Botticelli - April 2025

Thread Games
141

IQs:

  1. Were you a British privateer who served as second-in-command to Capt. Benjamin Hornigold?
  2. Were you appointed by Pope Sixtus IV to the somewhat ill-defined task of “upholding Catholic religious orthodoxy” within the lands of the nascent Kingdom of Spain?
  3. Were you the first-born scion of a wealthy real estate magnate who died of alcoholism while living in your parent’s attic?
142

IQs:

  1. Did Kim Richards play you in Escape to Witch Mountain?
  2. Did Ike Eisenmann play you in Escape to Witch Mountain?
  3. Did you play King Richard on Galavant?

Tia, Tony, Timothy Omundson.

DQ:

  1. First name begins with A-M?

4 DQs reserved

143

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not American
  8. Died before 1900
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. From the British Isles
  12. First name starts with N-Z
144
  1. I am not Tami Baggins, er, Tonja Saruman, er Teresa Bombadil. Oh, take a DQ.
  2. I am not General Tom Thumb.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not Tschaikovsky.
  2. I am not Turner.
  3. Take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

145

Previous IQs:

Are you an actress with a last name which also appears in Tolkien’s works? - Talia Shire
Did you and your very small wife meet President Lincoln in the White House? - Yes, Gen. Tom Thumb
Did you leap to your death in King’s Landing after learning of your wife’s likely demise? - King Tommen, Cersei’s and Jaime’s last-surviving child, in Game of Thrones

DQs:

English?
Best known for the visual arts?

IQs:

Did you write Vanity Fair?
Did you write The Idylls of the King?
Did you write Shibumi?

146

correct
correct
John Taliaferro Thompson


One DQ reserved.

147
  1. Edward Teach/Thatch (Blackbeard)
  2. Tomás de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Holy Office
  3. Fred Trump II

3 DQs reserved

148

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not American
  8. Died before 1900
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. From the British Isles
  12. First name starts with N-Z
  13. English
  14. Not known for the visual arts
149
  1. I am not William Makepeace Thackeray.
  2. I am not Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
  3. Take a DQ.
150

DQ: Died before 1800?

151

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not American
  8. Died before 1900
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. From the British Isles
  12. First name starts with N-Z
  13. English
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Died before 1800
152

Correct, correct, and Trevanian.

DQ:

Best known as a writer?

IQs:

Was your mother shunned by her family when she converted to Catholicism?
Did you write Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog?
Did you write Far from the Madding Crowd?

153

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not American
  8. Died before 1900
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. From the British Isles
  12. First name starts with N-Z
  13. English
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Died before 1800
  16. Best known as a writer, and a specific type of writing
154
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Dylan Thomas.
  3. I am not Thomas Hardy.
155

J.R.R. Tolkien, correct and correct.

DQ:

Best known for fiction?

IQs:

Did Patty Hearst take your name as her SLA nom de guerre?
Did you play an Elvis impersonator on Golden Girls?
Was your eldest brother build a country home he called Hildene?

156

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not American
  8. Died before 1900
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. From the British Isles
  12. First name starts with N-Z
  13. English
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Died before 1800
  16. Best known as a writer, and a specific type of writing
  17. Not known for fiction
157
  1. I am not Tania.
    Take 2 DQs.
158

Tanya (close enough); then Quentin Tarantino and Tad Lincoln (Robert Todd Lincoln built the house).

DQs:

Best known for poetry?
Was knighted/ennobled?

159

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died before 1950
  7. Not American
  8. Died before 1900
  9. European
  10. Not known for the performing arts
  11. From the British Isles
  12. First name starts with N-Z
  13. English
  14. Not known for the visual arts
  15. Died before 1800
  16. Best known as a writer, and a specific type of writing
  17. Not known for fiction
  18. Not known for poetry
  19. Was definitely not knighted or ennobled.
160

DQ: Died before 1700?

2 DQs reserved