Botticelli - December 2021

Thread Games
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S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with S
182

IQs:

  1. Are you a “mean old puddy-tat”?
  2. Are you Snoopy’s brother who lives in a desert?
  3. Did you play the wife in McMillan & Wife?
183

IQs:
1. Are the two (arguably) best-known characters you created* currently in the highest-grossing movie of the year?
2. Are you one of those characters?
3. Was your memoir Mi Mundo Adorado/My Beloved World?

*although your much-less reclusive editor also claimed credit

184

Not Sylvester, Spike or Susan St. James.

185

Not Stan Lee, or Superman or Spiderman, and dunno.

186

1 was Steve Ditko; 2 was Spider-man or Dr. Strange; 3 was Sonia Sotomayor. Lee didn’t have an editor but was an editor, and also co-created characters arguably better-known than Dr. Strange, so I think it counts for being wrong.

DQs:
1. created by an American or Americans?
2. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television?

187

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with S
  4. created by an American or Americans
  5. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television
188

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Were you the fictional first king of Corinth who treated travelers badly, and was punished by the gods for it?
  2. Are you the stock boasting coward character in the Italian commedia dell’arte?
  3. Did James Marsters play you on Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
189

Not Sargon, Socello or Spike.

190

#1 was Sisyphus.
#2 is Scaramouche.
Correct on #3.

DQs:

  1. Created after 1950?
  2. Unusual first name?
191

IQs:
1. Did you write The Orchid Thief?
2. Did you play a fictionalized version of the above person?
3. Did you lose an election to Rutherford B. Hayes?

192

Not Susan Orlean, Susan Sarandon or
Samuel Tilden.

193

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with S
  4. created by an American or Americans
  5. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television
  6. created before 1950
  7. not an unusual first name
194

2 was Meryl Streep.

DQ: from film?

195

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with S
  4. created by an American or Americans
  5. from a medium involving actors, e.g. movies or television
  6. created before 1950
  7. not an unusual first name
  8. from film
196

IQs:

  1. Did Rick tell you to “Play it again” (or words to that effect)?
  2. Did you play Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
  3. Did John Lithgow play you on Third Rock From The Sun?
197

IQs:
1. Were your (alleged) last words about a chicken you owed as a debt?
2. Were you originally going to eat by feeding on energy through a plate in your stomach?
3. Were your three main puppets on a TV show a horse, a lamb, and a dog?

198

Not Sam from Casablanca, still not Susan Sarandon and not Scott.

199

Dunno, dunno and not Shari Lewis.

200

1 was Socrates; 2 was Mr. Spock. Correct on Lewis.

DQs:
1. movie is from after 1930?
2. main character?