Botticelli - March 2026

Thread Games
141

Swept me!

IQs

  1. Were you the cultured cop on Barney Miller?
  2. Did you threaten to sue Jay Ward Productions over a hat?
  3. Were you secretly Wonder Warthog?
142

IQs:
1. Did you voice yourself in “Sunday, Cruddy Sunday”?
2. Did you design a keyboard layout?
3. Were you not even supposed to be at the Quick Stop today?

143

Nancy Drew
Karl Dönitz
Duncan


DQ1: First appeared after 1925?
Two DQs reserved.


IQ1: Were you represented by the final word in “Never try eating nectarines since juice may dispense”?
IQ2: Were you created by Hank Ketcham?
IQ3: Were you an Italian war orphan adopted and brought to the US by an American soldier?

144

D

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with D
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. American character
  6. American creator
  7. First appeared in movie or TV
  8. Could be main character (Sorry, that’s as close as I can say without giving away more)
  9. First appeared after 1925
145

I know Shawn Colvin voiced a different country singer in a later episode, but I didn’t know who voice Lurleen. Ignorance successfully fought!

146
  1. I am not Det Detreich (sp?)
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not Phil Desanex

Take 2 DQs, and I am not Dante Hicks

  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Dennis (the Menace) Mitchell
  3. I am not… Dondi?
147

If you want to ask another DQ I’ll permit it.

148

DQs:

First appeared in a movie?
First appeared after 1975?

149

D

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with D
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. American character
  6. American creator
  7. First appeared in movie or TV
  8. Could be main character (Sorry, that’s as close as I can say without giving away more)
  9. First appeared after 1925
  10. First appeared in a movie
  11. First appeared after 1975
150

IQs:

  1. Is your father an insurance claims adjuster who occasionally moonlights as a first responder?
  2. Did you go undercover as an umpire to save the queen?
  3. Are you well known for your bending soccer shot?
151
  1. Take a DQ
  2. I am not Frank Drebbin
  3. Take a DQ
152

Dash Parr, of The Incredibles
correct
David Beckham

DQs:
Character’s name appears in title?
First appeared after 2000?

153

D

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with D
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. American character
  6. American creator
  7. First appeared in movie or TV
  8. Could be main character (Sorry, that’s as close as I can say without giving away more)
  9. First appeared after 1925
  10. First appeared in a movie
  11. First appeared after 1975
  12. Character’s name does not appear in the title
  13. First appeared before 2000
154

1 (“Sunday, Cruddy Sunday”) was Dolly Parton; 2 (keyboard) was Dvorak.

DQs:
1. first appeared after 1987?
2. from a sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or action movie?

155

D

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with D
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. American character
  6. American creator
  7. First appeared in movie or TV
  8. Could be main character (Sorry, that’s as close as I can say without giving away more)
  9. First appeared after 1925
  10. First appeared in a movie
  11. First appeared after 1975
  12. Character’s name does not appear in the title
  13. First appeared before 2000
  14. First appeared before 1987
  15. From a sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or action movie
156

Correct on Diedrich.
-#2 was TV personality Durward Krby, who wanted to sue because Bullwinkle had acquired the Kirwood Derby, which made him temporarily smarter.
Correct on Philbert Desanex.

DQ: From a science fiction movie?

157

D

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with D
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. American character
  6. American creator
  7. First appeared in movie or TV
  8. Could be main character (Sorry, that’s as close as I can say without giving away more)
  9. First appeared after 1925
  10. First appeared in a movie
  11. First appeared after 1975
  12. Character’s name does not appear in the title
  13. First appeared before 2000
  14. First appeared before 1987
  15. From a sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or action movie
  16. Not from a science fiction movie
158

Previous IQs:

Do you have a pet whose name has the same last four letters as yours? - Dilbert (and Dogbert)
Were you a Governor of Ohio during the Civil War? - David Tod
Were you sworn in on Washington’s birthday in 1861? - Jefferson Davis, as President of the Confederate States of America (ptui!)

I love this IQ. That is all.

DQs:

From a fantasy movie?
Good guy?
Plot set in what was then the present day?

IQs:

Were you Capt. Frank Furillo’s boss on Hill Street Blues?
Were you a retired cop’s physical therapist and, later, his daughter-in-law?
Was Henry Drummond, Esq., very much based on you?

159

It’s a generous description for a first responder.

160

D

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with D
  4. Did not first appear in prose fiction
  5. American character
  6. American creator
  7. First appeared in movie or TV
  8. Could be main character (Sorry, that’s as close as I can say without giving away more)
  9. First appeared after 1925
  10. First appeared in a movie
  11. First appeared after 1975
  12. Character’s name does not appear in the title
  13. First appeared before 2000
  14. First appeared before 1987
  15. From a sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or action movie
  16. Not from a science fiction movie
  17. Not from a fantasy movie
  18. Not a good guy
  19. Plot set in what was then the present day