Botticelli - Sept. 2016

Thread Games
181

DQ.
Not Jeremy Potts.
Not Jemima Potts.

DQ (though I’m pretty sure I should know this one).
Not John Adams.
DQ.

J

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not from a work of prose fiction
  4. Created by an American author (or authors)
  5. Last name starts with J
  6. Created after 1950
  7. American character
  8. Did not first appear in a movie
  9. Died in-story, but could have lived until today if real
  10. Not known from TV
  11. Not created after 1980
  12. Considered a good guy
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Previous IQs:

Did you appear in both My Fair Lady and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes? - Jeremy Brett.
Were you a child of an eccentric British inventor? - Yes, Jeremy Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Were you another child of an eccentric British inventor? - Yes, Jemima Potts.

DQ:

From comics?

IQs:

Did you sorta win at Jutland?
Was your first name actually Forsythe?
Was your raid a key event in South African history?

183

#1 was Jubilation T. Cornpone from the musical Li’l Abner, and whom I’ve used before.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Judas Iscariot.

2 DQs reserved.

184

Not John Jellicoe.
DQ.
DQ.

J

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not from a work of prose fiction
  4. Created by an American author (or authors)
  5. Last name starts with J
  6. Created after 1950
  7. American character
  8. Did not first appear in a movie
  9. Died in-story, but could have lived until today if real
  10. Not known from TV
  11. Not created after 1980
  12. Considered a good guy
  13. Not from comics
185

Previous IQs:

Did you sorta win at Jutland? - Yes, Adm. Jellicoe
Was your first name actually Forsythe? - Jughead Jones in Archie.
Was your raid a key event in South African history? - Jameson - can’t remember his first name.

DQs:

From radio?
Assocated with NYC?

IQs:

Did Elizabeth Banks play your sexy secretary?
Were you captain of the USS Cairo and briefly of the USS Enterprise?
Did the same boy kill your girlfriend and stab you?

186

Three DQs.

J

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not from a work of prose fiction
  4. Created by an American author (or authors)
  5. Last name starts with J
  6. Created after 1950
  7. American character
  8. Did not first appear in a movie
  9. Died in-story, but could have lived until today if real
  10. Not known from TV
  11. Not created after 1980
  12. Considered a good guy
  13. Not from comics
  14. Not from radio
  15. Not assocated with NYC
187

DQ: from a song?

1 DQ reserved.

188

IQs:

  1. Were you a bullfrog with very fine wine?
  2. Did you come along and save the girl who was tied to the railroad tracks in a song?
  3. Is your name my name too?
189

Not Jeremiah.
Not tall, thin, slow-walkin’, slow-talkin’, long, lean, lanky Jones. :smiley:
Not John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt.
(Y’know, I’ve never heard that last one - haven’t the faintest idea what the tune might be…)

J

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not from a work of prose fiction
  4. Created by an American author (or authors)
  5. Last name starts with J
  6. Created after 1950
  7. American character
  8. Did not first appear in a movie
  9. Died in-story, but could have lived until today if real
  10. Not known from TV
  11. Not created after 1980
  12. Considered a good guy
  13. Not from comics
  14. Not from radio
  15. Not assocated with NYC
  16. From a song
190

DQ: Created after 1963?

191

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Did you save a bunch of people by keeping the mine from collapsing?
  2. Did your girlfriend meet you at the candy store but her parents told her you were from the wrong side of town so she had to break up with you?
  3. Did you get on the wrong side of Slim, aka Willie McCoy?
192

Previous IQs:

Did Elizabeth Banks play your sexy secretary? - J. Jonah Jameson, in the early Spider-Man movies: http://www.hotflick.net/flicks/2004_Spider-Man_2/004SPT_Elizabeth_Banks_002.jpg
Were you captain of the USS Cairo and briefly of the USS Enterprise? - Edward Jellico, in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Did the same boy kill your girlfriend and stab you? - Jon Snow, on Game of Thrones.

DQs:

From a rock and roll song?
Best-known version of song performed by a soloist or a group?

One DQ reserved.

193

No.

No.
Yes.

I’m neither Jimmy, aka the leader of the pack, nor Big Jim Walker. I am, however, Big John, eponymous hero of Jimmy Dean’s song “Big Bad John.”

194

Good job, Prof. P.! Didn’t think of him.

195

If anyone has the intestinal fortitude for it, I here present the unfortunate sequel to Big Bad John: The Cajun Queen.

I’ll start the October thread when I come up with someone.

196

Link to October thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19670814#post19670814