Botticelli - October 2018

Thread Games
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OK, it’s after 10PM.

I am the Person from Porlock! Who, in 1797, visited Samuel Taylor Coleridge for an hour and distracted him from writing down the rest of “Kubla Khan”. Possibly Coleridge made him up as an excuse for why the poem was unfinished.

New game on Saturday.

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I remember the story, but don’t remember the term. IIRC Coleridge said he was a salesman who wouldn’t take no for an answer.

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Good one! Well chosen.

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New game: I am F.

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D’oh! I thought of Porlock and Xanadu, but was thinking of the town and not the otherwise-unnamed person himself. Should’ve taken a stab at it.

IQs:

Are your father, mother and uncle all psychiatrists?
Did you praise Washington’s generalship during the 1776-1777 New Jersey campaign?
Did both of your successors have the same word as one of their names?

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IQs:

  1. Are you one of Murphy Brown’s cohosts on Murphy In The Morning?
  2. Are you credited with legendarily making the first Christmas tree?
  3. Did you play the title role on The Nanny?
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IQ1: Are you one of the Warriors Three along with Volstagg and Hogun the Grim?
IQ2: Did you bite off the hand of Tyr?
IQ3: Are you Odin’s wife, who can see the future but tells no one?

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Respectively:
Take a DQ because I can’t remember Fraiser’s (and Lilith’s) son’s first name.
Take a DQ.
I am not Fulgencio Batista.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not…St. Francis?
  3. I am not Fran Drescher.

IQ1: I am not Fandral the Dashing.
IQ2: I am not Fenrir.
IQ3: I am not Freya.

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Previous IQs:

Are your father, mother and uncle all psychiatrists? - You were very close; it was Frederick Crane, from Frasier
Did you praise Washington’s generalship during the 1776-1777 New Jersey campaign? - Frederick the Great
Did both of your successors have the same word as one of their names? - I’ll rephrase

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

You were an American. Did both of your successors have the same word as one of their names?
Were you an important leader on Aurora in the Isaac Asimov novel The Robots of Dawn?
Did you coworkers watch your wedding home movies and mock you MST3K-style?

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#1 is Frank Fontana. Correct on the others.

DQ: Last name starts with F?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a lovably inept lawman on a 1960’s sitcom?
  2. Are you the Shakespearean character whom Verdi made the subject of his last opera?
  3. Are you a fantastic animated character voiced by George Clooney?
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Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Barney Fife.
  2. I am not Falstaff.
  3. I am not Mr. Fox.
    DQs:
  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
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Previous IQs:

You were an American. Did both of your successors have the same word as one of their names? - Frederick “Fred” Vinson was succeeded as Chief Justice of the United States by Earl Warren and then Warren Burger
Were you an important leader on Aurora in the Isaac Asimov novel The Robots of Dawn? - Han Fastolfe
Did you coworkers watch your wedding home movies and mock you MST3K-style? - Maj. Frank Burns on MASH*

DQs:

American?
Living?
Political/military?

IQs:

Did you play the President in Seven Days in May?
Were you one of Victor Hugo’s most beloved characters?
Were you mentioned but never seen in the first Harry Potter novel?

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Swept me again.

  1. Did you fight crime with Dynomutt?
  2. Were you a superhero aka Hirem, who fought the evil Dr. Goo Fee?
  3. Were you Al Capp’s parody of Dick Tracy?
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Respectively:
I am not Frederick March.
I am not Fantine.
I am not Nicholas Flamel.

  1. I am not the Blue Falcon.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Lester Gooch’s Fearless Fosdick.
    DQs:
  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
  4. not American
  5. not living
  6. not involved in politics/the military
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Swept me (although Frederic March spelled his first name without a “k”).

IQs:

Were you chair of the RNC in the Eighties?
Were you revived in Arthur C. Clarke’s 3001?
Were you captain of Hill Street Station?

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correct, correct, Frigg

DQ: European?

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Correct on 1 and 3. #2 was Fearless Fly.

DQ: Died after 1900?

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Respectively:

Take a DQ.
I am not Frank Poole.
Take a DQ.
DQs:

  1. real
  2. male
  3. last name starts with F
  4. not American
  5. not living
  6. not involved in politics/the military
  7. European
  8. died after 1900
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IQ1: Did you play the grandson in The Princess Bride?
IQ2: Did you head the Westboro Baptist Church protests at US soldier funerals?
IQ3: Are you vocalist for Limp Bizkit?