Botticelli - Aug 2026

Thread Games
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I am P.

Botticelli – July 2026
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Rules are here.

IQs:
1. Is a length named after you?
2. Did you and Nicole Ritchie try out The Simple Life?
3. Do you play Sinon in the current film version of The Odyssey?

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Not Planck
DQ
DQ

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2 was Paris Hilton; 3 was Elliot Page.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with P?

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I gotta P!

IQs:

  1. Were you a TV comedian who was also a perennial presidential candidate?
  2. Are you a comic who’s father died on 9/11?
  3. Did you run the Chock’lit Shoppe?
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1 did you star in Vanilla Sky?
2. Are you Lady Whistledown?
3. Did you spend a lot of time weaving by day and unweaving by night?

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IQs:
1. Did you star in They Live?
2. Does your triangle begin with a 1, at the top, then each number in the successive rows is the sum of the two numbers above it, like this:

and so on?
3. Are you a substitute Spanish teacher, Boggle champ, and main female character on King of the Hill?

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Not Pat Paulsen
DQ
Not Pop

DQ
DQ
Not Penelope

DQ x3!
(Alignment messed up because of inability to post a media item, even though I’m quoting a previous post, not posting it myself.)


P

1. fictional
2. Only known name starts with P

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  1. Penelope Cruz
  2. Penelope Featherington (Bridgerton)
  3. Penelope, correct

Penelope X3!

DQ#1; male?
D@#2: human?

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1 (They Live) was Rowdy Roddy Piper; 2 (triangle) was Blaise Pascal; 3 (King of the Hill) was Peggy Hill. Incidentally, I had a setup like this to do the triangle…

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1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1

…but then the formatting got messed up when I tried quoting it, so I went for the picture.

DQs:
1. from prose?
2. main character?
3. created by American(s)?

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P

1. fictional
2. only name starts with P
3. male
4. human
5. not originally from prose, but has appeared in novels
6. main character
7. created by American(s)

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Last month’s thread: Botticelli – July 2026

To P or not to P…

IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
Did Andre Braugher play you on Homicide?
Did you found a woolens company in Oregon?

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Not Pemberton
DQ
DQ (If you mean Pendleton, that wasn’t the founder’s name.)

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Correct, Det. Pembleton and yes, Pendleton (or so I thought it was).

Pe…ton x3!

DQ:

Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Were you Achilles’s cousin and perhaps lover?
Were you one of King Arthur’s knights and often sought the Questing Beast?
Were you chief engineer of the USCSS Nostromo?

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IQs:
1. Were you the Second Doctor?
2. Are you George, Louis, and Charlotte’s aunt?
3. Were you a Discworld character?

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Not Patroclus.
DQ
DQ

DQ
Not Philippa “Pippa” Middleton
DQ


P

1. fictional
2. only name starts with P
3. male
4. human
5. not originally from prose, but has appeared in novels
6. main character
7. created by American(s)
8. would probably not be alive today, if real

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IQs:

  1. Are you the mascot for the “South of the Border” tourist trap in South Carolina?
  2. Were you a Gryffindor prefect (and later, Head Boy)?
  3. Did you win 268 games without ever giving up a grand slam home run?
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Correct
Pete Davidson
Correct

DQ: From fantasy or sci/fi genre?

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IQs:

  1. Did you circumvent the globe in a remarkably quick time?
  2. Did you accompany the above person?
  3. Are you a particularly lovable and noxious character?
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1 was Patrick Troughton; 3 was Ponder Stibbons.

DQs:
1. originally from movies/TV?
2. created after 1960?

IQs:
1. Did you create Discworld?
2. Did you invent the microwave oven, after you noticed a candy bar had melted in your pocket when you were near a radar set?
3. Did Minnie Driver voice you in a 1999 Disney movie/literary adaptation?