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I am

T

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IQ1: Do you have a unit of measurement and a car company named after you?
IQ2: Are you simply the best?
IQ3: Did you lead the Peasant’s Revolt?

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IQs:

  1. Did you have a dog named Mighty Manfred?
  2. At one version of one point of your life, were you down to being Una?
  3. Were you a famous first century AD twin?
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The part I am uncomfortable with is that, being an atheist, I know that that relief is not a function of a higher power, but one of personal strength and/or your support network. I don’t like the idea of people short changing themselves, and giving credit for their own or other’s hard work to something that doesn’t exist. It seems like everyone would be better off if they recognize that that strength comes from within.

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IQ1: Did you survive a highly unlikely weather event that propelled ocean predators through the air?
IQ2: Was your body exhumed a century after your death to check for poison?
IQ3: Did you give the order to destroy Alderaan?

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IQ: Were you a key scientist on the Manhattan Project?

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Not Nikola Tesla or Wat Tyler. DQ for #2.

Not Thomas. DQs for #1 and 2.

Not Grand Moff Tarkin. DQs for #1 (which I assume is a Sharknado reference) and 2 (for which I will no doubt kick myself).

Not Edward Teller.

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Mighty Manfred was the dog of Tom Terrific in cartoons on Captain Kangaroo’s Treasure House.
Una was formerly Duo Damsel, who was formerly Triplicate Girl. It’s a hard lives.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Real?
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Tara Reid was in Sharknado, and Zachary Taylor was exhumed in 1991 for testing.

DQ: Is T your first initial?

Keeping one DQ on reserve for now.

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Simply the Best is a reference to Tina Turner, but could also have worked for Bonnie Tyler

DQ: Is T the initial letter of your last name?

IQ1: Are you a Heisman-winning quarterback known for genuflecting on the field of play?
IQ2: Did you astonish a king by raising fire without flint or tinder?
IQ3: Are you an upper-class twit played by Harry Enfield?

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Oops, simulpost…well, at least we’ll know if it’s a TT…or someone with only one name…

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Or someone whose middle name starts with T. :smiley:
T

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. T is not my first initial
  4. T is my last initial

Draelin has one reserved DQ.
Heh - the fastest game of Botticelli on record:

T

  1. Not male
  2. Real
  3. T is not my first initial
  4. T is not my last initial
473

I’m pretty sure Starr and Namath were quarterbacks, but I can’t think of any others. Three DQs.

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All Tims

Tim Tebow

Tim the Enchanter

Tim Nice-but-Dim

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IQ1: Did you play an aggressive boxer and a Vietnam veteran afraid of flying?
IQ2: Did you write the lyrics to Rule Britannia?
IQ3: Did you have a horse called Black Bess?

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DQ1: From the Western Hemisphere (Greenwich meridian to international date line)?
DQ2: Known for the arts?
DQ3: Currently alive?

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IQs:

  1. Did you perform the role of God in Randy Newman’s Faust?
  2. Are you the above’s also-musical brother?
  3. Did your TV show spinoff The Andy Griffith Show?
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Way to go, SCAdian! I get credit for the assist, right?

IQs:

Were you a loyal Virginian who was disowned by his two sisters?
Did you splutter “Cinders and ashes!” and attend indignation meetings?
Did you secretly fund an opposition newspaper while serving in the Cabinet, and lie about it until exposed by the editor, who thought you’d bilked him?

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Three DQs.

Not Danny Thomas. DQs for #1 and 2.

Three DQs.

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T

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. T is not my first initial
  4. T is my last initial
  5. From the Western Hemisphere
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Alive

Draelin has one reserved DQ.