Botticelli - Oct 2026

Thread Games
101

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:98, 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 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
  20. Playwright

That’s 20. Please ask all remaining DQs by 10pm EDT tomorrow.

102
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not the Impossible Man.
  3. I am not Ichabod Crane.
103

1 was Ibtihaj Muhammad.

DQs:
1. known for absurdism?
2. first name begins from A-G?

104

Swept me. I can think of only one playwright with a last name starting with “I,” and these clues don’t fit that person.

105

Yeah, Ibsen’s too old.

I yield my DQ to anyone who wants it.

106
  1. Imogene Herdmann from the Best (worst) Christmas Pageant Ever. Book or movie
  2. Correct
  3. Correct

I’ll use my DQ to ask last name begins with. Ia-Il

107

[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:101, 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 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
  20. Playwright
  21. Absurdist
  22. First name starts with A - G
  23. Last name starts with Im - Iz
108

I’m drawing a blank. I will yield my 2 DQs.

109

I will use Sunup’s DQ to ask if any of this guy’s play were made into Hollywood movies

110

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
  20. Playwright
  21. Absurdist
  22. First name starts with A - G
  23. Last name starts with Im - Iz
  24. Many made into movies, but only one Hollywood movie as far as I can tell
111

Are you Eugene Ionesco, of Rhinoceros (which I haven’t seen) and The Bald Soprano (which I have)?

112

Certes-moi, Je suis

Eugene Ionesco!

Bravo, DLR!

113

I’ve heard of him. Good job, DLR!

114

OK:

I am B.

115

I’ve heard of him, too. Good one!

B it is.

IQs:

Did you lose the Battle of Saratoga?
Did you lose the Battle of Fredericksburg?
Did you bungle the Red River Campaign?

116

IQs:

  1. Did you pioneer the study of ethnomusicology?
  2. Did you fall in love with a vampire?
  3. Did you create your iconic role on stage before appearing on film in the same role?
117

Never heard of him.

118

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
I am not Ambrose Burnside.
I am not Nathaniel “Commissary” Banks.

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Bella Swan.
3. I am not Bela Lugosi.

119
  1. Béla Bartók
    2 & 3: Correct

Bela/Bella x3!

DQs:

Real?
Alive?

120

DQs:
1. fictional

This doesn’t apply to a fictional character. Please ask another DQ.