Botticelli June 2023

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

I’d say prose fiction is novels, novellas and short stories. Kids’ books are a gray area.

IQs:

1. Did Kevin Corcoran play you in a Disney movie about a kid who ran away and joined the circus?
2. Did you write The Drawing of the Dark?
3. Did you win a Tony award for playing Molly in The Unsinkable Molly Brown?

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

IQs:

1. Were you a Scottish civil engineer, so famous for building roads, bridges, and canals that you were dubbed “The Colossus of Roads”?

2. Did you die from eating tainted strawberries?

3. Are you punished by hunger and thirst, with delicious food and drink eternally just out of your reach?

[De_La_Rue]

@De_La_Rue

IQs:
1. Did you hang out with Spinelli, Gretchen, Gus, etc. at recess?
2. Are you an alternate universe daughter of Nightcrawler and one of the original Exiles?
3. Did your father have binders full of women?

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

2 DQs
Not Tagg Romney

1 was TJ, in the cartoon Recess; 2 was Talia Josephine “TJ” Wagner.

DQs:
1. created after 1950?
2. has appeared in film and/or TV?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Are you one of the three people mentioned in the Stan Freberg song “The Conspiraski Theory”?
2. Are you another?
3. Were you a co-worker of the third?

[SCAdian]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@SCAdian

IQ1: Speaking of Honey Wheeler, were you her neighbour and best friend?
IQ2: Did you steal a pig and run away?
IQ3: Was the Dragon Lady a regular antagonist for you?

DQ
Not Tom, Tom, the piper’s son
DQ

Trixie Belden
correct
Terry, from Terry and the Pirates

DQ: Could be alive today, if real?
One DQ reserved.

[SCAdian]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Buck_Godot

…PS: as a general rule, what does prose fiction include? is it just short stories and novels or does it include anything else, like graphic novels or children’s picture books?

I would say definitely the first two, but not the last two, as the pictures are at least arguably more important than the words in those kinds of books.

I’d say yes on the first two, no on graphic novel, no on a play, and it depends on children’s book. A Richard Scarry book - no, Dr. Seuss - yes. Probably depends on the word to picture ratio.

Also no for poetry, even if it’s an entire book written as a poem, like Out of the Dust.

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@SCAdian

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Elendil_s_Heir

@Buck_Godot

…PS: as a general rule, what does prose fiction include? is it just short stories and novels or does it include anything else, like graphic novels or children’s picture books?

I would say definitely the first two, but not the last two, as the pictures are at least arguably more important than the words in those kinds of books.

I’d say yes on the first two, no on graphic novel, no on a play, and it depends on children’s book. A Richard Scarry book - no, Dr. Seuss - yes. Probably depends on the word to picture ratio.

Also no for poetry, even if it’s an entire book written as a poem, like Out of the Dust

Where would epics like Beowulf or the Illiad or The Divine Comedy fall, then? In my mind, there’s a distinction between even a long poem like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and a verse epic like The Inferno.

ETA: that is, I wouldn’t think of, say, Sir Lancelot from Le Morte d’Arthur as a “character from a poem”.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

,and plays aren’t prose either.

Poetry is poetry.

[SCAdian]

IQ1: Did you sing “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”?
IQ2: Did you sing “Sixteen Tons”?
IQ3: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Created after 1900
4. First name begins with T
5. Originally from prose fiction
6. Main character
7. Created before 1980
8. From science fiction/fantasy
9. Created by an American
10. Created after 1950
11. Has appeared in film and/or TV
12. Could be alive today, if real. Questionable, given lifestyle choices.

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did Kevin Corcoran play you in a Disney movie about a kid who ran away and joined the circus?
2. Did you write The Drawing of the Dark?
3. Did you win a Tony award for playing Molly in The Unsinkable Molly Brown?

3 DQs

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you a Scottish civil engineer, so famous for building roads, bridges, and canals that you were dubbed “The Colossus of Roads”?
2. Did you die from eating tainted strawberries?
3. Are you punished by hunger and thirst, with delicious food and drink eternally just out of your reach?

DQ
Not Zachary Taylor
Not Tantalus

@De_La_Rue

1. Are you one of the three people mentioned in the Stan Freberg song “The Conspiraski Theory”?
2. Are you another?
3. Were you a co-worker of the third?

3 DQs for you

@SCAdian

IQ1: Did you sing “Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad”?
IQ2: Did you sing “Sixteen Tons”?
IQ3: Did you sing “Diggin’ Up Bones”?

Not Tammy Wynette
2 DQs

[De_La_Rue]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

3 DQs for you

Tara Lipinski, Theodore Kaczysnki, and (co-worker of Monica Lewinsky) Linda Tripp.

DQs:
1. created after 1965?
2. human?
3. has appeared in film (but not TV)?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Created after 1900
4. First name begins with T
5. Originally from prose fiction
6. Main character
7. Created before 1980
8. From science fiction/fantasy
9. Created by an American
10. Created after 1950
11. Has appeared in film and/or TV
12. Could be alive today, if real. Questionable if human, given lifestyle choices., but given the answer to #14, who can say?
13. Created before 1965
14. Not human
15. Has appeared in both film and TV

EDITED #12 after answering #14

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Were you a Scottish civil engineer, so famous for building roads, bridges, and canals that you were dubbed “The Colossus of Roads”?
2. Did you die from eating tainted strawberries?
3. Are you punished by hunger and thirst, with delicious food and drink eternally just out of your reach?

DQ
Not Zachary Taylor
Not Tantalus

No. 1 was Thomas Telford, some of whose bridges and roads are still in use today. Correct on Taylor and Tantalus.

DQ: Known for poor lifestyle habits (i.e., smoking, drug use?)

IQs:

1. Was your recent Twitter callout of a teenaged activist an epic act of self-pwnage that ultimately resulted in your arrest for sex trafficking?
2. Are you the activist who helped IQ 1 to spectacularly hoist himself with his own petard?
3. Do you suffer from a disease in the (in-universe) real world, but are a hero in an in-universe fantasy world thanks to your wedding ring?

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

T

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. Created after 1900
4. First name begins with T
5. Originally from prose fiction
6. Main character
7. Created before 1980
8. From science fiction/fantasy
9. Created by an American
10. Created after 1950
11. Has appeared in film and/or TV
12. Could be alive today, if real. Questionable if human, given lifestyle choices., but given the answer to #14, who can say?
13. Created before 1965
14. Not human
15. Has appeared in both film and TV
16. Known for poor lifestyle habits (i.e., smoking, drug use?)

[ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Was your recent Twitter callout of a teenaged activist an epic act of self-pwnage that ultimately resulted in your arrest for sex trafficking?
2. Are you the activist who helped IQ 1 to spectacularly hoist himself with his own petard?
3. Do you suffer from a disease in the (in-universe) real world, but are a hero in an in-universe fantasy world thanks to your wedding ring?

Not Andrew Tate
Not Greta Thunberg
Not Thomas Covenant

[Slow_Moving_Vehicle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

1. Was your recent Twitter callout of a teenaged activist an epic act of self-pwnage that ultimately resulted in your arrest for sex trafficking?
2. Are you the activist who helped IQ 1 to spectacularly hoist himself with his own petard?
3. Do you suffer from a disease in the (in universe) real world, but are a hero in an in-universe fantasy world thanks to your wedding ring?

Not Andrew Tate
Not Greta Thunberg
Not Thomas Covenant

Correct on all three.

IQs:

1. Are you the youngest of your party, once called a fool by the angel leading it?
2. Are you the creator of IQ 1?
3. Are you an insect-based superhero whose catchphrase involves cutlery?

[De_La_Rue]

IQs:
1. Are you a fictional male main character originally from science fiction/fantasy prose fiction created by an American after 1900 but before 1950, because you’re the protagonist of The Marvelous Land of Oz?
2. Were you ironically nicknamed “the Georgia Peach”, given your personality?
3. Were you Summer’s ovine friend a stinking mind parasite?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

….Poetry is poetry.

Logically unassailable.

[Prof.Pepperwinkle]

@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness

@Prof.Pepperwinkle

1. Did Kevin Corcoran play you in a Disney movie about a kid who ran away and joined the circus?
2. Did you write The Drawing of the Dark?
3. Did you win a Tony award for playing Molly in The Unsinkable Molly Brown?

3 DQs

#1 was Toby Tyler.
#2 is Tim Powers.
#3 was Tammy Grimes.

3 DQs reserved.