Botticelli May 2025

Thread Games
101

Yes, I did. He’s quite famous by the standards of academic historians.

102

Correct, correct, and Harold (of Harold and the Purple Crayon fame).

Har[oa]ld x3 !

1 DQ reserved.

103

IQs:

  1. Were you worshiped as god incarnate by followers of the Rastafari Movement?
  2. Did you appear in an episode of a reality series centered around your father’s store in Red Hook, NJ?
  3. Did you attempt to teach your uncle how to run his show, before you left for college?
104

H

1, Fictional
2. Female
3. First name begins with H
4, Did not originally appear in prose
5. First appeared in 1950 or later
6. The main protagonist of the best-known story in which I appear
7. By an American author or authors

105

Obviously not Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, so take a DQ
Not Harry Hopkins
DQ

Not Hunter S Thompson
DQ
Not Humbert Humbert

Not Ras Tafari (aka Haile Selassie), of course
DQ
DQ

106

Guess I just read the wrong kind of history.

You have a grandson? Wow – you must be old! :smiley:

107

2 was Hillary Clinton.

DQ: first appeared after 1980?

108

IQs:

  1. Are you the title character of a popular kids’ show whose first and last names rhyme?
  2. Are you a superhero who flies using artificial wings and is a sidekick of a male hero with a very similar name?
  3. Are you the owner of the Finders Keepers detective agency?
109

IQs:
1. Are you chief of police in Hawkins, Indiana?
2. …or the actor who plays him on Stranger Things?
3. Were you a conductor on a metaphorical railroad?

110

Correct
Haley Quinn Smith (Comic Book Men)
Harold Green (The Red Green Show)

2 DQs reserved

111

DQs:

  1. Created after 1975?
  2. Appeared in TV or movies?
112

Yep, I’m old.

IQs:

  1. Were you made an honorary citizen of Greece for your books The Greek Way and Mythology?
  2. Did you play the beauty in the TV serise Beauty and the Beast?
  3. Did you play both Zorros in Zorro the Gay Blade?
113

Replacement DQ: Caucasian?

114

Previous IQs:

Did you score a crushing win in the 1864 Battle of Nashville? - Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas
Were you a sickly FDR aide? - Yes, Harry Hopkins
Were you, too? - Louis Howe

Both of them usually looked like death warmed over.

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Is a large painting featuring you hung in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse?
Do you have notes on your husband’s work in & Juliet?
Did you get your hair hacked short for Les Miserables?

115

DQ
not Hawkgirl
DQ

Three DQs

Three DQs

DQ, though I know you’ve asked this before
DQ
Not Anne Hathaway

Which, I believe, brings us to 21 DQs already, so no more IQs, please.


H

1, Fictional
2. Female
3. First name begins with H
4, Did not originally appear in prose
5. First appeared in 1950 or later
6. The main protagonist of the best-known story in which I appear
7. By an American author or authors
8. Did not first appear after 1980
9. Not created after 1975
10. Appeared in TV or movies
11. Caucasian

That’s okay – you can’t possibly be as old as I feel right now. :frowning:

116

DQ: Appeared first on TV?

117

Previous IQs:

Is a large painting featuring you hung in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse? - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Do you have notes on your husband’s work in & Juliet? - Anne Hathaway
Did you get your hair hacked short for Les Miserables? - Yes, the other Anne Hathaway

DQs:

Considered a beauty?
First appeared in movies?
In a genre piece (fantasy, sf, Western, horror, detective, etc.)?

One DQ reserved.

118

1 was Jim Hopper; 2 was David Harbour; 3 was Harriet Tubman.

3 DQs reserved.

119

H

1, Fictional
2. Female
3. First name begins with H
4, Did not originally appear in prose
5. First appeared in 1950 or later
6. The main protagonist of the best-known story in which I appear
7. By an American author or authors
8. Did not first appear after 1980
9. Not created after 1975
10. Appeared in TV or movies
11. Caucasian
12. Did not appear first on TV
13. Considered a beauty *
14. First appeared in movies
15. In a genre piece (fantasy, sf, Western, horror, detective, etc.)

* The character may not be, but the actress certainly is.

120
  1. Hannah Montana
  2. correct
  3. Holly Gibney

DQ: Are you an ordinary human? (“ordinary” in the sense of not possessing any special powers or characteristics that no actual humans have)

One DQ reserved.