Botticelli February 2021

Thread Games
81

IQ1: Were you obsessed with your landlady’s daughter?
IQ2: Did you have a magic purple crayon?
IQ3: Were you the king of the one-liners?

82

IQ1: Did you have a dog named Ribsy?
IQ2-3: Were you a US Army doctor in Korea?

83

IQ1: Are you a naval officer in stories by C. S. Forester?
IQ2: Did you hear a Who?
IQ3: Are you a Game of Thrones character whose title was inspired by a bird?

84

Not Huck Finn, that Huck or that other, entirely different Huck.

Not Hannah, Tim Horton or… Tom Hanks?

Not Henry VIII, not Harold and not Henny Youngman.

Not Henry Huggins, Hawkeye Pierce or Henry Blake.

Not Horatio Hornblower, Horton or the High Sparrow.

H.

  1. male
  2. fictional
  3. first name starts with H
  4. American creator(s)
  5. created before 2000
  6. not originally from TV or movies
  7. originally from prose fiction
  8. created before 1950
85

I’m not sure English monarchs had landladys, but I’ll rephrase:
Correct on the other two.

IQ1: Are you an English literature professor who was obsessed with your landlady’s daughter?
IQ2: Are you a minor official notorious for your rigid and limited patterns of thought whose name is used as an insult?
IQ3: Do you think “what a good boy am I” after mangling your food?

86

Harrumph.

IQ1: Were you an American mining engineer who was caught up in the Boxer Rebellion?
IQ2: Did you marry #1?
IQ3: Were you a counttry singer who died in a plane crash with Patsy Cline?

87

Correct on Huckleberry Finn.
#2 was Huckleberry Hound.
#3 was Huckleberry Hasimoto.

Huckleberry x3!

DQs:

  1. Created before 1900?
  2. Protagonist?
88

1 was Kamala Harris; 3 was Alfred Hitchcock.

DQs:
1. has appeared in film or TV adaptions?
2. from a novel?

IQs:
1. Are you the best-known person from Henryville, Indiana?
2. Did you play King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension in Forbidden Zone?
3. Did you write Go Set a Watchman (published long after your first novel)?

89

I’m not Humbert Humbert, Herbert (who is not Capt. James T. Kirk, either) or… Hpeter Hpeter Pumpkin Eater?

Not Herbert or Lou Hoover, and dunno.

Dunno, dunno and not Harper Lee.

H.

  1. male
  2. fictional
  3. first name starts with H
  4. American creator(s)
  5. created before 2000
  6. not originally from TV or movies
  7. originally from prose fiction
  8. created before 1950
  9. not created before 1900
  10. not the protagonist
  11. has appeared in film or TV adaptions
  12. from a novel
90

:white_check_mark:
Actually it was Lou Henry that married him, but close enough.
Hawkshaw Hawkins.


DQ: Often carried a gun?

91

IQ1: Were you a cowboy who worked for the Bar-20?
IQ2: Was one of your parallel novels about parallel universes published over 30 years after your deaath?
IQ3: Is your half-brother a vampire?

92

1 was Harlan Sanders; 2 was Hervé Villechaize.

DQ: first appeared after 1935?

One DQ reserved.

93

Nitpick, DLR: it’s Harland and not Harlan Sanders.

Not Hank, Robert Heinlein or Harry Butcher.

H.

  1. male
  2. fictional
  3. first name starts with H
  4. American creator(s)
  5. created before 2000
  6. not originally from TV or movies
  7. originally from prose fiction
  8. created before 1950
  9. not created before 1900
  10. not the protagonist
  11. has appeared in film or TV adaptions
  12. from a novel
  13. did not often carry a gun
  14. first appeared before 1935
94

Hopalong Cassidy.
:white_check_mark:
Harry Dresden (written by Jim Butcher).


Two DQs reserved.

95

Dresden - d’oh! All those little yellow face emojis, and no headsmack.

96

Yes, Yes, Little Jack Horner

DQ: From science fiction or fantasy genre?

97

:man_facepalming: is “man_facepalming”. It doesn’t have the panache the previous set’s facepalm did.

IQs:

  1. Did you star in the movie Paleface?
  2. Did you play Dick’s wife in The New Dick van Dyke Show?
  3. Are you a current cohost of Today?
98

IQ1: Were you the leader of the winning side at Bosworth?
IQ2: Were you also known as Bolingbroke?
IQ3: Did you succeed your brother after he was killed in a hunting accident?

99

Thanks for that emoji. Must’ve overlooked it.

Dunno x3.

Not Henry VII, not Hotspur and not… Henry II?

H.

  1. male
  2. fictional
  3. first name starts with H
  4. American creator(s)
  5. created before 2000
  6. not originally from TV or movies
  7. originally from prose fiction
  8. created before 1950
  9. not created before 1900
  10. not the protagonist
  11. has appeared in film or TV adaptions
  12. from a novel
  13. did not often carry a gun
  14. first appeared before 1935
  15. from science fiction or fantasy genre
100

#1 was Bob Hope.
#2 was Hope Lange.
#3 is Hoda Kotb.

DQs:

  1. Antagonist?
  2. Adult character?
  3. From an award-winning novel?