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
  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.
  18. Both movies were made in the 20th Century. Another movie featuring this character (briefly) was made in the 21st Century.
102

I’m stuck… I can’t think of a 2-book series that was made into movies.

103

Neither can I. I’m grasping at straws here, with my last few DQs.

I noticed I never came back to one of my IQs; the protagonist of Axis Powers Hetalia was Italia.

104

Hint: there were two books, but more than two movies.

105

IQ1: Are you a Czech model who Berke Breathed once gave the rhyming appellation “The [Surname] Frump”?

IQ2: Are you her daughter?

IQ3: Were you nicknamed for the dog?

106
  1. I am not Ivanka Trump.
  2. I am not Ivana Trump.
  3. I am not Indiana Jones.
107

Swept again!

IQ1: Are you an American R&B singer-songwriter named after a country?

IQ2: Are you the host of a popular NPR show, who’s often dragooned into recording discursive pledge drive promos?

IQ3: Could you be fancifully called “The Thin White Duchess”; ironic, as you are a Somali-born mononymic supermodel?

108

#3: I am not Iman.
Take 2 DQs.

109

Previous IQs:

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

DQs:

US citizen?
Character would be alive today, if real?
Known for crimefighting?

110

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.
  18. Both movies were made in the 20th Century. Another movie featuring this character (briefly) was made in the 21st Century.
  19. Assumed to be a U.S. citizen
  20. Character would be alive today, if real
  21. Not known for crimefighting.

We are now past 20. Please ask all remaining DQs by 8 pm EST today.

I didn’t think it would be this tough, really.

111

Sigh… Sometimes I run into a mental block.

DQ: Created after 1985?

112

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.
  18. Both movies were made in the 20th Century. Another movie featuring this character (briefly) was made in the 21st Century.
  19. Assumed to be a U.S. citizen
  20. Character would be alive today, if real
  21. Not known for crimefighting.
  22. Created after 1985
113

Please ask your “Are you FirstName LastName?” questions by 8 pm EST tomorrow.

114

Man, I got nuttin’. The last two IQs you didn’t get, by the way - the R&B singer is India.Arie, and the NPR host known for storytelling is Ira Glass, host of This American Life.

115

I’m stumped, too. I suspect I haven’t read the books or seen the movies.

116

If you get too tired kicking yourself after you find out the answer, I’ll be happy to assist… :smiley:

117

Welcome back, SCA! Long time, no see.

118

Okay! From the pages of Michael Crichton’s bestsellers Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and as played by Jeff Goldblum in those movies as well as in Jurassic World 2,

I am chaos scientist Ian Malcolm!

Since I seriously doubt that no one has seen those films or read those books, I’m-a gonna go on to…

I am J.

119

IQ1. Did you write about a boating trip you and friends took on the Thames?
IQ2. Were you the Swedish Nightingale?
IQ3. Were you the Britich commander at the Battle of Jutland?

120
  1. I am not Jerome K. Jerome.
  2. I am not Jenny Lind.
  3. Take a DQ. (I assume you meant British.)