Botticelli, Oct. 2022

Thread Games
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#1. I am not Johnny Rico.
Take 2 DQs.

202

Hey, two Starship Troopers questions! :grin:

Previous IQs:

Were you Nixon’s first SECSTATE? - William Rogers
Did you conquer Vincennes and Kaskaskia? - George Rogers Clark, during the American Revolution
Did Johnny Rico serve aboard a troop transport named after you? - Rodger Young, a WWII hero

Ro[d]ger x3!

DQs:

Created after 1850?
Character speaks a Romance language?

IQs:

Did you command His Imperial Majesty’s Battlecruiser MacArthur?
Did you joke that maybe the train engineer could marry you and your sweetie?
Is your doting daughter Beth and your worthless son-in-law Jerry?

203

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Created before 1900
  6. Not from a genre
  7. Not by a native speaker of English
  8. From prose
  9. European
  10. Main character
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Author not French
  13. Created after 1850
  14. Character not a native speaker of a romance language
204

Take 3 DQs.

205

Roderick, Lord Blaine, in the Niven and Pournelle novel The Mote in God’s Eye
Rick Blaine in Casablanca
Rick Sanchez, on Rick and Morty

Rick x3!

DQs:

Character from in or east of Vienna?
Character from in or north of Vienna?
Has ever appeared in a movie?

IQs:

Did Don Henley make a pun about your name in a song?
Were you a fierce little mongoose?
Did you write about that critter?

206

correct
Lt Rasczak
Rudolph the Red knows rain, dear.


Two DQs reserved.


IQ1: Were you drafted into impersonating your drugged and kidnapped cousin?
IQ2: Were you that cousin?
IQ3: Did you kill #2, and then get killed by #1?

207

IQs:
1. Were you part of The Thing with Two Heads?
2. Were you the other head?
3. Were your life and (loosely) novels the basis for the TV show…oooOOOoooooo…Bones?

208

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Created before 1900
  6. Not from a genre
  7. Not by a native speaker of English
  8. From prose
  9. European
  10. Main character
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Author not French
  13. Created after 1850
  14. Character not a native speaker of a romance language
  15. Character from east of Vienna
  16. Character from north of Vienna
  17. Has appeared in various movie versions of the book
209

#2. I am not Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
#3. I am not Rudyard Kipling.
Take 1 DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Roosevelt Greer (??)
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Kathy Reichs.

And that’s it for the IQs. Please ask all outstanding DQs by noon Saturday EDT.

210

Correct on Rosey Grier; 2 was Ray Milland; 3 was correct.

1 DQ reserved.

211

Previous IQs:

Did Don Henley make a pun about your name in a song? - Arthur Rimbaud, in “Driving with Your Eyes Closed” (“Some guys were born to Rimbaud, some guys breathe Baudelaire…”)
Were you a fierce little mongoose? - Yes, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
Did you write about that critter? - Yes, Rudyard Kipling

DQ:

Russian?

212

Swept me. This one went fast so I’ll just watch the other DQs. I think EH is thinking what I’m thinking.

213

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:208, topic:972516, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Created before 1900
  6. Not from a genre
  7. Not by a native speaker of English
  8. From prose
  9. European
  10. Main character
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Author not French
  13. Created after 1850
  14. Character not a native speaker of a romance language
  15. Character from east of Vienna
  16. Character from north of Vienna
  17. Has appeared in various movie versions of the book
  18. Russian

Anyone who has received a DQ in this game who feels confident enough to ask their final “Are you Firstname Lastname?” question may do so at any time.

214

Rudolf Rassendyll
King Rudolf of Ruritania
Rupert of Hentzau


DQ1: Still living at the end of the book?
DQ2: Russian author(s)?
Three DQs reserved.

215

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Created before 1900
  6. Not from a genre
  7. Not by a native speaker of English
  8. From prose
  9. European
  10. Main character
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Author not French
  13. Created after 1850
  14. Character not a native speaker of a romance language
  15. Character from east of Vienna
  16. Character from north of Vienna
  17. Has appeared in various movie versions of the book
  18. Still living at the end of book
  19. By a Russian author
216

DQ: Military/political character?
Two DQs reserved.


Lady SCAdian has suggested a solution, but I’ve never heard of the character (having never read the book or seen the movie) so I’m not going to guess.

217

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:215, topic:972516, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Fictional
  3. Last name starts with R
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Created before 1900
  6. Not from a genre
  7. Not by a native speaker of English
  8. From prose
  9. European
  10. Main character
  11. Created after 1800
  12. Author not French
  13. Created after 1850
  14. Character not a native speaker of a romance language
  15. Character from east of Vienna
  16. Character from north of Vienna
  17. Has appeared in various movie versions of the book
  18. Still living at the end of book
  19. By a Russian author
  20. Not a military/political character
218

No more DQs. Please ask your final “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by 6pm EDT Sunday.

219

Are you Raskalnikov (sp?)?

220

Yes! I am Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov,

protagonist of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.

Well done, EH!