Botticelli - January 2026

Thread Games
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Are you Publius Varus?

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Yes!

I am

Publius Quinctilius Varus

Roman senator, general, and loser of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where he, three legions, and Rome’s hopes of dominating the Germanic peoples beyond the Rhine all died at once.

“Varus, give me back my legions!?!”

You are up, De_La_Rue!

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Great job, DLR!

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I am O.

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IQ1: Were you the chauffeur in a Sylvester Stallone movie?
IQ2: Were you the chauffeur in a Louis de Funès movie?
IQ3: Are you a famous grouch?

246

O it is!

Were you a nude organist?
Were you the Biblical figure after whom he was named?
Were you a Civil War general after whom an HBCU was named?

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IQ1: I am not Oscar.
IQ2: I am not Oscar?
IQ3: I am not Sesame Street’s Oscar.

Respectively:
I am not Onan.
I am not Onan.
Take a DQ.

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Correct, correct, and Oliver O. Howard.

DQ:

Real?

IQs:

Did you say you had “been of some service to the State, and they know it”?
Were you Mork’s unseen boss?
Were you not actually related to Lincoln’s SECNAV, despite your supposition?

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IQs

  1. Were you the leader of the Dwarves in The Hobbit?
  2. Did you write Memoirs of an Amnesiac?
  3. Were you a French Symbolist painter and printmaker of the early 20th century?
250

Respectively:
I am not Othello.
I am not Orson.
I am not Orson Welles.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Oliver Sacks?
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real

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Swept me! Well done.

IQs:

Were you a highly-regarded Alsatian priest after whom an American college was named?
When asked by a US Customs officer if you had anything to declare, did you say, “Only my genius”?
Were you a Civil War general with a three-letter last name?

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1 was Thorin Oakenshield.
2 was Oscar Levant.
3 was Odilon Redon.

DQs

  1. Last name starts with O?
  2. Male?
  3. Known for the Arts?
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correct
correct
correct

254

IQs:

  1. Did you star in Xanadu?
  2. Were you the oldest of the three children who ended up in another world in Red Moon and Black Mountain?
  3. Did Grady Sutton play you in The Bank Dick?
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We go with O.

IQs:

  1. Does Taylor Swift have a hit song about you currently on the charts?
  2. Did you say that your nation’s boundaries would be set by “blood and iron”?
  3. Did you design the Boy Scout uniform used from 1980 to 2008?
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Respectively:
I am not Oberlin.
I am not Oscar “Your Majesty is like a big jam doughnut” Wilde.
Take a DQ.

1. I am not Olivia Newton-John.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

1. I am not Ophelia.
2. I am not Otto von Bismarck.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real
2. last name starts with O
3. female
4. not known for the arts

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Correct, Oliver, Og Oggleby.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. Known for politics?
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#3 was Oscar de la Renta.

1 DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Were you a highly-regarded Alsatian priest after whom an American college was named? - Yes, John Frederick Oberlin, in some ways the Gandhi of his day
When asked by a US Customs officer if you had anything to declare, did you say, “Only my genius”? - Yes, the great Oscar Wilde
Were you a Civil War general with a three-letter last name? - Gen. Edward Ord

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Were you a composer whose last name included the name of another, earlier composer?
Did your younger sister serve on the Oberlin College board of trustees?
Were you the villain in an early work of Star Trek fanfic?

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IQs

  1. Did you create Felix the Cat?
  2. Are you a congresswoman who was recently sprayed with a liquid at a town hall?
  3. Were you a singer known as the Voice of the Civil Rights Movement?