Botticelli - May 2019

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Did a man give a girl a coin, for bringing him water when he was thirsty and in a cage? Jaqen H’ghar, the Faceless Man.

IQ2: Do you know nothing? Correct, Jon Snow

IQ3: Have fans of your show, noting your hopeless longing for your boss, nicknamed you “Lord Friendzone”? Ser Jorah Mormont.

A Game of Thrones trifecta! Which I think is pretty good, as I’ve never actually seen an episode of the show…

IQ1: Are you a stereotypical cigar-chomping, fast-talking, hard-bitten city newspaper editor who employs a photographer with unusual skills?

IQ2: Are you the actor who portrayed IQ1?

IQ3: Are you a best-selling Scottish author who has something in common onomastically with IQ2?
DQ1: Painter?

One DQ reserved.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Human
  5. Not American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. First name starts with J
  8. Born before 1900
  9. Known for the Visual Arts
  10. European
  11. Painter
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  1. I am not J. Jonah Jameson.
  2. I am not J. K. Simmons.
  3. Take a DQ.
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My reserved DQ: Are you French?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Human
  5. Not American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. First name starts with J
  8. Born before 1900
  9. Known for the Visual Arts
  10. European
  11. Painter
  12. Not French
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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Are you a stereotypical cigar-chomping, fast-talking, hard-bitten city newspaper editor who employs a photographer with unusual skills? Correct, J. Jonah Jameson.

IQ2: Are you the actor who portrayed IQ1? Correct, J.K. Simmons

IQ3: Are you a best-selling Scottish author who has something in common onomastically with IQ2? You might kick yourself the way I did with Ian Malcolm; the answer is J.K. Rowling.
DQ1: Painter?

One DQ reserved.
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DQ1: European?

DQ2: Born after 1600?

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IQ1: Did your frequent collaborations with Yun-fat Chow almost single-handedly create the genre of “heroic bloodshed” action movie?
IQ2: Did Forrest Gump teach you how to dangle?
IQ3: Are you the “Whitechapel Murderer”?

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Well, if you don’t want to answer those three:

IQ1: Did you paint Girl with a Pearl Earring?

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I dunno how I managed to miss those previous questions. Sorry.

But, on the bright side,

Yes, I am Johannes “Jan” Vermeer!

Take it away, SCA!

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Great googly moogly, I missed the whole round! Good job, SCA (and Prof. P. before that).

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Aw, man! I had a clever series of IQs about James I set up, too. Congratulations, SCAdian! And good choice, Prof. Pepperwinkle! (I didn’t know that “Jan” was a nickname for Vermeer; more ignorance fought.)

I had wondered where you went, Elendil’s Heir. Welcome back!

Now, on to K!

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The proper announcement, I suppose is:

I am K

I first heard of him as Jan, and it was actually a few decades before I realised that wasn’t his real name.

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IQ1: Are you the flute-playing god of childbirth to the Hopi and Zuni?

IQ2: Were you played by Tommy Lee Jones, opposite Will Smith?

IQ3: Were you the philosopher that the Pythons called “a real pissant who was very rarely stable”?

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IQs:

Did Jim Lehrer write a recent novel about someone assigned to protect you?
Were you the wife of the person being protected?
Were you the daughter?

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Not Kokopelli.
Not Agent K.
DQ.

Three DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Did Jim Lehrer write a recent novel about someone assigned to protect you? - JFK; Top Down is about a retired Secret Service agent tormented by his failure in Dallas
Were you the wife of the person being protected? - Jackie Kennedy
Were you the daughter? - Caroline Kennedy

DQs:

Real?
Male?
First name start with K?

IQs:

Was your best friend a one-time astronaut?
Were you based on William Randolph Hearst?
Is your sister the former US ambassador to Japan?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write the Nancy Drew mysteries?
  2. Are you the son of Clark Kent & Lois Lane-Kent?
  3. Are you usually credited with being the first Abstract painter?
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Previous IQs:

IQ1: Are you the flute-playing god of childbirth to the Hopi and Zuni? Correct, Kokopelli.

IQ2: Were you played by Tommy Lee Jones, opposite Will Smith? Correct, but I was hoping you’d say “I am not K”. Since this round started with you saying “I am K”. :smiley:

IQ3: Were you the philosopher that the Pythons called “a real pissant who was very rarely stable”? Immanuel Kant, in the “Philosopher’s Song”.

IQ1: Are you the Marquess of Ailsa, and chief of your clan? (Surname is acceptable).

IQ2: Are you the hugely influential economist who, among other ideas, argued against the gold standard, calling it “a barbarous relic”?

IQ3: Are you a singer-songwriter who left your husband and writing partner, and recorded what was for a time the top-selling album in history?

DQ reserved.

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Three DQs. (Stop that!! :))

Not “Carolyn Keene”.
DQ.
Not … Klimt?

Not Kennedy. (When I was in Scotland we steamed past Ailsa Craig every time we left port or returned.)
DQ.
DQ.

K

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with K

:smiley:

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Ever read “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”? I highly recommend it if you haven’t…
ETA Wikipedia quote: It was republished in the 1978 anthology SuperHeroes edited by Michel Parry and noted with a starburst on the cover: “SPECIAL BONUS FEATURE! Intimate details of Superman’s sex life revealed!”