Botticelli - May 2019

Thread Games
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IQ1: When your boss sent you out to pick up the brain of a genius, did you drop it, and bring back instead the brain of Abby Normal?

IQ2: Did a riot break out at the premiere of one of your ballets?

IQ3: Did you die in a convertible, when one of the long flowing scarves for which you were famous, get caught in a wheel and break your neck?

Yeah, I was beginning to think I’d picked someone too obscure. I originally had thought about James Hutton or Frances Hutcheson, but those really would have been unfair.

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#1. I am not Igor.
#2. I am not Igor Stravinsky.
Take a DQ fore 3.

Frances Hutcheson I might have gotten, but not Hutton.

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I wouldn’t have gotten either of 'em.

Congrats, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Were you senior NCO to Capt. Miller in Saving Private Ryan? - Sgt. Horvath
Were you a little boy from 1950s Maine who found a gigantic playmate? - Hogarth, in The Iron Giant
Were you the speckled white owl of a young wizard? - Hedwig, courier and feathered friend of Harry Potter’s

On to I.

IQs:

Perhaps the greatest British engineer, did you design steamships and bridges, among other things?
Were you a scientist who hijacked Data’s consciousness on Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Were you portrayed in a Disney cartoon as a gawky schoolteacher with a prodigious appetite?

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Right on 1 and 2; 3 was Isadora Duncan.

IQ1: Did you write the “Culture” series of sci-fi novels?
IQ2: Are you perhaps the most famous flautist in rock?
IQ3: Did you play Richard III?

DQ: Real person?

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#3. I am not Ichabod Crane.
Take 2 DQs.

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#3. I am not Ian McKellen (??).
Take 2 (or 3) DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
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Previous IQs:

Perhaps the greatest British engineer, did you design steamships and bridges, among other things? - Isambard Kingdom Brunel (the subject of an earlier Botticelli round)
Were you a scientist who hijacked Data’s consciousness on Star Trek: The Next Generation? - Dr. Ira Graves
Were you portrayed in a Disney cartoon as a gawky schoolteacher with a prodigious appetite? - Yes, Ichabod Crane

DQs:

Male?
First name start with I?

IQs:

Were you a Clinton White House policy advisor on healthcare?
Were you the protagonist of Moby-Dick?
Were you a noted Scandinavian playwright?

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Correct on Ian McKellan; the other two were Iain Banks and Ian Anderson, the flute player from Jethro Tull.

IQ1: Are you the reserved Welsh assistant to the flamboyant Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood?
IQ2: Are you the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and subject of a play by Eurpides?
IQ3: Are you currently playing Odin, in a Starz adaptation of a Neil Gaiman novel?

DQ1: Female?
DQ2: From literature?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with I
  4. Originally from literature
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#2. I am not Ishmael.
#3. I am not Henrik Ibsen.
Take a DQ.

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Take another DQ for your #1, since EH basically asked the same question.

  1. I can see the guy, buy I’m not coming up with a name. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Iphigenia.
  3. I am not Ian McShane.
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IQ1: Did you play rhythm guitar for Guns N’ Roses?
IQ2: Are you Black Sabbaath’s lead guitarist, known as “The Dark Lord of Metal”?
IQ3: Are you a crooner slide guitarist whose biggest hit was “Wicked Game”?

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Take 2 DQs.
3) I am not Chris Isaak.

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Correct on 2 and 3; 1 is Ianto Jones.

IQ1: Are you a British actor who generally plays upper-class villains such as Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter, and Black Jack Randall in Outlander?

IQ2: Are you a put-upon Barrayaran officer, often dragged into trouble by your cousin Miles, whose catchphrase is “It’s not my fault!”?

IQ3: Did a possibly-mistranslated prophecy of yours become the foundation for an important doctrine of Christianity?

DQ1: From American literature?

DQ2 (for which, thanks): Protagonist?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with I
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Not the protagonist in the first book in the series, but the protagonist in the second.
  6. From American fiction (I’m not sure I’d actually call it “Literature”).
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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Ivan Vorpatril.
  3. I am not Isaiah.
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Izzy Stradlin, Tony Iommi, correct

DQ: Scifi/Fantasy genre?

holding a dq

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1 was Jason Isaacs; 2 and 3 are correct.

IQ1: Are you the villain of a drama of which it is said that if the protagonists of your play and Hamlet were switched, neither work would be a tragedy, as your protagonist would kill Claudius without hesitation, while Hamlet would see through you instantly?
IQ2: Are you the woman to a famous detective?
IQ3: Are you a world-renowned Russian Jewish violinist?

DQ: Transitioned to movies?

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IQ1: Were you looking for a six-fingered man?
IQ2: Are you the slothful protagonist of A Confederacy of Dunces?
IQ3: Are you the Mesopotamian goddess of war and sex?