Late October 2012 Botticelli

Thread Games
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I’ll rephrase:

Have your coreligionists repeatedly apologized for something you did more than 200 years ago?

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Correct on Manfred von Richtofen, better known as the Red Baron. The 1955 Best Picture was Marty (Ernest Borgnine played Marty Piletti, the title character), and the Partridge Family’s manager was played by Dave Madden.

DQ: Are you known for a single incident?

I’ll reserve one DQ for now.

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I was going for Michael Medved.

DQ: Are you associated with a crime, as perpetrator or victim?

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The letter is M.

  1. Real person.
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with M
  4. Not famous for achievements in the arts
  5. American
  6. Alive
  7. Not known for a political or military role
  8. Born before 1950
  9. not an athlete.
  10. Not a scientist or inventor
  11. Not best known for a single incident
  12. Associated with a crime, either as the perpetrator or victim

Take another DQ.

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Martin Luther. The Lutheran Church has, to its credit, acknowledged his virulent anti-Semitism and apologized for it.
Martin Freeman, in Love Actually, Sherlock and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and in the upcoming Hobbit trilogy, come to think of it).
Melissa Gilbert, appearing with then-hubby Bruce Boxleitner in Babylon 5.

DQ:

Are you a convicted criminal?

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Do you have a swastika tattooed on your face?
Did you play Princess Irulan?
Have you played an alien, a law enforcement officer, and a man with a strange relationship with his mom?

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Yep, a convicted criminal. I don’t know the answer to IQs 2 or 3, but that’s not important since the answer to #1 is “yes, I am Charles Manson.”

That’s a little creepy to type. Nice work!

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Thanks!

Virginia Madsen, in Dune.
Kyle MacLachlan in The Hidden, Twin Peaks, and Sex and the City.

Next up:

P.

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IQ: Did Angelina Jolie steal your thunder by being named “best babysitter in Burlington”?

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I’m just realizing I never did tell you who the pompous ass played by Stephen Fry was. It was Melchett, who was a sycophant attached to Queen Elizabeth (I) in Blackadder II, and a pompous General in Blackadder Goes Forth.

P, you say…

IQ1: Did your understudy go on to fame as the captain of the Enterprise?

IQ2: Are you a Canadian jazz icon?

IQ3: Did you set Sir Isaac Newton onto the problem of probability?

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IQs:
1: Do you owe Suzanne an apology for all the things you let slide right through your hands?
2: Did you write Sinead O’Connor’s biggest U.S. hit?
3: Did a sculpture of your head serve as a perch for a famous bird?

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IQ1: Are you not a geek, but a unique weasel?
IQ2: Is your most famous picture the last one?
IQ3: Are you married to a car?

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Dunno who this is. Take one DQ.

I’m not Christopher Plummer. Dunno the other two - take two DQs!

I’m not (sheer guesses ahead) Suzanne Pleshette, Prince or E.A. Poe…?

Wow. Drawing a blank on all three. Ask away.

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  1. Peter Himmelman (it’s a line from this song)
  2. Prince is right - good guess!
  3. Poe is close - the famous bird is his Raven, which “perched upon a bust of Pallas.”

DQ1: Are you real?
DQ2: Male?

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Was thinking Amy Poehler

DQ: Living?

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  1. Pauly Shore from Encino Man
  2. Peter Bogdanovich
  3. Paulina Porizkova, married to Rik Ocasek from The Cars

DQ1: American?
DQ2: Known for your contributions to the Arts as usually defined in the game?

One DQ reserved

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You guys are good.

P.

  1. Not real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. Not known for his contributions to the Arts as usually defined in the game

Since this is not a real person, answer #3 is speculative - it is my best guess that he would probably be alive today. Opinions may differ, however.

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IQ1: Were you converted on the road to Damascus?

IQ2: When frustrated at work, do you often exclaim, “Great Caesar’s Ghost”?

IQ3: Originally from Canada, are you an actress and former Playmate known for your two large … ahem, “assets”?

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IQ: Did your creator invent the name of your female friend?

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IQ1: Did your fumble result in the Miracle at the Meadowlands?
IQ2: Were you jailed for Contempt of Congress when you refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee?
IQ3: Are you a politically conservative American businessman who’s nevertheless particularly interested in renewable energy?

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Reserved DQ: Did you first appear in a film or cartoon (versus a book or comic book)?