Botticelli May 2025

Thread Games
281

IQs:

  1. Were your parents played by Samuel L. Jackson and Lynn Whitfield?
  2. Were you a cursed fairy tale daughter played by Anne Hathaway?
  3. Did you tell Almira Gulch that as a good Christian woman, you couldn’t say what you thought of her?
282

IQs:

  1. Are you Michael Moorcock’s best known character?
  2. Did you play Elton John in Rocketman?
  3. According to tradition, did you write 1 & 2 Chronicles in the Old Testament?
283

Not E. Horshak, dunno and not Edward Albee.

Dunno, not E. Snow White and not Auntie Em.

Not Elric, dunno and not Elijah.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name begins with E
  4. originally from TV or movies
284

Eve Batiste (of Eve’s Bayou), Ella of Frell, and correct.

DQs:

Created before 1980?
Originally from a movie?

285

IQs:

  1. Were you part of the team in Inception?
  2. Did you play a character in that same movie?
  3. Are you often associated with The Attractions?
286
  1. Correct of Elric.
  2. Taron Egerton played Elton.
  3. Ezra is considered the author of the Chronicles.

DQ:

  1. Considered a beauty?
  2. American creator?
287

Dunno, not Ellen (now Elliot) Page and not Elvis Costello.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name begins with E
  4. originally from TV or movies
  5. created after 1980
  6. originally from a movie
  7. not particularly considered a beauty, but YMMV
  8. American creator(s)
288
  1. You’re thinking of Arnold Horshack. The correct answer was Juan Epstein.
  2. I was thinking of Eazy E, who on further review was actually a member of NWA, so that question is withdrawn. I’m so white and nerdy…
  3. Close, but no cigar. The answer is Edward Abbey.

2 DQs reserved for the moment.

289

DQs:

  1. Main character of her story?
  2. Is the story realistic, as opposed to fantasy/SF?
290

E.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name begins with E
  4. originally from TV or movies
  5. created after 1980
  6. originally from a movie
  7. not particularly considered a beauty, but YMMV
  8. American creator(s)
  9. not the main character of her story
  10. story is, all in all, unrealistic
291

Respectively:
1 (Hellfire Club) was Eddie Munson, on Stranger Things.

DQs:
1. created after 2000?
2. actually appears, not an offscreen character or alias of other character or something like that?

292

IQs:

  1. Are you a spunky redheaded genius who has a famous name but can’t remember how she got it?
  2. Did you turn down the Presidency of Israel?
  3. Are you Jimmy Olsen’s superhero alter ego?
293

IQs:
1. Were you “Defying Gravity”?
2. Is a New Jersey turnpike service area named for you?
3. Were you an art forger profiled by Clifford Irving?

294
  1. Eames, the Forger (Tom Hardy)
  2. Correct
  3. Correct

2 DQs reserved

295

Not Young Einstein (as played by Yahoo Serious), not Albert Einstein, and not Super Einstein.

Dunno, not Edmund Kean and dunno.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name begins with E
  4. originally from TV or movies
  5. created after 1980
  6. originally from a movie
  7. not particularly considered a beauty, but YMMV
  8. American creator(s)
  9. not the main character of her story
  10. story is, all in all, unrealistic
  11. created before 2000
  12. actually appears, not an offscreen character or alias of other character or something like that
296

Elizabeth Enright, Edward Woodward, Edward Eager.

3 DQs reserved

297

Respectively:
1 was Elphaba, in the musical version of Wicked; 2 was Thomas Edison; 3 was Elmyr de Hory.

DQ: movie is something like Airplane! or Raiders of the Lost Ark, not usually thought of as sci-fi/fantasy but still has fantastical elements or exaggerated reality?

2 DQs reserved.

298

DQ: Last name begins with A-M?

1 DQ reserved

299

IQs:

  1. Are you best remembered for screaming in the jungle?
  2. Did you betray your siblings for sweets?
  3. Did you kill your adult son before he was born?
300

DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. Appeared in more than one movie?
  3. Created before 1990?