Botticelli - October 2025

Thread Games
301

Are you John Dickson Carr?

302

That was my guess.

303

Yes! I am the master of locked room mysteries John Dickson Carr!

Well done!

304

My sister loved reading about Gideon Fell. It made gift-giving easy. Then she had 'em all.

Nextly, I am…

N!

305

Good job Prof!

IQs:

Were you Robin’s lead minstrel?
Were you erroneously held responsible for the degradation of Pluto?
Did you tell certain people “You can make the impossible happen”?

306

Good call, Prof! I would not have gotten that one.

IQs:

  1. Are you the author of the poem “First They Came”, commonly credited to Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
  2. Were you an American theologian who corresponded with Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
  3. Were you #2’s brother?
307

Congrats, Prof.! I totally should read more John Dickson Carr. (I have read “The Man who Read John Dickson Carr”, about a guy who plans the perfect locked room murder.)

IQs:
1. Did you do “hatchetations”?
2. Were your boots made for walkin’?
3. Are you Ben and Esther’s uncle, and a ghost, on the unimaginatively-titled Netflix series Haunted Hotel?

308

#1. I thought that was Alan a Dale. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Neal DeGrassi Tyson.
#3. I am not Niccolo Machiavelli (??)

  1. I am not Nathaniel Hawthorne (??)
  2. I am not Richard Niebuhr.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Nancy Sinatra.
  3. Take a DQ.
309

1 was Carrie Nation; 3 was Nathan.

DQs:
1. real?
2. female?

310

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
311
  1. Neil Innes (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
  2. Correct
  3. Phoebe Figalilly, better known as “Nanny.”

DQ: Last name begins with N?

1 DQ reserved

312

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with N
313

IQs:

  1. Did you write a screenplay about several parodied literary detectives who meet at a remote mansion?
  2. Were you one of the parodied detectives?
  3. Were you the actor which played him?
314
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Nick Charles.
  3. I am not David Niven.
    I enjoyed Murder By Death.
315

It’s one of my favorite comedies. It was written by Neil Simon, and you are correct 2x.

2 DQs reserved

316

IQs:
1. Did you star in Russian Doll?
2. Are you the prime minister of India?
3. Did you tell Marion Crane your motel had “twelve cabins, twelve vacancies”?

317

Blink. Blink.
How DO you do that?

Yes, I am

Norman Bates

From Psycho.

Take it away, DLR!!!

318

IQs:

  1. Were you the “other” One in the Harry Potter universe?
  2. Despite having a name that sounds like you were one of the Transformers, were a running back for the San Diego Chargers?
  3. Were you one of the cast members from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to win an Academy Award?
319

An incredibly lucky unintentional guess.

I am D.

320

I missed that previous post! Good job De_La_Rue!

  • Were you the “other” One in the Harry Potter universe? Neville Longbottom
  • Despite having a name that sounds like you were one of the Transformers, were a running back for the San Diego Chargers? Natrone Means
  • Were you one of the cast members from Fast Times at Ridgemont High to win an Academy Award? Nicolas Cage