Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
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correct
Harry Turtledove
Tank McNamara
Figured we’d go through a dozen or so real football players before reaching this point.


DQ1: Known for the Arts?
One DQ reserved.


IQ1: Did you visit Athne, Sumatra, and Pal-ul-Don?
IQ2: Do you hang out with Honey and Jim?
IQ3: Were you the jeddak of Thark?

222

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. First name begins with A - M
  7. Known for the Arts
223
  1. I am not Thor Heyerdahl (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
224

Tarzan
Trixie Belden
Tars Tarkas


DQ: Known for the performing arts?
Three DQs reserved.

225

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. First name begins with A - M
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Performing Arts
226

DQ: Known for writing?
Two DQs reserved.


IQ: Are you also known as Samuel Clemens?

227

Congrats, Prof. P., and thanks for the Gen. George H. Thomas question, SunUp!

Previous IQs:

Did you, in an Irish-American folk song from the Civil War, share your opinions on various matters? - 'Twas Paddy Magee
Did the Germans essentially just drive around elaborate fortifications named after you? - Yes, Maginot
Were you AKA Olorin and Tharkun? - Mithrandir AKA Gandalf, in Tolkien’s writings

On to T.

Were you a recurring female character in the writings of Samuel Clemens?
Were you a recurring male character in the writings of Samuel Clemens?
Did Gillian Anderson play you on The Crown?

228

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. First name begins with A - M
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Performing Arts
  9. Known for Writing
229

I am not Mark Twain.

  1. I am not Becky Thatcher.
  2. I am not Tom Sawyer.
  3. Take a DQ.
230

IQs:

  1. Are you an American football coach hired to coach a professional European football team?
  2. Did you play opposite of Marlo Thomas in a TV sitcom?
  3. Did Volkswagen create a print ad based on a scandal in your life?
231

Previous IQs:

Were you a recurring female character in the writings of Samuel Clemens? - Yes, Becky Thatcher
Were you a recurring male character in the writings of Samuel Clemens? - Yes, Tom Sawyer
Did Gillian Anderson play you on The Crown? - Margaret Thatcher

DQ:

Best known for fiction?

IQs:

Have you written several books set in a town in which the MLB team is called the Trappers?
Are you a noted writer who attended Oberlin College but didn’t graduate from there?
Did you write The Killer Inside Me?

232
  1. I am not Ted Lasso.
    Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs.

233

DQs:

  1. Male
  2. Real
  3. Last name begins with T
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. First name begins with A - M
  7. Known for the Arts
  8. Not known for the Performing Arts
  9. Known for Writing
  10. Known for Fiction
234

Correct, Ted Bessell, Edward “Ted” Kennedy (although the ad was not from Volkswagen, it was a parody by The National Lampoon). I withdraw my third IQ.

1 DQ reserved

235

IQ1: Have you been played by Pernell Roberts, Elliott Gould and Wayne Rogers?
IQ2: Did you lead a slave rebellion in Virginia?
IQ3: Did you run off to join the circus?


Two DQs reserved.

236
  1. I am not Trapper John.
  2. I am not Nat Turner.
  3. I am not Toby Tyler.
237

IQs:

  1. Are you queen of the fairies?
  2. Are you Buck’s dad in Zombieland?
  3. Did you produce the soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou?
238
  1. I am not Titania.
    Take 2 DQs.
239

Correct, Tallahassee, T Bone Burnett

DQs:

  1. Known for science fiction?
  2. Alive after 2000?

2 DQs rerserved

240

IQs:

  1. Did you record “Sixteen Tons”?
  2. Were you the manager of the Washington Senators when they became the Texas Rangers?
  3. Did you have a sidekick named Al Borland on your show(-within-a-show)?