Botticelli - May 2023

Thread Games
21

3 (Mr. Big) was Chris Noth.

DQ: Asian?

22

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Are you one of the presenters on The Great British Bake Off?
  2. Did Harry Secombe portray you in nearly every consecrated episode of the highly esteemed windmill-bespoken 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  3. Are you Fritzi Ritz’s niece?
23

IQs:
1. Did you visit the filming of the movie Can-Can while in the US, and later denounce it as immoral?
2. Did you create Minecraft?
3. Are you the caretaker of the Muppet Babies?

24

DQ
Not … Neddie Seagoon?
Not Nancy

Three DQs.


N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Only name starts with N
4. Dead
5. Not American
6. Died before 1900
7. Died before 1600
8. Not European
9. Not Asian

25

#1 is Noel Fielding.
#2 is indeed our boy Neddie! Well remembered!
#3 is Nancy, correct.

DQ: African?

26

1 was Nikita Khrushchev; 2 was Notch; 3 was Nanny.

DQs:
1. died after 500 AD?
2. known for politics?

1 DQ reserved.

27

N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Only name starts with N
4. Dead
5. Not American
6. Died before 1900
7. Died before 1600
8. Not European
9. Not Asian
10. African
11. Did not die after AD 500
12. Involved in politics, no doubt, but not best known as a politician

28

IQs:

  1. Did you play a number of roles as a deadpan, monotone, cigar-chewing, sarcastic comic character in the '20s and '30s?
  2. Were you the subject of a silent movie documentary taking place in the Arctic?
  3. Were you the Egyptian cow-goddess of the sky?
29

Not Groucho Narx? DQ.
Not Nanook.
Not … Nut?

30

#1 was Ned Sparks. Correct on the others.

DQ: Egyptian?

31

IQs:
1. Did you have “twelve cabins, twelve vacancies”?
2. In 2004’s National Treasure, does your character steal the Declaration of Independence?
3. Were you the Greek goddess of victory, and continue to be associated (in a way) with victory?

32

Not … Norman Bates?
DQ
Not Nike


N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Only name starts with N
4. Dead
5. Not American
6. Died before 1900
7. Died before 1600
8. Not European
9. Not Asian
10. African
11. Did not die after AD 500
12. Involved in politics, no doubt, but not best known as a politician
13. Egyptian

33

IQs:

  1. Were you an Egyptian Pharaoh queen?
  2. Did you write the poem Custard The Dragon?
  3. Did you write the poem The Highwayman?
34

1 was correct; 2 (National Treasure) was Nicolas Cage; 3 was correct.

DQ: died before 1000AD?

IQs:
1. Did you found the politics analysis and election prediction website Five Thirty Eight?
2. Are you a character on Stranger Things?
3. “God is dead.”
—[you]

“No, [you] is dead.”
—God
(according to graffiti)?

35

First reseverved DQ

  1. Were you a Pharaoh?

IQs

  1. Were you highly proficient in Herbology but not much else.
  2. Did your whirlwind childhood romance end with the phrase “Smell you later”
  3. Of Terry Pratchett’s three witches were you the middle one?
36

Not Nefertiti
DQ
DQ

DQ
DQ
Not Friedrich Nietzsche

Not Neville Longbottom
DQ
Not Nanny Ogg


N

1. Real
2. Male
3. Only name starts with N
4. Dead
5. Not American
6. Died before 1900
7. Died before 1600
8. Not European
9. Not Asian
10. African
11. Did not die after AD 500
12. Involved in politics, no doubt, but not best known as a politician
13. Egyptian
14. Died before AD 1000
15. A Pharaoh



And that’s enough new DQs (never mind the reserved ones) to bring us up to 20, so no more IQs, please.

37

1 and 3 correct
2. Nelson Mutz’s brief (one episode) fling with Lisa Simpson.

1 more (for a total of 2) DQs reserved.

Anybody know any Pharaoh’s beginning with N?

38

Correct on Nefertiti.
#2 was Ogden Nash.
#3 was Alfred Noyes.

DQ: Also known as a movie character?

The Mummy, Gods of Egypt, Stargate, Night at the Museum, etc.

1 DQ reserved.

39

1 was Nate Silver; 2 was Nancy.

2 DQs reserved.

40

DQ: mentioned in the Old Testament?

1 DQ reserved.