Botticelli - November 2018

Thread Games
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Rules here. Previous thread for October here.

Having guessed correctly in the previous round, I, W. De La Rue, host this round.

I am C.

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IQs:

Did Al Franken say of you, “I like [this senator] more than most of his Republican colleagues. And I hate [this senator]”?
Did a political foe concede that you “probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove”?
Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write about Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot?
  2. Were you one of the Washington Post reporters who broke the story about Watergate?
  3. Were you a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school whose work influenced the French Impressionists?
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Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Simon Cameron.
Take a DQ.

  1. I am not Agatha Christie.
  2. I am not Carl Bernstein.
  3. Take a DQ.
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Correct on Agatha and Carl. Camille Corot was the landscape painter who influenced Monet and Renoir.

DQ: Real?

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Previous IQs:

Did Al Franken say of you, “I like [this senator] more than most of his Republican colleagues. And I hate [this senator]”? - Ted Cruz
Did a political foe concede that you “probably wouldn’t steal a hot stove”? - Yes, Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s crooked first SECWAR
Were you Nelson’s #2 at Trafalgar? - Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Were you the hapless PM in the first season of the original British House of Cards?
Were you a patrician Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals?
Are you the current Duke of Cornwall?

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Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Prince Charles.
DQs:

  1. fictional
  2. neither male nor female, but has a female name
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IQs:

  1. Are you the goldfish in Disney’s Pinocchio?
  2. Were you the title character in a 1980’s sci-fi adventure that also featured Melanie Griffith?
  3. Are you the Great Gonzo’s chicken girlfriend?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the hapless PM in the first season of the original British House of Cards? - Charles Collingridge
Were you a patrician Tory bad guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals? - Charles Seymour
Are you the current Duke of Cornwall? - Yes, Prince Charles

Charles x3!

DQs:

Non-human?
First appeared since 1950?

IQs:

You are fictional. Is your dad a patent lawyer?
Are you a robopsychologist in the works of Isaac Asimov?
Are you the best-known person from Plymouth Notch?

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  1. I am not Cleo.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Camilla.

I am not Calvin.
I am not Susan Calvin.
I am not Calvin Coolidge.
DQs:

  1. fictional
  2. neither male nor female, but has a female name
  3. non-human
  4. first appeared after 1950
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Correct, Cherry 2000, Correct.

Non-human usually means robot/AI, alien or animal. Hmmm.

DQ: robot or AI character?

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Swept me! Calvin x3.

IQs:

Are you an AI in the HALO universe?
Are you Harrison Ford’s wife?
Were you the last human being aboard the spacecraft USS Discovery?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a protocol droid who speaks Bocce?
  2. Are you Harlequin’s great love?
  3. Did the Mystery Men battle you in their eponymous film?
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Respectively:
I am not Cortana.
I am not Calista Flockhart.
…take a DQ? I would think the last living human being on Discovery was Dave Bowman.

  1. I am not C-3PO.
  2. I am not Columbine.
  3. I am not Casanova Frankenstein.
    DQs:
  1. fictional
  2. neither male nor female, but has a female name
  3. non-human
  4. first appeared after 1950
  5. not a robot or AI character
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That’s Doctor Casanova Frankenstein to you.

Previous IQs:

Are you an AI in the HALO universe? - Yes, Cortana
Are you Harrison Ford’s wife? - Yes, Callista Flockhart
Were you the last human being aboard the spacecraft USS Discovery? - Dr. Chandra (Bob Balaban) is the last off in 2010: The Year We Make Contact

DQ:

Alien?

IQs:

Were you a killer car in a Stephen King novel and later a movie?
Did you no one believe your prescient and accurate warnings?
Were you the pen name of a French author and the subject of a recent Keira Knightley movie?

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I am not Cassandra or Colette, but I am indeed Christine!

Next round goes to Elendil’s Heir.

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Woohoo! Thanks, DLR.

Our next letter is naturally

D

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:: taps mic ::

Is this on?

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A few busy days there.

IQs:

  1. Did you famously NOT invent baseball?
  2. Did you compose The Sorcerer’s Apprentice?
  3. Are you a Marvel mercenary who appeared in Deadpool 2?
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IQs:

  1. Did you betray Samson?
  2. Is someone in the kitchen with you?
  3. Were you a naturalist born the same day as Abraham Lincoln?