Botticelli - Oct 2026

Thread Games
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IQs:

  1. Was your regiment tasked with the seizure of the Son River bridge?
  2. Was your brigade dropped in an attempt to relieve the British 1st Airborne?
  3. Did you play the commander of the British 1st Airborne in A Bridge Too Far?
302

IQs

  1. Are you aka Simon Templer?
  2. Are you aka Kent Allard?
  3. Are you aka Richard Wentworth?
303
  1. Susan Stamberg
  2. Will Short, yes,correct
  3. Scott Simon

DQs

  1. Alive?
  2. Female?
304

Take three DQs.

1. I am not the Saint.
2. I am not the Shadow.
3. I am not the Spider.

DQs:
1. real
2. dead
3. female

305

Col. Robert Sink, Gen. Stanislaus Sosabowski, and Sean Connery, respectively. (Can anyone guess what I watched last night?)

IQs:
Last name starts with S?
Born since 1900?
Known for the arts?

306

Correct
Correct
Sheela Silverman (aka Ma Anand Sheela)

1 DQ reserved

307

IQs:

  1. Did you meet a food vendor on your way to the fair?
  2. Did you front a band with two brothers and a repetitive name?
  3. Were you taking Ritalin while competing at the Olympics?
308

Swept me! I’m impressed you knew the Spider.

IQs

  1. Did you hang around with Morocco Mole?
  2. Did you keep Pinocchio in a cage?
  3. Were you the voice of Top Cat?
309

1. I am not Simple Simon.
2. I am not Simon Le Bon.
3. Take a DQ.

1. I am not Secret Squirrel.
2. I am not Stromboli.
3. I am not Allen Swift.

It didn’t hurt that I read a bit of the 1990s comic reboot recently.

DQs:
1. real
2. dead
3. female
5. last name starts with S
6. born before 1900
7. known for the arts

310

Correct, correct, and Arnold Stang.

1 DQ reserved.

311

Correct
Correct
Simone Biles

Simon/e x3!

DQs:

Born before 1850?
American?

312

No, it’s Shortz. :wink:

Previous IQs:

Were you Lincoln’s SECTREAS? - Salmon P. Chase
Were you his first SECWAR? - Yes, Simon Cameron
Were you his second? - Yes, Edwin Stanton

DQ:

Best known for the performing arts?

IQs:

Were you Lord of Winterfell when Robert Baratheon took the Iron Throne of Westeros?
Did you win the Battle of Cedar Creek?
Did Patrick Stewart play you in I, Claudius?

313

Respectively:
I am not Stannis Baratheon.
I am not Stonewall Jackson.
I am not Sejanus, or his hair.

DQs:
1. real
2. dead
3. female
5. last name starts with S
6. born before 1900
7. known for the arts
8. born before 1850
9. not American
10. not known for the performing arts

314

IQs:

  1. Were you nominated for an Academy Award, as well as win the Golden Globe award, for playing a teenager?
  2. Is you play considered the most significant English-written plays of the 20th Century?
  3. Were you an abolitionist born into slavery?
315

I know the guys name ends in z, our host knows it. But apparently, my phone does not.

316

DQ: European?

317

IQ1: Were you Percy’s wife, nee Godwin?
IQ2: Were you a Kurd who was sultan of Egypt?
IQ3: Were you a Greek poet from Lesbos?

318

I am not Saladin or Sappho, but I am indeed Frankenstein author Mary Shelley! Next game goes to SCAdian.

319

Well done, SCAdian!

Previous IQs:

Were you Lord of Winterfell when Robert Baratheon took the Iron Throne of Westeros? - Not Stannis Baratheon, but Eddard “Ned” Stark
Did you win the Battle of Cedar Creek? - Not Stonewall Jackson (who was dead by then), but Gen. Phil Sheridan
Did Patrick Stewart play you in I, Claudius? - Yes, Sejanus (and his hair)

320

Good job, SCAdian!