Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
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IQ1: Were you country when country wasn’t cool?
IQ2: Were you King Linus’s avian friend?
IQ3: Were you an ursine character on Linus’s show?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the title subject of a KISS song?
  2. Did you play center back for the US Women’s national soccer team?
  3. Are you a pro surfer who survived a shark attack (though your arm did not)?
63

Take a DQ, I am not Benny Goodman, I am not Beany.

Take 3 DQs

I am not Beth, take a DQ, I am noy Bethany Haney(?).

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. First name starts with B
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1960.
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Previous IQs:

Have you played a Federal prosecutor, a computer expert, a concierge and an NBC executive? - Not Sandra Bullock, but Bob Balaban, in Absence of Malice, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, The Grand Budapest Hotel and Seinfeld
Were you the best-known person from Russell, Kan.? - Not L. Frank Baum (who was, I see, from in Chittenango, NY), but Bob Dole
Did you play a PR guy advising Lincoln on the Gettysburg Address? - Bob Newhart

Bob x3!

DQs:

Best known for the performing arts?
Considered a beauty?
Has won a top award in her field?

IQs:

Did you sing about a geometric shape in a granular medium?
Are you married to a costar of the original Westworld?
Did David Sedaris imagine that you had a Christmas album?

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Correct on #1. #2 was Becky Sauerbrunn. #3 is Bethany Hamilton, first name and last initial are right so I’ll give that to you.

1 DQ reserved.

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Barbara Mandrell
Billy Bird
Sugar Bear


Three DQs reserved.

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I am not Belinda Carlisle and take two DQs.

69

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. First name starts with B
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1960.
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. I have no idea if she is considered a beauty, but I would guess no.
  10. Has won major awards in her field, but at least one most people would consider obscure. By which I mean if she was a tulip raiser those familiar with the field would be impressed that she won the William of Orange Tipsy Tulip Award, but everyone else would be all “never heard of that award”.
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  1. Benny Hill
    2 & 3: Correct

1 DQ reserved

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IQs:

  1. Are you an iconic character of Fleischer Studios?
  2. Are you a brand and fictional character used in advertising campaigns for food and recipes?
  3. Did you receive “the telegram” in A League of Their Own?
72

DQ: Known for politics/military?

IQs:

  1. Did you lose “The Battle of the Sexes”?
  2. Did you win “The Battle of the Sexes”?
  3. Were you the title subject of a posthumous Billboard #1 hit by Janis Joplin?
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IQs:
1. In a 1970 animated ad, does an excited girl inform another, calmer girl that it’s Special You Month, and with the purchase of a silver doll outfit one can get all sorts of you-related items (a poster, a magazine, a you club membership, etc.) free at participating toy stores all through June?
2. Were you a murderer and body-snatcher, with Hare?
3. Did you play Moneypenny?

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IQs:

  1. Are you the creator of Dykes to Watch Out For?
  2. Are you the author of multiple award-winning young adult novels, many of which have been controversial due to frank depictions of sex and menstruation?
  3. Did you recently write a well received novel based on “David Copperfield”?
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Previous IQs:

Did you sing about a geometric shape in a granular medium? - Yes, Belinda Carlisle
Are you married to a costar of the original Westworld? - Barbra Streisand is married to James Brolin (another B!)
Did David Sedaris imagine that you had a Christmas album? - Billie Holiday

DQs:

Best known for writing?
Greatest fame before 2000?

IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Did you lose the Battle of Nashville?
Did you win the Battle of El Alamein?

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Just a quick aside… When did Cecil turn into a dragon? In the puppet show on TV (yes, I’m that old), he was a (sea-sick) sea serpent. Did he morph into a dragon in one of his and Beany’s subsequent reincarnations?

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Maybe people are conflating him with Ollie?

78

You’re right, I mistook him for a dragon.

79

I am not Betty Boop, Betty Crocker and take a DQ.

I am not Bobby Riggs, Billie Jean King and take a DQ.

I am not Barbie, I am not Burke and take a DQ.

I am not Lynda Barry, Judy Blume or Barbara Kingsolver

Take 3 DQs.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Living
  4. American
  5. First name starts with B
  6. Known from the arts
  7. Born before 1960.
  8. Not known for the performing arts
  9. I have no idea if she is considered a beauty, but I would guess no.
  10. Has won major awards in her field, but at least one most people would consider obscure. By which I mean if she was a tulip raiser those familiar with the field would be impressed that she won the William of Orange Tipsy Tulip Award, but everyone else would be all “never heard of that award”.
  11. Not known for politcs/military.
  12. Best known for writing
  13. Greatest fame before 2000.