Botticelli, June 2025

Thread Games
101

Good job SCA! I kept circling around “Barbara Cortland”, and was so close!

102

The cover of The Time of the Dark was what got my attention.

New Amsterdam, by Elizabeth Bear, is my favourite vampire book. The main characters are a forensic sorceress and an ancient vampire who, to while away the daytime hours (he doesn’t sleep, and he can’t go out unless there’s heavy cloud cover to protect him from sunlight) has learnt to knit…



I am P.

103

Fevre Dream is by no means your typical Martin book; hope you’ll give it a try someday.

Off we go with P.

IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
Did you fly a flag emblazoned, “DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP”?
Were you a GOP senator from Florida in the Eighties?

104

DQ
Not Oliver Hazard Perry
DQ

105

Good call on Barbara Hambly! I’ve seen the name on book covers before, but I wouldn’t have guessed it in a million years.

On to P.

IQs:

  1. Did you invent Coca-Cola?
  2. Did Loni Anderson play you in Stroker Ace?
  3. Did you inherit command of Fort Donelson from General John Floyd, and pass it along to General Simon Buckner?
106

Previous IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863? - Gen. John Pemberton
Did you fly a flag emblazoned, “DONT GIVE UP THE SHIP”? - Yes, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, in the Battle of Lake Erie
Were you a GOP senator from Florida in the Eighties? - Paula Hawkins

DQs:

Male?
Real?

IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
Are you often a panelist on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me?
A talented silversmith, are you usually better-remembered for something else?

107

IQs:

  1. Were you considered the greatest NASCAR driver of all time?
  2. Are you the second greatest driver?
  3. Did you ask Santa for a BB gun for Christmas?
108

Three DQs

DQ
DQ
Not Paul Revere

Three DQs


P.
1. Male
2. Fictional

109

IQs:

  1. Once more with feeling: Are you me?
  2. Were you one of the members of The Firesign Theatre?
  3. Were you a different member of The Firesign Theatre?
110

Neither Prof Pepperwinkle nor Phil Tead
DQ
DQ

111

John Pemberton, but a different John Pemberton than the Confederate general (this one rose to the rank of Lt. Colonel, and was a Georgia native).
Pembrook Feeny.
Gideon Pillow.

DQs:

First name starts with P?
From a work of prose fiction?
American creator?

112
  1. Richard Petty
  2. Donald Pearson
  3. Ralphie Parker (A Christmas Story: “You’ll shoot your eye out!”)

DQ: Created before 1950?

2 DQs reserved

113

IQs:

  1. Are you a preternaturally upbeat young girl who becomes crippled?
  2. Are you a tattooed mathlete played by Jennifer Aniston?
  3. Did you publish the first modern-day vampire story?
114

Previous IQs:

Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, in Asimov’s Foundation series
Are you often a panelist on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me? - Paula Poundstone
A talented silversmith, are you usually better-remembered for something else? - Yes, Paul Revere

DQs:

American character?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Did Hugh Jackman, who looks nothing like you, play you in a recent movie?
Did you make a bet about a (for then) rapid circumnavigation of the planet?
Did you accompany that person?

115

P.

1. Male
2. Fictional
3. Only known name starts with P
4. Not from a work of prose fiction
5. American creator
6. Not created before 1950
7. American character
8. Considered a “good guy”

116

Not Pollyanna
DQ
Varney the Vampire, I think, but no idea who wrote it. DQ

Not Dolly Parton
Not Phileas Fogg
Not Passepartout
(Have you read Farmer’s version of that story?)

117

No, I haven’t.

Previous IQs:

Did Hugh Jackman, who looks nothing like you, play you in a recent movie? - Not Dolly Parton, but P.T. Barnum, in The Greatest Showman
Did you make a bet about a (for then) rapid circumnavigation of the planet? - Yes, Phileas Fogg
Did you accompany that person? - Yes, Passepartout

DQ:

First appeared in a movie?

IQs:

Were you known for your Fifties sfx extravaganzas?
Were you Arthur the Aardvark’s pet dog?
Were you the title character of a Sinatra movie?

118

Not George Pal
Not Pal
Not … My Pal Joey?


P.

1. Male
2. Fictional
3. Only known name starts with P
4. Not from a work of prose fiction
5. American creator
6. Not created before 1950
7. American character
8. Considered a “good guy”
9. Did not first appear in a movie


The Other Log of Phileas Fogg, by Philip Jose Farmer. I recommend it. :slight_smile:

And my mind insists on reading your first IQ as “Fifties sex extravaganzas”…

119

Correct
Polly Prince (Along Came Polly)
Dr. John Polidori (Lord Byron’s personal physician, he copied his employer’s story and published it as “The Vampyre” under his name; a few years later Bram Stoker wrote his epic novel and Polidori’s book was forgotten.)

DQs:

First appear on TV?
Name begins Pa-Pl?

2 DQs reserved

120

P.

1. Male
2. Fictional
3. Only known name starts with P
4. Not from a work of prose fiction
5. American creator
6. Not created before 1950
7. American character
8. Considered a “good guy”
9. Did not first appear in a movie
10. First appeared on TV
11. Name begins Pa-Pl