Botticelli - Sept. 2016

Thread Games
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Last month’s thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=801175

Next up in the alphabet, the letter

S

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a hit with Kodachrome?
  2. Did you have a hit with Attitude Dancing?
  3. Are you aka the Saint?
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Not Paul Simon, dunno, and not Simon Templar.

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Correct. #2 was Carly Simon. Correct.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a long-time player of Botticelli who has been sadly absent from this thread for months?
  2. Did you compose The Carnival of the Animals?
  3. Did you lead the orchestra in Disney’s Fantasia?
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Dunno, not Saint-Saens (sp?), and not Leopold (Leopold!) Stokowski.

S.

  1. fictional
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How soon we forget. #1 is SCAdian. Correct on the others.

DQ: Male?

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IQs:

  1. Are you a giant fisherman in American tall tales?
  2. Did you tell your husband 1,001 cliffhangers?
  3. Are you aka Norrin Radd?
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Ah, SCAdian, of course. Thanks.

Not Alfred Bulltop Stormalong, Scheherazade (sp?) and dunno.

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
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Correct, correct, and the Silver Surfer.

DQ: Created since 1950?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Vampire: His Kith and Kin?
  2. Are you a fictional relative of #1?
  3. Did you write The Human Comedy?
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Dunno x3.

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. created since 1950
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#1 was Montague Summers, Victorian writer.
#2 was Buffy Summers, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
#3 was William Saroyan.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with S?
  2. Created for a work of prose fiction?
  3. Protagonist?
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IQs:

  1. Were you one of the players on the acclaimed BBC 1950’s/60’s radio series The Goon Show?
  2. Were you another of the players on the highly esteemed Goon Show?
  3. Needle nardle noo: were you a third player on the radio series that inspired the Monty Python troupe, The Goon Show?
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Dunno x3.

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. created since 1950
  4. first name starts with S
  5. not created for a work of prose fiction
  6. not the protagonist
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The cast of The Goon Show consisted mainly of Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe.

DQs:

  1. From a movie or series of movies?
  2. Created since 2000?
  3. By an American creator (or creators)?
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IQs:

  1. Did you star in the movie Swashbuckler?
  2. Did you star in the movie Carrie? (the original one)
  3. Did you write Ida: A Novel?
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Not Spencer Tracy (guessing), not Sissy Spacek (sp?), and not Sinclair Lewis (also guessing).

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. created since 1950
  4. first name starts with S
  5. not created for a work of prose fiction
  6. not the protagonist
  7. from a movie or series of movies
  8. created before 2000
  9. by an American creator or creators
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#1 was Robert Shaw (who also played the villain in The Sting)
#2 is Cissy Spacek, correct.
#3 was Gertrude Stein.

DQs:

  1. Antagonist?
  2. From a science-fiction or fantasy movie or series?
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S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. created since 1950
  4. first name starts with S
  5. not created for a work of prose fiction
  6. not the protagonist
  7. from a movie or series of movies
  8. created before 2000
  9. by an American creator or creators
  10. not the antagonist
  11. from a kinda-sorta science fiction or fantasy movie or series

But not usually thus categorized.