Botticelli October 2023

Thread Games
1

Good evening, boys and ghouls. Welcome to the October 2023 Botticelli thread, with me, your host W. De La Rue. Here is the previous month’s thread, here is an explanation of the rules from a thread earlier this year, and here is a thread for questions about the game.

I am V.

2

IQs:

  1. Did we ever find out who’s afraid of you?
  2. Are you an infant who gave her name to a county in eastern North Carolina?
  3. Did you have an addiction to chewing gum that ultimately made you very blue?
3
  1. Did you end up marrying Beldin at the end of The Mallorean quintet?
  2. Were you Kolchak’s editor?
  3. Were you Mike Hammer’s secretary?
4

1. I am not Virginia Woolf.
2. I am not Virginia Dare?
3. I am not Violet Beauregard.

1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Vera?

5

IQ1: Were you a penny-dreadful precursor to and inspiration for Bram Stoker’s most famous work?
IQ2: Were you a real-life inspiration for Bram Stoker’s most famous work?
IQ3: Did you guest appear on one of Michael Jackson’s most famous album title tracks?

6

I am not Varney the Vampire or Vincent Price, but I am indeed Vlad III Dracula, the Impaler! (Thus the blood-red V.)

Next game goes to Chock.

7

Well, that went quicker than I expected…

Next up
I am J

8

IQs:

  1. Were you defenestrated by your eunuchs from your royal tower, trampled by horses and your flesh eaten by stray dogs, as was prophesied?

  2. Was your corpse disinterred, burned, smashed to small pieces, burned again, and the ashen remains thrown ceremoniously into the river while a proclamation was read damning your soul to eternal torment?

  3. Did you have a hit with Who Will Save Your Soul?

9

IQs:
1. Do you currently write and draw Nancy?
2. Were you prime minister of the United Kingdom after Margaret Thatcher but before Tony Blair?
3. Did you record “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah”?

10

Not Jezebel
DQ
Not Jewel

DQ
Not John Major
DQ - but I’m googling that as soon as I hit “reply”

11

1 was Olivia Jaimes; 3 was Tracy Jordan, on 30 Rock.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with J?

12

J

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with J
13

Congrats! Previous IQs:

Vella, Tony Vincenzo, Velda

IQs:

  1. Are you known as Witch in the Black Jewels books?
  2. Are you Ozma’s maid?
  3. Are you a female General in the Oz books?
14

IQs:
1. Are you a former astronaut and sometimes Man-Wolf?
2. Did you star in The Rural Juror?
3. Are you currently preserved as an “auto-icon”?

15

Take 3 DQs

3 DQs for you as well

16

1 was John Jameson, in Marvel Comics; 2 was Jenna Maroney, in 30 Rock; 3 was philospher Jeremy Bentham.

DQs:
1. living?
2. male?
3. American?

17

J

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with J
  3. Dead
  4. Male
  5. Not American
18

IQs:
1. Did you and Elvis Presley fight Bubba Ho-Tep?
2. Did you write Bubba Ho-Tep?
3. On 30 Rock, did you play Jenna Maroney?

19

Congratulations, CFOHG! That was quick!

IQs:

  1. Were you the first author to win the Hugo for Best Novel three years in a row?
  2. Were you a bullfrog who always shared your wine?
  3. Are you a video gamer who consoles himself with chicken, after a loss?
20

Correct, John Wycliffe, Correct.

DQ: European?