Botticelli - January 2026

Thread Games
101

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:97, topic:1026186, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with N
  3. Male
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. Caucasian
  10. Born just before 1960
  11. Known for the literary arts
102

Previous IQs:

Did a German artist say he pictured you in the boat with Washington, crossing the Delaware? - Gen. Nathanael Greene (he’s the guy in the black hat and cloak beside Washington’s left leg in this famous Emanuel Leutze painting: Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851 paintings) - Wikipedia)
Did Daniel Day-Lewis play you in a movie set during the French and Indian War? - The character was Natty Bumppo in the book, but Nathaniel Poe in the film
Did you fail in your Red River campaign? - Gen. Nathaniel Banks, during the Civil War

Nathanael/iel x3!

DQs:

Best known for fiction?
Greatest fame before 2000?
Won a Pulitzer or Nobel?

IQs:

Was Hagrid very sorry to send you away?
Did you pine after Daphne?
Were you one of Lincoln’s two White House aides?

103

I am not Norbert.
Take 2 DQs.

104

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:101, topic:1026186”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with N
  3. Male
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. Caucasian
  10. Born just before 1960
  11. Known for the literary arts
  12. Best known for fiction.
  13. Greatest fame after 2000
  14. Hasn’t won a Nobel or Pulitzer
105

IQs:
1. Did you play Merlin in a TV mini-series?
2. Are you a former queen of Jordan?
3. The Justice League of America : Firestorm :: The Squadron Supreme : you?

106

Previous IQs:

Was Hagrid very sorry to send you away? - Yes, Norbert, the not-so-little-anymore dragon, in the Harry Potter saga
Did you pine after Daphne? - Dr. Niles Crane, on Frasier
Were you one of Lincoln’s two White House aides? - John Nicolay

DQs:

Best known for novels?
Genre fiction (sf, fantasy, mystery, etc.)?

IQs:

Were you a noted golfer with the same nickname as a President who was a rough contemporary?
Did you play a doomed royal in Ian McKellen’s British Fascist adaptation of Richard III?
Were you (probably inaccurately) quoted as saying, “Get there fustest with the mostest”?

107

Take 3 DQs.

108
  1. I am not Jack Nicklaus.
    Take 2 DQs.
109

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:104, topic:1026186”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with N
  3. Male
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. Caucasian
  10. Born just before 1960
  11. Known for the literary arts
  12. Best known for fiction.
  13. Greatest fame after 2000
  14. Hasn’t won a Nobel or Pulitzer, has won a Hugo
  15. Best known for novels.
  16. Known for genre fiction
110

1 was Sam Neill; 2 was Queen Noor; 3 was Nuke.

DQs:
1. best known for science fiction?
2. last name begins from N-Z?

1 DQ reserved.

111

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:109, topic:1026186”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with N
  3. Male
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1970
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. Caucasian
  10. Born just before 1960
  11. Known for the literary arts
  12. Best known for fiction.
  13. Greatest fame after 2000
  14. Hasn’t won a Nobel or Pulitzer, has won a Hugo
  15. Best known for novels.
  16. Known for genre fiction
  17. Best known for science fiction
  18. Last name begins with N-Z
112

IQs:

  1. Did you write the Baroque Cycle?
  2. Did you write “The Moon’s a Balloon”?
  3. Did you star in An American Werewolf In London?
113

Previous IQs:

Were you a noted golfer with the same nickname as a President who was a rough contemporary? - Yes, Jack Nicklaus
Did you play a doomed royal in Ian McKellen’s British Fascist adaptation of Richard III? - Nigel Hawthorne
Were you (probably inaccurately) quoted as saying, “Get there fustest with the mostest”? - Confederate cavalry Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest

Two DQs reserved. Thinkthinkthink…

114

Yes, SunUp!
I am the author of the Baroque Cycle, Snow Crash , The Cryptonomicon, and many others,

NEAL STEPHENSON.

Good job!

115

Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh (Bull Durham)
Correct
“Nice Guy” Eddie Cabot (Reservoir Dogs) (Note: in the credits he’s listed as Nice Guy Eddie, no last name, but he’s identified in the film as the son of Joe Cabot, the mastermind.)

116

All right, thanks for hosting the last round Prof.

And we start the next round with:

I am

W

have at it!

117

Congrats, SunUp!

IQs:
1. “I cannot tell a lie. I chopped it down with my hatchet”?
2. Did you star in Lolita?
3. Did you write “The Whore of Mensa”?

118

Good job, SunUp!

IQs:

  1. Are you the 43rd in line of succession?
  2. Were you often quoted in Dead Poets Society?
  3. Is your bestie named Betty?
119

I am not George Washington.
Take 2 DQs.

Take a DQ.
I am not Walt Whitman.
I am not Wilma Flintstone.

120

2 was Shelley Winters; 3 was Woody Allen.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name starts with W?