Botticelli, July 2025

Thread Games
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By my count there’s now 7 DQs out there. That puts it past 20 DQs.

No more IQs, just DQs please.

42

DQ
I am not … Susie Q?
DQ

That’s the last IQ

43

Tom Swift Jr
Sloopy
Sheila


DQ1: Poem written in English?
DQ2: Poem author’s name known?
One DQ reserved.

44

S

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with S
  4. Not known from movies or TV
  5. Not created by American(s)
  6. Not from prose fiction
  7. Caucasian
  8. One of the main characters
  9. Not from theater
  10. Created by European(s)
  11. Created before 1900
  12. Not from a song
  13. From a poem
  14. Created before 1700
  15. Poem written in English
  16. Poem author’s name probably not known
45

1 was Will Scarlet.
2 was Sigerson Bell.
3 is correct.

DQ: Religious poem?

1 DQ reserved.

46

IQs:

Were you a principled Conservative and the good guy in Jeffrey Archer’s political novel First Among Equals?
Were you his unprincipled Tory grandee rival?
Were you Robert Baratheon’s younger, humorless, ambitious brother?

47

DQ:

  1. Written before 1600?

2 DQs reserved

48

I closed IQs a few posts ago. But I’ll let you slide. You owe me!

Take 3 DQs

49

S

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with S
  4. Not known from movies or TV
  5. Not created by American(s)
  6. Not from prose fiction
  7. Caucasian
  8. One of the main characters
  9. Not from theater
  10. Created by European(s)
  11. Created before 1900
  12. Not from a song
  13. From a poem
  14. Created before 1700
  15. Poem written in English
  16. Poem author’s name probably not known
  17. Not a religious poem
  18. Near as I can tell, not written before 1600
50

Correct on Susan Orlean and Streep; 3 (cigar) was Sigmund Freud.

Final DQ: from a nursery rhyme?

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S

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with S
  4. Not known from movies or TV
  5. Not created by American(s)
  6. Not from prose fiction
  7. Caucasian
  8. One of the main characters
  9. Not from theater
  10. Created by European(s)
  11. Created before 1900
  12. Not from a song
  13. From a poem
  14. Created before 1700
  15. Poem written in English
  16. Poem author’s name probably not known
  17. Not a religious poem
  18. Near as I can tell, not written before 1600
  19. From a nursery rhyme
52

DQ: Licked the platter clean, along with his wife?

1 DQ reserved.

53

YES! I am Jack Sprat!

Good job, @SunUp!

54

Ooops, sorry, I missed that! If SunUp (good job!) hadn’t already nailed it, I wouldn’t have expected DQs.

The three are Simon Kerslake, Charles Seymour and Stannis Baratheon.

55

Well done, SunUp!

Very nice choice, knoodler!

56

Thanks! In three questions, I had to shift mental gears from Piers Plowman to Mother Goose.

On to…

P !

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IQs:

  1. Are you me?
  2. Were you D’Artagnan’s valet?
  3. Did you pick a peck of pickled peppers?
58

IQ1: Were you Achilles’s friend who was killed by Hector?
IQ2: Was your grandson married to Autumn Kelly?
IQ3: Are you that grandson?

59

IQs:

  1. Did you campaign for President in 2020?
  2. Are you known for your “windmill” style on stage?
  3. Did you attain your first number one ranking in mens tennis in 1993?
60

Congrats, SunUp!

IQs:
1. Did you campaign for US vice president in 2012?
2. Were you Abby on NCIS?
3. Did you write The Good Earth?