Botticelli - April 2020

Thread Games
81

2 (toured a supermarket in Texas after being elected to the Supreme Soviet) was Boris Yeltsin.

DQ: from a novel published before 1970?

82

Not Yog-Sottoth, and dunno x2.

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with Y
  3. male
  4. created by an American author or authors
  5. not the protagonist
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1960
  8. from prose fiction (i.e., novel or short story)
  9. from a novel
  10. created before 1999
  11. an antagonist, of sorts
  12. novel published before 1980
  13. character appeared in film
  14. novel published before 1970
83

DQs:

  1. From a genre novel (fantasy, science fiction, horror, western, mystery or historical)?
  2. Was the movie better known than the novel?
84

#1 was correct
#2 was Yvette in ClueI
#3 is Yvette Nicole Brown

DQs:

  1. Is the character American?
  2. Does it take place in space?
85

IQs:

  1. Did you write the song “Orgy on My Own” early in your career, though you’ve never officially recorded it, given the all-ages reputation you later cultivated?
  2. Were you an associate of the Lone Gunmen who used an anagram for her alias?
  3. Did you have a .285 batting average and 358 total home runs over your career as a catcher with the Yankees and Mets?
86

Not Peter Yarrow, dunno and not Carl Yastremski (sp)?

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with Y
  3. male
  4. created by an American author or authors
  5. not the protagonist
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1960
  8. from prose fiction (i.e., novel or short story)
  9. from a novel
  10. created before 1999
  11. an antagonist, of sorts
  12. novel published before 1980
  13. character appeared in film
  14. novel published before 1970
  15. from a genre novel (fantasy, science fiction, horror, western, mystery or historical)
  16. movie arguably better known than the novel
  17. character not American
  18. partially takes place in space

As I suspect DLR will take us up to or past 20 DQs, no more IQs, please.

87

Originally Posted by Personal View Post
IQs

  1. Are you a Time magazine honored Top Ten electric guitar player?
  2. Were you the lead character in an eponymous play about a Polish girl who lived secretly as a male in order to study theology in the early 20th century?
  3. Did you play Butch Patrick’s mom?
  1. Yngwie Malmsteen
  2. correct
  3. Yvonne DeCarlo

2 DQs rsvd
2)

88

1 was Weird Al Yankovic; 2 was Yves Adele Harlow; 3 was Yogi Berra.
DQ: first appeared in film in the 80s?

2 DQs reserved.

89

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with Y
  3. male
  4. created by an American author or authors
  5. not the protagonist
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1960
  8. from prose fiction (i.e., novel or short story)
  9. from a novel
  10. created before 1999
  11. an antagonist, of sorts
  12. novel published before 1980
  13. character appeared in film
  14. novel published before 1970
  15. from a genre novel (fantasy, science fiction, horror, western, mystery or historical)
  16. movie arguably better known than the novel
  17. character not American
  18. partially takes place in space
  19. first appeared in film in the '80s

Please ask all earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

90

DQ: minor or secondary character?

One DQ reserved.

91

Final DQ: novel is well-known and regarded as a classic in its genre?

92

Y.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with Y
  3. male
  4. created by an American author or authors
  5. not the protagonist
  6. created after 1899
  7. created after 1960
  8. from prose fiction (i.e., novel or short story)
  9. from a novel
  10. created before 1999
  11. an antagonist, of sorts
  12. novel published before 1980
  13. character appeared in film
  14. novel published before 1970
  15. from a genre novel (fantasy, science fiction, horror, western, mystery or historical)
  16. movie arguably better known than the novel
  17. character not American
  18. partially takes place in space
  19. first appeared in film in the '80s
  20. arguably a minor or secondary character
  21. novel is well-known and regarded as a classic in its genre
93

DQ: Are you John Yaya from The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension?

94

Are you Dr. Yueh whose first name I’ve forgotten from Dune?

95

That’s probably it.

96

If I’m right I do the next, right? Fair warning in which case that I will not be able to respond for about 9-10 hours as I will be asleep!

97

That’s correct. That’s fine about the sleeping; we usually go at a pretty relaxed pace here.

98

Prof. P., you didn’t have any DQs reserved.

We hadn’t reached the “Are you Firstname Lastname?” stage yet, either, but…

Dingdingding!

Yes, I am indeed

Dr. Wellington Yueh

The Duke of Atreides’s Suk physician (and Harkonnen double agent) in Frank Herbert’s Dune.

Good job, kitap!

99

Well, you said (#89) all unasked DQs were to be made by noon yesterday, so I figured we were in the Endgame.

Well done, kitap!

100

Our next letter is

A