Botticelli, August 2025

Thread Games
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  1. Apollo Creed
  2. Abed from Community
  3. Atlas (not the Greek god Atlas)
122

Adidas guy, but I forget his name. Take a DQ.
I am not Abraham Lincoln.
Take another DQ.

123

A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. Died before 2000 (A.D.)
  6. Known for science
124

Thank you.


DQ: American?
One DQ reserved.

125

Yep, Andre Norton. Alexander Key, Richard Armour.

DQ: Caucasian?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you write, among other books, The Ship Who Sang?
  2. Are you the Queen of Oogaboo in the Oz books?
  3. Were you Murphy Brown’s son on Murphy Brown?
126

#1 was Alvar Aalto.
#2 is correct.
#3 is King Azaz in The Phantom Tollbooth.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with A?
  2. Died before 1950 A.D.?
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A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. Died before 2000 (A.D.)
  6. Known for science
  7. Not American
  8. Caucasian
  9. First and last name both start with A
  10. Died before 1950 A.D.
128
  1. I am not Anne McCaffrey.

Take 2 DQs.

129

IQs:

  1. Is a number and also a law named after you?
  2. Did you draw Li’l Abner?
  3. Were you one of Benjamin Franklin’s pseudonyms?
130

I’d never heard of Louis Tomlinson meself.

IQs:

Were you Gilraen’s husband?
Were you Gilraen’s son?
Were you a giant spider who lived not far from Hogwarts?

131
  1. Technically you answered correctly. His name is Adolph Dassler (his brother is Rudolph, and his company is Puma), but most people refer to him as Adi Das.
  2. Also correct
  3. Alice Liddell, after she married cricketeer Reginald Hargreaves.

DQ: Died before 1900?

132

IQs:

  1. Were you part of a trio created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr?
  2. Are you the founder of a eponymous dance academy who died of AIDS-related illness?
  3. Are you a 4x NBA All-Star as well as the NBA Defensive Player of 1986?
133

I am not Avogadro.
I am not Al Capp.
Take a DQ.

I am not Arathorn.
I am not Aragorn.
I am not Aragog.

Ara- x3!

I am not Alvin, the chipmunk.
I am not… Alvin Alley?
I’m blanking on NBA Alvins. Take a DQ.

134

Correct, correct, and Anthony Afterwit.

DQ: Known for physics?

135

Yes, it’s ALLLLVINNNNN!
Alvin Ailey
Alvin Robertson (If you’d said Alvin Adams I would’ve accepted it — not that many Alvins in the NBA)

Alvin x3!

DQ: European?

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A

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. Not known for the arts
  5. Died before 2000 (A.D.)
  6. Known for science
  7. Not American
  8. Caucasian
  9. First and last name both start with A
  10. Died before 1950 A.D.
  11. Died before 1900
  12. Known for physics
  13. European
137

IQs:

  1. Are you closely associated with the Greek city of Syracuse?
  2. Did you teach philosophy to a “Great” leader of Macedonia?
  3. Are you considered the father of comedy?
138

IQs:

  1. Were you the founder of spectroanalysis?
  2. Were you part of a 60s comedy duo with Jack Burns?
  3. Did you write the hymn, Come, Ye Thankful People, Come?
139

I am not Archimedes.
I am not Aristotle.
I am not… Aristophanes?

Yep, I am

Anders Ångström

Swedish physicist and namesake of the very small length unit.

Take it away, Prof.!

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Thanks! Hmm… I and X haven’t been done this year…

I am

I.