Botticelli - November 2023

Thread Games
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Thanks, all. And good choice, CFOHG! I was thinking Adolphe Saxe, but the last two IQs scotched that.

I’m at a family wedding this weekend, and just found out my dog has cancer. So it’s going to be probably Monday before I start the next round.

102

Congrats on the wedding!
Sorry to hear about your dog.

103

Likewise. All the best.

104

Sorry for the delay.

Picked a letter that we haven’t used in a while, so I am:

Q

Sorry, Discourse isn’t letting me upload a fancy-dan image, even with the tricks I read in the Site Feedback forum. Grrr.

Thanks for the kind words about Gus. We ended up having to euthanize the poor doggo, which was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do - he was only six, poor pupper.

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I am so sorry about Gus. Losing a,pet is always hard.

  1. Are you a dragon in Tik-Tok of Oz?
  2. Did Jack Klugman play you in a TV series?
  3. Were you a television producer responsible for such TV shows as Barnaby Jones and Cannon?
106

Thank you. This one hit hard.

  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Quincy, M.E.
  3. I am not … Quinn Cannon?
107

IQs:

  1. Are you secretly Green Arrow?
  2. Are you secretly El Kabong?
  3. Did you create The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900?
108
  1. I am not Oliver Queen.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not…Something Quinlan?
109

Correct on Ollie.
#2 was Quick Draw McGraw.
#3 was Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
110

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Female.
111

IQs:

  1. Did you direct Pulp Fiction?
  2. Are you the eponymous hero of a Sir Walter Scott novel?
  3. Were you a 19th Century American werewolf on the TV show Dark Shadows?
112

Very sorry about Gus. Heartfelt condolences.

IQs:

Did you purposefully try to gross out some rookie cops?
Did Sisko, unlike Picard, punch you?
Did you investigate an alien spacecraft found under London?

113

Quox, correct, a Quinn Martin Production!

DQs:

  1. Living?
  2. Known for the Sciences?
114
  1. I am not Quentin Tarantino.
  2. I am not Quentin Durward
  3. Don’t know, but guessing it’s someone called Quentin.
115
  1. I still am not Quincy, M.E.
  2. I am not Q, as played by the wonderful John DeLancie.
  3. Take a DQ. Guessing it’s someone fromDoctor Who or Torchwood, but I can’t think of anyone with a “Q” name
116

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Dead.
  4. Not known for the sciences.
117

Correct, correct, and Quatermass.

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Were you one of the Rude Mechanicals?
Did Demi Moore voice your character’s crush?
Were you a Caribbean man who helped James Bond until your untimely death?

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  1. Were,you the main male character in King Solomon’s Mines?
  2. Were you the similarly named character on General Hospital?
  3. Were you nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for The Goodbye Girl?
119
  1. Unfortunately, the only one I can think of is Bottom, so take a DQ.
  2. And another.
  3. And one more for luck.
  1. I am not Alan Quatermain (not sure of spelling)
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Female.
  3. Dead.
  4. Not known for the sciences.
  5. American.
120

Previous IQs:

Were you one of the Rude Mechanicals? - Peter Quince, in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Did Demi Moore voice your character’s crush? - Quasimodo, in the animated version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Were you a Caribbean man who helped James Bond until your untimely death? - Quarrel, in Doctor No

DQs:

Best known for the Arts?
Died before 1950?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you a female character in a Toni Morrison novel?
Were you a naval officer obsessed with strawberries?
Were you a popular Boston Globe columnist?