Botticelli - June 2024

Thread Games
121

Soccer, eh? And it’s neither Pele nor Beckham, so I’m lost.

122

Yeah, I’m not that big on soccer, either.

Previous IQs:

Was perhaps your best-known character nicknamed “Ser Friendzone” by fans? - Iain Glenn played Ser Jorah Mormont on Game of Thrones, loving but not loved by (at least, not in that way) his Khaleesi
Did you write The End, about the last year of the Third Reich? - not David Irving, but Ian Kershaw (good book, too, BTW)
Did you officiate at Sir Patrick’s Stewart’s most recent wedding? - Sir Ian McKellen

Iain/Ian x3!

DQ:

Goalie?

I yield my remaining DQ to whoever would like to ask it.

123

I

  1. Real.
  2. First name starts with I.
  3. Male.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Not American.
  6. Not known for politics.
  7. European.
  8. Living.
  9. Not known for business.
  10. Not known for a crime or crimes.
  11. Born after 1970.
  12. Not from the British Isles.
  13. Born west of Vienna.
  14. Born south of Vienna.
  15. Born before 1990.
  16. Known for sports.
  17. Not known for the Olympics.
  18. Known for a team sport.
  19. Known for soccer.
  20. Definitely not known as a big scorer.
  21. Last name starts with A-M.
  22. Not Italian.
  23. Goalkeeper.

I may have misread the room on the degree of celebrity involved.

124

Well, you definitely got me stumped; I know more about the highly-acclaimed, all-fiberglass, pistachio-scented 1950s BBC radio show The Goon Show*, than I do about soccer.

*Thanks to @Prof.Pepperwinkle.

125

Oh, dear. Soccer. I’m not a soccer fan.

Is it Lionel Issem?

126

I’m afraid it is not Lionel Issem, nor is it Marco Izzaretam or Diego Issor.

Questions of the form “Are you ?” may be asked until midnight EDT tomirrow.

It would be interesing to see if anyone in the Euro 2024 thread would get this question.

127

Are you Iama Soccerplayer? :rofl:

128

The deadline has passed. I am

Iker Casillas

Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper, captain of two straight Euro title teams (2008 & 2012) as well as the 2010 World Cup champions; in club soccer, winner of five La Liga titles and three Champions League titles.

So… too obscure? Or time to take another crack at it?

129

Literally the only entities I’ve heard of in that statement are “Real Madrid” and “Spain”. But I’m not a soccer fan, so maybe that’s equivalent to a European not knowing Peyton Manning.

130

My son-in-law follows soccer and assures me he’s a very big deal indeed. I haven’t heard of him myself.

131

Nor have I.

132

@kitap needs to weigh in. Otherwise it goes back to Elendil’s Heir.

133

Haven’t heard of him.

134

It goes back to Arwen’s Boytoy, then.

135

LOL. Right, then. Our next letter will be

A

136
  1. Did you write, among other books, The Classics Reclassified?
  2. On Supernatural were you Dean Winchester’s main torturer in Hell?
  3. Are you the main character of the book This Time of Darkness?
137

IQs:

  1. Did you found the Illuminati?
  2. Did you resign your U.S. House seat due to a sexting scandal?
  3. Were you Cameron Crowe’s sister-in-law from 1986 to 2010?
138

Not Isaac Asimov, not Alastor and dunno.

139

Dunno, not Anthony Weiner (ptui) and not Anna Kendrick.

140

#1 was Adam Weishapt, correct on #2, and #3 was Ann Wilson of Heart.

A.W. x 3!

DQs:

Real?
Female?