Botticelli - November 2019

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
  8. Created long before 1960
322
  1. Did Dean Friedman say he met you way on the other side of the Hudson?
  2. Are you the son of a folk music legend, equally as famous?
  3. Were you backed up by Adam Ant’s former band?
323
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Arlo Guthrie.
  3. Take a DQ.
324

1 was disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner; 3 was Ansel Elgort.

IQs:

  1. Were you partnered with “the Ape” (Sam Simeon) in a 60s DC humor comic?
  2. Aside from your acting career, did you write the children’s novel The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles?
  3. Was Fred Noonan your also-vanished navigator?
    DQs:
  4. European?
  5. from mythology or legend?
325

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
  8. Created long before 1960
  9. European
  10. From mythology or legend
326
  1. I am not Angel.
  2. I am not Julie Andrews.
  3. Take a DQ.
327

1. Did Dean Friedman say he met you way on the other side of the Hudson?
3. Were you backed up by Adam Ant’s former band?

1 was Ariel, from that fabulously cheesy 70s song of the same name. 3 was Annabella Lwin, from Bow Wow Wow.

Greek or Roman god?
Depicted in popular media?

328

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
  8. Created long before 1960
  9. European
  10. From mythology or legend
  11. Not a Greek or Roman god
  12. Depicted in popular media, but usually not the main role
329

BTW, There is another thread of interest in the Thread Games forum: Personal started it to ask just how we play Botticelli here. I’ve answered as well as I can, but the rest of you might chime in with bits I’ve forgotten or to contest a point I made.

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3 (had Fred Noonan as an also-vanished navigator) was Amelia Earhart.

IQs:

  1. Did you write and draw the comic strip Maxwell the Magic Cat?
  2. According to the Bible, are you the first murder victim?
  3. Were you the creator of a group that desired to clothe naked animals, the presidential campaign of housewife Yetta Bronstein, the world’s first topless string quartet, and other hoaxes?
    DQ: from Greek mythology?
331
  1. Were you Vanity’s replacement in Vanity Six?
  2. Were you Betty White’s husband?
  3. Were you on SNL before entering politics?
332

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
  8. Created long before 1960
  9. European
  10. From mythology or legend
  11. Not a Greek or Roman god
  12. Depicted in popular media, but usually not the main role
  13. From Greek mythology
333

#2. I am not Abel. Take 2 DQs.

  1. I am not Apollonia (??)
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Al Francken.
334

2. Were you Betty White’s husband?
Allen Ludden, Mr Password himself. Right on the others, but it’s Franken.

DQ reserved

335

1 was Alan Moore; 3 was Alan Abel.
DQ: had to be rescued?

One DQ reserved.

336

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
  8. Created long before 1960
  9. European
  10. From mythology or legend
  11. Not a Greek or Roman god
  12. Depicted in popular media, but usually not the main role (though, obviously, she has the main role in the ancient stories about her)
  13. From Greek mythology
  14. Did not need rescuing
337

Previous IQs:

Were you a teacher with the maiden name of Grayson? - Amanda, mother of Spock
Were you a queen before you were a senator? - Amidala of Naboo
Was your mother Gilraen? - Aragorn, in LOTR

DQs:

Known for her beauty?
Had a god as a lover?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Was a galaxy named after you?
Are spiders associated with you?
Were you one of the Furies?

338

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with A
  4. Not American
  5. Would not be alive today, if real
  6. Not a literary character
  7. Not from the 19th Century
  8. Created long before 1960
  9. European
  10. From mythology or legend
  11. Not a Greek or Roman god
  12. Depicted in popular media, but usually not the main role (though, obviously, she has the main role in the ancient stories about her)
  13. From Greek mythology
  14. Did not need rescuing
  15. Known for her beauty, but also for her strength and athleticism
  16. Oddly enough, did not have a god as a lover
339

I am not Andromeda.
I am not Arachne.
I am not Alecto.

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Swept me!

IQs:

Were you a figure in Greek mythology with a homophone for a Middle Eastern city contained in your name?
Were you a figure in Greek mythology after whom a US Navy ironclad was named?
Were you a failed Congressional candidate in NE Ohio in 2018?