Botticelli March 2024

Thread Games
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A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Do you voice Linda on Bob’s Burgers?
2. Did you paint The School of Athens?
3. On Bones, did Bones write mysteries starring you?

22

IQs:

  1. Did you suggest a new translation of the Bible to King James?
  2. Were you Athos’s son?
  3. Is the point of your story the same as the goal of a round of Botticelli?
23
  1. Take a DQ. I’m going to guess someone named Roberts.
  2. I am not Raphael.
  3. I am not Kathy Reichs.

Take 3 DQs.

24

1 was John Roberts; I did a question with (the painter) Raphael, then realized there were other people who shared the other two names, and couldn’t resist.

DQ: from Norse mythology?

25

1 was John Rainolds (aka Reynolds).
2 is Raoul de la Fere.
3.is Rumplestiltskin (guess my name).

3 DQs reserved.

26

Yeah, I saw what you were doing, and thought it was pretty clever.

So was this.

27

DQs:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Only name starts with “R”.
  4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology.
  5. Not an American creator.
  6. Not from Classical mythology.
  7. Divine.
  8. Heroic
  9. Not from Egyptian mythology.
  10. Not from Norse mythology.
28

DQ: From a fictional world (e.g., Tolkein’s Middle Earth or Lovecraft’s Cthulhu)?

2 DQs reserved.

29

IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel?
Did you sell a special anthracite pudding mix in a British comedy show?
Were you awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom not long before you died, to the disgust of many?

30
  1. I am not Radagast the Brown.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not …Ronald Reagan?
31

DQs:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Only name starts with “R”.
  4. Has appeared in film or TV, but originated in mythology.
  5. Not an American creator.
  6. Not from Classical mythology.
  7. Divine.
  8. Heroic
  9. Not from Egyptian mythology.
  10. Not from Norse mythology.
  11. Not from a fictional world.
32

IQs:
1. Did you write Stiff, Gulp, and Packing for Mars?
2. Were you Barack Obama’s chief of staff?
3. Were you Wendy’s emo boyfriend on Gravity Falls?

33

DQ: From an Asiatic mythology?

1 DQ reserved.

34

Previous IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - Yes, Radagast the Brown, in Tolkien’s writings
Did you sell a special anthracite pudding mix in a British comedy show? - Cardinal Richelieu, as mentioned on At Last the 1948 Show (anthracite, or hard coal, of course not being an ideal ingredient for pudding!)
Were you awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom not long before you died, to the disgust of many? - Not Reagan, but Rush Limbaugh

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Are you a Hindu religious figure mentioned in the title of a book by Arthur C. Clarke?
Were you able to kill an entire roomful of Reavers and not be killed yourself?
Were you the best-known president of the Pullman Railway Car Co.?

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  1. I am not Mary Roach.
  2. I am not Rahm Emmanuel.
  3. Take a DQ.

I am not River Tam nor A. Phillip Randolph, but yes, I am the Hindu mythological figure Rama, seventh avatar of Vishnu, demigod and hero of the Ramayana.

Congratulations, EH! Next round is yours.

36

Thanks! Good one, SMV.

Correct as to River Tam, but Robert Todd Lincoln was Pullman president - Randolph was head of the porters’ union, I believe. And of course I was thinking of Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama.

Our next letter will be

H

37

Just updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #117 by Elendil_s_Heir

38

Thanks. But it did raise a question, that I’ll throw out to all the players: Is a deity or demigod real (for the purpose of the game)? I had to think about it, when I got the first DQ. Rama (or Thor, or Quetzalcoatl, or Zeus) is clearly not real the same way that, say, Raphael the painter is. But he’s not fictional, the way Raphael the Ninja Turtle is, either; millions of devout Hindus would say that he is indeed real. That’s why I answered that first DQ as “Not real” rather than “Fictional”, and why I tipped my hand by saying he came from mythology in the fourth DQ. Thoughts?

39

You played it right, I’d say.

Unless someone is universally accepted as real - George Washington, Indira Gandhi, Ivan the Terrible, Jane Austen - I think the answer “not real” or “fictional” is appropriate. That includes all religious, supernatural and mythological individuals (although there is contemporary historical evidence that Jesus existed, his divinity is obviously not universally accepted).

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I tend to solve that problem by avoiding using names whose reality is, er, ambiguous.