Botticelli -- June 2026

Thread Games
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2 (animated ad) was Barbie; 3 was Beth Broderick.

2 DQs reserved.

282

I am not Betty White
I am not Bobby McFerrin
I am not Carol Burnett

283

DQs

  1. Known for one event or incident?
  2. Known from TV/movies?
284

Correct on all three

1 DQ still reserved

285

IQs.

  1. Are you known for doing interviews with people?
  2. Did you play the lead role in Hello Dolly?
  3. Were you First Lady for a single term?
286

I am not Barbara Walters
(Assuming you mean the movie version and not the stage version) I am not Barbra Streisand
I am not Barbara Bush

287

B

  1. Real, but also fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with B
  4. Not certain if real male is alive or dead
  5. First appearance was not in prose fiction
  6. Not known for one event or incident
  7. Known from TV/movies, in both real and fictional forms
288

IQs:

  1. Were you a founder of the WTA?
  2. Did you record the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit”?
  3. Did you show a photo of a baby whose eyes were just like the singer’s?
289

Take a DQ
DQ
I am not Billie Jean

290

Take a DQ
DQ
I am not Billie Jean
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Correct on #3. The other two were Billie Jean King and Billie Holliday, respectively.

Billie x3!

2 DQs reserved.

291

DQs:
1. real person born after 1900?
2. American?

IQs:
1. Were you Secretary-General of the UN, after Kofi Annan?
2. Were you Betty Boop’s canine boyfriend in the original animated cartoons?
3. According to a 1975 National Lampoon article, partly reprinted in The Big Book of Jewish Humor, are you God?

292

Swept me again. Still have one DQ reserved

(Yes, I know Barbra Streisand is not the only actress/singer to play Hello Dolly but she fit my “Barbra” theme, )

293

IQs

  1. Are you a (fictional) pie-baking Hockey Player?
  2. Are you a member of (one of ) #1’s favorite D-man pairs?
  3. Do you hate your first name so much you prefer to use a nickname that is a swear word?
294

IQs

  1. Were you Bing Crosby’s bandleader brother?
  2. Are you Nick Cage’s character on Spider-Noir*?
  3. Were you a book editor known for a series of joke books in the 40s and 50s?
295

Take a DQ
DQ
DQ

Take 3 DQs

Take 3 DQs

296

B

  1. Real, but also fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with B
  4. Not certain if real male is alive or dead
  5. First appearance was not in prose fiction
  6. Not known for one event or incident
  7. Known from TV/movies, in both real and fictional forms
  8. Real person born after 1900
  9. Nationality not known, either real or fictional, but probably from North America
297

B

  1. Real, but better known as fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with B
  4. Not certain if real male is alive or dead
  5. First appearance was not in prose fiction
  6. Not known for one event or incident
  7. Known from TV/movies, in both real and fictional forms
  8. Real person born after 1900
  9. Nationality not known, either real or fictional, but probably from North America

Please note I altered DQ1 to better suit this character

298

Real person born after 1950?

299

1 was Ban Ki-Moon; 2 was Bimbo; 3 was Mel Brooks.

DQs:
1. known by alias, pseudonym, or epithet?
2. Caucasian?
3. disappeared?

300
  1. Eric “Bitty” Bittle from *Check, Please"
  2. Adam “Holster” Birkholtz
  3. B.S. “Shitty” Knight (from the same webcomic)