Botticelli August 2023

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Known from the Arts?
  2. Caucasian?
102

IQs:

  1. Are you a senator from West Virginia who’s single-handedly fighting his party line on climate change?
  2. Did you compose The Entertainer?
  3. Were you born Ferdinand LeMothe?
103

IQs:
1. Are you the most famous wearer of a whoopee cap?
2. Did you ask the Lord for a Mercedes-Benz and a color TV?
3. In Robert Silverberg’s “After the Myths Went Home”, are you one of the legendary figures resurrected in the far future, a “god of youth and springtime” with a bloodied head–though you protest you were real?

104

Not Joe Manchin (booo!), Scott Joplin or Justin Timberlake.

Dunno, not Janis Joplin and not John F. Kennedy.

J.

  1. real
  2. last name begins with J
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. not from the USA
  6. died before 1900
  7. not known from the Arts
  8. Caucasian
105

Correct on IQ1. IQ2 was N.K. Jemisin, and IQ3 was indeed Alvin “Junior” Samples.

DQ: Known for politics/military?

106
  1. Did you sing about offering your girlfriend a gift - your dick in a box?
  2. Are you famously two-faced?
  3. Are you a controversial civil rights activist who was on the balcony with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was assassinated, and who claims to have held him as he was dying?
107

IQ:

  1. While your husband was stationed in Paris for the state department, did you learn the skills you needed to catapult you from a housewife to a household name.
  2. Were you executed for espionage in the early 50’s
  3. in the lands of the true game, were you the wizard daughter of a dervish who could feel the location of the old paths through her feet.
108

1 was Jughead Jones.

DQ: died before 1700?

IQs:
1. Were you appointed to the Supreme Court by Joe Biden?
2. Did you have 99 problems, but none involving women?
3. Did you work at Gizmonic Institute, just another face in a red jumpsuit–you did a good job cleaning up the place, but your bosses didn’t like you so they shot you into spaaaaaaaacce…?

109

IQ1: Were you also known as Korak the Killer"
IQ2: Were you #1’s father?
IQ3: Were you Dr Doolittle under another name?

110

Correct, Correct, and Jelly Roll Morton.

DQ: European?

111

I

IQs:

  1. Have you been Elastic Lad, Flamebird and Giant Turtle Boy?
  2. Are you currently the DCU equivalent of the MCU’s Kevin Feige?
  3. Did Guy Fawkes try to blow up Parliament when you were there?
112

Still not Justin Timberlake, not Janus, and not Jesse Jackson.

Not Julia Child, not Julius Rosenberg and dunno.

Not Justice Ketanji (sp?) Brown Jackson, dunno and not John Bigboote.

Dunno x3.

Dunno, dunno and not King James… VI?

J.

  1. real
  2. last name begins with J
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. not from the USA
  6. died before 1900
  7. not known from the Arts
  8. Caucasian
  9. known for politics/military, indirectly
  10. died after 1700
  11. European
113

First two correct, last one is Jinian from the final trilogy of the True Game series by Sheri S Tepper

DQ: Of Noble birth?

114

2 was Jay-Z; 3 was Joel Robinson, in Mystery Science Theater 3000.

DQs:
1. died after 1800?
2. from the Anglo-Irish isles?

115

J.

  1. real
  2. last name begins with J
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. not from the USA
  6. died before 1900
  7. not known from the Arts
  8. Caucasian
  9. known for politics/military, indirectly
  10. died after 1700
  11. European
  12. not of Noble birth
  13. year apparently unknown, but probably died before 1800
  14. from the Anglo-Irish isles
116

#1 is Jimmy Olsen.
#2 is James Gunn.
#3 was King James I.

DQ: Known for a connection to the American colonies?

2 DQs reserved.

117

IQ:

  1. Was a book and movie made of your adventures with an enlarged fruit
  2. Did you carry seven million dollars in cash across the desert on foot to pay the bail of a Mexican drug lord.
  3. Did you play the cyclops and the Coen brother’s re-imagining of the Odyssey.
    .
118

IQs:
1. Did Sam save you and thus change history (in the show, at least) in an episode of Quantum Leap?
2. Did a practical joker print a message on the back of your uniform stating that you were a jerk?
3. Did Jim Freund, host of the Hour of the Wolf radio show, call you up and ask how to pronounce the name of one of your characters?

119

John “Jack” Clayton.
John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke – aka Tarzan
King Jong Thinkalot


DQ: English?
Two DQs reserved.

120

IQs:

  1. Did you command one of the fleets involved in the Battle of Jutland?
  2. Are you a Gumby Cat known to Munkustrap?
  3. Do you keep one fingernail painted with red polish, to distract attention from your other fingers while you work?