Botticelli February 2025

Thread Games
127

IQs:

Despite your name, are you, in fact, not an insect but a musician?
Were you an AI which helped lead a lunar rebellion?
Did Julia Louis-Dreyfus flirt with you in the recent SNL50 special?

128

Take a DQ.
I am not Amy Adams.
I should remember this, but I don’t. Take another DQ.

I am not Amy Ryan.
Take 2 DQs.

I am not Adam Ant.
I am not Adam Selene.
I am not Adam Driver (or a golden retriever).

Adam x 3!

129

IQs:

  1. Are you the author of, among other books, Midworld?
  2. Did Jake Abel play you on Supernatural?
  3. Did you play Dean Winchester on Supernatural?
130

Take 2 DQs and I am not Jensen Ackles.

131
  1. Correct
  2. Amélie Poulain (Amélie)
  3. Alice Tate (Alice)
132

DQs:

Known from sci-fi/fantasy genres?
Created by an American?
Has appeared on film and/or TV?

133

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Last name starts with A-M
  5. Created after 1900
  6. Known from sci-fi/fantasy genres
  7. Created by an American
  8. Has appeared on film and TV
134

Swept me!

IQs:

Were you Elladan and Elrohir’s sister?
Were you Gilraen’s husband?
Were you her son?

135

The last two are Arathorn and Aragorn, but I have no hope of getting the first. Take a DQ.

136

Correct, in that order. The first is Arwen, Aragorn’s future wife.

DQ:

Protagonist?

IQs:

Did you badly lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Were you Col. J.L. Chamberlain’s predecessor as commanding officer of the 20th Maine?
Were you a Vietnam-era U.S. Army general after whom a tank was later named?

137

IQs:

  1. Were you the first to serve as SLOTUS?
  2. Are you a professional athlete nicknamed “Bayou Barbie”?
  3. Did Meg Ryan provide your voice in a 1997 animated movie?
138

I am not Ambrose Burnside.
I am not Adelbert Ames.
I am not Creighton Abrams.

I am not Abigail Adams.
I am not… A’ja Wilson?
Take a DQ.

139

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Last name starts with A-M
  5. Created after 1900
  6. Known from sci-fi/fantasy genres
  7. Created by an American
  8. Has appeared on film and TV
  9. Initially not a protagonist; becomes a protagonist in later works.
140

#1 was Aristide.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Don Marquis’s archy.

DQs:

  1. First name starts with A?
  2. Created after 1990?
141

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Last name starts with A-M
  5. Created after 1900
  6. Known from sci-fi/fantasy genres
  7. Created by an American
  8. Has appeared on film and TV
  9. Initially not a protagonist; becomes a protagonist in later works.
  10. First name starts with A
  11. Created after 1990
142

IQs:

  1. Are you an Icelandic explorer who left word that you had reached the center of the earth?
  2. Are you the detective in a series of mysteries by M. C. Beaton?
  3. In the Discworld novels are you Capt. Carrot’s werewolf girlfriend?
143

Alan Dean Foster, Adam Winchester, correct.

DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Appeared in live action films?

3 DQs reserved

144

I am not… Professor Arronax?
Take 2 DQs.

145

A

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Last name starts with A-M
  5. Created after 1900
  6. Known from sci-fi/fantasy genres
  7. Created by an American
  8. Has appeared on film and TV
  9. Initially not a protagonist; becomes a protagonist in later works.
  10. First name starts with A
  11. Created after 1990
  12. Original work implies she is Caucasian; has been played by a non-Caucasian actor in dramatic presentation
  13. Appeared in live action films
146
  1. Correct
  2. Angel Reese
  3. Anastasia (Anastasia)

2 DQs reserved