Botticelli - October 2024

Thread Games
341

Correct on 1 and 3. 2 was Zebulon Baird Vance, Civil War governor of North Carolina.

DQ: Known for TV acting?
IQs:

  1. Are you either of the minor prophets who qualify for this round?
  2. Did you play the female owner of a detective agency, who named it after a fictional male partner?
  3. Were you 2’s father, also an actor?
342

DQs

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with Z
  3. Male
  4. Dead
  5. Known for the Arts
  6. Died after 1900
  7. Known for acting
  8. American
  9. Died after 1980
  10. Known for TV acting
343
  1. I am neither Zechariah nor Zephaniah.
  2. I am not Stephanie Zimbalist.
  3. Yes, I am indeed

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.!

I remember him from The FBI.

344

Well done, SMV! Seems the time off worked to your benefit! I should look into doing the same.

My next three guesses were: Anthony Zerbe, Billy Zane, and Bob (Robert) Zimmerman.

345

Well done!

#1 was Zilpha Keatly Snyder; the other two were correct.

346

Damn, I missed two rounds. Congrats, SMV, most recently!

347

Okay, on to the next round:

I am B!

348

IQs:

  1. Were you introduced as the new housekeeper in this long-running sitcom?
  2. Did you make your film debut in 1996’s Space Jam?
  3. Were you the persona assumed by a voice actor while he was in a coma?
349

Congrats, Vehicle!

IQs:
1. Were you one of the basketball players whose abilities were stolen and transferred to the Nerdlucks in Space Jam (and did you also appear in Curb Your Enthusiasm)?
2. Were you the plastic title character of a smash hit movie last summer?
3. Were you the Witch in Into the Woods?

350

IQs:

  1. Are you a paper-cutout Lance Colonel (sometimes) who is always getting deaded (usually) on the highly acclaimed, maximum-overdrive, quality draft-brewed, aluminum-sided 1950’s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
  2. Did you write A Pilgrim’s Progress?
  3. Are you the mysteriously sigilled teen in Agatha All Along?
351
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Babs Bunny.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not…hmm…Charles Barkley.
  2. I am not Barbie.
  3. I am not…the Blair Witch?
  1. Take a DQ. One day I’ll learn to familiarize myself with the characters and cast of The Goon Show, just to anticipate your questions.
  2. I am not John Bunyan.
  3. Take a DQ.
352
  1. Aunt Bea (The Andy Griffith Show)
  2. Lola Bunny, but I’ll give you that. (Also known as “Honey Bunny”)
  3. Bugs Bunny (it was Mel Blanc who was in a coma)

DQs:

Alive?
Male?

353

DQs:

  1. Not alive.
  2. Male.
354

1 was Muggsy Bogues (though Barkley did appear in Space Jam, he was never on Curb). 3 (Into the Woods) was Bernadette Peters.

DQs:
1. real?
2. last name begins with B?

355

DQs:

  1. Not alive.
  2. Male.
  3. Fictional.
  4. Surname begins with “B”.
356

IQs:
1. Were you and Hare murderers in 19th century Edinburgh?
2. Were you in a high-profile relationship with Jennifer Lopez?
3. Played by Shannon Purser, did you vanish into the alternate dimension called the Upside Down on Stranger Things?

357

IQs:

  1. Were you based on a famous Yankee ballplayer?
  2. Did you replace the janitor at the Muppet Theater?
  3. Is your first name Theodore?
358

#1 is Bluebottle.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Billy Maximov.

DQs:

  1. Created by an American author or authors?
  2. Created after 1900?
359
  1. I am not Burke.
  2. I am not Ben Affleck.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. I am not … Babe the Pig?
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. Take a DQ.
360

DQs:

  1. Not alive.
  2. Male.
  3. Fictional.
  4. Surname begins with “B”.
  5. Created by an American.
  6. Created after 1900.