Botticelli - December 2022

Thread Games
141

Previous IQs:

Did Rip Torn voice you in a Disney film? - Men in Black wasn’t a Disney film; this was Zeus in Hercules
Did Samuel Jackson play you in an action film? - Yes, a very different Zeus, in Die Hard 2
Did you inherit the Grand Budapest Hotel? - Zero, in the Wes Anderson movie about the hotel

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a costar of Beverly Hill 90210?
Did Stanley Kubrick prominently feature your song in a movie?
Are you a former top Chinese leader who recently died?

142

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Not European
  5. Not political/military
  6. Only name begins with Z
  7. Asian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not known for the Arts
143
  1. I am not Daphne Zuniga (??)
  2. I am not Zarathustra.
  3. Take a DQ.
144

Zona Gale, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Zenna Henderson.

DQs:

  1. Female?

2 DQs reserved

145

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Not European
  5. Not political/military
  6. Only name begins with Z
  7. Asian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not known for the Arts
  10. Male
146
  1. Do you rule Ix?
  2. Are you currently shilling Smart Water in TV ads?
  3. Did Keke Palmer play you on Scream Queens*?
147
  1. I am not Queen Zixi.
    Take 2 DQs.
148

Correct, Zendaya, Zayday.

DQs:

  1. Known for business?
  2. Died before 1800?

Two DQs reserved.

149

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Not European
  5. Not political/military
  6. Only name begins with Z
  7. Asian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not known for the Arts
  10. Male
  11. Not known for business
  12. Died before 1800
150

Previous IQs:

Were you a costar of Beverly Hill 90210? - Daphne Zuniga wasn’t a costar on the show; this was Ian Ziering
Did Stanley Kubrick prominently feature your song in a movie? - Yes, Zarathustra
Are you a former top Chinese leader who recently died? - Jiang Zemin

DQs:

Chinese?
Semi-mythical?

IQs:

Was a movie about you alluded to in Monty Python’s Cheese Shop sketch?
Did you die in an asylum fire?
Were you a critic of French political and military corruption?

151

IQs:
1. Are you a video game character with a Link to a Legend?
2. Did you write A People’s History of the United States?
3. In a 2009 comic, did you ask the Flash “Do you remember the electrical fire that burned down your first house in Fallville? Or the day you moved to Central City and you left the back door open? Your dog ran out and got hit by a car. What if every bad thing that happened to you was orchestrated by one person? By an enemy you hadn’t even made yet?” In other words, IT WAS you, BARRY! IT WAS you!

152

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Not European
  5. Not political/military
  6. Only name begins with Z
  7. Asian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not known for the Arts
  10. Male
  11. Not known for business
  12. Died before 1800
  13. Not Chinese
  14. Not semi-mythical, IMO, though there are those who would think otherwise
153

#3. I am not Emile Zola.
Take 2 DQs.

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not William Zinn (sp?).
#3. I am not Zoom.

154

1 was Princess Zelda; 2 was Howard Zinn; 3 was indeed Professor Zoom.

DQ: Japanese?

155

Previous IQs:

Was a movie about you alluded to in Monty Python’s Cheese Shop sketch? - Zorba the Greek (note the two City gents dancing near the beginning): Monty Python- Cheese Shop - YouTube
Did you die in an asylum fire? - Zelda Fitzgerald, poor lady
Were you a critic of French political and military corruption? - Yes, Emile “J’Accuse!” Zola

DQs:

From a mainland Asian country?
Best known as a thinker or philosopher?

IQs:

Did you direct the movie that indirectly inspired Rick and Morty?
Was an eastern Ohio town named after you?
Were you Buzz Lightyear’s nemesis but also, it turned out, his father?

156

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Dead
  3. Not American
  4. Not European
  5. Not political/military
  6. Only name begins with Z
  7. Asian
  8. Died before 1900
  9. Not known for the Arts
  10. Male
  11. Not known for business
  12. Died before 1800
  13. Not Chinese
  14. Not semi-mythical, IMO, though there are those who would think otherwise
  15. Not Japanese
  16. From the Middle East
  17. Not a thinker or philosopher
157
  1. I am not Robert Zemeckis.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Zurg.
158

IQs:
1. Did you argue that you and Dobie would eventually get together because of proPINquity?
2. Were you Maynard’s associate and owner of a chopper?
3. Have you played Hogwarts’ Madam Hooch, Ariadne Oliver, and Lady Cassandra, the last “human” alive?

159

IQs:

  1. Did you argue that you and Dobie would eventually get together because of proPINquity?
  2. Were you Maynard’s associate and owner of a chopper?
  3. Have you played Hogwarts’ Madam Hooch, Ariadne Oliver, and Lady Cassandra, the last “human” alive?
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Take 3 DQs.

160

Previous IQs:

Did you direct the movie that indirectly inspired Rick and Morty? - Yes, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future)
Was an eastern Ohio town named after you? - Ebenezer Zane, after whom Zanesville was named
Were you Buzz Lightyear’s nemesis but also, it turned out, his father? - Yes, Evil Emperor Zurg

DQ:

An important figure to Islam?

IQs:

Was Ike a big fan of yours?
Did you appear in a movie scene with David Bowie?
Was that movie about you?