Botticelli - April 2025

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Fictional, died in one medium, alive in another.
  2. Male
  3. Only name begins with Z

Yes, I did win one game on the first guess of the round. It was December, and the person was Tiny Tim.

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  1. I am not Zero Mostel.
    Take 2 DQs.
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  1. Correct
  2. Agent Zero
  3. Florenz Ziegfeld

DQs:

Created before 1950?
Created by American?

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Previous IQs:

Were you a Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in the Nineties? - Zachary Space
Were you a British schoolboy who came last in alphabetical order every time, but learned that it wasn’t so bad? - Zachary Zween, in the kids’ book which bears his name
Did U.S. Grant and Robert E. Lee both serve under you during the Mexican War? - Zachary Taylor

Zachary x3!

DQs:

Were you the MIB boss?
Were you a badass DI for the MI?
Were you a notable lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel?

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Z is usually a short round.

Yes, I am Zed!

Good call, EH!

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Thanks! Good one. One of Rip Torn’s better roles, I think.

Previous IQs:

Were you a badass DI for the MI? - Sergeant Zim in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers
Were you a notable lobby boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel? - Zero, in the Wes Anderson movie

Right. Our next letter is

S

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Good guess on Zed, E_H! (A Brit would say you got Zed on letter zed)

IQs:

  1. Were you a New England farmer who sold his soul to the Devil?
  2. Did you write the story in which #1 appeared?
  3. Did you win 25 games for the Orioles in 1980?
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IQs:

  1. Are you also known as Curumo?
  2. Did you lose the Centennial presidential election?
  3. Are you secretly Bicycle Repair Man?
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IQs:

  1. Did you moonlight as a flapper in Weimar-Era Berlin?
  2. Were you diagnosed with a lazy eye, requiring you to wear an eyepatch for a while?
  3. Did you appear as a newlywed wife with ESP?
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Congrats!

  1. Are you the protagonist of Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet?
  2. Are you her friend whose Grandfather is a werewolf?
  3. Are you the Queen of Valdemar in the Arrows of the Queen trilogy?
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Not Daniel Webster’s client, whose name escapes me (take a DQ), not Stephen Vincent Benet, and dunno.

Not Saruman, not Samuel Tilden, and I should know this but don’t.

Not Sally Hewes (sp?), dunno and dunno.

Dunno x3.

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Jabez Stone, correct, and Steve Stone.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
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  1. Sally Bowles, I think you had the right person
  2. Sally Brown (Peanuts)
  3. Sally Field (The Girl with Something Extra)

Sally x3!

2 DQs reserved

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Sophronia Temminick, Sidheag, Lady Kingair and Selenay.

3 DQs reserved

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Correct.
Correct.
Bicycle Repair Man is the secret identity of Mr. F. G. Superman, as seen on Monty Python’s Flying Circus (“Bicycle Repair Man! But… how?”)

DQ: Last name stars with S?

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S.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. last name starts with S
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IQs:

  1. Are you Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s mom?
  2. Were you the puppet Indian princess on The Howdy Doody Show?
  3. Voiced by Sir Harry Secombe, were you the central character on most of the episodes of the highly acclaimed, spearmint-covered, talky-talk wireless 1950’s BBC Radio series The Goon Show?
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Dunno x3.

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DQs:

Created after 1950?
Main character?

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IQs:

  1. Were Scarlett Johansson, Kate Mara, Jennifer Garner, and Kristen Stewart among the actresses considered to play you before Jessica Alba won the role?
  2. Have you played a hooker, a witch, a newspaper publisher, and a head of state in Oscar-worthy roles?
  3. Did you portray a woman who is the youngest female in United States history to have been tried and convicted of first-degree murder?