Botticelli - May 2020

Thread Games
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Onwards!

I am D!

Link to April thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22287251#post22287251

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IQs:

Were you a Civil War governor of Ohio?
Were you an early admiral of the U.S. Navy?
Were you, too?

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IQs:

Are you a former Green Bay Packers wide receiver who won his season of Dancing with the Stars?
Are you an actress best known for playing Abby Cunningham on Knot’s Landing?
Did you play Lucas Deranian in the 1975 movie Escape to Witch Mountain?

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Take 3 DQs.

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#2. I am not Donna Mills. Take 2 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a Civil War governor of Ohio? - David Tod, whom Lincoln described as having “a big head full of brains” in offering him Treasury
Were you an early admiral of the U.S. Navy? - David Glasgow Farragut
Were you, too? - His adoptive brother, David Dixon Porter

David x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with D?

IQs:

Did a fictionalized version of you appear in Inherit the Wind?
Were you always present, at least in spirit, for roll calls in the Space Patrol of Heinlein’s writings?
Did Emma Thompson play you in Sense and Sensibility?

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  1. I am not Clarence Darrow.
    Take 2 DQs. I know #3, but it’s not coming around.

Someday I’m a-gonna have to sit down and memorize all the governors of Ohio.

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last Name Starts with D
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IQs:

Are you a rapper without an advanced degree?
Were you formerly a Grand Wizard?
Are you a French composer?
This is the first time I have played this so I have no idea what I’m doing :slight_smile:

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Is there a FAQ for local rules?

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Hi, Cooking, welcome! Glad to have you with us!
Yes, there is indeed a sortofa FAQ Thread: here

IQs:

Are you a rapper without an advanced degree?
Were you formerly a Grand Wizard?
Are you a French composer?

Take a DQ for #1.
I am not David Duke.
I am not Paul Dukas.

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Yes, welcome, Cooking! Hope you’ll stick around and play.

Previous IQs:

Did a fictionalized version of you appear in Inherit the Wind? - Yes, Clarence Darrow (called Henry Drummond in the play and movie)
Were you always present, at least in spirit, for roll calls in the Space Patrol of Heinlein’s writings? - Lt. Dahlquist, whose name is always mentioned in roll calls, heroically gave his life to stop an attempted military coup
Did Emma Thompson play you in Sense and Sensibility? - Elinor Dashwood (Thompson also won an Oscar for her screenplay)

DQs:

Living?
American?

IQs:

Did the actors who played your parents also play a starship captain and a barrister?
Are you the best-known entertainer from Steubenville, Ohio?
Did your world try to join the Second Empire of Humanity on particularly favorable terms?

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Donald Driver
Correct
Donald Pleasence

DQs:

Are you still alive?
American?

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Bah! I overlooked that my DQs had already been asked! Can I substitute?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last Name Starts with D
  4. Deceased
  5. Not American

kitap, take 2 more DQs, because EH asked the same questions first.

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Cross posted!

Thanks. I was a nitwit.

DQs:

Born before 1900?
Famous for politics?

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#2. I am not Dean Martin.
Take 2 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last Name Starts with D
  4. Deceased
  5. Not American
  6. Born before 1900
  7. Not famous for politics

You are not a nitwit,** kitap**. Inattention happens to us all.

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Dean Martin was from Steubenville, Ohio? It seems so…UnRat Pack.

Ahem. Anyhow.

IQs:

  1. Were you an actor probably best known for playing Uncle Charley on My Three Sons?
  2. Are you an actress probably best known for playing Corinne Tate Flotsky on Soap?
  3. Did you play Father Marcus on the TV series The Exorcist?
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#1. I am not William Demarest.
#2. I am not Diana Canova.
Take a DQ.

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Previous IQs:

Did the actors who played your parents also play a starship captain and a barrister? - Draco Malfoy (the actors also appeared in Star Trek: Discovery and The Queen)
Are you the best-known entertainer from Steubenville, Ohio? - Yes, indeed, Dean Martin (as was Edwin Stanton, Lincoln’s second SECWAR, whose statue stands outside the county courthouse)
Did your world try to join the Second Empire of Humanity on particularly favorable terms? - The title character of Jerry Pournelle’s King David’s Spaceship

DQs:

European?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Did Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpt you in the nude?
Did you play a scientist and later a doctor on two versions of the same TV show?
Were you supporting your father more than the other way 'round when you got married?