Botticelli, Nov. 2022

Thread Games
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#1 was Robert Benchley.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Ben Blue.

DQs:

  1. Created after 1980?
  2. Main character?
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B

1, Fictional
2. Male
3. Only known name starts with ‘B’
4. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created after 1900
6. Not from a song
7. Created after 1950
8. Not created by Americans
9. Not an American character
10. Might, after a fashion, be alive today
11. Originally from a movie or television show
12. European creator(s)
13. Human
14. Did not first appear in a movie
15. Created after 1980
16. Not the main character

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Previous IQs:

Were you Africa’s answer to a certain count from Transylvania? - Yes, that guy: Blacula - Wikipedia
Did you create and run Hill Street Blues? - Stephen Bochco
Have you played, during your long career, a con man, a senior military officer, a top CIA man and a mythical Greek king? - Brian Cox, in The Music Man, X2, The Bourne Supremacy and Troy

DQs:

Bad guy?
European character?

IQs:

Were you Edward Cullen’s sweetie?
Did you possess Special Agent Dale Cooper?
Did you become the Star Child?

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IQ1: Do you frequently have a cunning plan?
IQ2: Did you write Waiting for Godot?
IQ3: Did your mother’s shooting death traumatize generations of children?

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I’m going to rudely ignore EH’s post, because yes, I am indeed Blackadder’s dogsbody, Baldrick.


That went a little quicker than I’d expected…

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Good play, Chock!

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Yes, indeedy! Congrats, CFOHG.

Previous IQs:

Were you Edward Cullen’s sweetie? - Bella Swan, in the Twilight books and movies
Did you possess Special Agent Dale Cooper? - The evil spirit BOB, on Twin Peaks
Did you become the Star Child? - David Bowman, in 2001: A Space Odyssey

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You would have gotten three DQs for that, and if Chock hadn’t asked about Baldrick his other two IQs would have resulted in DQs.

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Ah, well. The road not taken… :wink:

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Nice. The “could be alive today, after a fashion” hint helped once I remembered he was still alive at the end of the millennium time travel special. And I don’t know much non-British European television.

Samuel Beckett, Bambi

Next up…C

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IQ1: Are you lost and gone forever?
IQ2: Did one of your followers attempt to kill President Ford?
IQ3: Did you associate with a lion named Fred?

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IQs:

  1. When Dorothy Parker was told you were dead, did she say “How can they tell?”
  2. Did you write the Father Brown mysteries?
  3. Did you voice the dragon in the first Pete’s Dragon movie?
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Not darling Clementine
Not Charles Manson - Squeaky Fromme went to my high school
DQ

3 DQs

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#1 was Calvin Coolidge.
#2 was Gilbert K. Chesterton.
#3 was Charlie Callas.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with C?
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IQs:

  1. Did Mary Richards laugh and then cry at your funeral?
  2. Were you aka Hawkman?
  3. Did Julius say you had “a lean and hungry look”?
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IQs:

Were you the only bearded Elf in all of Middle-earth, as far as we know?
Did you forge the ring that Gandalf eventually wore?
Were you AKA Saruman?

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C

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with C
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Not Chuckles the Clown
DQ
Not Cassius

DQ
Not Ciridan
Not Charkey with an S

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correct
correct
Super Chicken


DQ: Created after 1950?


IQ1: Were you the star of the Restoration?
IQ2: Were you #1’s father?
IQ3: Were you a noted USE naval officer not married to a princess?

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Correct, Carter Hall, Correct

1 DQ reserved.