[ GAME ] Botticelli - Nov. 2014

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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with G
  4. Alive
  5. Has been involved in politics, but is not famous for it
  6. Born before 1970
  7. Not known for the performing arts
  8. First name is not as common as “George” but more common than “Giuseppe”
  9. Not American
  10. Not known for the arts
  11. Not known for athletic or sporting achievements (although “sporting” might be debatable)
  12. Not European
  13. Born after 1950
  14. Caucasian
  15. Not known for non-sporting physical endeavours (mountaineering, endurance sailing etc.)
  16. Not Australasian
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Not Mel Gibson (I’m sure that’s wrong, but I was thinking there was a scene in one of the Mad Max movies where he avoided the turd bath), dunno x 2

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take 3 DQs, as I cannot recall any of these names

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1: Graham Chapman, as King Arthur in Monty Python’s Holy Grail - “Ee, that were the King that were.” “'Ow d’you know 'e’s a king?” “'E ain’t got shit all over 'im”"
2: Graham Greene
3: Graeme Souness

2 Grahams and a Graeme.

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Correct on Chinese Gordon.
I’ll rephrase. :slight_smile:
Gaius Julius Caesar.
DQ: Known for science/technology?
IQ1: Are you a non-Greek king with three heads?
IQ2: Were you succeeded by two of your sons?
IQ3: Were you the purser on a cruise ship?

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#1 was Gamaliel. #2 was Ganymede. #3 was Geb (or Gebeb).
4 DQs reserved.

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IQ: Are you a chess grandmaster who publicly opposed Putin?

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Yes, I am [SIZE=“7”]Garry Kasparov![/SIZE]

wtg fangaga! You get H!

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Good job, fanganga! I’ve heard of him, but would not have thought of him.

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King Ghidorah.
George V.
Gopher, on The Love Boat.

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Alright, I’m ready. My letter is H.

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IQ1: Did your girls help civilise the Wild West?
IQ2: Did you write about the war between Ilios and the Achaeans?
IQ3: Did you write about the invasion of Tosev 3?

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IQs:

  1. were you a german physicist who originated quantum theory?
  2. Were you a cartoon magpie?
  3. Did you battle Green Lantern in the movie?
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1: Pass
2: I am not Homer.
3: I am not … Harry Turtledove?

1: I am not Werner Heisenberg
2: pass
3: Unless the Green Lantern movie was a psychological drama about Hal Jordan’s battles against himself, I’ve got nothin’.

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  1. Actually I had in mind Walter Planck, whose constant is “h”. I take no DQ for this either way.
  2. The magpie’s Heckle of Heckle & Jeckle.
  3. Hector Hammond fought GL in one of DC’s failed superhero movies.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with H?
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Fred Harvey.
Correct.
Correct.
DQ: Male?
IQ1: Did you play the COB of a US submarine in a war movie?
IQ2: Did you discover the circulation of blood?
IQ3: Did you have a dog named Ribsy?

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IQ1: Did you write a whale of a novel in 1851?
IQ2: Are you the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza who attempted to get the Republican nomination for president in 2012?
IQ3: Did you write The Caine Mutiny?

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IQs:

Was Enkidu your best bud?
Were you Elrond’s mother-in-law?
Were you Ted Baxter’s girlfriend?

Correct as to all three - and I didn’t remember her last name, either, but Wiki says it was Franklin: Georgia Engel - Wikipedia

On to H.

IQs:

Did you publish a pamphlet admitting to being an adulterer, but denying that you were a crook?
Was your wife Stella, whom you fled to go deeper into space?
Did Lovecraft say you were “unspeakable”?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn Holy, Holy, Holy?
  2. Did you write the hymn I Heard The Voice Of Jesus Say?
  3. Were you romantically linked to Leander?
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I worded my question to allow a callback to Max Planck, then forgot when the question came up. I think you may be getting mixed up with a fictional character who took Heisenberg’s name.

1: I am not … Harrison Ford?
2: I am not Christian Huygens.
3: pass

1: I am not Herman Melville
2: I am not Herman Cain
3: Pass

1: Pass
2: Pass
3: I am not Hastur.

1: Pass
2: Pass
3: I am neither Hermia or Helena.