Winnie the Pooh (suspect it’s not who you were thinking of, up to you if you think it’s a valid answer or perhaps you want to rephrase), Peter Piper (nice one), and don’t know.

DQ answers so far:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with P
  4. Not known from the performing arts
  5. Dead
  6. American
  7. Not political/military
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Died after 1850
  10. Not a businessman/inventor