Botticelli - October 2018

Thread Games
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Old thread (for September): https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=861636

I am P.

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Grats, De.

IQ1: Are you a Golden Age inventor who gave Superman new gadgets to test?
IQ2: Are you an ancient Greek statesman who said “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you”?
IQ3: Are you a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers artist who is also a founding member of the Church of the SubGenius?

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IQ1: Was your father put into a pie by Mr. McGregor?
IQ2: Are you the creator of the answer to IQ1?
IQ3: Are you the inventor of the tromboon?

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IQs:

  1. Did you fall off your donkey on the way to Damascus?
  2. Did you invent the composer P.D.Q. Bach?
  3. Did you play multiple roles in your last film, The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu?
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IQ1: I am not Professor Pepperwinkle (

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Darn, missed the editing window.

IQ1: I am not Professor Pepperwinkle.
IQ2: I am not Pericles.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

IQ1: I am not Peter Rabbit.
IQ2: I am not Beatrix Potter.
IQ3: I am not P.D.Q. Bach.

  1. Take a DQ because I don’t know if this is Peter or Paul.
  2. I am not Peter Schickele.
  1. I am not Peter Sellers.
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#1 was Paul.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Did you star in a move that was titled “[Name] Is Dead”?
  2. Were you a French Romantic painter, renowned for your portrait of Empress Josephine?
  3. Were you the leader of six Armenian immigrants who founded a candy company?
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Paul Mavrides

DQ: Last name start with P?

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[Tsk, tsk, Prof. Pepperwinkle was Silver Age, not Golden Age.]

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I didn’t expect to stump him with your username.

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  1. I am not Pauly Shore.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
    DQs:
  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
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#1 is correct.
#2 was Pierre-Paul Prud’hon.
#3 was Peter Paul Halajian, founder of Peter Paul candies.

DQs:

  1. American?
  2. Male?
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IQs:

Did you run the bar where Murphy Brown hung out?
Did your car get stuck in a river in It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World?
Is your Versace coat on view at a Navy Pier restaurant in Chicago?

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IQs:

  1. Did you play the young defense lawyer in It’s A Wonderful Life?
  2. Are you the dour and taciturn friend of Pogo in the comic strip of that name?
  3. Were you the wife of Epimetheus?
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IQ1: Did you play “Pig Vomit” in Howard Stern’s bio movie Private Parts?
IQ2: Were you a children’s show host whose career took a nosedive when you were caught masturbating in an X-rated theater?
IQ3: Are you the real name of IQ2?

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  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Phil Silvers.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Porky Pine.
  3. I am not Pandora.

IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: I am not Pee-wee Herman.
IQ3: I am not Paul Rubens.
DQS:

  1. was claimed to be real by someone else, actual status unknown
  2. last word of name begins with P
  3. not American
  4. male
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Paul Giamatti

DQ: Caucasian?

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#1 was John Payne. Correct on the others.

DQ: Born after 1800?

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Previous IQs:

Did you run the bar where Murphy Brown hung out? - Phil
Did your car get stuck in a river in It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World? - Yes, Phil Silvers
Is your Versace coat on view at a Navy Pier restaurant in Chicago? - Phil Connors (Bill Murray) from Groundhog Day

Phil x3!

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Are you probably the best-known person born on Corfu?
Are you Arthur’s adorable puppy on PBS?
Were you a black poet who admired George Washington?