January 2014, Botticelli

Thread Games
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Take a DQ for #1. I am not Fangorn. I am not Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat.

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. First appeared in print
  3. First appeared before 1900
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Previous IQs:

Are you the creator of Downton Abbey? - Julian Fellowes.
Did you play an android in a recent sf movie? - Michael Fassbender, in Prometheus (and he was very good).
Are you the alter ego of a radio personality? - Fartman was the “superhero” creation of Howard Stern.

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with F?
American?

IQs:

Were you Banquo’s son?
Are you a longtime tennis star?
Did you star in Skyhei$t?

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That was Fulbright.

DQ: Created after 1850?

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Correct on Friz and Frankie. The high-diving artist was Fearless Freep; and because he didn’t show up, Yosemite Sam tries to make Bugs do the dive instead. Of course, Sam ends up doing the dive. Repeatedly.

DQ: Created by an American author?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. First appeared in print
  3. First appeared before 1900
  4. Male
  5. Last name starts with F
  6. Not American
  7. Created before 1850
  8. Not created by an American author
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I am not Fleance.
Take 2 DQs.

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IQ1: Do you lead a band of young pickpockets?
IQ2: Since I’ve been gone, is all you have left a band of gold?
IQ3: Were you a character name often used by “Mad’s maddest artist”?

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1: Fezzik from the Princess Bride, as played by Andre the Giant : “I’m out of practice fighting one on one - normally I fight gangs for local charities and the like”
2: As you said, Fangorn.
3: As you said, Felix the Cat

DQ: Originally in a work in English?

IQ1: Did you endorse a claimant for the throne of Denmark after many other claimants had killed each other?
IQ2: Are you the authority figure who antagonised Quasimodo?
IQ3: Are you a fat and ill-disciplined knight?

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  1. I’m not Fagin.
  1. I’m not Freda Payne.
    I should remember 3, but I don’t. Take a DQ.
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Yep, English. I’m not Fortinbras, and I’m not Frollo.

However, the better part of valour being discretion, I must admit…

I am Sir John Falstaff!

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Correct on Fagin and Freda Payne. “Mad’s maddest artist” was Don Martin, and Fonebone was his creation.

No need for me to pose a DQ, since I see that fanganga has won the game. Nicely done, fanganga!

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Sir John Franklin. The ships (lost with Franklin and his party) were HMS Erebus and Terror.
Frank Oz, who was the voice of Miss Piggy and Fozzie.
Correct on White Fang.

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Yeah, I thought of Frank Oz minutes after I guessed, and too late to go back. I’ve been kicking myself since.

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All right, fanganga! Good job. I can at least console myself that I asked the first Shakespeare question in this round (I think).

Previous IQs:

Were you Banquo’s son? - Yes, Fleance, in Macbeth.
Are you a longtime tennis star? - Roger Federer.
Did you star in Skyhei$t? - Frank Gorshin. It was a TV movie I vaguely remember - something about stealing a load of cash from a jet.

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Thanks everybody. My initial is E

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IQs:

  1. Were you a hypocritical preacher from a novel by Sinclair Lewis?
  2. Were you the Queen of Jazz?
  3. Did you write about relativity?
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IQ1: Were you the worst ski jumper at the 1988 Winter Olympics?
IQ2: Did you play the banjo on “The Ballad of Jed Clampett”?
IQ3: Did you invite the reader to accompany the narrator “when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table”?

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IQ1: Do you eschew capitalization?
IQ2: Will you give me an answer that I’ll endorse?
IQ3: Did your musical brother die last week?

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Sca-would’ve been funnier if the “D” wasn’t capitalized. :wink:

IQ-Did your grandson marry your deputy’s daughter?