Botticelli - October 2015

Thread Games
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IQ1: Did you attempt to end the Peloponnesian War by persuading the soldiers’ wives and lovers to withhold sex from them?
IQ2: Are you a Spartan king who led a Greek force against the Persians at Thermopylae?
IQ3: Was your novel *Solaris *adapted three times into film?

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Correct. (Lippy the Lion, actually.)
Correct.
Lazlo (the old Cartoon Network show Camp Lazlo).
DQ: Considered a good guy?
IQ1: Were you a fictional Canadian whaler?
IQ2: Is a type of log named after you?
IQ3: Are you best known for a language you invented?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a metafictional detective who only appears in his office, the local bar, an alleyway, and the rooftop where he has the climactic confrontation with the bad guy?
  2. Are you an Irish deity and High King?
  3. Are you Snuffy Smith’s wife?
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Not Lysistrata, and not Leonidas.

Take a DQ for 3

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originated in literature
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Not a particularly good person, but not exactly bad
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Stanislaw Lem

Prof had a DQ: American in origin?

DQ: Created before 1850?

holding a DQ

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originated in literature
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Created by an American
  6. Created after 1850
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Not Louisie.

Take DQs for 1 and 2

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Not Ned Land, Abe Lincoln or Leon Zamenhof

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Correct.
Correct.
Ludwig Zamenhof, but close enough.

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#1 is Lazlo Woodbine, from the novels of Robert Rankin. #2 is Lugh.
#3 is correct, but spelled Loweezy, IIRC.

2 DQs reserved.

Take DQs for 1 and 2

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IQ1: Are you also known as Woodrow Wilson Smith, Ernest Gibbons, Captain Aaron Sheffield, and “Happy” Daze?
IQ2: Is Ghanima your twin sister?
IQ3: Did you appear as postal carrier Willie Lumpkin in Fantastic Four (2005)?

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DQ: From a novel or series of novels?

1 DQ reserved.

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Dang.

Three DQs for you.

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originated in literature
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Created by an American
  6. Created after 1850
  7. First appeared in a novel or series of novels
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[I note that SCAdian asked a DQ about whether or not you were considered a good guy, to which you answered not good, but not bad either. ]

DQ: Last name starts with L?

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SUMMARY

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originated in literature
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Created by an American
  6. Created after 1850
  7. First appeared in a novel or series of novels
  8. Not a particularly good person, but not evil
  9. Last name starts with L
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IQs:

  1. Is Tom Hanks a descendant of yours?
  2. Did you write The Harlem Renaissance?
  3. Did you start the foremost New Age and occultist publishing house around today, which is name for you?
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Not Nancy Hanks Lincoln?

Not Langston Hughes.

DQ for #3

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Correct (I had in mind Abe, but it also works for Nancy). Correct on Langston.
#3 is Llewellyn George, founder of Llewellyn Publishing.

DQ: Protagonist?