Botticelli, Oct. 2022

Thread Games
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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Living
  4. Born an American
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Last name begins with B.
  7. Not known for the Arts.
  8. Born before 1970.
  9. Not known for sports.
  10. Yes, known for something media-related.
  11. Some degree of fame before 1990, but became much moreso after 1990.
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IQ1: Did you write Notes from a Small Island?
IQ2: Did you write The Mad King?
IQ3: Did you write Castle of Adventure?

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I don’t know 2 or 3 but yes!

I am Bill Bryson!!!

Congrats SCAdian!

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Dammit – I’ve had a ‘B’ in mind for several months now, but I think it’s too soon for another one…

2 and 3 were Edgar Rice Burroughs and Enid Blyton.



I am …

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Great guess, SCA! I’ve heard of Bryson but haven’t read any of his work.

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IQs:

  1. *Did you write The Vampire: Its Kith and Kin?
  2. Did you write the songs for The Music Man?
  3. Were you married to Douglas Fairbanks and Buddy Rogers?
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Congrats!

IQs:
1. Did you produce the 80s version of The Fly?
2. Do you “fly like paper, get high like planes”?
3. Did you have binders full of women?

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Ha! Good job, SCA.

I’m listening to an audiobook of Bryson’s The Mother Tongue now, as it happens. Fun and interesting, although his scholarship is not always the best.

Previous IQs:

Were you a shapeshifter in The Hobbit? - Beorn
Were you Luthien’s true love? - Beren, in The Silmarillion
When asked how you’d so quickly moved up the social ladder, did you reply, “Killed the right people, I guess”? - Bronn, in Game of Thrones

On to M.

IQs:

Did you play two doctors’ mom, a newspaper publisher and a very dangerous Italian woman?
Did your son kill you in a 2000 movie?
Were you a doctor, a naturalist and a spy?

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  1. Are you the author of the still unfinished Captal’s Tower trilogy?
  2. Did you write, among other books, Nancy and Plum?
  3. Did you play John Winchester in the pilot of Supernatural?
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DQ
Not Meredith Willson
DQ

3 DQs

3 DQs

<Sigh> You, too.


Looks like this will be a quick one…

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1 was Mel Brooks (really!); 2 was rapper M.I.A., in “Paper Planes”; 3 was Mitt Romney.

DQs:
1. real?
2. female?
3. first name begins with M?

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#1 was Montague Summers.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Mary Pickford.

2 DQs reserved.

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Previous IQs:

Did you play two doctors’ mom, a newspaper publisher and a very dangerous Italian woman? - Nancy Marchand, on Cheers, Lou Grant and The Sopranos
Did your son kill you in a 2000 movie? - the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in Gladiator
Were you a doctor, a naturalist and a spy? - Dr. Stephen Maturin, in the Napoleonic naval war books of Patrick O’Brian

DQs:

American?
Political/military?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did Winston Churchill appear once, and only once, in a TV show focusing on you?
Did you and your wife die in a ‘Salem’s Lot murder/suicide?
Were you the nice-guy alien leader in Galaxy Quest?

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Belated non-game comment: I utterly hate The Mother Tongue, given how twee and smug the writing was. Though I do like his book on Great Britain (Notes on a Small Island).

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M

1. Fictional
2. Male
3. First name begins with M
4. American
5. Not political/military

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Not … Montgomery?
DQ
Not Mathesar

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DQs:

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

  1. Did you star in the box office dud Serial?
  2. Were you Barnabas Collins’ housekeeper during his Victorian period?
  3. Did you play Nora Charles in The Thin Man series?
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IQs:
1. Were you a strongly anti-communist US senator from Wisconsin?
2. Were you so fine you blew Toni Basil’s mind?
3. Were you in Death Becomes Her?

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Previous IQs:

Did Winston Churchill appear once, and only once, in a TV show focusing on you? - Miss Marple
Did you and your wife die in a ‘Salem’s Lot murder/suicide? - Hubie Marsden, in the King novel
Were you the nice-guy alien leader in Galaxy Quest? - Yes, Mathesar

DQs:

Associated with NYC?
From genre fiction (detective, sf, fantasy, etc.)?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Were you the Red Witch who guided Stannis?
Were you just pawn in game of the life?
Were you Neo’s mentor?