Botticelli October 2023

Thread Games
161

Not Totoro, dunno and dunno.

Domo.

162

Not Torgo in the execrable Manos: Hands of Fate, not Amy Tan, and not Telemachus.

163

Dunno x3.

164

1 was Tipper Gore; 2 was Tobermory (I’ve been reading a Saki collection recently); 3 was Tim Jacobus.

DQs:
1. from prose?
2. main character?
3. created by American(s)?

165
  1. Correct
  2. Tetsuo Shima from the Akira
  3. Miaowara Tomokato aka Samurai cat

2DQs resevered for now.

166

Swept me

IQ1: Did you sing the praises of wang dang sweet poontang?
IQ2: Do you pity the fool?
IQ3: Did you tiptoe through the tulips?

167

Not Thelonious Monk, Mr. T or Tiny Tim.

168

T.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with T
  3. male
  4. from TV or movies, adapted from a novel
  5. not otherwise from prose
  6. main character
  7. created by Americans

Take another DQ, Prof. P., as to your “Male?” question.

169
  1. is Marisa Tomei, who’s playing opposite Dinklage in She Came To Me. 2. is Taylor Swift. 3. is the brilliantly funny Taylor Tomlinson.

DQs:

  1. If real, would be living now?
  2. First name begins A - M?
  3. Protagonist of work in which he appears?
170

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn Rock of Ages?
  2. Did you write The Magnificent Ambersons?
  3. Are you the protagonist in the film The Imitation Game?
171

IQs:
1. Did you claim to be working on the “Spirit Phone”, a device for speaking with the dead?
2. Whoever wields this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of you?
3. Did Tim Jacobus also do this cover for a collection of three of your husband’s novels (the one about the girl with telekinetic powers, the one about the family in the hotel, and the one with vampires)?

172

Ted Nugent (I had to research to make sure that Monk didn’t have a similarly titled song.)
Correct, Correct

Holding one DQ

173

IQ1: Are you the title character of Joan Crawford’s final feature film?
IQ2: Did you attempt to murder your family while serving as winter caretaker in a remote Colorado hotel?
IQ3: Did you find yourself chanting “redrum”?

174

IQ

  1. Did you propose something akin to a 1920’s deathray?
  2. Are you a pinball wizard
  3. Are you a American of south Asian descent who moved from a government job in Pawnee Indiana to a to a series of entrepreneurial endeavors.

DQs:

  1. From TV?

1DQ reserved

175

Not Thorneycroft, Tarkington or Turing.

Not Tesla, Thor or Tabitha King (the link showed the words The Stand, but I think I would’ve figured it out anyway).

Dunno, not Jack Torrance and not the little boy Torrance (Matt?).

Also not Tesla, not Tommy and dunno (from Parks and Rec?)

T.

  1. fictional
  2. last name starts with T
  3. male
  4. from TV or movies, adapted from a novel
  5. not otherwise from prose
  6. main character
  7. created by Americans
  8. if real, would be living now, in a way
  9. first name begins A - M
  10. protagonist of work in which he appears
  11. not from TV
176

First two correct, third was Tom Haverford indeed from Parks and Rec.

DQ: Relatively normal (e.g. not undead or superpowered) Human?

1 DQ reserved

177

1 (“Spirit Phone”) was Thomas Edison; 2 was correct; 3 was correct (although I believe you mean The Shining). Incidentally, that’s Jacobus in the picture–he figured if he was doing a Stephen King cover, he might as well take the chance to model for it.

DQ: from movie made after 1980?

178

#1 was Augustus Montague Toplady. Correct on the others.

DQ: In keeping with the ongoing Halloween theme?

179

IQs:

  1. Did you lead a gang that included the Brain, Benny the Ball and Fancy Fancy?
  2. Did you star in That Girl?
  3. Are you a Tolkein Dwarf with a first and a last name?
180

IQs:
1. CHAAAARRRRRRGE! In Arsenic and Old Lace, does one of the Brewster brothers think he’s you?
2. Does he perceive another character as his successor, you?
3. Were you the yellow Power Ranger?