Botticelli - May 2023

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
102

Previous IQs:

Did you win the unwelcome nickname “Commissary” during the Civil War? - Gen. Nathaniel Banks, after Confederate troops captured a lot of supplies from him in a raid
Did you win a victory, of sorts, at the Battle of Guilford Court House? - Gen. Nathanael Greene, who inflicted serious casualties on Lord Cornwallis’s army but was obliged to retreat afterwards
Did you get a less silly name for the movie based on the book of which you were the hero? - Nathaniel Poe, “Natty Bumppo” in Cooper’s original novel, The Last of the Mohicans

Nathaniel/ael x3!

DQs:

American?
Living?
First name starts with N?

IQs:

Did you set your doting owner’s beard afire?
Did you marry Maris and then Daphne?
Are you a Dem political operative featured on Succession?

103

IQs:
1. Are you considered to be the first pharaoh of a unified Egypt?
2. Did you have a cameo in a cut and eventually reinserted scene in the 1978 Superman movie (“Oh, Lois Lane. You have a writer’s gift for invention”)?
3. Are you one of Ben Grimm’s adopted kids?

104

Ahem.

105

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. First name starts with N
106

Take 3 DQs.

and Oops. I’m blaming this on my cataract surgery, along with having picked N so close to the last time.

#2. I am not Nevil Crane.
Take 2 DQs.

  1. I am not Narmer.
    Take 2 DQs.
107

Captain Nemo (The Mysterious Island)
Tsar Nicholas II
Ned Nickerson


DQ1: Known for the Arts?
DQ2: Died after 1950?
One DQ reserved.

108

IQs:

  1. Were you part of a love triangle involving Sue and Reed Richards?
  2. Is the street on which NBC headquarters resides named after you?
  3. Were you known for your revolutionary theories connecting language and psychology?
109

2 (Superman cameo) was Noel Neill; 3 (Ben Grimm’s adopted kid) is N’Kalla, AKA Nicki.

2 DQs reserved.

110

Scratch that one I mixed up two people and the correct one doesn’t start with N.

Instead replace it with

IQ:
Were the the title character of an early 20th century comic strip about your dreams?

111

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. First name starts with N
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Died after 1950
112
  1. I am not Namor.
  2. Skipping.
  3. I am not Noam Chomsky.

I am not Little Nemo.

113

All Correct.

114

IQs:
1. Are you a computer programmer who jumps around in time in Netflix’s Russian Doll?
2. Do you play the above person?
3. Did you found a hot dog stand-turned-chain of restaurants?

115

DQ: Actor?

116

IQ1: Are you the only person to win the Newbery Medal and its British equivalent, the Carnegie Medal, for the same book?
IQ2: Were you an actress who became Charles II’s mistress?
IQ3: Were you an alliteratively-named Dickens character ?

117

Take 3 DQs.

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Nell Gwynn.
#3. I am not Nicholas Nickleby.

118

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. American
  4. Dead
  5. First name starts with N
  6. Known for the Arts
  7. Died after 1950
  8. Not an actor
119

Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)
correct
correct


One DQ reserved.

120

1 was Nadia; 2 was Natasha Lyonne; 3 was Nathan Handwerker.

DQs:
1. died after 1985?
2. known for the performing arts?

1 DQ reserved.