Botticelli - Oct 2026

Thread Games
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DQ: Are you Renfield?

1 DQ reserved

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Swept me. So no DQs for me. Which is fine, because I don’t have any clue.

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I am not.

284

It just popped in my head, despite the inconsistencies.

285

So many clues yet I’m drawing a blank. I’ll yield my last DQ.

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And on to the Are you…? questions.
Please ask by 9pm EDT tomorrow.

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I’m extending the deadline to noon EDT tomorrow.

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Are you Raoul, from The Phantom of the Opera?

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Yes, I am

Viscount Raoul deChagnay,

Whose part in the written novel is considerably larger than the stage and screen versions.

Well done, dlr!!

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I know that one. I never would’ve guessed it was about “The Phantom of the Opera.”

I only know the movie, I never read the book. If asked, I would’ve said it was written pre-1900.

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I know Raoul, mostly because I adored the music for. lloyd Webbers musical as a teen. And saw it performed in Toronto.

I was never getting anywhere from our questions, though.

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Congrats, me!

OK: I am S.

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Oh, hey, congrats, DLR! :wink:

IQs:

  1. Were you in a relationship with Jessica Lange?
  2. Were you removed from office for opposing Southern succession prior to the American Civil War?
  3. Were you picked ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 NBA Draft?
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Congrats again, and thanks for updating the list of letters used!

295

1. I am not Sam Shepard?
2. I am not Sam Houston?
3. Take a DQ.

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Correct
Correct
Sam Bowie (taken #2 in the draft, ahead of Jordan; considered one of the biggest draft errors in NBA history)

Sam x3!

DQ: Real?

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IQs:

  1. Were you married to one of the Darrens on Bewitched?
  2. Were you a TV puppeteer widely rumored to be a horrible boss?
  3. Were you one of the conspirators involved in a 1984 bioterrorism attack?
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Good job, DLR!

Previous IQs:

Did you succeed MacArthur as the U.S. military commander in Korea? - Gen. Matthew Ridgway
Were Joffrey and Tommen not actually your sons? - King Robert Baratheon, in Game of Thrones
Did you play a bar owner, a loving nephew and a quirky diplomat? - Roger Rees, in Cheers, A Christmas Carol (with George C. Scott, in 1984) and The West Wing

On to S.

Were you Lincoln’s SECTREAS?
Were you his first SECWAR?
Were you his second?

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  1. Are you a NPR person known for talking about your mother in law’s cranberry sauce?
  2. Are you NPR’s puzzlemater?
  3. Are you an NPR host who is doubly qualified for this question?
300

1. I am not Samantha Stephens (I mean, she was married to one of the Darrens, and to the other one as well.).
2. I am not Shari Lewis?
3. Take a DQ.

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Simon Cameron.
I am not Edwin Stanton.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Will Shortz.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. real