Botticelli - Oct 2026

Thread Games
81

Inga Swenson (correct), Julio Iglesias, and Ilana Glazer.

DQ: Known as a writer?

1 DQ reserved.

82

1 was Oscar Isaac, who I presume you’re conflating with the actor playing the creature, Jacob Elordi, but close enough on the Isaac name. 3 was I.P. Daily.

DQ: from the U.K. or Ireland?

83

IQs:

  1. Did you credit your grandfather’s Oscar-winning portrayal as your inspiration to become an actress?
  2. Were you killed by rats in one of your last movies?
  3. Did your character die while on a road trip?
84

IQs:
1. Did your then-husband star in The Dictator?
2. Speaking of dictators, were you born in Kampala, Uganda?
3. Did you not actually exist originally as a character–you’re a composite of Fritz, from a certain Universal horror movie in 1931, with (almost) the name of Bela Lugosi’s role in the sequels (Son of… and Ghost of…), but have since become a classic pop-cultural stock archetype?

85

See 11, from continental Europe. Take another guess.

86

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:79, topic:1033517”]
DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with I
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1970
  8. First name begins with A-M
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Known from the Arts
  11. From continental Europe
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic language, but wrote in French
  13. Not known for the performing arts
  14. Writer
87
  1. I am not Imogene Coca. Take 2 DQs.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Idi Amin Dada.
  3. I am not Igor.
88

1 was Isla Fisher, Sasha Baron Cohen’s ex.

DQs:
1. known for novels and short stories?
2. died after 1985?

89
  1. Illeana Douglas (granddaughter of Melvyn Douglas; Being There)
  2. Ida Lupino (Food of the Gods)
  3. Correct

2 DQs reserved

90

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with I
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1970
  8. First name begins with A-M
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Known from the Arts
  11. From continental Europe
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic language, but wrote in French
  13. Not known for the performing arts
  14. Writer
  15. Not known for novels or short stories
  16. Died after 1985
91

Joan’s brother?

Previous IQs:

Were you the protagonist of A Confederacy of Dunces? - Yes, Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole’s novel
Were you a key Clinton White House aide on healthcare reform? - Ira Magaziner
Did you play Dr. Leila Kalomi? - Jill Ireland, in ST:TOS “This Side of Paradise”

DQs:

Born in or east of Vienna?
Born in or north of Vienna?

IQs:

Were you Sid Caesar’s TV costar?
Did you have a notoriously large collection of shoes?
Were you the bad guy in the first and second Mummy movies starring Brendan Fraser?

92

IQs:
1. Were you a student of the Gromble?
2. Did your father star in Beetlejuice?
3. Are you currently mayor of Gotham?

93

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:90, topic:1033517, full:true”]
DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with I
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1970
  8. First name begins with A-M
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Known from the Arts
  11. From continental Europe
  12. Native speaker of a Germanic language, but wrote in French
  13. Not known for the performing arts
  14. Writer
  15. Not known for novels or short stories
  16. Died after 1985
  17. Born south of Vienna
  18. Born east of Vienna
94

I am not Imogene Coca.
I am not Imelda Marcos.
I am not Imhotep.

95
  1. It’s been too long, but I loved Aah! Real Monsters. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Isaac Keaton (???)
  3. I am not Pam Isley (???)
96

DQ: Swiss?

IQs:

  1. Did you always have Paris?
  2. Did you play #1?
  3. Did you beat Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight title?
97
  1. I am not Ilsa Lund.
  2. I am not Ingrid Bergman.
  3. Take a DQ.
98

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name begins with I
  4. Dead
  5. Not American
  6. European
  7. Died after 1970
  8. First name begins with A-M
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Known from the Arts
  11. From continental Europe
  12. Native speaker of a Romance language, but wrote in French
  13. Not known for the performing arts
  14. Writer
  15. Not known for novels or short stories
  16. Died after 1985
  17. Born south of Vienna
  18. Born east of Vienna
  19. Not Swiss, from Romania

Please note. Mea culpa, I have made an error. His native language is not a Germanic one, as I thought, but a Romance language.

To offset any misunderstanding in asking, I have identified his country of origin.

99

#3 was Ingemar Johansson. A Swedish triple!

1 DQ reserved.

100

1 was Ickis; 2 was Ireland Baldwin; 3 was indeed Pamela “Poison Ivy” Isley.

DQ: known for theater?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:
#1. Are you a Muslim fencer?
#2. In the Superman storyline “Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite”, is Mr. Mxyzptlk implied to be you?
#3. Was it said about your appearance that “To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield”?