Botticelli - May 2019

Thread Games
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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”).
  7. Science fiction/fantasy genre
  8. Transitioned to movies
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  1. I am not Iago.
  2. I am not Irene Adler.
  3. I am not Itzschak Perlman. (sp?)
83
  1. Hello, my name is not Indigo Montoya.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Ishtar.
84

Swept me.

IQ1: Are you a medieval writer from Arab Spain, known in Christian Europe as Avicenna, the Latinized version of your Arabic name?

IQ2: Were you probably the most famous CEO of an auto company before Elon Musk?

IQ3: Are you a magical realist writer, and cousin to the illegally deposed President of your native country?

85
  1. I am not Lee Iacocca.
    Take 2 DQs.
86

Previous IQs:

Were you a Clinton White House policy advisor on healthcare? - Ira Magaziner
Were you the protagonist of Moby-Dick? - Yes, Ishmael
Were you a noted Scandinavian playwright? - Yes, Ibsen

DQ:

Considered a good guy?

IQs:

Did you design the Banqueting House in Whitehall?
Were you part of the Beverly Hills 90210 cast?
Were you a senior Clinton White House aide whose ancestor served in FDR’s Cabinet?

87

Previous IQs.

IQ1: Are you a medieval writer from Arab Spain, known in Christian Europe as Avicenna, the Latinized version of your Arabic name? - Ibn Sina, who wrote on medicine. I was incorrect, though, about him being a Spanish Arab; he was Persian (albeit with an Arabic name). I confused him with Ibn Rashid, or Averroes.

IQ2: Were you probably the most famous CEO of an auto company before Elon Musk? - Yes, Lee Iacocca.

IQ3: Are you a magical realist writer, and cousin to the illegally deposed President of your native country? - novelist Isabelle Allende, author of Eva Luna, and cousin to deposed Chilean president Salvador Allende.

IQ1: Are you a Romanian tennis player, number one in the world in the 1970’s, who earned the nickname “Nasty” for your shenanigans?

IQ2: Are you an equally skilled Czechoslovakian tennis player whose career overlapped IQ1?

IQ3: Did you play John Cusak’s girlfriend in* Say Anything*, the recipient of the famous “In Your Eyes” serenade?
DQ1: Created after 1970?

DQ2: More than one movie made from your series?

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Inigo, not the color, but close enough - Ignacious J. Reilly, correct

holding a DQ

89

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”).
  7. Science fiction/fantasy genre
  8. Transitioned to movies
  9. Good guy
  10. Created after 1970
  11. More than one movie made from the series
90

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Ilie Nastase.

Take 2 DQs.

91

Previous IQs.

IQ1: Are you a Romanian tennis player, number one in the world in the 1970’s, who earned the nickname “Nasty” for your shenanigans? - Correct, Ilie Nastase.

IQ2: Are you an equally skilled Czechoslovakian tennis player whose career overlapped IQ1? - Ivan Lendl.

IQ3: Did you play John Cusak’s girlfriend in* Say Anything*, the recipient of the famous “In Your Eyes” serenade? - Ione Skye.

IQ1: Are you the sister of writer A.S. Byatt, and yourself a well-known and critically lauded author?

IQ2: Are you the Greek goddess of the rainbow?

IQ3: In Greek mythology, are you the father of Atlas, thus the reason geologists named the proto-Atlantic Ocean after you?
DQ1: Were you in the first book of your series?

DQ2: Created in the 21st century?

92

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”).
  7. Science fiction/fantasy genre
  8. Transitioned to movies
  9. Good guy
  10. Created after 1970
  11. More than one movie made from the series
  12. There were two books. He was in both.
  13. Created before the 21st Century.
93

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Iris.
#3. I am not Iapetus (or Iapetos).

94

Previous IQs.

IQ1: Are you the sister of writer A.S. Byatt, and yourself a well-known and critically lauded author? - Iris Murdoch.

IQ2: Are you the Greek goddess of the rainbow? - Correct, Iris.

IQ3: In Greek mythology, are you the father of Atlas, thus the reason geologists named the proto-Atlantic Ocean after you? - Correct, Iapetus.

IQ1: Did you ruin a former employee’s dinner party with an ill-timed question to a landscape designer, about a marriage proposal?

IQ2: Did you, at the climactic scene in the book of which you were the protagonist, say, “Welcome to my gates, Joen of Jokona; I am the Mouth of Hell”?

IQ3: Are you the seneschal and lover of IQ2?

One DQ reserved.

95

Take 3 DQs.

96

Previous IQs.

IQ1: Did you ruin a former employee’s dinner party with an ill-timed question to a landscape designer, about a marriage proposal? - Simon Illyan, in Bujold’s A Civil Campaign.

IQ2: Did you, at the climactic scene in the book of which you were the protagonist, say, “Welcome to my gates, Joen of Jokona; I am the Mouth of Hell”? - Ista dy Chalion, in Paladin of Souls, also by Bujold.

IQ3: Are you the seneschal and lover of IQ2? - Illvan dy Arbanos, in the same.

One DQ reserved.
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Sorry, Prof. P - I figured that since you knew Ivan Vorpatril, you must be a Bujold fan.

IQ1: Are you a former soldier turned monk, who founded an order devoted to the Pope, ad maiorem Dei gloriam?

IQ2: Are you the sweet-but-feckless protagonist of Axis Powers Hetalia?

IQ3: Do you owe your life to your dad finding a ram entangled in thornbushes?

DQ1: Is your book series complete?

DQ2: Do you have any special powers?

DQ3: Human?

DQ4: African-American?

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Sorry, Prof. P - I figured that since you knew Ivan Vorpatril, you must be a Bujold fan.

IQ1: Are you a former soldier turned monk, who founded an order devoted to the Pope, ad maiorem Dei gloriam?

IQ2: Are you the sweet-but-feckless protagonist of Axis Powers Hetalia?

IQ3: Do you owe your life to your dad finding a ram entangled in thornbushes?

DQ1: Is your book series complete?

DQ2: Do you have any special powers?

DQ3: Human?

DQ4: African-American?
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Oh, I am a Bujold fan and have read those books, but they just didn’t come to mind.

  1. I am not St. Ignatius of Loyola.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Isaac.
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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”).
  7. Science fiction/fantasy genre
  8. Transitioned to movies
  9. Good guy
  10. Created after 1970
  11. More than one movie made from the series
  12. There were two books. He was in both.
  13. Created before the 21st Century.
  14. Book series is complete at two volumes.
  15. No special powers.
  16. Human.
  17. Not African-American.
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IQ1: Are you Master of the Royal Mint, as well as passionately interested in alchemy, but dabble in mathematics on the side?

IQ2: Are you a Jewish writer of *shtetl-*themed novels and short stories?

IQ3: Are you the putative father of all Arabs?
DQ1: Were the movies of your books made in the 20th century?

100
  1. I am not Isaac Newton.
  2. I am not Isaac B. Singer.
  3. I am not Ishmael.