Botticelli - September 2018

Thread Games
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Having stumped everyone before, I host again.

I am D.

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August thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=859776

IQs:

Are you the best-known fictional beet farmer in Scranton, Pa.?
Were you a fat judge and Lincoln campaign manager who ended up on SCOTUS?
Did you write a note before an important event, stick it in your pocket, and forget about it until after the important event was a success?

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IQ1: Are you a wrestler and action star known as The Rock?
IQ2: Are you quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals?
IQ3: Are you quarterback for the Oakland Raiders?

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IQs:

  1. Have you played a romantic Time Lord, a mind-controlling psychopath and a miserable police detective?
  2. Did you play Mel Cooley on The Dick Van Dyke Show?
  3. Were you a French Impressionist painter who took his inspiration from the then-new field of photography?
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Respectively:

  1. I am not Dwight Schrute.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Dwight Eisenhower.

IQ1: I am not Dwayne Johnson.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: Take a DQ.

  1. I am not David Tennant.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Degas.
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Correct, Richard Deacon, Correct.

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Did you use the pseudonym “Boz” in some of your writings?
  2. Were you a young tenor singer who appeared on Jack Benny’s radio show?
  3. Were you married to actress Ruby Dee?
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Previous IQs:

Are you the best-known fictional beet farmer in Scranton, Pa.? - Yes, Dwight Schrute, from The Office
Were you a fat judge and Lincoln campaign manager who ended up on SCOTUS? - David Davis: David Davis (Supreme Court justice) - Wikipedia
Did you write a note before an important event, stick it in your pocket, and forget about it until after the important event was a success? - Yes, Dwight D. Eisenhower: Dwight Eisenhower Wrote a Letter Accepting Blame for D-Day's Failure, Just in Case | Mental Floss

DQ:

Male?

IQs:

Did you, according to a magazine profile, own five tuxedos?
Did you order the husband of a beautiful woman for whom you lusted to an almost certain battlefield death?
Did you want your planet to have its own spacecraft in order to get better treatment from the Empire of Humanity?

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correct, Andy Dalton, Derek Carr

DQ: Last name start with D?

holding a DQ

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  1. I am not Charles Dickens.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Ossie Davis.

Take 3 DQs.
IQs:

  1. real
  2. female
  3. only name starts with D
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Correct, Dennis Day, Correct.

DQ: Living?

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IQs:

  1. Were you ancient Israel’s only female Judge?
  2. Are you a female English singer/songwriter with one name?
  3. Were you Othello’s wife?
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  1. I am not Deborah.
  2. I am not Duffy.
  3. I am not Desdemona.
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Previous IQs:

Did you, according to a magazine profile, own five tuxedos? - Then-NYC Mayor David Dinkins
Did you order the husband of a beautiful woman for whom you lusted to an almost certain battlefield death? - King David, from the Old Testament
Did you want your planet to have its own spacecraft in order to get better treatment from the Empire of Humanity? - The title character from the Jerry Pournelle sf novel King David’s Spaceship

David x3!

DQs:

Born since 1950?
American?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Were you the ingenue in Phantom of the Opera?
Were you Buzz Lightyear’s partner-gone-bad?
Were you the doomed childhood friend of Luke Skywalker’s?

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IQ1: Did you give Samson a really bad haircut?
IQ2: Were you bandleader for the Tonight Show primarily through the Johnny Carson years?
IQ3: Are you one of the principal animators and voice actors for The Venture Brothers?

holding a DQ

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Swept me again!

IQs:

  1. Are you Don Quixote’s dream girl?
  2. Are you a female English singer/songwriter with one name who had a hit written by Eminem?
  3. Are you Jim Butcher’s detective protagonist?
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Respectively:

  1. I am not Christine Daaé.
  2. I am not Warp Darkmatter.
  3. I am not Biggs Darklighter.

IQ1: I am not Delilah.
IQ2: I am not Doc Severinsen.
IQ3: I am not Doc Hammer.

  1. I am not Dulcinea.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Harry Dresden.
    IQs:
  1. real
  2. female
  3. only name starts with D
  4. dead
  5. born since 1950
  6. not American
  7. not known for the Arts
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Correct, Dido, and Correct.

DQ: Died after 2000?

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IQs:

  1. real
  2. female
  3. only name starts with D
  4. dead
  5. born after 1950
  6. not American
  7. not known for the Arts
  8. died after 2000
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IQ: Were you the world’s first cloned sheep?