Botticelli - August 2024

Thread Games
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Previous IQs:

Did you say that Washington’s 1776-77 New Jersey campaign was “the most brilliant of any recorded in the annals of military achievements"? - Frederick the Great
Were you the son of two fictional psychologists? - From Frasier, yes, but this was his and Lillith’s son, Frederick Crane
Were you Earl Warren’s predecessor as Chief Justice of the United States? - Frederick Vinson

Frederick x3!

DQs:

Protagonist?
From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)?

One DQ reserved

IQs:

Were you the young owner of “Some pig!”?
Did you lead a singalong of “Twist and Shout” on a Chicago street?
Were you President Bartlet’s first CJCS?

82

F.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with F.
  4. American.
  5. Is part of a franchise that has been rebooted multiple times. The first incarnation of the character would not be alive today; later incarnations probably would be.
  6. From a series of novels.
  7. From a mystery series.
  8. Series has been adapted.
  9. Created before 1959.
  10. Not the protagonist.
  11. From genre fiction.

ETA: Elendil_s_Heir’s DQs.

83

I am not Fern Arable.
I am not Ferris Bueller.
Take a DQ.

84

Correct, correct, and Adm. Percy Fitzwallace on The West Wing.

DQs:

Sidekick?
From sf or fantasy?

IQs:

Did your father, a messy eater, say he’d rather you had died than your older brother?
Did you write a poem while being held overnight against your will aboard a British warship?
Were you an MLB commissioner after Bart Giamatti?

85

#1 is Flash Gordon.
#2 is, correct, Fred Claus.
#3 is Felix Faust.

1 DQ reserved.

86

I am not… Fat Bastard?
I am not Francis Scott Key.
I am not Fay Vincent.

87

F.

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name does not start with F.
  4. American.
  5. Is part of a franchise that has been rebooted multiple times. The first incarnation of the character would not be alive today; later incarnations probably would be.
  6. From a series of novels.
  7. From a mystery series.
  8. Series has been adapted.
  9. Created before 1959.
  10. Not the protagonist.
  11. From genre fiction.
  12. Not a sidekick.

I’m counting “from genre fiction” as being a superset of “from a mystery series”. @Elendil_s_Heir , do you still want to ask if this character is “from sf or fantasy”, i.e. from mystery-sf or -fantasy?

88

IQs:

  1. Are you the father of Frank and Joe?
  2. Were you a villainous creation of Sax Rohmer?
  3. Did you play Ardeth Bey in a pair of movies in the ear!y 2000s?
89

Yes, I am

Fenton Hardy

former NYPD detective, private investigator, crack shot, scourge of Bayport’s worst criminal element, and most famously father of the Hardy Boys.

Take it away, @kitap , and congratulations!

90

Good job, kitap!
Nice pick, SunUp!

I came close.

91

I actually double-checked that you hadn’t used Fenton for an IQ.

I will pick someone,after lunch.

92

For the record, Fu Manchu and Oded Fehr.

Now, on to

L

As in lemon, Lorax and lemur.

93

Good job, kitap!

Previous IQs:

Did your father, a messy eater, say he’d rather you had died than your older brother? - Faramir, in LOTR
Did you write a poem while being held overnight against your will aboard a British warship? - Yes, Francis Scott Key
Were you an MLB commissioner after Bart Giamatti? - Yes, Fay Vincent

On to L!

IQs:

Did your boys knock inkwells around your office, creating a terrible mess?
Were you the mother of those brats?
Were you their eldest brother?

94

@Prof.Pepperwinkle , you came very close. I had to look a second time to see if you hadn’t gotten it with one of your other IQs

IQs:

  1. Were you the host of an eponymous evening show on CNN before being fired last year?
  2. Were you a centerfielder for the White Sox and Tigers, winning a World Series with the latter in 1984?
  3. Did you tour with the Harlem Globetrotters for 22 years?
95

Take 3 DQs.

Take a DQ, take a DQ, I am not Meadowlark Lemon.

96

IQs:

  1. Were you the fairy queen of Oz?
  2. Did Groucho sing your praises?
  3. Did you create Galactus?
97

I am not Lurline and take 2 DQs.

98

Correct on Lurline.
#2 was Lydia, O Lydia, O have you met Lydia, Lydia the Tattooed Lady?
#3 was Stan Lee (along with Jack Kirby).

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
99

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
100

Don Lemon, Chet Lemon, and correct.

Lemon x 3!

DQ: First name begins with L?

1 DQ reserved.