December Botticelli

Thread Games
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IQ1: Should the mighty look upon your works and despair?
IQ2: Did a prince ask to lay his head upon your lap?
IQ3: Did you say your name was “No-one”?

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Correct on Orion and Preminger.
Olivia.
DQ: From an American source?
IQ1: Was your son a well-known imitation Air Force officer?
IQ2: Did you play opposite Leonard in the film adaptation of a play?
IQ3: Were you the king of the fairies?

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I am not Ozymandias (though I considered that one). I am not Ophelia. I am not Odysseus.

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I’m not Oberon. Take DQs for the first two.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name starts with O
  3. Most often female
  4. From an American source
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Well, Otto Preminger, actually…

Otto Klemperer, whose son Werner played Colonel Klink.
Olivia Hussey, who starred in the Franco Zeffirelli Romeo and Juliet with Leonard Whiting.
Correct on Oberon.
DQ1: First appeared after 1900?
DQ2: Human?
IQ1: Were you chancellor of Germany in the late 1800s?
IQ2: Did you and your brother manufacture bicycles before moving on to other things?
IQ3: Were you picky about lists?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name starts with O
  3. Most often female
  4. From an American source
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Human
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I’m not Otto von Bismarck. I’m not Orville Wright. I’m not Opalcat.

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I played Oberon in a high school production of A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream!

Previous IQs:

Were you played by an actress who is best known for playing a terrified mom? - Olive Oyl was played by Shelley Duvall in Popeye; she’s better known for her role in The Shining.
Did you star in a movie that had the bad guy put into a tiny cage and hung outside? - Orson Welles starred in a B&W film production of Othello; Iago was caged after he was caught.
Did the pizza guy get into your family holiday photo this year? - Odie, Garfield’s friend, in the Sunday cartoon strip a week or two ago.

DQs:

First appeared after 1950?
First appeared in a novel?
Creator still living?

IQs:

Are you and your actress sister still feuding?
Did you write to friends when you should have been focusing on your job?
Did your poem help save a famous ship?

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So we’re on to O?

IQ1: Were you a French-born British agent in WWII?
IQ2: Did you host your own talk show?
IQ3: Did you design clothes for Jackie Kennedy?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name starts with O
  3. Most often female
  4. From an American source
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Human
  7. First appeared before 1950
  8. First appeared in a novel
  9. Creator is deceased.
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I am not Olivia de Havilland. Take another 2 DQs.

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Take a DQ for #1.
#2) I’m not Oprah Winfrey.
#3) I’m not Oscar de la Renta.

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IQ1: Did you create Jack Pumpkinhead?
IQ2: Do you want women to get out of your dreams and into your car?

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Way to go, Chock!

I am indeed, Princess Ozma of OZ!

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Good job, ChockFull!

As to DQ3, when would Princess Ozma not be female?

Previous IQs:

Are you and your actress sister still feuding? - Yes, Olivia de Havilland.
Did you write to friends when you should have been focusing on your job? - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. sometimes caught up on his correspondence during oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Did your poem help save a famous ship? - His father, OWH Sr., who wrote about the USS Constitution and galvanized the public to save her: http://www.eldritchpress.org/owh/oldiron.html

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In her first appearance in The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma spends all but the last chapter or two under the spell of the wicked witch Mombi, who has transformed her into… a boy (known as Tippetarius, or Tip for short). Glinda figures out how to reverse the spell.

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Ah - I didn’t know that! Thanks.

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Nicely done, ChockFull!

As for these, you’re correct on Oprah and Oscar de la Renta. The French-born British agent was most often known simply as Odette.

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Woo-hoo! It was the “most often female” that tipped (no pun intended) me off.

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