Botticelli June 2023

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you hang around with Granny Weatherwax?
  2. Were you sometimes known as Tippetarius?
  3. Did Robin Williams play you in Hamlet?
242

IQs:

  1. Did you cause Caspar Weinberger to appear “noticably shaken” after you hacked into Pravda and changed a headline to read “Gorbachev sings tractors! Turnips! Buttocks!”?

  2. Were you, despite your faintly comic name and country-bumpkin public image, a shrewd and successful Purdue-trained agronomist who hybridized and sold a popular snack food?

  3. Did God finally call you home in 2009, 22 years after you announced in 1987 that He would if you didn’t raise $8 million by March of that year?

243

DQ
Not Princess Ozma
DQ

Not Oliver Wendell Jones
Not Orville Redenbacher
Not Oral Roberts

244

I just had to post my admiration for that clue :laughing:

IQ:

  1. Was your livestock accused of arson?
  2. Are you a frequent panelist on “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me”?
  3. Are you married to Titania?
245

Not Mrs. O’Leary
DQ
Not Oberon

246

Thank you. I’m kinda proud of that one myself.

247

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Were you a 19th century inventor who founded an uplifting company?

  2. Were you a dragon with one tooth, on a children’s show?

  3. Are you a sportswriter who’s been played by Walter Matthau, Jack Klugman, and Matthew Perry?

248

Not Mr. Otis of Otis Elevator fame
Not Ollie? (Kukla, Fran, and Ollie is the first kids show that comes to mind with an O name, but it was way before my time)
Not Oscar Madison from The Odd Couple

249

Previous IQs:

Were you the longtime conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony? - Eugene Ormandy
Does Maurice LaMarche often do your voice? - Orson Welles
Have you become a SDMB meme, especially in the Made-Up Band Name thread? - I’ll rephrase

DQs:

Magic user?
Character from the British Isles?

IQs:

You are not Opal. [Repeat as above]
Did you play an elderly JFK?
Was perhaps your sole redeeming trait your refusal to obey segregation laws?

250

Correct on all three.

IQs:

  1. Are you famous for sports, acting, and murder?

  2. Did you invite passersby to look upon your works and despair?

  3. Were you a favorite subject of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and painted by John Everett Millais and John William Waterhouse?

251

#1 was Nanny Ogg, in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Osric.

I, too, am in awe of SMV’s great IQ.

2 DQs reserved.

252

O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language
  13. Not a comic character
  14. Urban fantasy
  15. Male author
  16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has some supernatural abilities
  17. Character from the British Isles
253

Not Ogg
Not Ozzie Davis in Bubba-Ho-Tep
Not Lee Harvey Oswald?

DQ
Not Ozymadias?
DQ

254

DQs:

  1. Written after 1970?
  2. From a series of books?
255

IQs:

  1. Are you the Italian version of the French paladin Roland?
  2. Were you a noted woman atheist who was murdered?
  3. Were you one of Marvel’s Enforcers, along with Montana and Fancy Dan?
256

Correct on Ozymandias, from the Shelley poem. No. 3 was Ophelia, whom Victorian artists loved to paint floating amongst the flowers. 1 was Orenthal James “O.J.” Simpson, but I’m thinking I perhaps was too oblique and elliptical in my clue - you’d have probably gotten it if I just described him as “football player, actor, convicted felon”. So I’ll let you decide if that’s worth a DQ or no.

DQ:

  1. British author?

IQs:

  1. Are you an icon of your type of music, but possessed of an accent so thick many people assume you have a speech impediment?

  2. Are you a Bond villain henchman whose actor was nearly electrocuted (and suffered a badly-burned hand) filming your death scene?

  3. Are you a popular Marvel actress, playing a long running character, who can bend your thumbs back nearly 90°?

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O

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Last name starts with O
  4. From a literary work
  5. Not American
  6. Would be alive today, if real
  7. Written after 1900
  8. European author
  9. Protagonist
  10. From genre fiction
  11. From Science fiction or fantasy
  12. From book originally written in English language
  13. Not a comic character
  14. Urban fantasy
  15. Male author
  16. Not a magic user in the sense of wands and spells, but has some supernatural abilities
  17. Character from the British Isles
  18. Written after 1970
  19. Not from a series of books
  20. British author

That’s 20, so no more IQs. Ask your earned DQs for 9:00 pm PDT Monday 6/26.

258

DQ
Not Madeline Murray O’Hare
DQ

DQ
Not Oddjob
Not Elizabeth Olsen

I probably still wouldn’t have gotten it, so take the second DQ.

259

1 was Orlando.
2 is correct.
3 was the Ox.

DQs:

  1. Written after 2000?
  2. Last name starts with O’ ?
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Previous IQs:

You are not Opal. [Repeat as above] - I was thinking of Orson Bean, but Ogg fits, too
Did you play an elderly JFK? - Yes, Ossie Davis
Was perhaps your sole redeeming trait your refusal to obey segregation laws? - Yes, Lee Harvey Oswald, in his native New Orleans

Hmm. Can’t figure out who this is. Thought it might be a Harry Potter character, but it’s a male author, and not from a series.