Botticelli April 2016

Thread Games
141

IQs:

  1. Did you bend spoons for a living?
  2. Did your house split in two and fall into the tarn?
  3. Were you an editor who was widely criticized for including your own poems in an anthology?
142

Usain Bolt (recordholder in the 100m), Brian Urlacher, and correct on Unitas.

holding 2 DQs.

IQ1: Is fear unnecessary when you’re around?
IQ2: Were you the antagonist in a high-grossing 2015 film?
IQ3: Was Columbia your predecessor as a popular metaphor?

143

Not Uri Geller, Poe’s Usher and dunno.

Not Underdog, dunno, and not Uncle Sam.

U.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. not created by an American
  4. created after 1950
  5. by a European creator
  6. first name starts with U
  7. by a British creator
  8. originally from prose fiction
  9. not from a movie or movies
  10. created after 1980
  11. could kinda sorta be said to be from the scifi/fantasy genre
144

Correct on Uri Geller.
Correct on Roderick Usher.
#3 was Louis Untermeyer.

DQ: Protagonist?

145

IQs:

  1. Were you Sheen’s superhero idol on Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius?
  2. Did exposure to green kryptonite give you additional powers?
  3. Did you get your superpowers from being eaten by a Space Whale?
146

DQs:

From the horror genre?
Created by a female author?

147

nm bordelond ninja’ed me

148

Correct, Ultron(in Avengers: Age of Ultron), and correct.

DQ: Are you a non-superpowered/non-magic empowered human?

still holding 2 DQ

149

Not UltraLord (I love Sheen!), dunno and not… Uncle Jonah?

U.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. not created by an American
  4. created after 1950
  5. by a European creator
  6. first name starts with U
  7. by a British creator
  8. originally from prose fiction
  9. not from a movie or movies
  10. created after 1980
  11. could kinda sorta be said to be from the scifi/fantasy genre
  12. protagonist
  13. not from horror genre
  14. created by a female author
  15. is a non-superpowered/non-magic empowered human
150

#1 was, indeed, Ultra-Lord.
#2 was Ultraman from DC Comics’s Earth 3.
#3 was Ultra-Boy of the Legion of Superheroes, aka Jo Nah, so you were close.

2 DQs reserved.

151

IQs

  1. Did you write The Witches of Eastwick?
  2. As a Boston Red Sock, were you the Most Valuable Player in the 2013 American League Championship Series?
  3. Did The Simpsons TV series start off as cartoon shorts on your TV program?
152

DQs:

  1. First name starts with Ua - Um?
  2. From a best seller?
153

Dunno x2; not Tracy Ullman.

U.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. not created by an American
  4. created after 1950
  5. by a European creator
  6. first name starts with U
  7. by a British creator
  8. originally from prose fiction
  9. not from a movie or movies
  10. created after 1980
  11. could kinda sorta be said to be from the scifi/fantasy genre
  12. protagonist
  13. not from horror genre
  14. created by a female author
  15. is a non-superpowered/non-magic empowered human
  16. first name doesn’t start with Ua - Um
  17. from a best seller
154

I have no idea…

IQs:

  1. Were you the magician mentioned in the title to Book 3 of Suzanne Clarke’s hit novel?
  2. Were you the founder of a typewriter company?
  3. Were you the founder of a company that makes deviled ham?
155

DQ: Young adult genre?

holding 1 DQ

156

Dunno, not Underwood, and not the other Underwood.

U.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. not created by an American
  4. created after 1950
  5. by a European creator
  6. first name starts with U
  7. by a British creator
  8. originally from prose fiction
  9. not from a movie or movies
  10. created after 1980
  11. could kinda sorta be said to be from the scifi/fantasy genre
  12. protagonist
  13. not from horror genre
  14. created by a female author
  15. is a non-superpowered/non-magic empowered human
  16. first name doesn’t start with Ua - Um
  17. from a best seller
  18. not Young Adult genre
157

#1 was John Uskglass, in Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
#2 was John T. Underwood, so Correct.
#3 was William Underwood, so Correct.

1 DQ reserved.

158

IQ1: Are you a tattooed Samoan-American wrestler whose real name is Eddie Fatu?
IQ2: Are you voice of Dr. Venture on The Venture Brothers?
IQ3: Are you a transgender member of the SDMB?

159
  1. Novelist John Updike
  2. Relief pitcher Koji Uehara
  3. Correct on Ullman

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DQs

  1. From children’s literature/children’s books?
  2. As best as a reader can tell, is the character an adult? (Draw the line as you see fit)
160

DQ: Written after 2000?