Botticelli - October 2015

Thread Games
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IQ1: Are you the primary character in a series of science fiction children’s books written by Jerome Beatty Jr and illustrated by Gahan Wilson?
IQ2: Did Philippe Druillet illustrate comics of you, a space rogue and freebooter drawn to this dimension by He Who Seeks?
IQ3: Are you a robot from the first Battlestar Galactica series, voiced by Johnathan Harris?

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Swept again- 3 DQs.

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Hints:

  1. I appeared in a trilogy of novels.

  2. I am strongly associated with a specific American city and a specific ethnicity.

  3. My creator lobbied shamelessly and unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize. Regardless, my trilogy appears on most critics’ lists of the greatest novels of the 20th century.

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Well, that sounds like the U.S.A. trilogy by Dos Passos. Which I never read.

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IQ: Are you the protagonist in a series of books by James Farrell?

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Thanks, but those clues aren’t ringin’ any of my chimes.

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Yessss! Thank goodness, Astorian couldn’t have taken another washout!
I am Chicago’s own William “Studs” Lonigan, embodiment of everything commie author James T. Farrell disliked about blue-collar Irish-Catholic culture.
I bow to you, Professor.

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and I to you, astorian.

But now I am D.

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I’d heard of Studs but knew nothing about him. Good job, Prof. P.!

IQs:

Were you a government official with five tuxedos?
Were you a fat judge appointed to SCOTUS by Lincoln?
Were you a monarch who wanted a spacecraft for his planet?

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Take 3 DQs.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a government official with five tuxedos? - David Dinkins, Mayor of NYC.
Were you a fat judge appointed to SCOTUS by Lincoln? - David Davis.
Were you a monarch who wanted a spacecraft for his planet? - The title character of Jerry Pournelle’s King David’s Spaceship.

David x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?
Last name start with D?

IQs:

Were you an intern in the LBJ White House?
In True Lies, were you Boris’s spy partner?
Did Cuba Gooding Jr. play you in Pearl Harbor?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with D
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#2. I am not Doris. Take 2 DQs.

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IQ1: Did you head Project Cadmus and create the DNAliens?
IQ2: Are you the redhead starlet of Silver Age DC romance comics such as Date With _____ and _____'s Dates?
IQ3: Are you a Kryptonian juvenile delinquent who pretended to be Superboy and then time traveled to the 30th century and reformed?

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  1. I am not Dubbilex.
  2. I am not Debbie? Take a DQ if I’m wrong.
  3. Take a DQ.
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Previous IQs:

Were you an intern in the LBJ White House? - Doris Kearns Goodwin.
In True Lies, were you Boris’s spy partner? - Yes, Doris (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Did Cuba Gooding Jr. play you in Pearl Harbor? - Doris “Dorie” Miller.

Doris x3!

DQs:

American?
Living?

IQs:

Were you one of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest?
Do you work for the PHB?
Are you the pet of the person referred to in that question?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with D
  4. American
  5. Living
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I am not Alan-a-Dale.
I am not Dilbert.
I am not Dogbert.

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I’ve heard the name, but couldn’t even have identified him as real/fictional.
IQ1: Did you do Dallas?
IQ2: In a song you sang, were a couple of lines addressed to a whippoorwill?
IQ3: Did you disguise yourself as a man to serve in the Continental Army during the Revolution?

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  1. I am not Debbie.
    Take 2 DQs.