Botticelli - June 2022

Thread Games
161

Correct on Tami.
Unless my memory is worse than I thought, #2 was Thurgood Marshall.
Correct on Andy Taylor.

1 DQ reserved.

162

IQ1: Do you want to work up the nerve to call 867-5309?
IQ2: Did a copy of your speech in your jacket pocket save you from an assassination attempt?
IQ3: Did you travel with your cousin Merry?

163

Oh, of course - obviously I’m thinking ’way too much about Justice Thomas lately.

Not Tommy Tutone, Theodore Roosevelt or Peregrin “Fool of a” Took.

164

DQ: From a book that won a major literary prize?

165

Sweep!

IQ1: Are you an unintelligible superhero whose weapon is the belt yo daddy gave you on his deathbed?
IQ2: Did one of your creations declare he wanted more life, fucker?
IQ3: Were you a US Vice President who ascended to the presidency after a mere 30 days

166

Not the Tick, Dr. Eldon Tyrell or John Tyler.

167

T.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. not originally from a film or TV
  5. originally from a work of prose fiction
  6. created by an American author or authors
  7. created after 1949
  8. main character
  9. might still be alive today, if real
  10. not also from a movie
  11. created before 1985
  12. not from a mystery/detective novel
  13. from a single work
  14. not from a book that won a major literary prize
168

IQs:

  1. Have you played a one-legged pirate, a butler and the head of an odd but aristocratic family?
  2. Did you have a hit with Private Dancer?
  3. Were you known as “the Bard of Bengal”?
169

Dunno, not Tina Turner and dunno.

170

#1 was Tim Curry (Muppet Treasure Island, Clue and a movie remake of The Addams Family that bombed).
#2 is correct.
#3 is Nobel-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore.

DQs:

  1. Created after 1970?
  2. From a work by a male author?
171

No belt in the Tick’s origin story. #1 was Pootie Tang, which on second thought, you should be proud you don’t know that.
Correct
Correct

DQ: From a work in the science fiction or fantasy genre?

172

T.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. not originally from a film or TV
  5. originally from a work of prose fiction
  6. created by an American author or authors
  7. created after 1949
  8. main character
  9. might still be alive today, if real
  10. not also from a movie
  11. created before 1985
  12. not from a mystery/detective novel
  13. from a single work
  14. not from a book that won a major literary prize
  15. created after 1970
  16. from a work by a male author
  17. from a work arguably in the science fiction or fantasy genre
173

IQs:

  1. Did you play Lurch on the original The Addams Family?
  2. Did you win a Tony for starring in The Unsinkable Molly Brown?
  3. Were you the protagonist of the last Discworld novel?
174

Not Ted Cassidy, not Thelma Ritter and dunno.

175

Correct on Ted.
#2 was Tammy Grimes.
#3 is Tiffany Aching.

DQ: From a work of science fiction?

1 DQ reserved.

176

IQ1: Did no one get around to finding you after being trapped in a mine that had caved in?
IQ2: Are you a stop-motion expert who recently released your own project, after having worked on Empire Strikes Back, Robocop, and Jurassic Park?
IQ3: Did you invent a shocking mainstay of science museums?

177

Not Timmy, dunno, and not Tsiolkovsky.

T.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. not originally from a film or TV
  5. originally from a work of prose fiction
  6. created by an American author or authors
  7. created after 1949
  8. main character
  9. might still be alive today, if real
  10. not also from a movie
  11. created before 1985
  12. not from a mystery/detective novel
  13. from a single work
  14. not from a book that won a major literary prize
  15. created after 1970
  16. from a work by a male author
  17. from a work arguably in the science fiction or fantasy genre
  18. kinda sorta from a work of science fiction

No more IQs, please. Please ask any earned DQs by noon EST Thursday.

178

DQ: Human?

179

I was thinking Timothy from the Buoys’ hit song about cannibalism , but Lassie’s friend works just as well.
Phil Tippett
Nikola Tesla

Holding 2 DQs

180

T.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with T
  4. not originally from a film or TV
  5. originally from a work of prose fiction
  6. created by an American author or authors
  7. created after 1949
  8. main character
  9. might still be alive today, if real
  10. not also from a movie
  11. created before 1985
  12. not from a mystery/detective novel
  13. from a single work
  14. not from a book that won a major literary prize
  15. created after 1970
  16. from a work by a male author
  17. from a work arguably in the science fiction or fantasy genre
  18. kinda sorta from a work of science fiction
  19. human