Botticelli - December 2024

Thread Games
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Close enough on Giuseppe Zangara; 3 was Zeke, the farmhand.

DQ: created after 1990?

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Zeke! Good one!

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Z

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. First appeared after 1945
  5. Main character
  6. First name starts with Z
  7. Not from TV or movies
  8. Created after 1970
  9. First appeared in print
  10. Considered a “good guy”
  11. Created before 1990
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IQs:

  1. Were you banished to the Phantom Zone with two fellow supervillains?
  2. Did you leave the family show business act and represent your better-known brothers?
  3. Are you a co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings and Orlando City SC?
225

IQs:
1. Were you the Cool Ghoul?
2. Did you light a grail-shaped beacon? (Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil you!)
3. Did you headbutt a fellow soccer player at the World Cup?

The published screenplay for The Wizard of Oz I’ve seen (at the house of an Oz-loving neighbor) uses the names of the Kansas characters for their Oz counterparts in dialogue attribution and directions, which may be unique to that edition (it’s not in this one, for example).

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  1. I am not Zod
  2. I am not “Zeppo” Marx
  3. Take a DQ
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Zoot
  3. I am not Zidane
227

1 was Zacherley.

DQ: first appeared in prose?

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Z

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. First appeared after 1945
  5. Main character
  6. First name starts with Z
  7. Not from TV or movies
  8. Created after 1970
  9. First appeared in print
  10. Considered a “good guy”
  11. Created before 1990
  12. Not appeared in prose
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Correct on #1 and #2. #3 was Zygmunt Wilf.

DQ: First appeared in a song?

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Z

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. First appeared after 1945
  5. Main character
  6. First name starts with Z
  7. Not from TV or movies
  8. Created after 1970
  9. First appeared in print
  10. Considered a “good guy”
  11. Created before 1990
  12. Not appeared in prose
  13. Did not appear in song
231

IQ1: Was your uncle an early member of Walden Commune?
IQ2: Are you that uncle?

232

IQs:
1. Did you run the Stanford Prison Experiment?
2. Were you a Wonder Twin?
3. Do you host The Allusionist?

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DQ: Known from a comic strip?

IQs:

  1. Are you the pants-less star of your own comic strip?
  2. Are you the pinheaded star of your own comic strip?
  3. Are you Beetle Bailey’s clueless fellow soldier?
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IQs:

  1. Were you the younger male lead in Number of the Beast?
  2. Did you write Riders of the Purple Sage?
  3. Did you play the human antagonist in a blockbuster movie where the main antagonist was an iceberg?
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  1. I am not Zeke
  2. I am not Zonker
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Zan
  3. Take a DQ
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YES!

I am ZIPPY THE PINHEAD!!

Good work Prof!

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Are we having fun?

ON to the New Year’s thread!

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Good job, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did you have a mountain named after you? - Zebulon Pike, he of the Peak
Did a movie director wordlessly put a book on your desk to let you know he wanted you to write some music for him? - Hans Zimmer, by Denis Villeneuve, for the proposed Dune: Part Three
Were you a credentialed alien character on an animated show? - Zim had no credentials that I know of; this was Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama