Botticelli Feb. 2022

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Are you remembered for your Hungarian Dances?
  2. Were you the Swiss author of Church Dogmatics?
  3. Is Lemonade generally considered to be your best album?
42

IQs:
1. Were you called Funk Queen West of the Rockies?
2. After being elected, did you ask Webb Hubbell at the US Department of Justice to “find the answers to two questions for me. One, who killed JFK? And two, are there UFOs?”
3. Do you have eight gold medals and an appropriate last name for someone who can move quickly?

DQ: European author?

43

IQ1: Did you infamously flash David Letterman?
IQ2: Are you a member of a organization whose primary rule is “No poofters”?
IQ3: Were you a child actor who later recorded the novelty hit “Fish Heads”?

44

Not Bartok, dunno and dunno.

Dunno, not Bill Clinton and not Usain Bolt.

Not Drew Barrymore, Bruce (or Bruce, or the other Bruce, or that other Bruce, or…) and dunno.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
  8. novel published before 1950
  9. not an American author
  10. adapted into film
  11. European author
45

yep, yep, Bill Mumy

DQ: Author from the British Isles?

46

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
  8. novel published before 1950
  9. not an American author
  10. adapted into film
  11. European author
  12. author from the British Isles
47

#1 was Johannes Brahms.
#2 was Karl Barth.
#3 is Beyonce Knowles.

DQ: From the fantasy genre?

2 DQs reserved.

48

IQ1: Did Leonard Nimoy sing your praises (for certain values of “sing”) on the non-Spock side of the Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy album?
IQ2: Are you a very naughty boy, and not the Messiah?
IQ3: Are you Pontius Pilate’s vewy gweat fwiend in Wome?

49

Not Bilbo Baggins, not Brian who shall be called Brian, and most definitely not Biggus Dickus (he has a wife, you know…).

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
  8. novel published before 1950
  9. not an American author
  10. adapted into film
  11. European author
  12. author from the British Isles
  13. not from the fantasy genre
50

DQs:

  1. From a novel whose setting is contemporary with its publication date?
  2. Is the film better known than the novel?
51

IQs:

  1. Were you a noted ornithologist whose name was borrowed by Ian Fleming?
  2. Is your catchphrase “Ack!” and was your brain once replaced by Donald Trump’s?
  3. Did you star in My Favorite Blonde and My Favorite Brunette?
52

1 was cartoonist Lynda Barry (on the copyright/dedication page in Matt Groening’s Work is Hell collection).

DQ: novel published after 1930?

IQs:
1. Are you an underachiever-and-proud-of-it,-man main character of a 1989 show created by Matt Groening?
2. Are you a robotic main character of a 1999 show created by Matt Groening?
3. Are you a rebellious, hard-drinkin’ princess of Dreamland and main character of a Netflix show created by Matt Groening which has a new season coming out tomorrow?

53

IQs:

  1. Did Phil Harris voice you in The Jungle Book?
  2. Are you a demon who is the central character in a trilogy of books by Jonathan Stroud?
  3. Did Eccentrica Gallumbits call you “the best bang since the Big One”?
54

Not James Bond, Bill the Cat or Bill Cosby.

Not Bart Simpson, Bender Bending Rodriguez and not Princess… Brenda?

Not Baloo, Beelzebub or Zaphod Beeblebrox.

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
  8. novel published before 1950
  9. not an American author
  10. adapted into film
  11. European author
  12. author from the British Isles
  13. not from the fantasy genre
  14. from a novel whose setting is contemporary with its publication date
  15. film is not better known than the novel, I would say, but YMMV
  16. novel published after 1930
55

Correct on Baloo and Zaphod.
#2 is Bartimaeus.

1 DQ reserved.

56

3 was in fact Bean.

DQ: author is English?

57

B.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with B
  4. a main character
  5. created after 1900
  6. originally from a prose novel
  7. good guy
  8. novel published before 1950
  9. not an American author
  10. adapted into film
  11. European author
  12. author from the British Isles
  13. not from the fantasy genre
  14. from a novel whose setting is contemporary with its publication date
  15. film is not better known than the novel, I would say, but YMMV
  16. novel published after 1930
  17. author is English
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Swept me.

IQ1: Are you a scrivener who would prefer not to?
IQ2: Did you write a novel that was adapted into what many consider the first Hollywood summer blockbuster?
IQ3: Did you write a novel that was adapted into what held the record for the most profitable horror film until about 4 years ago?

59

IQs:
1. Stretching the limits of what can be used in this game, are you an IKEA bookcase?
2. Are you Artemis Fowl’s butler?
3. Is your name an anagram of “Presbyterians” (though you yourself were raised a Southern Baptist, and recently converted to Catholicism)?

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DQ: From a novel by a female author?

IQ: Did you employ Mary Poppins?