Botticelli - January 2023

Thread Games
201

IQ1: Did you ask if anybody was going to Phoenix, Arizona?
IQ2: Were you Edmund and Lucy’s big brother?
IQ3: Were you their sister?

202

IQs:

  1. Were you Daddy Warbucks’s towering Indian servant?
  2. Are you the rainbow’s daughter in the Oz books?
  3. Are you the parody of Pippin in Bored of the Rings?
203

IQs:
1. Were you a companion of the Eleventh Doctor, played by Karen Gillan?
2. Were you yet another Maltese-American, left-handed, Episcopalian, gay, war veteran political candidate?
3. Are you Birdie Jay’s long-suffering and mistreated assistant, and my favorite character in Glass Onion?

204

Paul Dano, James Pevensie or Eleanor Pevensie.

Not Palloto, Paladara or Puffin.

Not Phillida Panagyraxia, not Pete Butigieg (sp?), and not Penny.

P.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with P
  4. created after 1900
  5. not a main character
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. from TV or film
  8. created after 1970
  9. character is American
  10. Caucasian
  11. human
205

1 was Amy Pond; close enough on Pete Buttigieg; 3 was Peg.

DQs:
1. actually appears in story; not mentioned but never seen or alias of other character?
2. from film?

206

P.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with P
  4. created after 1900
  5. not a main character
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. from TV or film
  8. created after 1970
  9. character is American
  10. Caucasian
  11. human
  12. actually appears in story
  13. from film
207

1. Never heard of him. I’ll rephrase.
2&3. Peter and Susan, but you got the ‘P’ name right so close enough.


IQ1: Were you a former baseball pitcher who asked if anybody was going to Phoenix, Arizona?
IQ2: Did you ride a tricycle with what looked like an outhouse mounted on the back?
IQ3: Were you #2’s boxer pal?

208

#1 was Punjab.
#2 is Polychrome.
#3 is Pepsi.

DQs:

  1. Created after 2000?
  2. From a science fiction or fantasy movie?

1 DQ reserved.

209

Dunno x3.

P.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with P
  4. created after 1900
  5. not a main character
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. from TV or film
  8. created after 1970
  9. character is American
  10. Caucasian
  11. human
  12. actually appears in story
  13. from film
  14. created before 2000
  15. arguably from a science fiction or fantasy movie
210

DQ: From a science fiction movie?

IQs:

  1. Are you Rat’s housemate in Pearls Before Swine?
  2. Did Hamlet lug your guts into a neighboring room?
  3. Did you have a hit with Look What The Cat Drug In (Long Way Down)?
211

IQs:
1. Did you appear in 1985’s “The Two Doctors”, although you’d been on the show before, starting in 1966?
2. Do you also appear in “The Two Doctors”, because you’re the Sixth Doctor’s companion?
3. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building could be higher than the statue of you atop City Hall?

212

Charley Pride
Humphrey Pennyworth
Joe Palooka


DQ1: Live-action film?
DQ2: Good guy?
DQ3: Film set in the time period when it was created?

213

Not Pussycat, Polonious or Paul McCartney.

Not Pertwee, Polly or William Penn.

P.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with P
  4. created after 1900
  5. not a main character
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. from TV or film
  8. created after 1970
  9. character is American
  10. Caucasian
  11. human
  12. actually appears in story
  13. from film
  14. created before 2000
  15. arguably from a science fiction or fantasy movie
  16. live-action film
  17. not a good guy
  18. film set in the time period when it was created

Do you want to ask a different DQ, Prof. P., in light of my answer #15?

Since we’re sure to have more than 20 DQs now, please ask no more IQs.

214

#1 is Pig.
#2 is Correct.
#3 is Michael Penn.

No, I’ll keep the previous DQ I asked, since I wanted to narrow it down between sci-fi and fantasy.

DQ: Created after 1980?
1 DQ reserved.

215

1 was Second Doctor Patrick Troughton; 2 was Peri.

2 DQs reserved.

216

Righto, Prof. P.

P.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with P
  4. created after 1900
  5. not a main character
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. from TV or film
  8. created after 1970
  9. character is American
  10. Caucasian
  11. human
  12. actually appears in story
  13. from film
  14. created before 2000
  15. arguably from a science fiction or fantasy movie
  16. live-action film
  17. not a good guy
  18. film set in the time period when it was created
  19. arguably from a science fiction movie
  20. created after 1980

Please ask all earned DQs by noon EST tomorrow.

217

DQ: Disaster film? (Earthquake, Meteor, Volcano, &c.)

218

P.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with P
  4. created after 1900
  5. not a main character
  6. created by an American or Americans
  7. from TV or film
  8. created after 1970
  9. character is American
  10. Caucasian
  11. human
  12. actually appears in story
  13. from film
  14. created before 2000
  15. arguably from a science fiction or fantasy movie
  16. live-action film
  17. not a good guy
  18. film set in the time period when it was created
  19. arguably from a science fiction movie
  20. created after 1980
  21. not a disaster film (earthquake, meteor, volcano, &c.)
219

DQ: from a film in a series?

1 DQ reserved.

220

Final DQ: created after 1990?