Botticelli -- May 2026

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Did you team with Barbara Walters and Howard K. Smith?
  2. Did you play a man accused of murder, who’s cousin claimed he was innocent?
  3. Did you play a businessman who made a wager with his brother for $1?
402

IQs:
1. Did you direct Willow?
2. Were you General Kael in Willow?
3. Were you in the same profession as the person General Kael was named after (and did you and your partner also inspire the name of the giant two-headed monster in Willow, although it’s not used in the film itself)?

403

DQ: Fictional one known from prose fiction?

404

IQ1: Did you pass tips about upcoming German-American Bund activities (marches, meetings, &c) to Jewish boxers so they could break up said activities?
IQ2: Were you a 14th-century king of Scotland?
IQ3: Was it said that your brother lost his crown in the Wash?

405

DQs

  1. Both real and fictional
  2. Male
  3. Only name starts with R or O
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Died before 1900
  7. Not known for the arts, but the fictional one is known from the arts
  8. Caucasian
  9. European
  10. Fictional one not known primarily from prose fiction, but eventually found his way there
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  1. I am not Andy Rooney.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Ralph Bellamy.

Take 3 DQs. I thought George Lucas directed that.

  1. I am not Robert the Bruce.
    Take 2 DQs.
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1 was Ron Howard; 2 was Pat Roach; 3 was Roger Ebert (the monster is the Eborsisk). Checking Wikipedia for what exactly Lucas’s involvement was reveals he has a story credit.

DQs:
1. from continental Europe?
2. died before 1600?
3. legendary?

408

Jack Ruby
correct
Richard I


Two DQs reserved.

409

DQs

  1. Both real and fictional
  2. Male
  3. Only name starts with R or O
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. Died before 1900
  7. Not known for the arts, but the fictional one is known from the arts
  8. Caucasian
  9. European
  10. Fictional one not known primarily from prose fiction, but eventually found his way there
  11. From continental Europe
  12. Died before 1600
  13. Legendary
410

IQ1: Were you killed by Basques at Roncevaux?

411

Ah, beat me by three minutes!

412

C’est moi! Oui, I am Roland, foremost of Charlemagne’s paladins, and oft-times called Orlando!

Tres bien, SCAdian!

413

Bien joué en effet, SCAdian, mon ami!

Previous IQs:

Did you live in the eaves of Rhosgobel? - The wizard Radagast the Brown, in the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien
Did you lose the Battle of Chickamauga? - Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans, during the American Civil War
Were you U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1981-85? - Donald Regan

Botticelli -- June 2026
414

New game: Botticelli -- June 2026