Botticelli February 2025

Thread Games
107

DQ: Died after 1990?

IQs:

  1. Are you a seven-eyed wizard who sends Fafhrd on quests?
  2. Did you play the Tin Man in the movie version of The Wiz?
  3. Were you a rapper with a stage name which alluded to #2?
108

Yes, I am rhyming TV game show panelist and stand up comedian

Nipsey Russell,

who also made a movie or two.

Good going, SunUp!

109

Good job, SunUp!

Previous IQs:

Was your adoptive “father” very sorry to see you leave home? - Hagrid was unhappy when Norbert the baby dragon had to go
Did a Roman centurion immediately know you weren’t a real person? - Nortius Maximus, in Life of Brian
Did JFK call to wish you a happy birthday just hours before he died? - FDR’s first VP, John Nance Garner, whose birthday was Nov. 22, 1963

110

Good work, SunUp!

  1. Nat “King” Cole
  2. Neil deGrasse Tyson
  3. Nat Turner
111

Thanks, all! It was a stroke of luck, but once I thought of Nipsey I figured I had to try him, though the person I was actually thinking of was Flip Wilson initially.

OK, on to our next person: I am

A

Fire away!

112

IQs:

  1. Did you give golf tips to George W Bush before being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004?
  2. Were you a cast member of MadTV before being kicked off the show because of drug use?
  3. Were you romantically involved with author Gertrude Stein?
113

Congrats!

  1. Did you play Jennie on Kate and Allie?
  2. Did you play Emma on Kate and Allie?
  3. Did you play Johnny Cage in 1995’s Mortal Kombat movie?
114

Take a DQ.
I am not… Andy Dick?
I am not Alice B. Toklas.

Take 3 DQs.

115

IQ1: Did you ask your wife to pretend she was your sister??
IQ2: Were you the reason for the second time that happened?
IQ3: Were you distracted from your goal by golden fruit?

116
  1. Arnold Palmer
  2. Artie Lange
  3. Correct

DQs:

Real?
Male?

117

I am not Abram.
I am not… aggh, it wasn’t Melchizedek, what was that name? Take a DQ.
I am not Atalanta.

118

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
119

correct
Abimelech
correct


DQ: Originally from prose fiction?

120

IQs:

  1. Are you currently under house arrest, pending deportment to Germany?
  2. Did you quit your job as a domestic maid to become a writer?
  3. Were you introduced as governess to Franklin Richards?
121

Blockquote

Allison Smith, Ari Meyers, Linden Ashby

3 DQs reserved

122

Take 3 DQs.

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Originally from prose fiction
123

Anna Sorkin (aka Anna Delvey); Abileen Clark (The Help); Agatha Harkness (The Fantastic Four)

DQs:

Last name start with A-M?
Created before 1900?

1 DQ reserved

124

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Last name starts with A-M
  5. Created after 1900
125

IQs:

  1. Did you work for Count Petoffi on Dark Shadows?
  2. Did you portray the protagonist in Enchanted?
  3. Are you a cockroach who had been a vers libre poet in a past life?
126

IQs:

  1. Did you play the ultimate love interest opposite Steve Carell?
  2. Did you prank your father into taking a long-deserved vacation?
  3. Did you leave your husband and go to Calcutta to work with Mother Theresa?