Botticelli - December 2024

Thread Games
141
  1. Dan was on CBS. Sam Donaldson was on ABC.
    Correct on the others.

1 DQ reserved.

142

D.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. American creator
  4. originally from prose fiction
  5. last name begins with D
  6. doesn’t actually appear in work
  7. known for sci/fi or fantasy fiction
  8. has not, as far as I can determine, appeared in cinema/radio/TV based on character
  9. not associated with an equally popular character (like a buddy or wife)
  10. unseen character
  11. created before 1960
  12. known from science fiction
  13. created after 1945
  14. not from a novel
  15. work is set in the future (relative to publication)
  16. from a short story by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke or Robert Heinlein
  17. Human
  18. story is set on Earth
143

DQ: From a short story by Asimov or Bradbury?

1 DQ reserved.

144

D.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. American creator
  4. originally from prose fiction
  5. last name begins with D
  6. doesn’t actually appear in work
  7. known for sci/fi or fantasy fiction
  8. has not, as far as I can determine, appeared in cinema/radio/TV based on character
  9. not associated with an equally popular character (like a buddy or wife)
  10. unseen character
  11. created before 1960
  12. known from science fiction
  13. created after 1945
  14. not from a novel
  15. work is set in the future (relative to publication)
  16. from a short story by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke or Robert Heinlein
  17. Human
  18. story is set on Earth
  19. from a short story by Asimov or Bradbury
145

Final DQs:
1. story was adapted into film?
2. from an Asimov story?

146

D.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. American creator
  4. originally from prose fiction
  5. last name begins with D
  6. doesn’t actually appear in work
  7. known for sci/fi or fantasy fiction
  8. has not, as far as I can determine, appeared in cinema/radio/TV based on character
  9. not associated with an equally popular character (like a buddy or wife)
  10. unseen character
  11. created before 1960
  12. known from science fiction
  13. created after 1945
  14. not from a novel
  15. work is set in the future (relative to publication)
  16. from a short story by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke or Robert Heinlein
  17. Human
  18. story is set on Earth
  19. from a short story by Asimov or Bradbury
  20. story was adapted into film
  21. not from an Asimov story
147

Oh.

Are you Deutscher, the guy who gets elected president or something as a result of the time changes in “A Sound of Thunder” and is implied to be right-wing/fascist, given that his name means “German”?

148

That’s an amazing guess!

149

It certainly is, and a correct one, to boot! I am indeed

Deutscher

An extraordinarily anvilicious name, I’d say, for a scary right-wing politician from whom people would be willing to travel into the past to escape.

For more on the story: A Sound of Thunder - Wikipedia

Well done, DLR!

150

OK:

I am I.

151

I it is!

IQs:

Did Rory Kinnear play you in a National Theater production a few years ago that began with you sharing a pint with a subordinate outside a pub?
Did you have a prosthetic nose for one of your best-known roles?
Did you ride a nag called Gunpowder?

152

Great choice, E_H and great get, D_L_R!

IQs:

  1. Are you the uncle of Zuko and Azula?
  2. Did you play a cook whose catchphrase was “I hear you!”?
  3. Were you a Deltan navigator on the Enterprise?
153

Respectively:
I am not Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
I am not Ian Holm.
I am not Ichabod Crane.

1. I am not Iroh.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Ilia.

154

Correct on 1 & 3. #2 was Inga Swenson on Benson.

DQ:

Real?

155

Good job guys! I was totally clueless in that last round.

IQs:

  1. Were you a member of the Howling Commandos?
  2. Did you get your start at an iconic punk club in NYC in the early 70s?
  3. Did John Travolta botch your name at the 2014 Academy Awards?
156

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Iggy Pop?
3. I am not Idina Menzel.

DQs:
1. real

157
  1. Are you the Prince of Pingaree in Rinkitink in Oz?
  2. Did the Weavers sing about Goodnight you?
  3. Did you star in the 1950s TV show Sheena, Queen of the Jungle?
158

IQ1: Did the oldest of your sons trade his birthright for a pot of soup?
IQ2: Were you #1’s second-oldest son?
IQ3: Did you write “The Ugly Little Boy”?

159

1: Take a DQ.
2: I am not Irene.
3: I am not Irish McCalla.

IQ1: I am not Isaac.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Isaac Asimov.

160

correct
Israel (originally known as Jacob)
correct


DQ: Male?