Botticelli, July 2025

Thread Games
241

#1 is Geo-Force in DC comics.

Correct on the others.

DQ: Real?

242

IQs:

Are you a fictional woodcarver from a children’s book?
Did you confess your true desires for Belle, causing her to flee?
Did you play the sidekick of the above-mentioned in a live version?

243

3 (Alice) was Kathy Griffin.

DQ: first name begins with G?

IQs:
1. Did you run for president on the Surprise Party ticket?
2. Were you a literate something who helped kids solve mysteries on a PBS show?
3. Was your last word (allegedly) “Water”?

244

I am not Gepetto.
I am not Gaston.
Take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

245

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name begins with G
246

1 was Gracie Allen; 2 was Ghostwriter; 3 was Ulysses S. Grant.

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

247

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name begins with G
  3. Not main character
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Female
248

Josh Gad

DQ: American origin?

249

By that, do you mean American creator, or the character is of American origin (in-universe, as it were)?

250

Sorry I meant to say “creator.”

251

IQs:

  1. Did you carve your son out of wood?
  2. Did your husband sculpt you out of marble?
  3. Did you voice a character build out of snow by two sisters?
252

1. Are you a Swedish environmental activist?
2. Did you say of your newspaper comic that they could have called it Revenge of the Zucchini People, for all you cared?
3. Speaking of names, were you the only gargoyle with one (referring to somebody else) at Castle Wyvern in 994?

253

Gail Carriger, correct, Gina Bellman.

2 DQs reserved

254

Previous IQs:

Did your suit buttons on a very important day in your life bear the wrong date? - George Washington’s first inauguration, in 1789, was postponed by almost two months
Did you die at the Presidio in 1870, having never written your memoirs? - Yes, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas
Did the same actor who played you in a Spielberg movie, also appear in a Coen Bros. movie? - The same actor who played Gen. George C. Marshall in Saving Private Ryan also played the William H. Macy character’s father-in-law in Fargo

George x3!

DQs:

First appeared since 1900?
American character?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Are you AKA Tharkun and Olorin?
Did Angelina Jolie once play your mom?
Were you a poetic name for Queen Elizabeth I?

255

IQs:

Were you abducted to serve Zeus in Olympus?
Was Uranus your first husband?
Are you the youngest person to be named Time’s Person of the Year?

256

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name begins with G
  3. Not main character
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Female
  6. Not an American creator
  7. First appeared since 1900
  8. Not an American character

(ETA: E_H’s DQs)

257

I am not Gepetto.
I am not Galatea.
I am not Josh Gad.

(Careful Professor - two repeats! I know you have a lot going on…)

I am not Greta Thunberg.
I am not… Garry Trudeau? Seems like his sense of humor
Take a DQ.

I am not Gandalf.
Take 2 DQs.

I am not Ganymede.
I am not Gaia.
I am not (again) Greta Thunberg.

258

2 (Zucchini People) was Gary Larson; 3 (gargoyle) was Goliath.

DQs:
1. created after 1960?
2. created by European(s)?

259

G

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name begins with G
  3. Not main character
  4. Originally from prose fiction
  5. Female
  6. Not an American creator
  7. First appeared since 1900
  8. Not an American character
  9. Created after 1960
  10. Created by a European
260

IQs:

Are you the father of Linguini?
Do some people try hard to “look like you?”
Did you appear on early television with a monkey mascot?