Botticelli, July 2025

Thread Games
401
  1. Queequeg (It’s the name of Dana Scully’s dog in The X-Files)
  2. Queen Latifah (The Equalizer)
  3. John Quincy Adams

Real?
Male?

1 DQ reserved

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I looked up the cast on IMDB and realized I was confusing the show with The Big Valley; I remember watching Lee J Cobb as a judge, but thought his costars were Barbara Stanwyck, Lee Majors, and Richard Long.

Compound this with my love of The Simpsons and the character of Troy McClure, who is an amalgam of Troy Donohue and Doug McClure. .

403

IQs:
1. Did you claim to have as much experience as Jack Kennedy in 1988?
2. Speaking of JFK, do you sound a lot like him and are you the mayor of Springfield on The Simpsons?
3. Speaking of cartoons, did you voice Olive Oyl?

404

IQs:

Were you captain of the 1976 US Men’s Basketball Team?

Were you the starting quarterback for the University of Texas last year?

Are you a famous Eskimo?

405

IQs:

  1. Are you a prolific crossword puzzle constructor for the New York Times?
  2. Were you played by Tom Selleck as a cowboy gone to Australia?
  3. Are you Star-Lord?
406

1/. Real

2/. Male

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All right – who screwed up the formatting?

407

Not Quick Draw McGraw
DQ
Not Quentin Tarantino

Three DQs

DQ
DQ
Not Quinn

DQ
Not Quigley
DQ

408

Brendan Emmett Quigley

Correct

Peter Quill

DQs:

  1. First name begins with Q?
  2. Living?
409

Correct, Quinn Cummings, correct.

DQ: American?

410

1 was Dan Quayle; 2 was Diamond Joe Quimby; 3 was Mae Questel.

DQ: known from the arts?

Two DQs reserved.

411

Q

1\. Real
2. Male
3. Name begins with Q
4. Dead
5. Not American
6. Not known from the Arts

412

Quinn Buckner

Quinn Ewers

Quinn x3!

DQs:

Alive after 1900?

European?

Known for politics?

413

Q

1. Real
2. Male
3. Name begins with Q
4. Dead
5. Not American
6. Not known from the Arts
7. Not alive after 1900
8. European
9. Not known for politics

414
  1. Are you a dragon in Tik-Tok of Oz?
  2. Did David Selby play you on Dark Shadows?
  3. Did you produce Barnaby Jones among other TV shows?
415

DQ
Not Quentin Collins
DQ

416

IQs:

  1. Is the oldest prison in California named after you?

  2. Were you Steve Dallas’s girlfriend in Bloom County?

  3. Did John DeLancie play you on Star Trek: The Next Generation*?

417

IQs:
1. Are you Howard Stern’s longtime co-host?
5. Were you the shark hunter played by Robert Shaw in Jaws?
3. Were you played by Desmond Llewellyn in a long-running film series, including the 1963 entry with Robert Shaw and the two (1977 and 1979) with Jaws?

418

IQs:

  1. Were you appointed chief if the Comanche Nation by the US government?
  2. Are you a fictional Los Angeles medical examiner, helping the police solve crimes?
  3. Are you the star and creator of a specific genre of TV comedies?
419

Well, that didn’t take long!

Yes, I am St Quentin, patron saint of bombardiers, chaplains, locksmiths, porters, tailors, and surgeons (a rather strange portfolio).


Your third DQ was Q. DLR’s third was a different Q, and I think his second was Quint(?). knoodler’s first two were Quanah Parker and Quincy. No idea on the others.

420

My third question is Quinta Brunson of Abbott Elementary, a reality-based comedy series.