Botticelli - October 2013

Thread Games
101
  1. I’m not Robespierre.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I’m not Rene Magritte.
102

Rick O’Shay.
Rudolph.
Ringo Starr was lead vocalist on the Beatles’ cover of “Act Naturally,” and then sang it with Buck in 1989.
DQ1: Real?
DQ2: Male?
DQ3: American?
IQ1: Did you own a horse called Traveller?
IQ2: Did you own a horse called Trigger?
IQ3: Did people wonder whatever happened to you?

103

DQ for #1.
I’m not Roy Rogers, and I’m not Randolph Scott.

104

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories)
105

IQ1: Are you known as The Big Unit?
IQ2: Are you a female governor of Texas?
IQ3: Did you play a TV comedy writer?

106

#3: I am not Rose Marie from The Dick van Dyke Show.
Take 2 DQs.

107

Correct on Roy Rogers and Randolph Scott.
#1 was Robert E Lee.
DQ: If you were real, would you be alive today? (Not killed in a story, not in stories set too long ago for you to have lived until today, and not in stories set in the future.)
IQ1: Did you write about Martian chess fanatics?
IQ2: Were you the hero (anti-hero?) of a Lorne Green song?
IQ3: Did you portray a character who did a triple Lindy?

108

Sammy Reshevsky won the US Chess Championship 8 times.

Rosa Klebb featured in ‘From Russia with love’.

DQ1: Are you European?

DQ2: Are you a Detective? (just a wild guess!)

109
  1. I’m not Ray Bradbury.
  2. I’m not Ringo. (I never ever ever ever liked that “song”.)
  3. I’m not Robert Redford as The Great Waldo Pepper.

Take a DQ if I’m wrong.

110

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories)
  4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not.
  5. European in origin.
  6. Not a detective.
111

Don’t recall any Martian chess-players in Bradbury, but then I haven’t read many of his books. I was thinking of the Jay Score stories (collected as Men, Martians and Machines) by Eric Frank Russell.
Correct on Ringo. (I don’t really care for that song either.)
I’ve heard of Waldo Pepper, but haven’t a clue what it’s about. I was thinking of Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School.
DQ: British in origin?

112

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories)
  4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not.
  5. European in origin.
  6. Not a detective.
  7. Not British in origin.
113

Did your first wife say you liked to have sex right after you got out of the shower? - Ronald Reagan.
Did Doonesbury say you were angling for a loved one to get the Nobel Peace Prize? - Nancy Reagan.
Did you appear in a recent movie with bird poop in your hair? - Radagast the Brown, in the first Hobbit movie.

DQs:

French?
First appeared in a novel or short story?
Usually considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Are you the junior U.S. senator from the state where Abraham Lincoln was born?
Did you disavow several racially-tinged articles that appeared in a newsletter that went out bearing your name?
Did you play a shapeshifting woman in several movies?

114

I’m not Rebecca Romijn. Take 2 DQs for the first two.

115

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories)
  4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not.
  5. European in origin.
  6. Not a detective.
  7. Not British in origin.
  8. Not French in origin.
  9. First appeared in a very short story.
  10. Not considered a good guy.
116

Pitcher, Randy Johnson.
Ann Richards.

DQ1: Human?
DQ2: First appearance before 1600?

117

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories)
  4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not.
  5. European in origin.
  6. Not a detective.
  7. Not British in origin.
  8. Not French in origin.
  9. First appeared in a very short story.
  10. Not considered a good guy.
  11. Humanoid, but usually not actually human.
  12. First appearance after 1600, though another **really **obscure character with a very similar name appeared before 1600
118

Are you the junior U.S. senator from the state where Abraham Lincoln was born? - Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky.
Did you disavow several racially-tinged articles that appeared in a newsletter that went out bearing your name? - His dad, Ross Paul, Republican of Texas.
Did you play a shapeshifting woman in several movies? - Yes, the lissome Rebecca Romijn, who played Mystique in several X-Men movies.

DQs:

First appeared in a work in the English language?
First appeared after 1900?

IQs:

Were you a king of Westeros who bore a distinct resemblance to Henry VIII of England?
Where you that king’s probably-gay younger brother?
Did you serve as Secretary of Energy and as ambassador to the UN?

119

I am not Robert.
I forget Robert’s brother’s name. Take 2 DQs.

120

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. Not American in origin (though he does appear in some American stories)
  4. Alive or not? Depends on which version and which story. There’s one that’s set in the current day where he is a character. The original version? Probably not.
  5. European in origin.
  6. Not a detective.
  7. Not British in origin.
  8. Not French in origin.
  9. First appeared in a very short story.
  10. Not considered a good guy.
  11. Humanoid, but usually not actually human.
  12. First appearance after 1600, though another really obscure character with a very similar name appeared before 1600.
  13. Did not first appear in a work of English literature.
  14. First appeared before 1900.