Botticelli - July 2022

Thread Games
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L

  1. Not real
  2. First name begins with L
222

Correct, Lorna Doone, Correct.

DQ: Male?

223

Previous IQs:

Was your hand cut off but you kept on being a warrior? - I was thinking of Jaime Lannister from Game of Thrones, but sure, Luke Skywalker works, too
Did you get killed while you were in the privy? - Tywin Lannister, Jaime’s father
Did you kill him? - Tyrion Lannister, his brother

Lannister x3!

DQs:

American?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Did you once predict “hailstones the size of canned hams”?
Were you arguably the foremost battlefield physician of the American Civil War?
Did you correct a detective’s description of your dining room decor?

224

IQs:

  1. Did you write many Doc Savage novels under the name Kenneth Robeson?
  2. Did you create the comic strip hero The Phantom?
  3. Are you the pseudonymous author of the Bobbsey Twins books?
225

IQs:
1. Were you the prime minister of Cambodia aidobmaC fo retsinim emirp eht uoy erew?
2. Hair toss, check your nails–girl, are you feelin’ Good as Hell?
3. Are you the Nazi officer in Inglourious Basterds, played by Christoph Waltz?

226

Three DQs.

  1. Not Lester Dent.
  2. DQ.
  3. Not Laura Lee Hope.
  1. Not Lon Nol
  2. DQ.
  3. DQ.



L
1, Real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real

227

Well said!

228

Correct.
Lee Falk.
Correct.

Hmmm. First you say he’s Not Real. Then you say he’s Real. I’m assuming a “Not” was left off the second round.

1 DQ reserved.

229

2 was Lizzo (in her song “Good as Hell”); 3 was Hans Landa.

DQs:
1. main character?
2. originally from prose?

(I’m presuming the person is fictional here.)

230

L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose


I think what happened was I accidentally copy-and-pasted the Prof’s post asking the DQs, instead of my post answering them – I had to delete the question marks again.

231

DQ: Created before 1950?

IQs:

  1. Did you usually travel with Bob Hope on USO Tours as his back-up band?
  2. Are you the protagonist in Stop The World, I Want To Get Off?
  3. Were you a noted Greek scholar whose daughter was famous for falling down a rabbit-hole?
232

IQs:
1. Do you play yourself, getting into awkward situations on Curb your Enthusiasm?
2. Were you a US senator with a “wide stance”, which is why you got in trouble in a Minneapolis airport in 2007?
3. Was your name your name, were you a showgirl?

233
  1. Not … Dorothy Lamour?
  2. DQ.
  3. Not Mr Liddell.

3 DQs



L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950

234

#1 was Les Brown and His Band of Renown.
#2 is Littlechap.
#3 was, indeed, Henry George Liddell, correct.

2 DQs reserved.

235

1 was Larry David; 2 was Larry Craig; 3 was Lola, in “Copacabana”.

DQs:
1. created by an American or Americans?
2. created before 1980?
3. adapted into film/TV?

236

All right, another “Copacabana” reference!

Previous IQs:

Did you once predict “hailstones the size of canned hams”? - David Letterman, when he was an Indiana weatherman
Were you arguably the foremost battlefield physician of the American Civil War? - Dr. Jonathan Letterman
Did you correct a detective’s description of your dining room decor? - Lionel Twain in Murder by Death, who told the Charlie Chan-esque character that it was a stuffed moose and not a cow hanging on the wall

DQs:

Good guy?
From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you have an owl louse named after you?
Did you create the original Battlestar Galactica?
Was your first tattoo “client” a trussed-up bad guy?

237

IQs:
1. Did you create and star in Girls?
2. Is your autobiography Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir (all adjectives associated with your work)?
3. Were you a cyclist charged with doping and stripped of your seven Tour de France titles?

238
  1. Not … Gary Larson?
  2. DQ.
  3. DQ.
  1. DQ.
  2. Not … Stan Lee?
  3. Not Lance Armstrong.



L
1, Not real
2. First name begins with L
3. Male
4. American
5. Would not be alive today, if real
6. Main character
7. Originally from prose
8. Not created before 1950
9. Created by an American or Americans
10. Created before 1980
11. Adapted into film/TV
12. Good guy
13. From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, Western, detective, etc.)

239

1 was Lena Dunham; 2 was correct; 3 was correct.

DQ: from SF/fantasy?

240

DQs:

  1. Adult character?
  2. Created before 1970?