Botticelli - Jan 2021

Thread Games
481

Yet another character named Zed. “Zed’s dead, baby, Zed’s dead”
Correct on the other two.

DQ: Originally from prose fiction?

482

Correct, correct, Zelda Rubinstein.

DQ:

  1. From prose?
483

Congrats, Prof. P.! I have heard of Cass Gilbert and like his work.

Nitpick: It’s Zuzu in It’s A Wonderful Life, not Zazu.

IQs:

Did the same actor who played your husband also play a supervillain and a British Army officer?
Were you part of the supporting cast of T.J. Hooker?
Did you play the TV mom of two doomed daughters?

484

DQs:

  1. Last (or Only) name starts with Z
  2. Male
  3. Fictional
  4. Originally from prose fiction.

Kitap, guess again as Chock asked this just before you.

485

#2. I am not Adrian Zmed.
#3. I am not Zooey Deschanel (??)

Take 1 or 2 DQs.

486

IQ1: Are you a pinhead in comics?
IQ2: Are you a large nosed bald guy with no pants in a comic strip?
IQ3: Are you an overconfident space captain in Futurama?

487

DQ try #2

Created before 1975?

488

#1. I am not Zippy.
#2. I am not Ziggy.
#3. I am not Zapp Branigan.

489

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DQs:

  1. Last (or Only) name starts with Z
  2. Male
  3. Fictional
  4. Originally from prose fiction.
  5. Created before 1975
490

Previous IQs:

Did the same actor who played your husband also play a supervillain and a British Army officer? - Zelda Fitzgerald in Midnight in Paris; Tom Hiddleston, who played F. Scott Fitzgerald in that movie, also played Loki in the MCU movies, and a British officer in War Horse
Were you part of the supporting cast of T.J. Hooker? - Yes, Adrian Zmed
Did you play the TV mom of two doomed daughters? - Not Zooey Deschanel, but Grace Zabriskie, on Seinfeld (as George’s fiancee Susan’s mom) and Twin Peaks (as Laura Palmer’s)

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if he were real?

IQs:

Were you a much-put-upon alien schlub on Babylon 5?
Were you exiled to Sarpeidon’s ice age?
Were you a Mobile Infantry drill sergeant?

491

IQ1: Are you an alien from the planet Irk who repeatedly tries to conquer Earth?
IQ2: Are you the legendary protagonist of a series of Nintendo video games?
IQ3: Did you write the Chronicles of Amber series?

492

IQ1: Was your uncle a fictional governor of American Samoa?
IQ2: Did you start out as an employee of that governor?
IQ3: Were you #1’s nephew?

493

DQs:

  1. Last (or Only) name starts with Z
  2. Male
  3. Fictional
  4. Originally from prose fiction.
  5. Created before 1975
  6. Not American, or American only by straining things much too far
  7. Wouldn’t be born yet
494

Take 3 DQs.

  1. I am not Invader Zim.
  2. I am not Zelda.
  3. I am not Roger Zelazny.
  1. I am not Zonker Harris.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Zipper.
495

Previous IQs:

Were you a much-put-upon alien schlub on Babylon 5? - Zathras
Were you exiled to Sarpeidon’s ice age? - Zarabeth (Mariette Hartley) on the original Star Trek
Were you a Mobile Infantry drill sergeant? - Master Sergeant Zim in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers

DQs:

Human?
Born on Earth?
Would be born in the next two hundred years?

IQs:

Did you write A People’s History of the United States?
Were you “Old Fuss and Feathers”?
Were you a Space Ranger’s long-lost dad?

496

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DQs:

  1. Last (or Only) name starts with Z
  2. Male
  3. Fictional
  4. Originally from prose fiction.
  5. Created before 1975
  6. Not American, or American only by straining things much too far
  7. Wouldn’t be born yet
  8. Not human
  9. Born on Earth
  10. Would most probably not be born in the next 200 years
497

#1. I am not Howard Zinn.
#2. I am not Zachary Taylor.
#3. I am not Emperor Zurg.

498

IQ1: Are you a scientist companion of Flash and Dale?
IQ2: Did you found American International Pictures?
IQ3: Did you play a character that was a parody of Princess Leia?

499
  1. I am not Dr. Zarkov.
  2. I am not Darrell F. Zanuck.
  3. I am not Daphne Zuniga.
500

Yes
Samuel Z. Arkoff - Zanuck was 20th Century Fox
Yes

DQ: Created before 1950?