Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
81

Correct on #1 and #2 of course. #3 was Bobby McGee.

DQ: Writer of fiction?

82

1 is correct; 2 is correct; 3 was Samantha Bond.

DQ: born before 1945?

83

DQs:

  1. First name starts with Ba - Be?
  2. Caucasian?
84

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.
    14.Writer of fiction
  14. First name starts with Ba-Be
  15. Caucasian
  16. Born after 1945.
85

2 and 3 are correct. Good guess on #1, but Barry drew another 90s free-weekly comic staple, Ernie Pook’s Comeek.. DTWOF was created by Alison Bechdel of “test” fame. (As an aside, her just-released graphic novel Spent is one of the funniest things I have ever read in my life)

DQ reserved.

86

Well, that was quick!

DQ: Would she be classified as a “genre” writer?

87

IQs:

  1. Do you hold the record for the most entries in Who’s Who?
  2. Are you the current Attorney General of the U.S.A.?
  3. Are you the eponymous leading character of two movies made 36 years apart, and a Broadway musical?
88

IQs:
1. Were you a member of Project Mayhem who had unfortunate physical changes in Fight Club?
2. Were some of your writings collected in Fart Proudly?
3. Oops, you did it again–you played with our heart, got lost in the game?

89

Take 3 DQs.

Take 2 DQs and I am not Britney Spears.

90

Previous IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg? - Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Did you lose the Battle of Nashville? - Gen. John Bell Hood (he, and historian subsequently, always use his middle name)
Did you win the Battle of El Alamein? - Gen. Bernard Montgomery

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Are you a writer with a 10-letter last name that might suggest you’re from Berlin, Stuttgart or Dusseldorf?
Were you and your later-famous husband married on the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed?
Were you long the conductor of the famous Marlboro, Vt. Music Festival?

91

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.
    14.Writer of fiction.
  14. First name starts with Ba-Be
  15. Caucasian
  16. Born after 1945
  17. Writes genre fiction.

And no more IQs.

Please ask all DQs by Saturday noon, Pacific Time

92

#1 was Barbara Cartland.
#2 is Pam Bondi.
#3 was the star of Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the musical Beetlejuice.

DQ: Known for writing fantasy?

2 DQs reserved.

93

Take 3 DQs.

94

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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.

15.Writer of fiction.
16. First name starts with Ba-Be
17. Caucasian
18. Born after 1945
19. Writes genre fiction.
20. Known for writing fantasy.

95

Correct, correct, and Betty Horn, aka “Betty Spaghetti” (played by Tracy Reiner, daughter of director Penny Marshall and Rob Reiner).

Betty x3!

1 DQ reserved

96

Previous IQs:

Are you a writer with a 10-letter last name that might suggest you’re from Berlin, Stuttgart or Dusseldorf? - Barbara Ehrenreich
Were you and your later-famous husband married on the day the Treaty of Versailles was signed? - Bess (and Harry) Truman
Were you long the conductor of the famous Marlboro, Vt. Music Festival? - Blanche Moyse

Six DQs reserved.

Not Marion Zimmer Bradley; the B is her last name.

Thinkthinkthink…

97

DQ: Are you Barbara Hambly?
Two DQs reserved.

98

YES!

I am Barbara Hambly!

Those Who Hunt the Night is my favorite vampire book bar none.

99

Ah. You should check out 'Salem’s Lot by Stephen King and Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin, if you haven’t already.

Congrats, SCAdian! Never heard of Hambly meself.

100

I’ve read 'Salem’s Lot and dislike Martin’s writings.

The premiseof TWHTN is an Oxford don in the Edwardian era is told “find out who is killing the vampires of London, or we kill your wife.”