Botticelli - January 2026

Thread Games
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IQs:
1. Did you have binders full of women?
2. Did you fly like paper, get high like planes?
3. Did you play for the Chicago Bulls, wearing #23?

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Correct on #2 (Major General John Marmaduke, to be precise).
#1 was Dr. Moira Gunn.
#3 was Mallard Fillmore.

DQs:

  1. Created before 1600?
  2. Main character?
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M.

  1. fictional
  2. not originally from a work of prose
  3. female
  4. last name starts with M
  5. created before 1900
  6. created after 1600
  7. not the main character
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IQs:

  1. Are you the title character of a Black Mirror episode who turns out to be a werewolf?
  2. Did you tell your husband to “screw his courage to the sticking point?”
  3. Were you the title protagonist of a Daniel Defoe novel?
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Dunno x3.

Not Mannix, dunno and Matthew.

Not Mitt Romney, dunno and not Michael Jordan.

Dunno, not Lady MacBeth and dunno.

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2 was rapper M.I.A.

DQ: originally from a play?

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Mercury
Maia
Mercutio

DQ: Created before 1800?

2 DQs reserved

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M.

  1. fictional
  2. not originally from a work of prose
  3. female
  4. last name starts with M
  5. created before 1900
  6. created after 1600
  7. not the main character
  8. originally from a play
  9. created before 1800
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IQs:

  1. Were both you and your stunt double severely injured while working on your best-remembered movie?
  2. Do you consider yourself romantically involved with a precocious young boy, despite his pronounced dislike of you?
  3. Were you awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by President Jimmy Carter?
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#1 was Mazey Day. Correct on #2. #3 was Moll Flanders.

DQs:

Originally from a work in English?
European author?

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IQs:
1. Were you a 14th-century incredibly wealthy emperor of Mali?
2. Did you recently appear in a Criterion Closet video with your husband Ted?
3. Were you one of the basketball players whose skills were stolen in Space Jam?

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Correct on Mannix.
#2 was Mickey Rourke.
#3 was the O.T. prophet Micah.

2 DQs reserved.

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Dunno x3.

Dunno, dunno and not Michael Jordan.

M.

  1. fictional
  2. not originally from a work of prose
  3. female
  4. last name starts with M
  5. created before 1900
  6. created after 1600
  7. not the main character
  8. originally from a play
  9. created before 1800
  10. originally from a work in English
  11. European author
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Margaret Hamilton (The Wizard of Oz)
Margaret Wade (Dennis the Menace)
Margaret Mead

Margaret x3!

DQs:
Married?
English author?

3 DQs reserved

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Respectively:
1 (emperor of Mali) was Mansa Musa; 2 (Criterion Closet) was Mary Steenburgen; 3 (skills stolen in Space Jam) was not Michael Jordan but Muggsy Bogues.

DQs:
1. created after 1700?
2. from a comedy?
3. side character?

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M.

  1. fictional
  2. not originally from a work of prose
  3. female
  4. last name starts with M
  5. created before 1900
  6. created after 1600
  7. not the main character
  8. originally from a play
  9. created before 1800
  10. originally from a work in English
  11. European author
  12. married
  13. not an English author
  14. created after 1700
  15. from a comedy
  16. side character
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DQs

  1. Irish author?
  2. Has her name entered the language as a type of mistake?
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Dingdingding! Yes, I am

Mrs. Malaprop

Well done, Prof. P. Thought I might get away with it this time. For more: Malapropism - Wikipedia

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And on to…

N!

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IQs:

Did a German artist say he pictured you in the boat with Washington, crossing the Delaware?
Did Daniel Day-Lewis play you in a movie set during the French and Indian War?
Did you fail in your Red River campaign?