Botticelli - August 2024

Thread Games
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DQs

  1. Fictional

  2. Male

  3. First name begins with L.

  4. American

  5. First appeared after 1950

  6. Good guy

  7. Not from a work of literature.

  8. Not a protagonist

  9. Did not first appear in a movie

  10. From a TV show

  11. First appeared before 1980.

  12. From a comedy show

  13. First appeared after 1965.

  14. From a sitcom

  15. Did not win an Emmy for the role

  16. I would call it a,large city

  17. Human

  18. White

  19. Maybe. Frankly, I’m not sure. What I think of as a catch phrase for him would probably be unrecognized out of context.

  20. First appeared after 1972.

  21. Has won several awards in universe.

  22. Covered a Thanksgiving promotion that went hilariously, tragically awry.

142

Yes, it’s obvious. Great job, SunUp!

143

Go ahead and guess!

144

Are you Les Nessman?

145

YES!!!

I am LES NESSMAN! 5 time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award and winner of the coveted Silver Sow Award!

Well done!

146

Thank you, and a great puzzle to guess! Around the middle I was trying to think of Muppets or perhaps characters from the Carol Burnett show.

And a link if you’d like to relive Les’s most famous moment…

OK, on to the next round. I am

W

147

IQs:
1. Were you in office from 1789 to 1797?
2. Were you in Mr. Deeds?
3. Were you a chemistry teacher who turned to making meth?

148

IQs:

  1. Were you the announcer on the highly acclaimed, water-soluble, wine-soaked, supermegahoneyfied 1950’s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
  2. Were you Emmett Kelly’s clown character?
  3. Did you create the comic strip Pogo?
149

Good job, SunUp!

On to W.

IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SECSTATE?
Did you leave the Chickamauga battlefield and flee to Nashville?
Did you write a stern letter to the mayor and city council of Atlanta in late 1864?

150

i am not George Washington.
Take a DQ.
I am not… Werner Heisenberg (I think he adopted the alias at one point)?

Still need to bone up on that trivia. Take a DQ.
Take another DQ.
I am not Walt Kelly.

I am not William Seward.
I am not Willam S. Rosecrans.
I am not William T. Sherman.

A Civil War William x 3!

151

1 was correct; 2 was Winona Ryder; 3 was Walter White (who only used the alias “Heisenberg”, no “Werner”.)

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with W?

152

W.

  1. Real.
  2. First name does not begin with W.
153

Swept me - well done!

Here’s Sherman’s letter (as good a statement of U.S. policy during the Civil War as anything Lincoln wrote, I’ve always thought): Letter of William T. Sherman to James M. Calhoun, E.E. Rawson, and S.C. Wells, September 12, 1864 · Civil War Era NC

IQs:

Did Queen Victoria complain that you “always addressed [her] as if [she] was a public meeting”?
Did you play Commodore Decker?
Did you like to take pictures of your dogs dressed in human clothes?

154

DQs:
1. Did you write a biography of Washington and popularize the cherry tree story?
2. Speaking of religious figures, were you a nun who presented documentaries about art for the BBC?
3. Are you a very tall basketball player who appeared in the recent summer Olympics, playing for France?

155

#1 was the inimitable Wallace Greenslade.
#2 was Weary Willie.
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?
156

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Bab Ballads?
  2. Did you found a line of 5-and-10 cent stores?
  3. Were you a Hanna-Barbara character whose voice was based on Ed Wynn?
157

I am not William Gladstone.
I am not William Windom.
Take a DQ for William.

I am not Washington Irving.
Take a DQ.
I am not Victor Wembanyama.

158

W.

  1. Real.
  2. First name does not begin with W.
  3. Male.
  4. Dead.
159

1 was Parson Weems; 2 was Sister Wendy Beckett.

DQs:
1. died after 1924?
2. American?

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W.

  1. Real.
  2. First name does not begin with W.
  3. Male.
  4. Dead.
  5. Died before 1924.
  6. American.