January 2014, Botticelli

Thread Games
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I’ll add my thanks for the statistics. Those were interesting!

IQ1: Is an Oscar named for you?
IQ2: Are you a lab assistant in a Mel Brooks film?
IQ3: Were you known for saying, “If you can find a better car, buy it”?

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DQ.
DQ.
Not Henrik Ibsen.

Not Isis.
Not Sir Ian Thingummy - McKellan?
Not Imhotep.

DQ.
Not Igor. (“What hump?”)
DQ.

I

  1. Real
  2. Male
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Right on all counts.

  1. Did you write Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
  2. Did you battle Abdul Abulbul Amir?
  3. Are you Bobby Drake’s codename?
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Correct on Igor (“Eye-gor”). The first question was looking for Irving Thalberg, and the third was looking for Lee Iacocca.

DQs:

Last name start with I?
Known for your achievements in the arts, as we usually define them?

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Not Ian Fleming.
DQ.
Not Iceman.

I

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with ‘I’
  4. Known for achievements in the Arts
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IQ: Are you a pianist who became involved in Polish independence?

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IQ1: When you meet the man who killed your father, do you plan to introduce yourself, then kill him?
IQ2: Are you the female lead character in a film about refugees escaping WWII Europe via Africa?
IQ3: Are you the actress who played that character?

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Not Ignacy Paderewski.

Not Inigo Montoya. (At least I assume that’s whom you mean - I’ve never seen whatever movie that is.)
DQ.
DQ.

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Correct on Inigo Montoya. (“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”)

The movie was Casablanca, and the lead female character was Ilsa Lund, who was played by Ingrid Bergman.

DQ: American?
DQ: Alive today?

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Abdul Abulbul Amir fought Ivan Petrovsky Skovar.

I better wait on answers before I use my precious little DQ.

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I’ve never seen that one, either.

I

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with ‘I’
  4. Known for achievements in the Arts
  5. Now American
  6. Alive today
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DQ: Known for the performing arts?

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I

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with ‘I’
  4. Known for achievements in the Arts
  5. Now American
  6. Alive today
  7. Not known for the performing arts
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IQ1: Do you sometimes use your middle initial and sometimes not, depending on the genre you’re writing?
IQ2: Are you known for your three laws, and do you share a name with someone else who set down a famous set of three laws much earlier?

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DQ.
Not Isaac Asimov.

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IQs:

  1. Were you a Soviet-born classical violinist who dubbed the playing on Fiddler on the Roof?
  2. Did you right the plays The Chairs and Rhinoceros?
  3. Were you Agamemnon’s daughter?
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DQ.
Not Eugene Ionescu.
Not … Iphigenia?

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I’m impressed you got Ionesco. Iphigenia’s right too.
#1 was Isaac Stern.

DQ: Best known as an author?

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Previous IQs:

Are you a noted Windham Hill musician? - Mark Isham
Did you found a chain of Pittsburgh-area delis? - Mr. Isaly (dunno his first name)
Were you a Scandinavian playwright? - Yes, Henrik Ibsen

DQs:

Born since 1950?
Born in Europe?

IQs:

Were you accused of perjury in a court-martial?
In a cartoon, did you speak through a window to a guy you wanted to help?
Did you keep something you really ought to have destroyed when you had the chance?

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Only because you mentioned Rhinoceros.

Three DQs.

I

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with ‘I’
  4. Known for achievements in the Arts
  5. Now American
  6. Alive today
  7. Not known for the performing arts
  8. Not best known as an author
  9. Not born since 1950
  10. Not born in Europe