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11 Jan 2018 01:49 PM
#5701
Not Edwin Stanton
Not Salmon Chase
DQ
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11 Jan 2018 04:20 PM
#5702
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
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12 Jan 2018 01:25 PM
#5703
Member
Previous IQs:
Were you Lincoln's first SECWAR? - Simon Cameron
Were you his second? - This was Edwin Stanton
Were you his only SECSTATE? - William Seward
Although you had Stanton in the wrong slot, I'll give it to you.
DQs:
Would be alive today, if real?
Last name start with S?
IQs:
Are you Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's ex-wife, a notable singer?
Did Clint Eastwood direct a movie about something you did in 2009?
Were you the longtime featured piano act at the Carlyle in NYC?
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12 Jan 2018 01:48 PM
#5704
Thanks for the Stanton leeway. TOTALLY should have known Seward!
3 DQs
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12 Jan 2018 01:49 PM
#5705
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be living, if real (informed speculation)
5.Nickname "S"
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name.
Last edited by Erictelevision; 12 Jan 2018 at 01:53 PM.
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12 Jan 2018 02:17 PM
#5706
Member
Did you mean to say that his family name was not revealed?
Previous IQs:
Are you Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's ex-wife, a notable singer? - Sarah Brightman
Did Clint Eastwood direct a movie about something you did in 2009? - Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
Were you the longtime featured piano act at the Carlyle in NYC? - Bobby Short
DQs:
Good guy?
First appeared since 1964?
First appeared in print?
IQs:
Were you a noted newspaper editor who also went by a nickname?
Did your friends call you "Cump"?
An actor, does your best-known character have the middle name Tiberius?
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12 Jan 2018 02:17 PM
#5707
DQ
DQ
Not William Shatner
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12 Jan 2018 02:20 PM
#5708
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be living, if real (informed speculation)
5.Nickname "S"
6.Good guy (not the "hero" per se)
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Did not first appear in print
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name.
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12 Jan 2018 02:20 PM
#5709
And the Sully movie is a movie I want to see!
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12 Jan 2018 02:36 PM
#5710
Member
It's pretty good. I saw it a few weeks ago. Tom Hanks turns in his usually-solid performance; I've read that the movie is unfair to the NTSB and its investigation, though.
Previous IQs:
Were you a noted newspaper editor who also went by a nickname? - James "Scotty" Reston of the NYT
Did your friends call you "Cump"? - Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
An actor, does your best-known character have the middle name Tiberius? - Yes, William Shatner AKA Capt. James T. Kirk
DQs:
First appeared in a movie?
In genre fiction (mystery, sf, fantasy, etc.)?
IQs:
Did you try to cover up a tryst by saying you'd been hiking the Appalachian Trail?
Were you the protagonist's love interest in All the King's Men?
Were you #2's brother, a doctor?
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12 Jan 2018 03:00 PM
#5711
Not John Scott (SC governor)
DQ
DQ
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12 Jan 2018 03:02 PM
#5712
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be living, if real (informed speculation)
5.Nickname "S"
6.Good guy (not the "hero" per se)
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Did not first appear in print
9.From a movie
10.But NOT a genre movie
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name
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12 Jan 2018 11:52 PM
#5713
Member
OK, thanks.
Previous IQs:
Did you try to cover up a tryst by saying you'd been hiking the Appalachian Trail? - Yes, the South Carolina governor, but his name was Sanford.
Were you the protagonist's love interest in All the King's Men? - Anne Stanton
Were you #2's brother, a doctor? - Adam Stanton
DQs:
White?
Romantic movie?
Appeared in more than one movie?
IQs:
Were you a teenage witch?
Were you once known as Annatar?
Did some call you Curunir?
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13 Jan 2018 08:18 AM
#5714
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13 Jan 2018 08:19 AM
#5715
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be living, if real (informed speculation)
5.Nickname "S"
6.Good guy (not the "hero" per se)
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Did not first appear in print
9.From a movie
10.But NOT a genre movie
11.White
12.Not a love story (movie had romantic elements)
13.Only 1 movie
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name
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13 Jan 2018 11:41 PM
#5716
Member
Previous IQs:
Were you a teenage witch? - Yes, Sabrina
Were you once known as Annatar? - Sauron, in LOTR
Did some call you Curunir? - Saruman, ditto
DQs:
Movie appeared since 2000?
Actor win an Oscar for playing the role?
IQs:
Do many people think you did what John Rolfe actually did?
Did you play Prince Philip on The Crown?
Were you one of Charlie's original Angels?
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13 Jan 2018 11:47 PM
#5717
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13 Jan 2018 11:48 PM
#5718
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be living, if real (informed speculation)
5.Nickname "S"
6.Good guy (not the "hero" per se)
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Did not first appear in print
9.From a movie
10.But NOT a genre movie
11.White
12.Not a love story (movie had romantic elements)
13.Only 1 movie
14.Movie released BEFORE 2000
15.Role DID NOT garner Oscar nomination
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name
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13 Jan 2018 11:56 PM
#5719
Member
Previous IQs:
Do many people think you did what John Rolfe actually did? - John Smith didn't marry Pocahontas; Rolfe did
Did you play Prince Philip on The Crown? - Matt Smith
Were you one of Charlie's original Angels? - Jaclyn Smith
Smith x3!
DQs:
Comedy?
Movie released before 1985?
Movie takes place in the U.S.?
IQs:
Were you grumpy in early 1961 when a movie costar of yours was very distracted and often absent from the set?
Were you that costar?
Were you that costar's also-famous daughter?
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14 Jan 2018 12:01 AM
#5720
SHOULD HAVE KNOWN 1 and 3!
Not Spencer Tracy
DQ
DQ
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14 Jan 2018 12:02 AM
#5721
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be living, if real (informed speculation)
5.Nickname "S"
6.Good guy (not the "hero" per se)
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Did not first appear in print
9.From a movie
10.But NOT a genre movie
11.White
12.Not a love story (movie had romantic elements)
13.Only 1 movie
14.Movie released BEFORE 2000
15.Role DID NOT garner Oscar nomination
16.Comedy
17.Movie released IN 1985
18.Set in the US
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name
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14 Jan 2018 12:04 AM
#5722
As always, totally willing to go beyond 20
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14 Jan 2018 12:30 AM
#5723
I ironically just read an article about the actor and the movie.
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14 Jan 2018 11:12 PM
#5724
Member
Thanks, but 20 DQs is as good a stopping point as any.
Previous IQs:
Were you grumpy in early 1961 when a movie costar of yours was very distracted and often absent from the set? - Yes, Spencer Tracy - very good!
Were you that costar? - Frank Sinatra, who was busy organizing the entertainment for JFK's inaugural ball
Were you that costar's also-famous daughter? - Nancy Sinatra
DQs:
Movie released before July 1, 1985?
Movie targeted at teenagers?
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15 Jan 2018 12:19 AM
#5725
1.Fictional
2.Male
3.American
4.Would be dead if real (actor is dead)
5.Nickname "S"
6.Good guy (not the "hero" per se)
7.First appeared AFTER 1964
8.Did not first appear in print
9.From a movie
10.But NOT a genre movie
11.White
12.Not a love story (movie had romantic elements)
13.Only 1 movie
14.Movie released BEFORE 2000
15.Role DID NOT garner Oscar nomination
16.Comedy
17.Movie released IN 1985
18.Set in the US
19.Aimed at teens/tweens
20.Released BEFORE 7/1/85 (Thank you IMDb)
Checked Wikipedia, the family name was revealed, "S" was not a given name
How about 11:30 PM Monday night for your guess (about 23 hours)
Last edited by Erictelevision; 15 Jan 2018 at 12:24 AM.
Reason: Changed answer, due to accuracy. Hope it doesn't screw you up
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15 Jan 2018 12:23 AM
#5726
Tracy was a VERY LUCKY GUESS!
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15 Jan 2018 10:39 PM
#5727
Member
Hmm. Can't figure out who this is. I give up.
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16 Jan 2018 12:38 PM
#5728
Sorry to leave you hanging. The mystery man is:
SLOTH from "Goonies".
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16 Jan 2018 02:04 PM
#5729
Member
Ah! Never saw it. Want to start the next round, or shall I?
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16 Jan 2018 02:26 PM
#5730
It's a kid classic! "Goonies never say die!"
Your letter is:
G
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16 Jan 2018 02:33 PM
#5731
Member
Right, then.
IQs:
Was your middle name Ewart?
Did you once take out your penis and thump it on the bar to get the bartender's attention?
Did you write, as a young man, that you found the whistle of nearby bullets "charming"?
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16 Jan 2018 02:52 PM
#5732
3 DQs (that 2nd one is BIZARRE!)
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17 Jan 2018 02:17 PM
#5733
Member
Previous IQs:
Was your middle name Ewart? - William Gladstone, British PM
Did you once take out your penis and thump it on the bar to get the bartender's attention? - Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame, after being kept waiting (he thought) too long
Did you write, as a young man, that you found the whistle of nearby bullets "charming"? - George Washington, of his French and Indian War experiences
DQs:
Real?
Male?
Last name start with G?
IQs:
Does a statue of you stand in Times Square?
Were you married to Weezie and have a son named Lionel?
Did you say, in a press conference, that you saved your feelings for your wife?
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17 Jan 2018 06:17 PM
#5734
DQ
Not George Jefferson ("moving on up, to the East Side...")
Not George HW Bush
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17 Jan 2018 06:17 PM
#5735
1.Fictional
2.Female
3.Last name begins "G"
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18 Jan 2018 11:57 AM
#5736
Member
Previous IQs:
Does a statue of you stand in Times Square? - George M. Cohan
Were you married to Weezie and have a son named Lionel? - Yes, George Jefferson
Did you say, in a press conference, that you saved your feelings for your wife? - Not GHWB, but George C. Marshall, when asked by a reporter how he "felt" about a pending bill in Congress
George x3!
DQs:
American?
Would be alive today, if real?
IQs:
Did you meet another famous person and hit it off, but neither of you recognized the other?
Were you Chuck Yeager's sweetheart at an important time?
Did you once have to put on someone else's damp wig?
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18 Jan 2018 01:25 PM
#5737
3 DQS
I should have made a Plan to guess George Marshall.
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18 Jan 2018 01:27 PM
#5738
1.Fictional
2.Female
3.Last name begins "G"
4.American
5.Would be dead if real (given when she was originally created)
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19 Jan 2018 04:24 PM
#5739
Member
Previous IQs:
Did you meet another famous person and hit it off, but neither of you recognized the other? - American actress Ava Gardner and British author J.R.R. Tolkien, when she visited Oxford U. in the early 1960s
Were you Chuck Yeager's sweetheart at an important time? - Glynnis, after whom he named the airplane in which he broke the sound barrier
Did you once have to put on someone else's damp wig? - Glenn Close, early in her Broadway career, as an understudy when she went on in Act 2 for the star who had just been fired
DQs:
First appeared in literature?
First appeared since 1900?
Considered a beauty?
IQs:
Were you known as "Pap" and "Old Slow Trot," among other nicknames?
Were you Lincoln's foe in the November 1864 election?
Did you extensively study the cultivation and utilization of peanuts?
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19 Jan 2018 04:39 PM
#5740
DQ
Not George McLelland
Not George Washington Carver
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19 Jan 2018 04:42 PM
#5741
1.Fictional
2.Female
3.Last name begins "G"
4.American
5.Would be dead if real
6.First appeared IN 1900 (thanks Wikipedia)
7.Originally from literature
8.Considered "cute" (best uncreepy answer)
Last edited by Erictelevision; 19 Jan 2018 at 04:43 PM.
Reason: Subsequent answer made parenthetical comment unnecessary
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20 Jan 2018 12:13 AM
#5742
Member
Previous IQs:
Were you known as "Pap" and "Old Slow Trot," among other nicknames? - Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas of Civil War fame
Were you Lincoln's foe in the November 1864 election? - Yes, George McClellan (no final "d")
Did you extensively study the cultivation and utilization of peanuts? - Yes, George Washington Carver
George x3 redux!
DQ:
A juvenile?
IQs:
A musician, were you injured in a bus crash while on tour?
Was Edith your mom and Michael your husband?
Were you a Seventies disco queen with a six-letter last name?
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20 Jan 2018 02:25 AM
#5743
Not Gloria Estefan ("Coming out of the Light" her comeback song)
Not Gloria Bunker Stivic
Not Gloria Gaynor, who no longer survives I believe
Gloria X3!
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20 Jan 2018 02:26 AM
#5744
1.Fictional
2.Female
3.Last name begins "G"
4.American
5.Would be dead if real
6.First appeared IN 1900 (thanks Wikipedia)
7.Originally from literature
8.Considered "cute"
9.Juvenile
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20 Jan 2018 03:36 AM
#5745
I was wrong, Gloria Gaynor is alive.
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20 Jan 2018 08:43 PM
#5746
Member
Yes, Gloria x3. Well done.
IQs:
Were you a notorious interstellar prostitute?
Were you one of several failed British generals during the American Revolution?
Did Sherlock Holmes keep a portrait of you in his rooms?
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21 Jan 2018 06:19 AM
#5747
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21 Jan 2018 08:41 PM
#5748
Member
Previous IQs:
Were you a notorious interstellar prostitute? - Eccentrica Gallumbits, a triple-breasted alien in Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
Were you one of several failed British generals during the American Revolution? - Yes, Gen. Gage
Did Sherlock Holmes keep a portrait of you in his rooms? - Gen. George "Chinese" Gordon
DQs:
Appeared in a work written for children?
Associated with NYC?
IQs:
Did Conan O'Brien visit your apartment on-camera last fall?
Did a later writer say that your name was mispronounced in the best-known work about you?
Were you a recent Director of the CIA?
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22 Jan 2018 03:15 AM
#5749
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22 Jan 2018 03:16 AM
#5750
1.Fictional
2.Female
3.Last name begins "G"
4.American
5.Would be dead if real
6.First appeared IN 1900 (thanks Wikipedia)
7.Originally from literature
8.Considered "cute"
9.Juvenile
10.Appewred in work aimed at children
11.NOT associated w/NYC
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