Botticelli -- May 2026

Thread Games
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2 (FDR’s Secretary of Labor) was Frances Perkins.

DQ: died after 2007?

262

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Died after 1988
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known for acting
  11. Not usually considered a beauty.
  12. Not best known for movie roles
  13. Winner of a Daytime Emmy
  14. Died after 2007
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Previous IQs:

Was your palace San Souci? - King Frederick the Great of Prussia
Did you become president of Oberlin College in 1983? - S. Frederick Starr
Were you Frasier and Lilith’s son? - Frederick Crane, on Frasier

Frederick x3!

DQs:

Best known for soaps?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you U.S. Attorney General in the early Eighties?
Were your boys named Rod and Todd?
Were you Scrooge’s jolly former boss?

264

Fannie Flag, Siobhan Fallon (now Siobhan Fallon Hogan, as it turns out) and John D. Fitzgerald.

3 DQs reserved.

265

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Died after 1988
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known for acting
  11. Not usually considered a beauty.
  12. Not best known for movie roles
  13. Winner of a Daytime Emmy
  14. Died after 2007
  15. Not known for soaps
266
  1. I am not good old Fezziwig.
    Take 2 DQs.
267

Correct. The others are William French Smith (Reagan’s first AG) and Ned (or Maude) Flanders on The Simpsons.

DQs:

Best known for talk show(s)?

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Would you rather just sit in a tranquil Spanish pasture, sniffing flowers, than fight?
Were you the action guy on FYI?
Did you win election as Attorney General of Ohio by exactly 1,234 votes?

268

IQs:
1. Were you mayor of Philadelphia?
2. Did you star on 3rd Rock from the Sun?
3. You know the show with Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda? Yeah. Did Tomlin play you on it?

269

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Died after 1988
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known for acting
  11. Not usually considered a beauty.
  12. Not best known for movie roles
  13. Winner of a Daytime Emmy
  14. Died after 2007
  15. Not known for soaps
  16. Not known for talk shows
270
  1. I am not Ferdinand, the bull with the delicate ego.
  2. I am not Frank Fontana (sp?)
  3. I am not Millard Fillmore.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not French Stewart.
  3. I am not Frankie, of Grace & Frankie.
271

1 was Frank Rizzo.

DQ: died after 2016?

Incidentally, Dolly Parton appeared on The Magic School Bus and Grace and Frankie, but Jane Fonda never appeared on The Magic School Bus.

272

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Died after 1988
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known for acting
  11. Not usually considered a beauty.
  12. Not best known for movie roles
  13. Winner of a Daytime Emmy
  14. Died after 2007
  15. Not known for soaps
  16. Not known for talk shows
  17. Died after 2016
273

Correct
Frances Gumm (later Judy Garland; was part of the Gumm/Garland Sisters)
Frances Ha (Great Gerwig)

2 DQs reserved

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Previous IQs:

Would you rather just sit in a tranquil Spanish pasture, sniffing flowers, than fight? - Yes, Ferdinand the adorable young bull
Were you the action guy on FYI? - Yes, Frank Fontana, on Murphy Brown
Did you win election as Attorney General of Ohio by exactly 1,234 votes? - Not Millard Fillmore, but Lee Fisher, much more recently

DQ:

Greatest fame before 2000?

Two DQs reserved.

275

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name starts with F
  4. Dead
  5. American
  6. Died after 1950
  7. Known for the arts
  8. Died after 1988
  9. Known for the performing arts
  10. Known for acting
  11. Not usually considered a beauty.
  12. Not best known for movie roles
  13. Winner of a Daytime Emmy
  14. Died after 2007
  15. Not known for soaps
  16. Not known for talk shows
  17. Died after 2016
  18. Greatest fame before 2000
276

Iq#1: do you love to eat bread and jam?

Iq#2: are you one of the Bridgerton sisters?

Iq#3: are you from 13th century Italy?

277

IQs:
1. Did you write to/write in “Kitty”?
2. Were you Matilda Gage’s son-in-law?
3. Were you Violet, Doralee, and Judy’s boss at Consolidated Companies?

278

Take 3 DQs.

279

Take 3 DQs.

That puts us over 20. No more IQs please. Submit all unasked DQs by 6pm EST tomorrow.

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  1. Frances the Badger from the book by Russell Hoban
  2. Francesca
  3. St. Francis of Assisi