Botticelli - February 2026

Thread Games
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3 was King Zøg.

DQ: originally from comic books or comic strips?

182

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:177, topic:1027466, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1950
  4. Did not originally appear in prose fiction
  5. Last name begins with Z
  6. Main character
  7. American character
  8. Created by American(s)
  9. Not originally from TV or movies, but has been in a movie
  10. Created before 1990
  11. Caucasian
  12. Created before 1980
  13. Not originally from comic books or strips
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Previous IQs:

Did you play the mom of doomed young women in two different popular TV shows? - Grace Zabriskie played Susan’s mom on Seinfeld and Laura Palmer’s mom on Twin Peaks
Did Spock have a doomed romance with you on a very cold world? - Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley), on ST:TOS “All Our Yesterdays”
Were you Ike’s favorite author? - Yes, Western author Zane Grey

DQs:

Originally from a song?
Created before 1965?

IQs:

Did your dad put some of your flower in his pocket?
Were you a mopey alien on Babylon 5?
Was a major Western mountain named after you?

184

IQ1: Did your father name you (more or less) after his sisters?
IQ2: Were you the last king of Albania?

185

DQs:
1. Were you the arch-enemy of Action Johnny on The Venture Bros.?
2. Did you succeed James K. Polk?
3. Top hat + fishnets + magic = you?

186

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:182, topic:1027466”]
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1950
  4. Did not originally appear in prose fiction
  5. Last name begins with Z
  6. Main character
  7. American character
  8. Created by American(s)
  9. Not originally from TV or movies, but has been in a movie
  10. Created before 1990
  11. Caucasian
  12. Created before 1980
  13. Not originally from comic books or strips
  14. Not from a song
  15. Created after 1965
187
  1. I am not Zuzu (sp?).
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Zebulon Pike.
188
  1. I am not Zog.
    Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Zachary Taylor.
  3. I am not Zatanna.
189

1 was Dr. Z.

DQ: originally from a play?

190

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:186, topic:1027466”]
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Created after 1950
  4. Did not originally appear in prose fiction
  5. Last name begins with Z
  6. Main character
  7. American character
  8. Created by American(s)
  9. Not originally from TV or movies, but has been in a movie
  10. Created before 1990
  11. Caucasian
  12. Created before 1980
  13. Not originally from comic books or strips
  14. Not from a song
  15. Created after 1965
  16. Originally from a play
191

IQs:

  1. Was your name derived from that of a well-known humbug?
  2. Were you a member of Dumbledore’s Army?
  3. After your performing career was over, did you obtain several patents for your mechanical inventions?
192

IQs:
1. Did you write Their Eyes Were Watching God?
2. Did you recruit five teenagers with attitude?
3. Were you a Graf?

193

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Zora Neale Hudson.
  2. I am not Zordon.
  3. Take a DQ.
194

That puts us at 20 or more, so no more IQs.
Please ask all outstanding DQs by 8pm tomorrow EST.

195

3 (Graf) was Ferdinand von Zeppelin.

1 DQ reserved.

196

I’m withdrawing the first; it was “Zardoz” which isn’t really a person, just a name given to the giant head in the movie of the same name.
Zacharias Smith
Zeppo Marx

2 DQs reserved.

197

ADDENDUM: close enough on Zora Neale Hurston.

198

I already asked her.

199

Aw, hell, you did. Well, the Prof. got it, so it doesn’t affect anything.

200

ZaSu Pitts (the sisters were Eliza and Susan)
correct


One DQ reserved.