Botticelli - December 2024

Thread Games
81
  1. I am not Tim Walz.
    Take 2 DQs.
82

Man, that’s what I get for taking a couple of weeks off; I woke up this morning with three really good “O” IQs, only to find I was too late. Tant pis pour moi.

IQs:

  1. Are you the protagonist of Shakespeare’s darkest play, that features rape, mutilation, and cannibalism?
  2. Are you a noted actor who shares a name with a diacritical mark?
  3. Did Neil Gaiman model Delirium on you?
83

DQ1: born after 1940?
DQ2: elected?

IQs:

1. Did the buck stop when it got to your desk, where you presumably gave it hell?
2. Were you on Sister, Sister?
3. Were YOU on Sister, Sister?

84

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with T
  3. Male
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. American
  6. Living
  7. Known for politics
  8. Born before 1960
  9. Currently serving in public office
  10. Associated with a state east of the Mississippi River
  11. Last name begins with A-M
  12. Born after 1940
  13. Elected
85

#1. I am not Titus Andronicus.
#2. I am not Tilda Swinton.
#3. I am not Tori Amos.

  1. I am not Harry Truman.
    Take 2 DQs.
86

I vaguely remember who Otto Hahn was, but would never have come up with his name. Good job, Prof. P.!

IQs:

Did you say you could either control your eldest child, or you could hold a top government post, but you couldn’t do both?
Are you a U.S. senator with the same first name as a noted fashion designer?
Are you a U.S. senator just reelected in the Lone Star State?

87

2 was Tia Mowry; 3 was Tamera Mowry.

DQs:
1. elected to state office?
2. Democrat?

88

DQ: Second letter of ‘T’ name is A or E?

89
  1. Tommy Tuberville
  2. Correct
  3. Tom Cotton

2 DQs reserved

90

IQs:

  1. Were you trapped in a mine cave-in and later died in an unappetizing way?
  2. Were you the only person in Middle-Earth unaffected by Isildur’s Bane?
  3. Were you John Travolta’s breakout film role?
91

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with T
  3. Male
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. American
  6. Living
  7. Known for politics
  8. Born before 1960
  9. Currently serving in public office
  10. Associated with a state east of the Mississippi River
  11. Last name begins with A-M
  12. Born after 1940
  13. Elected
  14. Presently elected to federal office; previously elected to state office
  15. Democrat
  16. Second letter of first name is not A or E
92
  1. I am not Theodore Roosevelt.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Ted Cruz.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Tom Bombadil.
  3. I am not Tony something from Saturday Night Fever (??)
93

IQs:
1. Do I have a six-inch articulated figure version of you, from Good Smile Company’s Table Museum series, modeled after the iconic Rodin statue?
2. Do you get wished a merry Christmas in the musical of Billy Elliot?
3. speaking of musicals Would it spoil some vast, eternal plan…
if you were a wealthy man?

94

Previous IQs:

Did you say you could either control your eldest child, or you could hold a top government post, but you couldn’t do both? - Yes, Theodore Roosevelt, who said of his headstrong daughter Alice, “I can control Alice, or I can be President of the United States, but I cannot possibly do both”
Are you a U.S. senator with the same first name as a noted fashion designer? - Tommy Tuberville (R-Alab.)
Are you a U.S. senator just reelected in the Lone Star State? - Yes, Ted Cruz

DQ:

Now represents a state above the Mason-Dixon Line?

IQs:

An expatriate there, were you killed with an icepick in Mexico?
Did you play the top MIB?
Were you the evil child in The Omen?

95

#1 was Timothy, the eponymous subject of a song by The Buoys (written by Rupert Holmes, famous for “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”)
Correct on #2.
#3 was Tony Manero, I think getting the first name qualifies.

1 DQ reserved.

96

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with T
  3. Male
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. American
  6. Living
  7. Known for politics
  8. Born before 1960
  9. Currently serving in public office
  10. Associated with a state east of the Mississippi River
  11. Last name begins with A-M
  12. Born after 1940
  13. Elected
  14. Presently elected to federal office; previously elected to state office, but best known for an election he didn’t win
  15. Democrat
  16. Second letter of first name is not A or E
  17. Currently represents a state below the Mason-Dixon Line
97
  1. I am not the Thinker.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Tevye.
  1. I am not Leon Trotsky.
  2. I am not Rip Torn.
  3. Take a DQ.

That will put us at 20 or more DQs, so please, no more IQs.
Please ask all remaining DQs by Noon EST tomorrow.

98

1 was correct; 2 was Margaret Thatcher; 3 was correct.

1 DQ reserved.

99

Previous IQs:

An expatriate there, were you killed with an icepick in Mexico? - Yes, Leon Trotsky
Did you play the top MIB? - Yes, Rip Torn
Were you the evil child in The Omen? - Damien Thorne

DQ:

In the U.S. Senate?

100

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name starts with T
  3. Male
  4. Not known for the Arts
  5. American
  6. Living
  7. Known for politics
  8. Born before 1960
  9. Currently serving in public office
  10. Associated with a state east of the Mississippi River
  11. Last name begins with A-M
  12. Born after 1940
  13. Elected
  14. Presently elected to federal office; previously elected to state office, but best known for an election he didn’t win
  15. Democrat
  16. Second letter of first name is not A or E
  17. Currently represents a state below the Mason-Dixon Line
  18. Currently in the Senate

I’m extending the deadline for DQs until Monday, noon EST.