Botticelli, Nov. 2022

Thread Games
101

IQs:

  1. Are you a friend of Tom-from-the-last-round?
  2. Are you Sam Gamgee’s pony?
  3. Did your brother marry Eowyn?
102

Not Bert
Not Bill
Not Boromir

103

Swept me.

IQs:

  1. Did Dan Aykroyd originally plan on you playing Dr. Venkman in Ghostbusters?
  2. Did you star opposite Brendan Fraser in Furry Vengeance?
  3. Is your latest album titled Renaissance?
104

Not … John Belushi?
DQ
DQ

105

Correct on Belushi.
#2 was Brooke Shields.
#3 is Beyonce.

DQs:

  1. Originally from a work of prose fiction?
  2. Created after 1900?
106

B

1, Fictional
2. Male
3. Only known name starts with ‘B’
4. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created after 1900

107

IQs:

Was your eleventy-first birthday the subject of much merriment?
Did you, his beloved young cousin, attend the event?
Were you a revered Took with a loud-sounding name?

108

IQs:

  1. Do you have electric boots and a mohair suit?
  2. Are you the patron saint of English writers?
  3. Were you a character of Red Skelton’s known for bragging?
109

Not Bilbo Baggins
Not Frodo Baggins
Not Bullroarer Took

DQ (Is that a Beatles song?)
Not the Venomous Venerable Bede
DQ (All I can think of is Clem Kadiddlehopper, Heathcliff and Gertrude.)

110

Swept me.

IQs:

Did you lose at Fredericksburg?
Did you lose in the Red River campaign?
Did you lose at the Bermuda Hundred?

111

#1 was Bennie, of Bennie and the Jets, by Elton John.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Bolivar Shagnasty.

DQs:

  1. From a song?
  2. Created after 1950?
112

Three DQs (I assume Bragg and Beauregard are in there somewhere, but…)


B

1, Fictional
2. Male
3. Only known name starts with ‘B’
4. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created after 1900
6. Not from a song
7. Created after 1950

113

IQ1: Are you the king of the Koopas?
IQ2: Are you an anthropomorphic gumball machine?
IQ3: Were you the canine star of a series of 1970s family films?

114

DQ
DQ
Not Benji

115

Previous IQs:

Did you lose at Fredericksburg? - Gen. Ambrose Burnside
Did you lose in the Red River campaign? - Gen. Nathaniel Banks
Did you lose at the Bermuda Hundred? - Gen. Benjamin Butler

Bragg and Beauregard are good guesses, but there were plenty of bad Civil War generals (many but not all of whom were B’s) to go around.

DQs:

American creator(s)?
American character?
Would be alive today, if real?

IQs:

Were you Ozymandias’s unusual pet?
Did Warren Beatty play you in a movie that was unusually violent for its time?
Did you sing “Circle in the Sand”?

116

IQs:

  1. Are you the grandfather of the author of the book Jaws?
  2. Did your radio show feature a car (a Maxwell) that was notoriously hard to start?
  3. Were you a bald jazz band leader who left music to follow a career in comedy movies?
117

DQ
Not … Clyde Barrow?
DQ

DQ
Not … Jack Benny?
DQ


B

1, Fictional
2. Male
3. Only known name starts with ‘B’
4. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created after 1900
6. Not from a song
7. Created after 1950
8. Not created by Americans
9. Not an American character
10. Might, after a fashion, be alive today



Not familiar with General Banks (US or CS?) or the Bermuda Hundred (which sounds like it should be a very early Virginia colony).

118

Bowser, usually the main villain in the Mario video games
Benson, from Regular Show
Correct

DQ: Originally from a movie or television show?
DQ: European creator(s)?

119

Previous IQs:

Were you Ozymandias’s unusual pet? - Bubastis, a genetically-engineered lynx, in Watchmen
Did Warren Beatty play you in a movie that was unusually violent for its time? - Yes, Clyde Barrow, in Bonnie and Clyde
Did you sing “Circle in the Sand”? - Belinda Carlisle

DQs:

Human?
First appeared in a movie?

IQs:

Were you Africa’s answer to a certain count from Transylvania?
Did you create and run Hill Street Blues?
Have you played, during your long career, a con man, a senior military officer, a top CIA man and a mythical Greek king?

120

Not … Blacula?
DQ
DQ


B

1, Fictional
2. Male
3. Only known name starts with ‘B’
4. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
5. Created after 1900
6. Not from a song
7. Created after 1950
8. Not created by Americans
9. Not an American character
10. Might, after a fashion, be alive today
11. Originally from a movie or television show
12. European creator(s)
13. Human
14. Did not first appear in a movie