Botticelli March 2023

Thread Games
381

DQs:
1. real
2. female
3. first name begins with T

382

DQs
1: Known for the arts?
2: Claim to fame overlapped with the 20th century?

383

IQs:

  1. Did you do the original illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?
  2. Were you a Missouri haberdasher who went on to much bigger things?
  3. Did you write The Bromeliad Trilogy?
384

Swept me as to those who inspired the middle names of James Tiberius Kirk and William Tecumseh Sherman. As to Elessar’s royal house, yeah, you’re right - question withdrawn (it was Telcontar, BTW).

IQs:

Were you first officer of the USS Enterprise in an alternative timeline in which Spock died as a boy?
Were you captain of the Protector?
Were you Governor of Illinois in the Eighties?

385

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386

1. I am not John Tenniel.
2. I am not Harry S Truman.
3. I am not Terry Pratchett.

Respectively:
I am not Thelin.
I am not Peter Quincy Taggart.
Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real
2. female
3. first name begins with T
4. known for the arts
5. claim to fame does not overlap with the 20th century

387

Correct, correct and Jim Thompson.

DQ:

Living?

IQs:

Were you a Jewish biomedical scientist in the cloning novel Joshua Son of None?
Were you the Dwarven blacksmith who forged Elendil’s sword Narsil?
Were you the grumpy cashier at the Krusty Krab?

388

IQs:

  1. Were you a young Vet practicing with your brother and his partner in the Yorkshire Dales?
  2. Were you an exiled alien posing as a student in a boarding school when the Doctor found you?
  3. Do you protect The City with a side kick who, despite appearances, is not wearing a rabbit costume?
389

Respectively:
I am not Ted Kellog.
I am not Thorin.
I am not Squidward Tentacles.

1. I am not Thomas Herriot.
2. I am not Turlough?
3. I am not the Tick.

DQs:
1. real
2. female
3. first name begins with T
4. known for the arts
5. claim to fame does not overlap with the 20th century
6. living

390
  1. Incorrect, James Harriot was the main character of all creatures great and small. He was working with his partner Siegfried Farnon and Siegfried’s younger brother Tristan
  2. Correct
  3. Correct

IQ:

  1. Are you a politician, general or noble ruler?
391

IQ1: Are you and your ex never ever getting back together?
IQ2: Are you doomed to never reach the fruit over your head nor drink water from the pool in which you stand?
IQ3: Are you a children’s show character whom Jerry Falwell insisted was gay?

392

Swept me again.

IQs:

  1. Are you King Friday’s son?
  2. Did you welcome guests with the cry, “Hello, Suckers!”?
  3. Did you play Count Petofi on Dark Shadows?
393

I am not Tantalus or Tinky-Winky, but I am indeed Taylor Swift! Next game goes to Chock.

394

Good for you, Chock!

395

Look, I’m just impressed with myself that I was able to remember that the All Creatures Great and Small guy was James Herriot and to come up with a brother he could plausibly have.

396

Next up
C

397

IQs:

  1. Are you a fictional animal named for a local cheese?
  2. Were you voiced by both Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ukulele Ike?
  3. Are you you?
398

Not the Cheshire Cat
DQ
Not ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness?

399

IQs:
1. Is your actual last name Mapother?
2. Did you write Piranesi?
3. Did you unsuccessfully predict the Rapture in the 21st century?

400

Correct.
Jiminy Cricket.
Correct.

DQ: Real?