Botticelli February 2025

Thread Games
85
  1. I am not Nearly Headless Nick.
    Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

86

Nat X, Nathan Arizona Sr. (from Raising Arizona), and Nathanael Greene.

Nat(han(ael)) x 3!

DQs:
Living?
First name begins with N?
American?

87
  1. Correct (aka, Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington)
  2. Natalie Wood (Rebel Without a Cause)
  3. Nataie Schafer (Lovey Howell, Gilligan’s Island)

2 DQs reserved

88

Previous IQs:

Are you a noted Latina stage performer and, I think, an EGOT winner? - I was thinking of Chita Rivera, but it could be Rita Moreno
Did you star in A Soldier’s Story but have a drug problem? - Yes, Howard Rollins Jr.
Were you a private eye played by Denzel Washington? - Yes, Easy Rawlins

Good job, ProPep! On to N.

IQs:

Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”?
Does a statue of you stand at CIA HQ?
Were you Filch’s unpleasant cat?

91

Sue Norton
Ned Nickerson
Njck Mancuso.

3 DQs reserved

92

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name begins with N
  5. American
93
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Richard Nixon (??)
  3. I am not Mrs. Norris.
94

IQs:

  1. Are you Lilo’s older sister?
  2. Did Linda Purl play you in the TV miniseries The Last Days of Pompei?
  3. Did George Eads play you on CSI?
95

DQs:

Known for arts?
Died before 1900?

IQs:

  1. Did Renee Zellweger play you in a movie with Chris Rock?
  2. Were you a member of Motley Crüe?
  3. Did you and Linda Ronstadt sing backup vocals on Neil Young’s “American Stars ‘n Bars” album?
96

Previous IQs:

Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary”? - Gen. Nathaniel Banks, during the Civil War, after Confederate troops captured a considerable store of supplies from him
Does a statue of you stand at CIA HQ? - Not Nixon, but Nathan Hale
Were you Filch’s unpleasant cat? - Yes, Mrs. Norris, in the Harry Potter books and movies

DQs:

Caucasian?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Odysseus say he was you after blinding the Cyclops?
Did an expy of you appear in Gone Girl?
Was your wife not actually the heiress of a timber fortune, as she’d long pretended to be?

97

IQs:

1 .Were you a Canadian master of “anti-comedy”?
2. Did you play guitar on the 1979 hit “Good Times”?
3. Did you star on the sitcom Gimme A Break!?

98
  1. I am not Nani.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Aaron Neville.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Nemo (No-one).
    Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

99

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name begins with N
  5. American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Not Caucasian
100

Norm MacDonald, Nile Rodgers, and Nell Carter, respectively.

DQs:

Known for the performing arts?
Died after 1960?

1 DQ reserved.

101

Previous IQs:

Did Odysseus say he was you after blinding the Cyclops? - Yes, Nemo (or “Noman,” as I’ve seen it translated into English)
Did an expy of you appear in Gone Girl? - Cable TV legal commentator Nancy Grace
Was your wife not actually the heiress of a timber fortune, as she’d long pretended to be? - Dr. Niles Crane, on Frasier (Maris’s family fortune actually came from urinal cakes)

DQs:

Won a top award in her field?
Black?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Was your adoptive “father” very sorry to see you leave home?
Did a Roman centurion immediately know you weren’t a real person?
Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died?

102
  1. Nurse Betty
  2. Nikki Sixx
  3. Nicolette Larson

DQs:

Last name begin with A-M?

2 DQs reserved

103

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Dead
  4. First name begins with N
  5. American
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Died after 1900
  8. Not Caucasian
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Died after 1960
  11. Did not win a top award in his field
  12. Black
  13. Last name begins with N-Z
104

Take 3 DQs.

105

IQs:

  1. Did your daughter record a posthumous duet with you?
  2. Did you reboot a series that began with Carl Sagan?
  3. Did you lead the only effective, sustained slave rebellion in U.S. history?
106

Correct, Nydia, Nick Stokes.

DQs:

  1. Famous family?
  2. Known for singing?

3 DQs reserved