Botticelli - May 2024

Thread Games
201
  1. Did you rule the fictional country of Ix?
  2. Did Keke Palmer play you on Scream Queens?
  3. Are you a,former South African runner who got fast tracked for UK citizenship so she could compete for the UK in the 1984 Olympics?
202
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Zeus.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not …Dawn Zelazny?
203

DQs.

  1. Real.
  2. Female.
204

1 was Zadie Smith; 2 was Giuseppe Zangara.

DQs:
1. last name begins with Z?
2. living?

205

IQs:

Did you play the mom of two different doomed young women on TV?
Did Anthony Quinn famously play you?
Were you a much-put-upon alien on Babylon 5?

206
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Zorba the Greek.
  3. I am not…oh, god, I can’t remember his name. Zvir? Londo’s long-suffering assistant. Wait, no, that was Vir. Take a DQ.
207

DQs.

  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Last name does not begin with “Z”.
  4. Living.
208

Previous IQs:

Did you play the mom of two different doomed young women on TV? - Grace Zabriskie, who played the mom of both Susan on Seinfeld and Laura on Twin Peaks
Did Anthony Quinn famously play you? - Yes, Zorba the Greek
Were you a much-put-upon alien on Babylon 5? - Zathras is disappointed but not surprised that no one remembers Zathras’s name

DQs:

American?
Best known for the arts?

IQs:

Did you play the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Yes Man?
Did you withdraw from consideration as Bill Clinton’s AG?
Was a Secret Service agent killed by your kidnappers?

209

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Zixi (in Queen Zixi of Ix by L. Frank Baum), Zayday and Zola Budd.

3 DQs reserved

210

IQs:

  1. Have you played a brown-skinned Science Officer, the green-skinned daughter of a mad Titan, and a blue-skinned heroine?
  2. Have you and Tom Holland been a couple for awhile now?
  3. Did you inspire the creation of Olive Oyl?
211

IQs:

  1. I am not Zoey Dechanel.
  2. I am not Florenz Ziegfield.
  3. DQ.

I don’t know who inspired Olive Oyl, and I’m not Zoe Saldana, but yes, I am the talented and lovely Zendaya! Zendaya Coleman, in full.

A little surprised it didn’t take that long for you all to guess – I thought once you found out I was talking about an actor, you’d know, but that it would take a few DQs to get that far.

Well done, @Prof.Pepperwinkle ! Back to you for the next round.

212

Zasu Pitts was the inspiration for Olive Oyl.

Let me see…

I am

213
  1. On Broadway, are you known for your portrayal of Grizzabella in Cats, especially your rendition of “Memory”?
  2. Are you a travel writer who was once played by Robert Redford, in a movie of one of your books?
  3. Are you an British comedian and musician who was once the most frequent guest star on QI?
214

#3. I am not Bill Bailey.
Take 2 DQs.

215

Congrats, Prof.!

IQs:
1. Did you precede and succeed the same US president?
2. Did you voice Rita on Animaniacs?
3. Did you revamp Superman post-Crisis on Infinite Earths?

216

1 was Betty Buckley, best known off Broadway for playing the mom on Eight Is Enough.
2 was Bill Bryson, whose book A Walk In The Woods was made into a 2015 movie with Redford and Nick Nolte.
3, Bill Bailey, is correct.

BB x three!

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?

IQs:

  1. Are you the most famous professional golfer from the Navajo Nation?
  2. Have you played a medical genius, a cryptological genius, a sociopathic genius, and a dragon, who was certainly intelligent, if not a genius?
  3. In addition to your most famous role in a fantasy series, have you also played a Scottish slaveowner in colonial North Carolina, and a Royal Navy sailor on a Napoleonic warship?
217

Way to go, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Did you play the Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Yes Man? - Yes, Zooey Deschanel (sp.)
Did you withdraw from consideration as Bill Clinton’s AG? - Zoe Baird, in 1993
Was a Secret Service agent killed by your kidnappers? - Zoe Bartlet, on The West Wing

Zoe/oey x3!

On to B.

IQs:

Did Corey Stoll play you in a relatively recent biopic?
Were you, oddly enough, AKA Mrs. Nesbit?
Are you a former game-show competitor who will be appearing at SporcleCon later this summer?

218
  1. I am not Benjamin Harrison.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Benedict Cumberbatch.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Buzz Lightyear.
    Take 2 DQs.
219

2 was Bernadette Peters; 3 was John Byrne.

DQ: first name begins with B?

1 DQ reserved.

220

Previous IQs:

Did Corey Stoll play you in a relatively recent biopic? - Buzz Aldrin, in First Man
Were you, oddly enough, AKA Mrs. Nesbit? - Yes, Buzz Lightyear, dispiritedly taking part in a little girl’s tea party in Toy Story
Are you a former game-show competitor who will be appearing at SporcleCon later this summer? - Buzzy Cohen, formerly of Jeopardy!

Buzz(y) x3!

DQs:

American?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did you choreograph a still-popular verison of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker?
Did you lose horribly at the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Did you sing about geometric shapes in granular media?