Botticelli September 2011

Thread Games
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IQ: Were you the first French Canadian Prime Minister of Canada, whose image is on the $5 bill?

(Still waiting for an answer on post #128, too.)

142

Were you injured in a silversmithing accident, subsequently joining the Sons of Liberty?

143

IQ: Is your real name Dolores Haze?

144

No idea who this is- ask a DQ.

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I guess I only read the articles that month… ask a DQ.

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No

  1. Fictional character
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of literature.
  4. First appeared after the 19th century.
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Not Gary (Far Side) Larson?

148

Not Lolita

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Not Wilfrid Laurier?

150

I thought that would be Johnny Tremaine… but there’s no L.

Ask a DQ.

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**
Silken Laumann**. Now a motivational speaker, she broke her leg during a training accident in May of 1992. Team Canada refused to disclose the extent of her injuries; since then, it has been revealed that the doctors told her she would never row again. In 2 - 3 months of intense training and physiotherapy, she came back, competed and took bronze. At the time, her story was all over the Canadian Olympic coverage.

DQ: Was the work of literature in which you appeared originally in English?

152

Wilfred Laurier it is; well done!

153

You are not China (rhymes with Tina) Lee, who parlayed her fame into the role of Robot #11 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.

DQ: Did you appear in a single work? By that I mean you were in one novel/story, not a recurring character in a series.

IQ: Was your son given a nearly impossible task with the expectation that he would fail as a punishment for your failure at your assigned task?

154

Are you in a Steinbeck work? (PS my previous query DID refer to Johnny Tremain)

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Yes

  1. Fictional character
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of literature.
  4. First appeared after the 19th century.
  5. Work I first appeared in was written in English
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Yes, I appeared in only one work

  1. Fictional character
  2. Male
  3. First appeared in a work of literature.
  4. First appeared after the 19th century.
  5. The work I first appeared in was written in English
  6. I only appeared in one book/story/play/whatever.
157

Oh boy…

Now things get difficult. I don’t want to be rude, I really don’t… but from the questions you’ve asked and the way you’ve asked them, I get the feeling you don’t fully understand how this game works (You shouldn’t have asked a question about Johnny Tremaine in a game where we’ve established the subject’s first or last name starts with “L”).

However, the answer to your question is “Yes.”

That “yes” pretty well gives away the answer. Anyone who thinks he/she knows the answer is free to go for it now.

But if ETV78 is the winner, I think he needs a crash course in how to “host” the game.

158

Well, seeing as how I am sort of owed a gimme…

IQ: Were your dreams of living off the fat of the land cut suddenly and tragically short?

If so, then “A”.

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Yes… you did sort of get screwed out of a turn.

So, congrats- yes, I am Lenny Small, large but dim, sweet but dangerous migrant worker in John Steinbeck’s ***Of Mice and Men. ***

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Thanks…once more with feeling, then, the new letter we are working with is A.