Botticelli, July 2025

Thread Games
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IQs:
1. Did you star in Grey’s Anatomy?
2. Did you become Doctor Manhattan?
3. Speaking of the project Doctor Manhattan is named after…

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IQs:

  1. Were you a bowtied food scientist who worked with kernels?
  2. Were you the longer-lived of two brothers with a famous invention?
  3. Did you do a famous tour of the southern states in the antebellum period?
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DQ
I am not Ortho? Otto?
I am not Orpheus (just watched S2)

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I am not Sandra Oh
I am not Steve Osterman
DQ

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I am not Orville Redenbacher
I am not Orville Wright
DQ

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O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Not American creator(s)
  5. Not main character
  6. Only name begins with O
  7. Created after 1900
  8. Created by European
  9. Created by someoner from the British Isles
  10. From genre fiction
  11. Created after 1950
  12. Not from fantasy or SF source
  13. Not from children’s lit or YA (I don’t know what vice adult is)
  14. Not by a female author
  15. Not from mystery
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Correct on 1 & 2. #3 was Frederick Law Olmstead, also known as the landscape architect of New York City’s Central Park.

1 DQ reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Are you AKA Mithrandir and Tharkun? - Olorin, better known as Gandalf, in the writings of JRR Tolkien
Was an HBCU named after you? - Gen. Oliver O. Howard, who headed the Freedmen’s Bureau after the Civil War
Were you a young resident of Mayberry, N.C.? - Yes, Opie Taylor, from The Andy Griffith Show

DQs:

British character?
Considered a good guy?

IQs:

Did you have a fancy yacht named the Sperm?
Were you one of Drew Carey’s best friends?
In perhaps your sole redeeming character trait, did you refuse to obey segregation laws in your native New Orleans?

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  1. "i sing of olaf glad and big…*
  2. It’s Otho, but close enough.
  3. Correct.

DQ: Created after 1999?

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1 was correct; for 2, close enough on Jon Osterman; 3 was J. Robert Oppenheimer.

DQ: character adapted into movies or TV?

IQs:
1. Were you “Little Sure Shot”?
2. Was your first name your first name, did you love to get blotto, and were you playing Pablo in Oh, Streetcar! ?
3. Speaking of musicals…

“There’s a dark, thin, winding
Stairway without any banister,
We’ll throw him down, and
Feed him on cockroaches served in a canister
[You], [you]
What will he do when he’s turned black and blue
He will curse the day somebody named him [you]”?

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Take 3 DQs

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DQ
I am not Otto the Bus Driver Man
DQ

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O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Not American creator(s)
  5. Not main character
  6. Only name begins with O
  7. Created after 1900
  8. Created by European
  9. Created by someoner from the British Isles
  10. From genre fiction
  11. Created after 1950
  12. Not from fantasy or SF source
  13. Not from children’s lit or YA (I don’t know what vice adult is)
  14. Not by a female author
  15. Not from mystery
  16. British character
  17. Not considered a good guy
  18. Created before 1999
  19. Has been adapted into movies and TV
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No more IQs. Please ask all remaining DQs by Wednesday noon CST.

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Previous IQs:

Did you have a fancy yacht named the Sperm? - Uncle Oswald, in the writings of Roald Dahl
Were you one of Drew Carey’s best friends? - Oswald, on The Drew Carey Show
In perhaps your sole redeeming character trait, did you refuse to obey segregation laws in your native New Orleans? - Lee Harvey Oswald

Oswald x3!

DQs:

Character would be alive today, if real?
From historic fiction?

One DQ reserved.

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1 (“Little Sure Shot”) was Annie Oakley; 3 (“There’s a dark, thin, winding/Stairway without any banister…”) was Oliver Twist, in Oliver! .

Final DQs:
1. created after 1975?
2. movie and TV adaptations are better known than source material?

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O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Originally from prose fiction
  4. Not American creator(s)
  5. Not main character
  6. Only name begins with O
  7. Created after 1900
  8. Created by European
  9. Created by someoner from the British Isles
  10. From genre fiction
  11. Created after 1950
  12. Not from fantasy or SF source
  13. Not from children’s lit or YA (I don’t know what vice adult is)
  14. Not by a female author
  15. Not from mystery
  16. British character
  17. Not considered a good guy
  18. Created before 1999
  19. Has been adapted into movies and TV
  20. Probably not alive today, according to source material, but could be alive in some adaptations
  21. Not from historical fiction, although some adaptions may place him in current time frames
  22. Created before 1975
  23. Better known from movie and TV adaptations than source material
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The deadline is close so go ahead and AskName.

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Are you Oddjob from the James Bond stories?

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Ooo, good guess. I can’t think of anyone else who fits the clues.