Botticelli August 2023

Thread Games
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IQs:
1. Did you observe “Yellow cat, black cat–as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat”?
2. Are you a tech journalist who has written for Wired and Boing Boing?
3. Did you debut a few scant months after Niles Caulder?

382

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. First name starts with X
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  1. I am not St. Francis Xavier.
  2. I am not Xi Jinping.
  3. I am not Xander Harris.

#3. I am not Prof. X.

Take 2 DQs.

384

1 was Deng Xiaoping; 2 was Xeni Jardin.

DQs:
1. male?
2. created after 1970?

385

Forgot to ask my DQ:

  1. Human?
386

IQs:

  1. Are you a lesbian icon, played by a New Zealand actress, from a time when gay women didn’t have much representation in media?
  2. Are you a beloved children’s TV host in Brazil?
  3. Are you the current U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services?
387

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. First name starts with X
  3. Male
  4. Created after 1970
  5. Human
388

#1. I am not Xena.
#2. I am not Xuxa.
#3. Take a DQ.

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#3 was Xavier Bercerra.

DQ: from TV/movies?

390

IQ

  1. Did you have a kangaroo follow you home?
  2. Can your conundrums be solved by applying the mathematical theory of limits?
    (Can’t think of a third)
391

IQs:
1. Were you a bandleader?
2. Were you Jacqueline’s step-daughter and Kimmy’s charge in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt?
3. Are you a character in Holes?

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:387, topic:987985, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. First name starts with X
  3. Male
  4. Not originally from TV/Movies, but has appeared ther
393

Take 2 DQs.

  1. I am not Xavier Cugat.
    Take 2 DQs.
394

2 was Xanthippe Voorhees; 3 was X-Ray.

DQs:
1. created before 1990?
2. originally from literature?

395

You’ve dropped a few DQ answers along the way, Prof. P. :thinking:

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted Greek cavalry leader? - Yes, Xenophon
Did you win at Thermopylae but lose at Salamis? - Yes, the Persian emperor, Xerxes
Were you intended to be Cmdr. Spock’s successor? - Xon, in the Star Trek TV sequel series that never was

DQs:

American?

IQs:

Did you lead the USMC in the Eighties?
Did your girlfriend call you “Pizza Man”?
Did you edit an offbeat magazine with a very limited circulation?

396

Why, yes, I am Xenophilus Lovegood, editor of the Quibbler and father of Luna.
Good one, EH!

In reading about him in order to answer questions I learned that he wasn’t born a Lovegood. He took his wife’s name when they married. He was born a Malfoy.

397
  1. Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla
  2. Must have been low on sleep, I somehow convinced myself that Zeno of zeno’s paradox was spelled Xeno. (withdrawn)

And reading further I see the round is over anyway, Good job Elendil.

398

This seems only to be on the Simple English Wikipedia and nowhere else, so I suspect it is a fan invention.

399

I’d never read that before, either.

Thanks, Prof. P., for another good name and another fun round!

Other previous IQs:

Did you lead the USMC in the Eighties? - Gen. Paul X. Kelley
Did your girlfriend call you “Pizza Man”? - Capt. Francis X. Furillo on Hill Street Blues

A new letter coming soon.

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A new letter! A new letter!