Botticelli, August 2025

Thread Games
141

@SunUp you swept me! I thought I was smart in thinking of single-named Greeks, I didn’t consider adding a second name. Good job, Prof!

IQs:

  1. Was your character physically abused by Frank Booth in Blue Velvet?
  2. Did you land your first big role in Hollywood in exchange for Olivia de Havilland?
  3. Were you inspired by watching Jim Morrison of The Doors?
142

I it is!

IQs:

  1. Were you losing a swordfight until you changed hands?
  2. Were you Joe Hardy’s steady gal?
  3. Were you a New Jersey-born opera singer who ran afoul of your royal paramour?
143

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Inigo Montoya.
    Take 2 DQs.
144

Correct on #1. #2 was Iola Morton, from The Hardy Boys, #3 was Irene Adler from A Scandal In Bohemia.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
145

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
146
  1. Isabella Rossellini
  2. Ingrid Bergman
  3. Iggy Pop

DQs:

American creator?
Created after 1950?
Last name begins with I?

147

Swept me on the "Ara-"s, SunUp, and congrats, Prof. P.! On to I.

IQs:

Were you a Catholic priest who had a major American university named after you?
Were you Queequeg’s bunkmate?
Were you a noted Continental Army officer?

148

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not America. The revised, named version of the character had American creators.
  4. Created before 1950
  5. Only name starts with I.
149
  1. I am not St. Ignatius of Loyola.
  2. Don’t call me Ishmael.
    Take a DQ.
150

IQs:

  1. Did you write “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon”?
  2. Did you write “A Prayer for Owen Meany”?
  3. Did you compose “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”?
151

IQ1: Did we like you?
IQ2: Did you write “Nightfall”?
IQ3: Were you the last surviving member of your tribe?

152
  1. I am not Washington Irving.
  2. I am not John Irving.
  3. I am not Irving Berlin.
  1. I am not Ike.
  2. I am not Isaac Asimov.
  3. Take a DQ.
153

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DQ: Originally from prose fiction?

154

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. The original creator was not America. 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.
155

I assume you mean “American” and not “America” for DQ3?

Previous IQs:

Were you a Catholic priest who had a major American university named after you? - Yes, St. Ignatius of Loyola
Were you Queequeg’s bunkmate? - Yes, Ishmael
Were you a noted Continental Army officer? - Israel Putnam

DQ:

Created before 1850?

IQs:

Did Disney portray you as a scrawny, voraciously hungry schoolteacher?
Are you a novelist from a politically-connected Latin American family?
Were you Sid Caesar’s comic sidekick?

156

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
157
  1. I am not Ichabod Crane.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Imogene Coca.
158

Correct, Isabel Allende and correct.

DQ:

American character?

IQs:

Are you the host of NPR’s This American Life?
Were you a top Clinton White House aide for healthcare reform?
Did your first initial, and that of your husband, appear on an explorer’s flag?

159

IQs:

  1. Did you play a German cook on Benson?
  2. Did you narrate David Lynch’s Dune?
  3. Did you consider yourself to be the king of Scotland?
160

Swept me! Irving x3!

IQs:

  1. Did you and your wife split up, with her going on to a bigger singing career?
  2. Did your brother punt you like a football?
  3. Are you a writer with a name similar to a regular on Rowans & Martin’s Laugh-In?