Botticelli - Aug 2026

Thread Games
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DQ: known from the Arts?

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  1. Did you direct *Citizen Kane"?
  2. Did you write a series of books about a war between humans and a race of aliens?
  3. Did you star in the musical Grease?
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1. I am not Orson Welles.
2. I am not Orson Scott Card.
3. I am not Olivia Newton-John.

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. only name (as commonly referred to regarding part of life) begins with O
4. dead
5. not known from the arts

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I remember Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but not that particular fake character.

O it is!

IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun and Mithrandir?
Were you Mork from Ork’s boss?
Did you say, not long before your death, that you had done some service to the state, and they knew it?

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IQs

  1. Were you king of Norway in 1000 A.D.?
  2. Were you king of Sweden in 1000 A.D.?
  3. Is one of Uranus’s moons named for you?
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No, we can assume he’s real, Ferris just takes his reservation.

Respectively:
I am not Olorin.
I am not Orson.
I am not Othello.

1. I am not Olaf.
2. I am not Olav?
3. Take a DQ.

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Swept me!

IQs:

  1. Is you brother named Castor?
  2. Did you play a character nicknamed “13”?
  3. Did you write your song “Vampire” about Taylor Swift?
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Correct, correct, and King Oberon. Uranus’s moons are named for Shakespearean characters.

DQ: Died after 1900?

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1. I am not Olive Oyl.
2. I am not Olivia Munn?
3. I am not Olivia Rodrigo?

DQs:
1. real
2. male
3. only name (as commonly referred to regarding part of life) begins with O
4. dead
5. not known from the arts
6. died before 1900

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IQs:

  1. Were you the lead role in a movie series that included Eddie Jemison, Scott Caan and Don Cheadle?
  2. Did you sing “So Easy (To Fall in Love)”?
  3. Did you record “Thinkin Bout You”?
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IQs

  1. Did you change your name to Augustus?
  2. Are you one of the minor prophets of the Old Testament?
  3. Were you a frequent game show panelist in the 60s?
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I am not Danny Ocean or Obadiah, but I am indeed Octavian, AKA Augustus! Because it’s August. (Thus the Latin in the “O” picture.)

Next game goes to the Prof.

273

Swept me.

And well done, Prof. P.!

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Thanks. Clue 3 signifying a name change was the big clue.

I am

D!

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IQs:

1. Did you design a keyboard?
2. W’ere you Janet on The Good Place?
3. Did you make plenty of things up in your novel Big Trouble?

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  1. I am not Dvorak.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Dave Barry?
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IQs:

  1. Did you impose double-secret probation on the Deltas?
  2. Did you join your brothers’ band before getting a TV show?
  3. Were you considered the “bad boy” of your squeaky-clean siblings?
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2 was D’Arcy Carden; 3 was indeed Dave Barry.

DQ: real?

IQs:
1. Were you Constant Reader?
2. Were you W. Mark Felt?
3. Did you tell Milo that your middle initial stood for AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE?

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Let’s go with D, and great get, Prof!

IQs:

  1. Did you sing “So Easy (To Fall in Love)”?
  2. Did you date Ginny Weasley for a while?
  3. Did you play an engineer (twice), the Apostle Paul, and an army recruiter?
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  1. All correct. Swept me

Octavian rings only faint or distant bells.

I’m glad Prof. P got it because I was doing poorly at coming up with people with names starting with O who weren’t too obvious.