Botticelli - November 2017

Thread Games
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Last month’s thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=837769

Beginning again our march through the alphabet, the letter is

A

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Are you the non-worrying spokesman for MAD magazine?
Did Fred Dalton Thompson play you in Law & Order?
Are you the first conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra?

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IQs:

  1. Are you presently playing Lois Lane in the DC movies?
  2. Does Dr. Strange wear your “Eye” around his neck?
  3. Did Tim Hulce play you in an Oscar-winning film?
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IQ1: Did you have a sports stadium named after you that was subsequently renamed following a political controversy?
IQ2: According to Greek legend, were you turned into a spider?
IQ3: Are you a former poet laureate?

Apologies if some of these are repeats of recent questions, I haven’t played in a while.

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IQ1: Did you lead the attack on New London, Ct, in 1781?
IQ2: Did you marry the princess Roxana?
IQ3: Were you the first known philosopher to say the world hangs in space, rather than resting on the backs of tortoises or something else?
I was actually halfway through writing this post when we lost power last night. Fortunately it appears that none of you have duplicated any of my people. :slight_smile:

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Not Alfred E. Newman, dunno, and not Arturo Toscanini.

Not Amy Adams, dunno, and not Amadeus (love that movie!).

Dunno, not Arachne, and dunno. And no apologies necessary.

Not Benedict Arnold (ptui!), dunno, and not… Aristotle?

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Correct, Agamotto, Correct.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a 20th Century Finnish architect and designer of note?
  2. Were you one of the Algonquin Circle who had a column called The Conning Tower?
  3. Did you write Watership Down?
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Arthur Branch

DQ: First name start with A?

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IQ1. Is a combination of tea and lemonade named after you?
IQ2: Were you on the Sweathogs from Welcome Back Kotter?
IQ3: Are you an ex-husband of Roseanne Barr, who is coincidentally from the same home town as Radar O’Reilly?

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Correct with Arachne, the other two were Arnold Schwarzenegger and Andrew Motion.

DQ1: Male?
DQ2 Human?

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Correct, Alexander the Great, and Anaximander.
2 DQs reserved.

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Not Aaro Saarinen (sp?), dunno, and dunno.

Not Arnold Palmer, Arnold “The cattle are dying” Horshack, and not Tom Arnold. Arnold x3!

A.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with A
  3. seems male
  4. not human
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This might be a stretch, so feel free to disallow it, but are you eight times older than the universe itself and very depressed?

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#1 is actually correct, but not who I was thinking of. I’ll rephrase and ask that one again.
#2 was Franklin P. Adams.
#3 was Richard Adams.

DQs:

  1. Created by an American author or authors?
  2. Created after 1900?
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IQs:

  1. Were you a 20th Century Finnish architect and designer of note who was not Aaro Saarinen?
  2. Are you the hero of Army of Darkness?
  3. Did you steal your father’s harem?
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IQ1: Are you a wandering minstrel and a member of Robin Hood’s band of Merry Men?
IQ2: Do you gnaw hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond time and space amidst the muffled, maddening beating of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes?
IQ3: Are you the Egyptian god of the Underworld?

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DQ: Fantasy genre?

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Presuming that’s an IQ, no, I am not Marvin the Paranoid Android.

Dunno, not Ash, and not… Aladdin?

Not Alan a (with accent mark?) Dale, Azathoth (you left out “rugous”) or Anubis.

A.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with A
  3. seems male
  4. not human
  5. created by an American or Americans
  6. created after 1900
  7. not in fantasy genre
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IQ1: Are you the protagonist of the I Robot series written by Eando Binder?
IQ2: Did Ian Holm play you in Alien?
IQ3: Did Robin Williams play you in Bicentennial Man?