Botticelli, August 2025

Thread Games
181

Correct
Isaac Hayes (“Theme from Shaft”)
Ivor Biggin

3 DQs reserved

182

DQ: A good guy?

IQs:

  1. Did you have a WWII motorized infantry brigade named for you?
  2. Were you the first Superior General of the Jesuits?
  3. Were you a Deltan lieutenant aboard NCC-1701?
183

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:178, topic:1021698, full:true”]

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not American. The revised, named version of the character had American creators.
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Only name starts with I.
  6. Not originally from prose fiction.
  7. Created after 1850
  8. Character is not American
  9. Created after 1900
  10. Not human
  11. Animal
  12. Has appeared in film or TV Series
  13. European original creator
  14. European character
  15. In a Disney or Pixar movie
  16. Supporting character
  17. Non-speaking role
  18. A good guy
184
  1. I am not St. Ignatius Loyola (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
185

#1 was Princess Irene of the Netherlands.
#3 was Lieutenant Ilia.
Correct on #2.

2 DQs reserved.

186

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:183, topic:1021698”]

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not American. The revised, named version of the character had American creators.
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Only name starts with I.
  6. Not originally from prose fiction.
  7. Created after 1850
  8. Character is not American
  9. Created after 1900
  10. Not human
  11. Animal
  12. Has appeared in film or TV Series
  13. European original creator
  14. European character
  15. In a Disney or Pixar movie
  16. Supporting character
  17. Non-speaking role
  18. A good guy

There is, apparently, a revised version of the story where he does speak, in English. It is not a well-known version.

187

DQ: Name begins with Ia - Im?

2 DQs reserved

188

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:186, topic:1021698”]

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not American. The revised, named version of the character had American creators.
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Only name starts with I.
  6. Not originally from prose fiction.
  7. Created after 1850
  8. Character is not American
  9. Created after 1900
  10. Not human
  11. Animal
  12. Has appeared in film or TV Series
  13. European original creator
  14. European character
  15. In a Disney or Pixar movie
  16. Supporting character
  17. Non-speaking role
  18. A good guy
  19. Name begins with In - Iz

There’s gonna be more than 20 DQs as it is, so let’s halt the IQs now. Please ask all remaining DQs by 7pm EDT tomorrow.

189

DQ: Are you anthropomorphic (human-like)?

DQ: Was your most recent appearance after 1990?

190

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:188, topic:1021698”]

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not American. The revised, named version of the character had American creators.
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Only name starts with I.
  6. Not originally from prose fiction.
  7. Created after 1850
  8. Character is not American
  9. Created after 1900
  10. Not human
  11. Animal
  12. Has appeared in film or TV Series
  13. European original creator
  14. European character
  15. In a Disney or Pixar movie
  16. Supporting character
  17. Non-speaking role
  18. A good guy
  19. Name begins with In - Iz
  20. Only slightly anthropomorphic
  21. Most recent appearance was after 1990
191

“Slightly”? Seems this would be a yes or no question.

192

I’m offering my pair of extra DQs to anyone who might want to use them.

193

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:190, topic:1021698”]

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not American. The revised, named version of the character had American creators.
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Only name starts with I.
  6. Not originally from prose fiction.
  7. Created after 1850
  8. Character is not American
  9. Created after 1900
  10. Not human
  11. Animal
  12. Has appeared in film or TV Series
  13. European original creator
  14. European character
  15. In a Disney or Pixar movie
  16. Supporting character
  17. Non-speaking role
  18. A good guy
  19. Name begins with In - Iz
  20. Only slightly anthropomorphic
  21. Most recent appearance was after 1990
  22. Russian creator
  23. Russian character

Please ask your final “Are you Name?” questions by 8pm EDT tomorrow.

194

Are you Izbushka?

195

I am not Izbushka. Did Disney do Baba Yaga?

196

I don’t think so; it was a WAG based on Russian folklore.

197

When I was but a wee Professor my father got me a recording of Sterling Holloway narrating Peter and the Wolf, with an accompanying book. I learned to read from that book. I particularly recall Sterling spelling out “W-O-L-F, Wolf!”

One of the characters in Disney’s version is Ivan The Cat, performed on the clarinet, “in a very low register.”

Has anybody else seen it, or am I just too old?

198

Not I.

199

I vaguely remember it. I think it’s a fair pick.

200

Thank you. On to…

X!

since it hasn’t been used at all recently.