Botticelli, August 2025

Thread Games
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I remember listening to “Peter and the Wolf” on a Disney record, and reading along with the accompanying story.

In a scene from Animal House, Otter whistles the main theme while visiting a sorority house.

Back to the game!

202

IQs:

  1. Were you served with a technical foul for choking an opponent during an NBA game?
  2. Were you the subject of an alliteratively titled book and subsequent movie?
  3. Did King Leonidas successfully draw blood from you?
203

I knew this would be short.

Yea, i am

Xerxes the Great.

Well done, knoodler!

204

Wow. I wasn’t expecting this.

Give me until tomorrow to come up with a name.

EDIT: The other two are: Xavier McDaniel and Xaviera Hollander (“The Happy Hooker”)

205

OK, let’s get this started.

I am…

W

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IQs:

  1. Are you a denizen of the Emerald City who is both Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated?
  2. Did you write One World?
  3. Were you the announcer for the highly esteemed, nostalgia-referenced, monty-pythoned, stone-driven 1950’s BBC radio series [all together now], The Goon Show?
207

X went so fast last night it got solved between my typing my second and third IQs. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen will have to wait for a later go-around.

On to W!

IQs:

  1. Did you change parties to run against FDR in 1940?
  2. Did you play the wife of C.S. Lewis?
  3. Did your nickname come from your hearing helicopters before anyone else?
208

SunUp, your #1 IQ is the same as my #2 IQ.

209

On review, you are correct.

New #1 IQ:

  1. Did you order the 1st Minnesota to take Confederate flags at Gettysburg?
210

I am not the Wizard
Take 2 DQs

Take 2 DQs
I am not Walter “Radar” O’Reilly

211
  1. Not the Wizard, but the Wogglebug, who was always referred to by those epithets.
    2 was Wendell L. Willkie.
    3 was Wallace Greenslade..

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with W?
  3. Female?
212

Correct on #3. #1 was MGen Winfield Scott Hancock; #2 was Debra Winger, in Shadowlands.

2 DQs reserved.

213

W

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Female
214

DQs:

Known for the arts?
American?

215

W

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Female
  4. Known for the arts
  5. American
216

IQs:

Was your catchphrase, “Good evening Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea”?
Did you, when you became a top American official, write a memo to the President that has been a model for some if not all of your successors?
Did Doonesbury joke that your colleagues were expected to rise when you got on a plane with them?

217

IQs:

  1. Do you have a Chocolate Factory?
  2. Did you compose Classical Gas?
  3. Did you never live in the White House, but your wife did?
218

Take 3 DQs

I am not Willy Wonka
I am not Mason Williams
Take a DQ

219

Correct x2, 3 was George Washington, whose wife, Martha’s first husband built a mansion he called the White House.

1 DQ reserved.

220

IQs:

  1. Were you the first player born in the 1970s to play in Major League Baseball?
  2. Did you keep a FedEx troubleshooter company on a deserted island?
  3. Were the viewpoint character (and his double) in a Poe short story?