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    Not Bradley Cooper, Dick Cheney or Chris Jackson.

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    Correct
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    Doug Collins

    DQ: From a song?

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    C.

    1. fictional
    2. male
    3. would be dead now, if real
    4. not American
    5. European
    6. created by Europeans
    7. created after 1800
    8. not from mainland Europe
    9. not from a printed work of prose
    10. British
    11. created after 1900
    12. not from a poem
    13. created after 1950
    14. not from a play
    15. not from a song

    Answer #9 clarified.

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    IQ: Are you the baseball player who struck out to end a rally?
    IQ2: Were you Clinton's initial SECSTATE?
    IQ3: Are you the all-time great pitcher who lied to Congress?

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    Dunno x3, although I should know #2.

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    Casey
    Warren Christopher
    Roger Clemens

    DQ: From an oral tradition?
    DQ2: Created after 2000?
    DQ3: Kid friendly character?

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    C.

    1. fictional
    2. male
    3. would be dead now, if real
    4. not American
    5. European
    6. created by Europeans
    7. created after 1800
    8. not from mainland Europe
    9. not from a printed work of prose
    10. British
    11. created after 1900
    12. not from a poem
    13. created after 1950
    14. not from a play
    15. not from a song
    16. not from an oral tradition
    17. created before 2000
    18. kid-friendly character, I suppose

    Although not really in a work meant for kids.

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    IQ: Are you the poker great who nearly won the most prestigious tournament 3 straight years?
    IQ2: Are you the Congressional leader whose advanced age led to a shuffling of the succession order?
    IQ3: Are you the Congressman who shared a name with a SC Justice?

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    Dunno x3.

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    Johnny Chan (WSOP Main Event champion in '87 and '88, runnerup in '89)
    Carl Albert
    Carl Vinson

    DQ: Got film adaptation?
    DQ2: Main character?
    DQ3: Considered "good guy"?

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    I don't think that's true of Carl Albert. Cite?

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    He was in his 70s (at least) when he was Speaker and Watergate put him close to the Presidency.

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    That did not lead "to a shuffling of the succession order," however. The law for that last changed during the Truman Administration.

    C.

    1. fictional
    2. male
    3. would be dead now, if real
    4. not American
    5. European
    6. created by Europeans
    7. created after 1800
    8. not from mainland Europe
    9. not from a printed work of prose
    10. British
    11. created after 1900
    12. not from a poem
    13. created after 1950
    14. not from a play
    15. not from a song
    16. not from an oral tradition
    17. created before 2000
    18. kid-friendly character, I suppose
    19. was in a film adaptation
    20. not the main character

    That's it for IQs. Please ask your "Are you Firstname Lastname?" question by noon EST Tuesday.

    Which reminds me... a final hint:

    21. Character has just one name.

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    "UNCLE!"

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    Happy Thanksgiving!

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    To you, as well! Hope you were able to have plenty of pie.

    I am

    Concorde

    Sir Lancelot's trusty (and remarkably arrow-resistant) squire in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

    Want to go next?

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    I'll think of a letter (which HOPEFULLY will be a word that means what I think it means)

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    We're surprisingly overdue for:

    M

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    Righto!

    IQs:

    Has Jon Voight's daughter twice played you recently in movies?
    Did T.R. agree with your theories on naval power?
    Were you captain of the Firefly-class interplanetary transport Serenity?

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    Not Malecifent
    Not Mahan (used to stump the Dope awhile back)
    DQ

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    Previous IQs:

    Has Jon Voight's daughter twice played you recently in movies? - Yes, Maleficent
    Did T.R. agree with your theories on naval power? - Yes, Alfred Thayer Mahan
    Were you captain of the Firefly-class interplanetary transport Serenity? - Mal Reynolds

    DQ:

    Real?

    IQs:

    Did you play a White House chief of staff in House of Cards?
    Were you known as "the Vilnius schoolmaster"?
    Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a recent National Theatre filmed production?

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    DQ
    Dunno the Baltic schoolteacher
    DQ

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    M

    1) Real

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    Previous IQs:

    Did you play a White House chief of staff in House of Cards? - Mirshalala Ali (sp?)
    Were you known as "the Vilnius schoolmaster"? - Marko Ramius, in The Hunt for Red October
    Did Ralph Fiennes play you in a recent National Theatre filmed production? - Marc Antony, in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra

    DQs:

    Last name start with M?
    American?
    Living?

    IQs:

    Were you the Nazi killer in The ODESSA File?
    Were you the leader of the nice aliens in Galaxy Quest?
    Were you once Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger partner before turning bad?

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    3 DQs, though Jonathan would know 3 (my nephew)

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    M

    1) Real
    2) Last name begins "M"
    3) NOT American
    4) Dead

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you the Nazi killer in The ODESSA File? - Mackensen
    Were you the leader of the nice aliens in Galaxy Quest? - Mathazar
    Were you once Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger partner before turning bad? - Warp Dark Matter

    DQs:

    European?
    Best known for the Arts?
    Died since 1900?

    IQs:

    Did you direct a series of short documentaries for The New York Times?
    Were you the lead prosecutor in the case The People of California v. O.J. Simpson?
    Do you play Teddy on Westworld?

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    DQ
    Not Marcia Clark
    DQ

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    M

    1) Real
    2) Last name begins "M"
    3) NOT American
    4) Dead
    5) European
    6) No connection to Arts
    7) Died BEFORE 1900

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    Previous IQs:

    Did you direct a series of short documentaries for The New York Times? - Erroll Morris
    Were you the lead prosecutor in the case The People of California v. O.J. Simpson? - Yes, Marcia Clark
    Do you play Teddy on Westworld? - James Marsden

    DQs:

    British?
    Political/military?

    IQs:

    Were you killed by your ambitious son in Gladiator?
    Were you Capt. Jack Aubrey's particular friend?
    Did Dr. Strangelove report to you in the War Room?

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    3 DQ

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    M

    1) Real
    2) Last name begins "M"
    3) NOT American
    4) Dead
    5) European
    6) No connection to Arts
    7) Died BEFORE 1900
    8) NOT British
    9) Political/Military

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    You've seem to forgotten an OBVIOUS DQ.

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    I'm getting there!

    Previous IQs:

    Were you killed by your ambitious son in Gladiator? - Emperor Marcus Aurelius
    Were you Capt. Jack Aubrey's particular friend? - Dr. Stephen Maturin, in the works of Patrick O'Brian
    Did Dr. Strangelove report to you in the War Room? - President Merkin Muffley (both played by Peter Sellers)

    DQs:

    Male?
    Died before 1800?
    Head of state?

    IQs:

    Were you a noted modern leader of Finland?
    Were you Charlemagne's dad?
    Did you tell many tall tales about yourself, including a fanciful visit to the Moon?

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    DQ
    Not Charles Martel
    DQ

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    M

    1) Real
    2) Last name begins "M"
    3) NOT American
    4) Dead
    5) European
    6) No connection to Arts
    7) Died BEFORE 1900
    8) NOT British
    9) Political/Military
    10) Male
    11) Died AFTER 1800
    12) NOT Head of State

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you a noted modern leader of Finland? - Field Marshal Mannerheim
    Were you Charlemagne's dad? - Yes, Charles Martel
    Did you tell many tall tales about yourself, including a fanciful visit to the Moon? - Baron von Munchausen

    DQs:

    Best known for politics?
    Best known for a single incident?

    IQs:

    Were you the first female Governor of Vermont?
    Although in the U.S. presidential line of succession, were you ineligible to become President?
    A fictional little girl, did you live in a house in Paris "all covered in vines"?

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    DQ
    Not Madeline Albright (forgot she was foreign-born for a moment)
    DQ

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    M

    1) Real
    2) Last name begins "M"
    3) NOT American
    4) Dead
    5) European
    6) No connection to Arts
    7) Died BEFORE 1900
    8) NOT British
    9) Political/Military
    10) Male
    11) Died AFTER 1800
    12) NOT Head of State
    13) Best known for Politics I'd say
    14) Best known for single event

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you the first female Governor of Vermont? - Madeline Kunin
    Although in the U.S. presidential line of succession, were you ineligible to become President? - Yes, Czech-born SECSTATE Madeline Albright
    A fictional little girl, did you live in a house in Paris "all covered in vines"? - The little French girl Madeline in the books by Ludwig Bemmelmans

    DQs:

    DQs:

    Born in or east of Vienna?
    Born in or north of Vienna?

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    M

    1) Real
    2) Last name begins "M"
    3) NOT American
    4) Dead
    5) European
    6) No connection to Arts
    7) Died BEFORE 1900
    8) NOT British
    9) Political/Military
    10) Male
    11) Died AFTER 1800
    12) NOT Head of State
    13) Best known for Politics
    14) Best known for single event
    15) Born NORTH of Vienna
    16) Born WEST of Vienna
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 07 Dec 2020 at 10:31 PM. Reason: His field is OBVIOUSLY political

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    IQs:

    Were you a noted European diplomat of the Napoleonic era?
    Were you a notorious blackmailer of the Sherlock Holmes stories?
    At FDR's request, did you write the definitive U.S. naval history of WWII?

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    YES! I AM indeed:

    Metternich! Take it away Elendil!

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    Woohoo! Thanks, EricT.

    Other previous IQs:

    Were you a notorious blackmailer of the Sherlock Holmes stories? - Charles Augustus Milverton
    At FDR's request, did you write the definitive U.S. naval history of WWII? - Samuel Elliot Morrison

    Our next letter, also not played in quite awhile, will be

    I

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    IQ: Did you create the character whose most memorable portrayer died this year?
    IQ2: Are you the noted 19th c philosopher?
    IQ3: Did you narrate the story of a man obsessed with his white whale?
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 11 Dec 2020 at 01:03 AM.

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    Not Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond (RIP Sean Connery); not Ignatius Loyola; not Ishmael of the whaler Pequod.

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    Correct on all counts
    Immanuel Kant
    Correct

    DQ: Real?

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    IQ: Did you create the character memorably played Melissa Gilbert?
    IQ2: Did you drop from the sky because your aviation aid had a fatal flaw?
    IQ3 Did you famously play a cafeteria worker who befriends a group of foul-mouthed troublemakers?

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    Not Laura Ingalls Wilder, not Icarus, and dunno.

    I.

    1. real

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    Correct
    Correct
    Isaac Hayes from "South Park"

    DQ: Living?

    RESPECT MY AUTHORITAY!

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