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    L

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Last name begins "L"
    4.American
    5.Dead
    6.NOT Political/Military
    7.Best known for the Arts
    8.Died AFTER 1950
    9.From a VISUAL art.
    10.Won an Honorary top award
    11.Actor
    12.Greatest fame BEFORE 1950
    13.Best known for movies
    14.Not notably handsome
    15.NOT known for drama
    16.Best known for single role (in fact arguably a single SCENE)
    17.Leading man, as in main character
    18.His Honorary award was an Oscar

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you a beloved Cleveland Indians player of the 1990s? - Yes, Kenny Lofton
    Did you play the new sheriff in Blazing Saddles? - Cleavon Little
    Did you direct Lawrence of Arabia? - David Lean

    DQs:

    Got honorary Oscar after 1990?
    Died after 2000?

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    L

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Last name begins "L"
    4.American
    5.Dead
    6.NOT Political/Military
    7.Best known for the Arts
    8.Died AFTER 1950
    9.From a VISUAL art.
    10.Won an Honorary top award
    11.Actor
    12.Greatest fame BEFORE 1950
    13.Best known for movies
    14.Not notably handsome
    15.NOT known for drama
    16.Best known for single role (in fact arguably a single SCENE)
    17.Leading man, as in main character
    18.His Honorary award was an Oscar
    19.Earned his Honorary Oscar BEFORE 1990
    20.Died BEFORE 2000

    Please submit your guess before 5 PM Friday EST

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    Are you Jack Lemmon?

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    No, not Jack. I am instead:

    HAROLD LLOYD SR. (The scene I was thinking of was him hanging off the clock face)

    Letter when I think of one

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    :: headsmack ::

    Of course! I love Harold Lloyd. And he could really act - it wasn't just stunts and laughs.

    Good one.

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    Your letter is

    G

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    Your letter is

    B

    Realize I misremember his name

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    B it is.

    IQs:

    Did you insist you were a "Red Sea pedestrian"?
    Did a man named Denny preside at your trial?
    Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?

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    Not Bathsheba
    Not Bat Masterson
    Not Ambrose Burnside (and his FABULOUS whiskers!)

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    I think antime's first IQ is the former patron saint of jumptheshark.com

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    Previous IQs:

    Did you insist you were a "Red Sea pedestrian"? - Not Bathsheba, but Brian who was called Brian:
    Did a man named Denny preside at your trial? - Harry "Breaker" Morant
    Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Yes, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside

    DQs:

    Male?
    Real?

    IQs:

    Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kans.?
    Did Gore Vidal play your political foe?
    Were you born in London but grew up in Cleveland?

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    Not Bob Dole
    DQ
    Not Bob Hope

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male

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    Previous IQs:

    Are you the best-known person from Russell, Kans.? - Yes, Bob Dole
    Did Gore Vidal play your political foe? - The title character in the campaign satire Bob Roberts
    Were you born in London but grew up in Cleveland? - Yes, Bob Hope

    Bob x3!

    DQ:

    Living?

    IQs:

    Did a little old lady want to send you money in The Ladykillers remake?
    Have you played a gangster, a private eye and a Soviet official?
    Were you cast in an Eighties sf movie as a character who had a different ethnicity in the source material?

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    3 DQS

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead

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    Previous IQs:

    Did a little old lady want to send you money in The Ladykillers remake? - Bob Jones
    Have you played a gangster, a private eye and a Soviet official? - Bob Hoskins, in The Long Good Friday, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Enemy at the Gates
    Were you cast in an Eighties sf movie as a character who had a different ethnicity in the source material? - Bob Balaban, playing Dr. Chandra in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (in the novel, he was from India)

    Bob x3!

    DQs:

    American?
    Died since 1950?
    Best known for the Arts?

    IQs:

    Did you sing about a geometric form in a granular medium?
    Did you play a bombastic duke in an Eighties movie version of Shakespeare's Henry V?
    Did you play the valiant but troubled king?

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    DQ
    Not Kenneth Branagh (know I butchered that)
    DQ

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way

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    For some reason, on the Dope game, I initially thought of Leslie Winkle.

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    Not a bad guess.

    Previous IQs:

    Did you sing about a geometric form in a granular medium? - Ex-Go-Go Belinda Carlisle:
    Did you play a bombastic duke in an Eighties movie version of Shakespeare's Henry V? - Brian Blessed
    Did you play the valiant but troubled king? - This was Kenneth Branagh, but I'll give you credit

    DQs:

    Political/military?
    Last name starts with B?

    IQs:

    Did you suffer from holodiction?
    Did you forget your name when you met your future wife in a library?
    Were you Archer's ODIN nemesis?

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    Thanks for the Branagh leeway

    DQ
    Not Bill Clinton
    DQ

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"

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    Previous IQs:

    Did you suffer from holodiction? - Barclay, on ST:TNG
    Did you forget your name when you met your future wife in a library? - Yes, Bill Clinton, at Yale Law School
    Were you Archer's ODIN nemesis? - Barry, on Archer

    DQs:

    More political than military?
    Greatest fame before 1941?

    IQs:

    Did you paint Venus arising from the waves?
    Did you come out of the TREADSTONE program?
    Were you Clinton's Secretary of the Interior?

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    Not Botticelli
    DQ
    Not Bruce Babbitt

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    B

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    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941

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    Previous IQs:

    Did you paint Venus arising from the waves? - Yes, Sandro Botticelli himself
    Did you come out of the TREADSTONE program? - Jason Bourne
    Were you Clinton's Secretary of the Interior? - Yes, Bruce Babbitt

    DQ:

    Held Federal office?

    IQs:

    Were you Mike Dukakis's running mate in 1988?
    Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire?
    Did you write Enemy Mine?

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    Not Lloyd Bentsen, who served with Jack Kennedy and was a friend of Jack Kennedy, and thought Dan Quayle was no Jack Kennedy
    Not Bob Urich
    DQ
    Last edited by Erictelevision; 17 Oct 2019 at 01:27 AM.

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
    11.Held job in Federal government

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you Mike Dukakis's running mate in 1988? - Yes, Lloyd Bentsen
    Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire? - He went by Robert, not Bob, and I wouldn't call him plump, but I'll rephrase
    Did you write Enemy Mine? - American sf writer Barry Longyear

    DQ:

    Held elective office in the Federal government?

    IQs:

    You are not Robert (or Bob) Urich. Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire?
    Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Missouri?
    Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Oregon?

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    DQ (knew it wasn't "Bob" Urich)
    DQ
    Not Bob Packwood (?!)

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
    11.Held job in Federal government
    14.His position was NOT an elected office

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    Previous IQs:

    You are not Robert (or Bob) Urich. Were you a plump Boston detective in Spenser: For Hire? - Det. Frank Belson
    Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Missouri? - Kit Bond
    Were you a longtime GOP US senator from Oregon? - Yes, Bob Packwood

    DQs:

    US Cabinet secretary?
    Democrat?

    IQs:

    Were you a pugnacious Congresswoman with two five-letter names?
    Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration?
    Did you go from White House chief of staff to SECTREAS and later SECSTATE, then back to White House chief of staff?

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    DQ
    DQ (almost guessed Vance. Wrong on 2 counts)
    Not James Baker

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
    11.Held job in Federal government
    12.His position was NOT an elected office
    13.NOT head of executive department
    14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)

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    Banned from Dope 5 years ago today

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    Not the Dope's best day.

    Previous IQs:

    Were you a pugnacious Congresswoman with two five-letter names? - Bella Abzug
    Were you Attorney General in the Carter Administration? - Griffin Bell
    Did you go from White House chief of staff to SECTREAS and later SECSTATE, then back to White House chief of staff? - Yes, James Baker

    DQs:

    Served in Democratic administration after 1960?
    Held Cabinet rank (UN ambassador, EPA, OMB, etc.)?

    IQs:

    Were you Jimmy Carter's ill-fated OMB Director?
    Did you say that every true Christian "ought to kick Jerry Falwell's ass"?
    Are your first and middle names very similar, and your last name is Rodriguez?

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    3 DQs

    You're correct that the Dope made a mistake.

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
    11.Held job in Federal government
    12.His position was NOT an elected office
    13.NOT head of executive department
    14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
    15.Served a post-1960 Dem
    16.Rank equivalent to Cabinet

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    Previous IQs:

    Were you Jimmy Carter's ill-fated OMB Director? - Burt Lance, fired when he came under investigation IIRC for banking issues in Georgia
    Did you say that every true Christian "ought to kick Jerry Falwell's ass"? - Barry Goldwater
    Are your first and middle names very similar, and your last name is Rodriguez? - Bender Bending Rodriguez, the robot on Futurama

    DQs:

    Served in a post-1976 Dem admin?
    Left on his own terms or was fired?

    One DQ reserved.

    IQs:

    Did you defiantly stand on a tank in Moscow in 1991?
    Were you Jimmy Carter's guest and negotiating foil at Camp David?
    Did you play Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law?

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    3 DQs

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
    11.Held job in Federal government
    12.His position was NOT an elected office
    13.NOT head of executive department
    14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
    15.Served a post-1960 Dem
    16.Rank equivalent to Cabinet
    17.Served under pre-1976 Dem
    18.Left post voluntarily

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    Site was down today

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    Yes, I noticed that. Choie says she's got a website archival problem worked out now, fortunately.

    Previous IQs:

    Did you defiantly stand on a tank in Moscow in 1991? - Boris Yeltsin
    Were you Jimmy Carter's guest and negotiating foil at Camp David? - Menachem Begin
    Did you play Rocky Balboa's brother-in-law? - Burt Young, in the Rocky movies

    Three DQs reserved.

    Hmm. Not sure I know who this person is. It would have to be a Kennedy or Johnson appointee. I can't think of any Cabinet-rank but non-department secretaries whose last names started with B at the moment. Thinkthinkthink....

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    TOTALLY should have gotten the politicos!

    Your musings are spot on.

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    DQ:

    Kennedy appointee?
    In office on Nov. 22, 1963?

    One DQ reserved.

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    B

    1.Real
    2.Male
    3.Dead
    4.American
    5.Died AFTER 1950
    6.NOT in Arts in any way
    7.Political/Military figure
    8.LAST name begins "B"
    9.More Political than Military (i.e. Civilian)
    10.Greatest fame AFTER 1941
    11.Held job in Federal government
    12.His position was NOT an elected office
    13.NOT head of executive department
    14.Democrat (worked in Democratic administration)
    15.Served a post-1960 Dem
    16.Rank equivalent to Cabinet
    17.Served under pre-1976 Dem
    18.Left post voluntarily
    19.JFK appointee
    20.Still in position on 11/22/63

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    I'll set the deadline after you use that last DQ

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    DQ:

    Dealt with domestic policy?

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