Botticelli - Oct 2026

Thread Games
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J

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. Alive
  5. Known from the arts
  6. Not best known from TV or movies
  7. American
  8. First name begins with J
  9. Singer
  10. Born before 1960
  11. Last name starts from A-M
  12. Caucasian
  13. Born before 1940
  14. Not best known for rock/pop
  15. Generally considered a beauty in her prime
  16. Won a Grammy
  17. Not best known for country music
  18. Songwriter (in conjunction with #9, singer-songwriter)
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DQ: known for folk?

2 DQs reserved.

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J

  1. Real
  2. Female
  3. Last name does not start with J
  4. Alive
  5. Known from the arts
  6. Not best known from TV or movies
  7. American
  8. First name begins with J
  9. Singer
  10. Born before 1960
  11. Last name starts from A-M
  12. Caucasian
  13. Born before 1940
  14. Not best known for rock/pop
  15. Generally considered a beauty in her prime
  16. Won a Grammy
  17. Not best known for country music
  18. Songwriter (in conjunction with #9, singer-songwriter)
  19. Best known for folk
44

Jill St. John, Julie Newmar and June Taylor.

3 DQs, but…

Are you Judy Collins?

45

Yes! I am

Judy Collins

Grammy winner for her recording of “Both Sides Now”, known also for her renditions of “Send In The Clowns” and “Amazing Grace”, and also the eponymous inspiration for the CSN hit “Suite: Judy Blue Eyes”.

You’re up, Prof!

46

You beat me by two or three minutes. :smiley:

47

Always loved her stuff.

And, I am

I!

48

IQ1: Did you play Gronk’s wife?
IQ2: Did you write “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”?
IQ3: Was Cedric the Saxon your father?


(By the way – thanks for the earworm. . . . :neutral_face:)

49

…huh, I said folk because I was thinking of Joan Baez.

I-Qs:
1. Were you in Pacific Rim?
2. Despite your name’s interpretation as a complete sentence, you were, actually, a human Texan philanthropist?
3. Were you and your associate brought from the TV to the “real” world in the “Treehouse of Horror IX” segment “The Terror of Tiny Toon”?

50

I it is!

IQs:

  1. Were you a longtime reporter for NBC News?
  2. Were you the 142nd fastest gun in the west?
  3. Did you write The Cider House Rules?
51

Well done, Prof. P.!

Previous IQs:

Is your psychedelia-painted car on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? - Janis Joplin
Was “The Crave” one of your best-known pieces? - Jelly Roll Morton
Were you the ship’s cat of the USCSS Nostromo? - Jones, an orange shorthair who appeared in both Alien and Aliens

On to I!

IQs:

Were you the protagonist of A Confederacy of Dunces?
Were you a key Clinton White House aide on healthcare reform?
Did you play Dr. Leila Kalomi?

52

Joan Baez had been used.

I know the name Judy Collins. I don’t know that she would have come to mind as a guess.

53
  1. I am not Irving Berlin. Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Itchy. Take 2 DQs.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Irving.
  3. I am not John Irving.
  1. I am not Ignatius J. Reilly (sp?). Take 2 DQs.
54

1 was Idris Elba; 2 was Ima Hogg.

DQs:
1. real?
2. female?

55

Imogene Coca
correct
Wilfred of Ivanhoe

2 DQs reserved.

56

#1 was Irving R. Levine.

Irving x3!

DQ: First name begins with I?

57

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with I
58
  1. Did you serve as Emperor Gregor’s chief of Imperial Security for a really long time?
  2. Did you write On the Shores of Silver Lake?
  3. Were you the chairman of Chrysler?
59
  1. I am not Lee Iacocca. Take 2 DQs.
60

IQs:
1. Did you preside over the OJ Simpson trial?
2. Did you play a green-skinned witch on Broadway?
3. One of Mom’s sons on Futurama, was your full parentage revealed in the DVD movie Bender’s Game?