Botticelli - Aug 2026

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with D
  3. Female
  4. Originally from prose
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Supporting character
  7. First appeared after 1950
  8. American creator
  9. From genre fiction
  10. First appeared after 1990
302

3 is Dino Manelli (Sgt Fury & His Howling Commandos)

DQ: Best known from sci-fi or fantasy genre?

303

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with D
  3. Female
  4. Originally from prose
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Supporting character
  7. First appeared after 1950
  8. American creator
  9. From genre fiction
  10. First appeared after 1990
  11. Best known from scifi/fantasy
304

Swept me.

New questions;

  1. Were you Princess Kareen’s bodyguard?
  2. Were you #1’s eldest daughter?
  3. Were you #2’s love interest?
305

IQs:
1. Was your vice-president Alexander Stephens?
2. Did you and your family live on the end of Oak Street?
3. Can your approach to art, and life, be summed up by your quote “I don’t do drugs–I am drugs”?

306

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Jefferson Davis.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Salvador Dali.
307

2 was Denise, in The End of Oak Street.

DQ: first appeared in a novel?

308

!. Ludmilla “Drou” Droushnakovi
2. Delia Koudelka
3. Duv Galeni

All from the Vorkosigan Series

4 DQs reserved

309

DQ #1: Human?

310

IQs:

  1. Was your husband gaslit into thinking you were cheating on him?
  2. Was your character best known by a single letter, but not the letter D?
  3. Is the MLS MVP award named after you?
311

IQs:
1. Did “you” appear on Weekend Update in the Dolly Parton Saturday Night Live episode, predicting an oil spill that had actually happened earlier that week?
2. Did you anchor said Weekend Update?
3. Did you interview Butch Patrick in the episode, saying “It has been said of the Munsters that they are both crime and magic”?

312

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with D
  3. Female
  4. Originally from prose
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Supporting character
  7. First appeared after 1950
  8. American creator
  9. From genre fiction
  10. First appeared after 1990
  11. Best known from scifi/fantasy
  12. First appeared in a relatively unknown continuing online story that became a novel the next year
  13. Not human.
313
  1. I am not Desdemona.
    Take 2 DQs.
314

Take 3 DQs.

315

1 was Jeanne Dixon; 2 was Dennis Miller; 3 was Dieter.

DQ: from science fiction?

2 DQs reserved.

316

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with D
  3. Female
  4. Originally from prose
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Supporting character
  7. First appeared after 1950
  8. American creator
  9. From genre fiction
  10. First appeared after 1990
  11. Best known from scifi/fantasy
  12. First appeared in a relatively unknown continuing online story that became a novel the next year
  13. Not human.
  14. From science fiction, but with so many fantasy elements that the line is beyond being blurred
317

Correct on #1.
#2 was Desmond Llewelyn, who played Q.
#3 is Landon Donovan.

2 DQs reserved.

318

Next DQ: is this a robot?

DQ #2: has appeared in a tv or movie adaptation

1 DQ reserved

319

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with D
  3. Female
  4. Originally from prose
  5. First appeared after 1900
  6. Supporting character
  7. First appeared after 1950
  8. American creator
  9. From genre fiction
  10. First appeared after 1990
  11. Best known from scifi/fantasy
  12. First appeared in a relatively unknown continuing online story that became a novel the next year
  13. Not human.
  14. From science fiction, but with so many fantasy elements that the line is beyond being blurred
  15. Is not a robot.
  16. Has not appeared in a TV or movie adaptation, but will in the next few years
320

Deanie, correct, John Dickson Carr.

DQ:

  1. Female creator?
  2. Feline?