Botticelli - April 2025

Thread Games
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DQ: Initially from TV or movies?

242

Nick Carter
Charles III
Neill Cream


Three DQs reserved

243

#1 was Jerry Colonna.
#2 was Callipurnia, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
#3 is correct.

2 DQs reserved.

244

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
245

DQs:

  1. Initially from a movie?
  2. Actually seen in the movie or TV show?
246

DQ1: American creator?
DQ2: American character?
One DQ reserved.

247

IQs:

  1. Did you accede to the throne in September 2022?
  2. Were you portrayed on film as a businessman who hires Pat Garrett to hunt down Billy the Kid?
  3. Did you appear at Woodstock a few months before your first album was released?
248

IQs:

  1. Did you operate a used musical instruments store in Calumet City, IL?
  2. Did you play an iconic science fiction role while also becoming one of the most sought-after script doctors in Hollywood?
  3. Were you a jazz scat singer and bandleader who was the first African-American to have a nationally syndicated radio show?
249

@Elendil_s_Heir please disregard my previous IQs.

IQs:

  1. Did you lead a band of gunfighters against a Mexican bandit who was terrorizing a village?
  2. Were you portrayed on film as a businessman who hires Pat Garrett to hunt down Billy the Kid?
  3. Did you appear at Woodstock a few months before your first album was released?

(Thanks @SCAdian!)

250

Dunno, not Carrie Fisher and not Cab Calloway.

Not Clint Eastwood, dunno, and not Carlos Santana.

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
251
  1. Chris Adams (Yul Brynner, The Magnificent Seven)
  2. John Chisum (as portrayed by James Coburn, Young Guns II)
  3. Correct

2 DQs reserved

252

The first was Ray Charles, playing himself as the proprietor of Ray’s Music Exchange in The Blues Brothers, which made this a “Blues Brothers” x3!

DQ: From a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie?

253

Oh, why not.

IQs:
1. On a 1962 episode of The Andy Williams Show, did Williams ask Bette Davis if her new record was like her previous work in an onstage interpretation of your poetry?
2. Did she say it was more like you?
3. Were you her co-star in the movie she then sang the theme to?

254

Dunno x3.

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
  13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie
255

1 was Carl Sandburg; 2 was Chubby Checker; 3 was Joan Crawford.

(I’ve selected a film to screen at a repertory film society on Monday, and prior to the film there’s going to be a half-hour pre-show which I’ve been assembling over the last few weeks, including the clip of Davis singing the theme for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.)

DQs:
1. originally from a movie made after 1980?
2. also appeared on TV?

1 DQ reserved.

256

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
  13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie
  14. not originally from a movie made after 1980
  15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs)
257

DQs:

  1. Created after 1975?
  2. First name begins A-M?
258

DQ:

  1. Last name begins with Ca-Cl?
  2. Caucasian?

One DQ reserved

259

IQs:

  1. Are you aka the Lizard in Marvel comics?
  2. Did you hang around with Spinner and Paddlefoot?
  3. Did you write the hymn O God of Earth and Altar?
260

Dunno x3.

C.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name begins with C
  4. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  5. created after 1900
  6. created after 1950
  7. not a main character or part of an ensemble
  8. initially from TV or movies
  9. initially from a movie
  10. actually seen in the movie or TV show
  11. American creator(s)
  12. American character
  13. not from a science fiction, fantasy, or western movie
  14. not originally from a movie made after 1980
  15. did not also appear on TV (except in re-runs)
  16. created after 1975
  17. first name doesn’t begins A-M
  18. last name begins with Ca-Cl
  19. Caucasian

No more IQs, and ask all earned DQs by noon EST Monday, please.