Botticelli, July 2025

Thread Games
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Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Are you Tina Louise’s best known role?
  2. Are you Ed Asner’s best known role?
  3. Were you one of the stars of the popular 1960’s BBC radio series The Goodies?
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IQs:
1. Did you write Tanner '88, Tanner on Tanner, and Alpha House?
2. In a 1977 strip, did Secretary of Symbolism Duane Delacourt order trophies for a human rights awards banquet and want the inscription to be “something from” you?
3. Do your fellow faculty members/employees include Professor Flutesnoot, Coach Kleats, Coach Clayton, Ms. Beazley, and Svenson?

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IQ1-2: Did you travel with Pepsi and Moxie?
IQ3: Whilst dealing with you did Dildo think it was a pity he’d run out of ammo?

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Previous IQs:

Are you AKA Tharkun and Olorin? - Yes, Gandalf
Did Angelina Jolie once play your mom? - Grendel, in the 2007 CGI movie Beowulf
Were you a poetic name for Queen Elizabeth I? - 'Twas “Gloriana”

DQs:

European character?
First appeared in a novel?
Created by someone from the UK or Ireland?

IQs:

Are you the best-known movie star who grew up in Main Line Philadelphia?
Were you Mr. Darcy’s sweet but naive sister?
Were you Sir Launcelot’s mighty but illegitimate son?

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Ah, swept me. Take 3 DQs.

I am not Ginger Grant.
I am not Lou Grant.
I am not… uh, Amy Grant. (heh)

I am not Garry Trudeau.
Take a DQ.
Ah, all I can think of is the Marx Brothers, but it’s not Groucho as Wagstaff. Take another DQ.

I am neither Goodgulf nor Gimlet.
I am not Goddam.

Take 2 DQs and I am not Sir Galahad.

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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
  11. Not a European character
  12. First was referred to in a novel
  13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland
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We seem to be having a lot of duplicate IQs so let me know if I’ve repeated others.

Gusteau (Ratatouille)
Gary Cooper (“Putin’ On the Ritz”; “Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper”)
Dave Garroway (The Today Show, with J. Fred Muggs)

DQ: First name begins with A-M?

2 DQs reserved

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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
  11. Not a European character
  12. First was referred to in a novel
  13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland
  14. First name begins with A-M
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2 (human rights trophy with an inscription “something from…”) was Mahatma Gandhi; 3 (faculty) was Miss Grundy, in Archie comics.

DQs:
1. created after 1990?
2. from a sci-fi or fantasy novel?

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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
  11. Not a European character
  12. First was referred to in a novel
  13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland
  14. First name begins with A-M
  15. Created before 1990
  16. From a fantasy or sci-fi novel
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DQs:

Has appeared in a TV series?
Created before 1975?

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<sigh> DQ x3!

273

DQs:

  1. Human?
  2. Takes place at the time it was written?
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Correction: correct x3!

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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
  11. Not a European character
  12. First was referred to in a novel
  13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland
  14. First name begins with A-M
  15. Created before 1990
  16. From a fantasy or sci-fi novel
  17. There has been a TV series made from the franchise; I don’t know if this character appeared or was referenced in the series
  18. Created after 1975
  19. Probably not human, but humanoid
  20. Takes place at a lot of different times, including contemporary to the writing

We’re at 20, but I’ll take a last round of IQs tonight.

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IQs:
1. Did you invent the first liquid-fueled rocket?
2. Did you direct Barbie?
3. When the sun comes down and the moon comes up, does Lux Interior of the Cramps turn into you?

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IQ1: Was the main character in a Thomas Perry novel named after you?
IQ2: Were you played by Yvonne Craig on a '60s TV show?
IQ3: Did you play a public defender, a soldier, and a high-school football coach?

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Previous IQs:

Are you the best-known movie star who grew up in Main Line Philadelphia? - Grace Kelly
Were you Mr. Darcy’s sweet but naive sister? - Georgiana, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Were you Sir Launcelot’s mighty but illegitimate son? - Yes, Sir Galahad

DQs:

From science fiction?
Created by a Briton?

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I am not Robert Goddard.
I am not Greta Gerwig.
Take a DQ.

Take a DQ.
I am not Barbara Gordon.
I am not… Gregory Peck?

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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
  11. Not a European character
  12. First was referred to in a novel
  13. Created by someone from the UK or Ireland
  14. First name begins with A-M
  15. Created before 1990
  16. From a fantasy or sci-fi novel
  17. There has been a TV series made from the franchise; I don’t know if this character appeared or was referenced in the series
  18. Created after 1975
  19. Probably not human, but humanoid
  20. Takes place at a lot of different times, including contemporary to the writing
  21. From science fiction
  22. Created by a Briton