Botticelli - July 2021

Thread Games
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Congrats, Chock!

IQs:
1. Were you caricatured by your round glasses, big mustache, and toothy grin?
2. Was Mickey so fine he blew your mind?
3. Were you the author of Nightlife of the Gods and other works of comic fantasy?

162

Not William Tecumsah Sherman?
Take a DQ
Not Thomas the Tank Engine

Not Teddy Roosevelt?
Not Toni Basil
Not Terry Pratchett?

163

1 is correct; 2 is correct; good guess for 3, but it was in fact Thorne Smith.

DQ: female?

164

Previous IQs:

Did U.S. Grant almost relieve you of duty just before one of your greatest triumphs? - Not Sherman, but Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, just before the Battle of Nashville, when Grant thought he wasn’t moving aggressively enough
Were you a Starfleet admiral who said not a word in the only ST:TNG episode in which you appeared? - Adm. Thomas Henry, “The Drumhead”
Was the Fat Controller rather fond of you? - Yes, Thomas the Tank Engine

Thomas x3!

DQs:

Male?
Last name start with T?

IQs:

Were you a murdered archbishop?
Did your son not attend your funeral even though he might have done so relatively easily?
Did McGovern drop you from the ticket after earlier indicating he still supported you “1000%”?

165

T

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T

EH, ask another DQ, as De_La_Rue already asked about gender.

166

Not Thomas Beckett
Not Thomas Ihatemydad
Not Thomas Eagleton

167

Thanks, CFOHG.

Previous IQs:

Were you a murdered archbishop? - Yes, Thomas Becket (one “t”)
Did your son not attend your funeral even though he might have done so relatively easily? - Thomas Lincoln, Abraham’s father, from whom he was estranged
Did McGovern drop you from the ticket after earlier indicating he still supported you “1000%”? - Yes, Sen. Thomas Eagleton, during the 1972 presidential campaign

Thomas x3 redux!

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you play the head of the MIB?
Were you Satan’s child in a Seventies movie?
Did you epically rant in a comedy about the American obsession with bosoms?

168

IQs:

  1. Are you known as the Mother of Dragons?
  2. Are you Tom Sawyer’s girlfriend?
  3. Are you Dick Tracy’s wife?
169

T

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American
  5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive”
170

Not Rip Torn
Not Damien Thorn
Take a DQ

Take a DQ - I know it’s from Game of Thrones
Not Becky Thatcher
Not Tess Trueheart

171

Previous IQs:

Did you play the head of the MIB? - Yes, Rip Torn
Were you Satan’s child in a Seventies movie? - Yes, Damien Thorn, in The Omen
Did you epically rant in a comedy about the American obsession with bosoms? - Terry-Thomas: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) - Preoccupation With Bosoms Scene (2/10) | Movieclips - YouTube

DQ:

First appeared since 1950?

IQs:

Did you study at Oberlin College but graduate elsewhere?
Were you a wartime Governor of Ohio?
Were you an odd, large-headed man who appeared several times in the early run of David Letterman’s first talk show?

172

#1 was Daenerys Targaryen.
Correct on the others.

DQ: From film or TV?

173

IQs:

  1. Are you Opie’s stepmother?
  2. Did you hire beautiful young women to act as your private investigators?
  3. Did Helen Mirren play you on Prime Suspect?
174

IQs:
IQ1: Do you have “a long list of ex-lovers”, who’ll tell us that you’re insane?
IQ2: Were you an ill-tempered baseball player nicknamed the Georgia Peach?
IQ3: Did you go to every inhabited continent (and even the Moon), except Australia (though an adventure of yours is titled Flight 714 to Sydney)?

175

Take a DQ
Not Charlie Townsend from Charlie’s Angels
Not Inspector Tennyson

Take 3 DQs

Not Taylor Swift
Not Ty Cobb?
Take a DQ

176

T

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American
  5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive”
  6. First appeared since 1950
  7. From film or TV
177

#1 was Helen Taylor, nee Crump. Correct on the others.

DQ: From film?

178

T

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with T
  4. Not explicitly stated, but most likely American
  5. Could be alive today, if real, for certain definitions of “alive”
  6. First appeared since 1950
  7. From film or TV
  8. Not from film
179

3 (went to every inhabited continent except Australia) was Tintin. Correct on Cobb.

DQ: first appeared before 1980?

180

IQs:

  1. Did you play B. A. on The A-Team?
  2. Was your pet Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog?
  3. Did you write the hymn Rock of Ages?