Botticelli - April 2023

Thread Games
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I.

  1. fictional
  2. created before 1920
  3. first name begins with I
  4. created by a European author or authors
  5. last name does not start with I
142

Pfui, I shoulda read the DQs better. Ah, me.

143
  1. Are you one of the Mandrell sisters?
  2. Did you work for U.N.C.L.E.?
  3. Are you the heroic young prince in Rinkitink in Oz?
144

IQ1: Were you the first person to claim the title of tsar of Russia?
IQ2: Were you the first person to be crowned tsar of Russia?
IQ3: Did Solzhenitsyn tell us about one day in your life?

145

IQs:

  1. Are you the eponymous hero of a Sir Walter Scott novel?
  2. Were you a comic and musician on Kay Kyser’s radio show?
  3. Did the BBC name you “Woman of the Millennium”?
146

DQ

  1. Were your first words a request to call you by your name?
  2. Are you a Mesopotamian fertility goddess?
  3. Did Neal Stephenson write a ponderous trilogy of historical fiction centered around you?
147

Ian Dury of Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Yes, Ian Holm
Ian Hunter, lead singer for Mott the Hoople

Ian x3

DQ1: From a prose work?
DQ2: Creator from the British Isles?

148

Not Iris, not Ilya Kuryakin (sp?), not Iira.

Not Ivan, not the other Ivan, and not Ivan Denisovich.

Not Ivanhoe, dunno and dunno.

Dunno, not Isis and not Iphegenia.

I.

  1. fictional
  2. created before 1920
  3. first name begins with I
  4. created by a European author or authors
  5. last name does not start with I
  6. from a prose work
  7. creator from the British Isles
149

Dunno, not Isis and not Iphegenia.

  1. “Call me Ishmael” -Moby Dick
  2. Questionable, Egypt isn’t Mesopotamia, but Isis was also a fertility goddess whose worship may have extended to that region and who legend may have derived from the goddess I was thinking of so I’ll redirect.
  3. Neal Stephenson may have written some books in which Iphegenia played a role but I don’t think he wrote a trilogy centered around her. I was thinking of Isaac Newton, the central character in his Baroque Cycle.

2DQs reserved until I have time to think about them.

Redirect which probably gives it away: Are you a Mesopotamian fertility goddess whose name was used in the title of an (IMHO highly underrated) Dustin Hoffman film.

150

Do we let him get away with this?

151

Irleen, correct, Prince Inga.

DQs:

  1. Protagonist?
  2. Male?
152

I’m not Ishtar, Buck.

I vote yes. :wink:

153

I.

  1. fictional
  2. created before 1920
  3. first name begins with I
  4. created by a European author or authors
  5. last name does not start with I
  6. from a prose work
  7. creator from the British Isles
  8. antagonist, of sorts
  9. female
154

Correct on Invanhoe.
#2 was Ish Kabibble.
#3 was Indira Gandhi.

DQ Created before 1800?

1 DQ reserved.

155

I’ve gone around with EH a couple of times over this. When he hosts, he gets to decide these things, it would appear. The best answer I’ve got is to ask politely for full names.

156

Sure. Not Ivan the Terrible, and not Ivan the Terrible. One of ‘em’s probably right.

157

I.

  1. fictional
  2. created before 1920
  3. first name begins with I
  4. created by a European author or authors
  5. last name does not start with I
  6. from a prose work
  7. creator from the British Isles
  8. antagonist, of sorts
  9. female
  10. created after 1800
158

DQ: Created after 1860?

159

Ivan III
correct (Ivan IV)
correct


One DQ reserved.

160

IQ1: Did you compose The Rite of Spring?
IQ2: Were you a helicopter designer whose company is still based in Connecticut?
IQ3: Were you the headmaster at Durmstrang?