Botticelli - October 2025

Thread Games
81

Harry Reasoner
Frank Reymolds
Correct

DQ: Name appears in book title?

1 DQ reserved

82

1 was indeed the Red Baron; 2 (Terk) was Rosie O’Donnell; 3 (Pascal) was Reed Richards, in Fantastic Four: First Steps.

DQs:
1. work adapted into film?
2. character is American?

83

R.

1. Fictional
2. Last part of name begins with R
3. Male
4. Literary character
5. Main character
6. Created before 1950
7. American creator(s)
8. Not created before 1900
9. Name appears in book title
10. Work adapted into film
11. Character is American

84

DQs:

  1. From genre fiction (scifi, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, etc.)?
  2. From children’s literature?
85

IQs:

Were you the primary songwriter of a formerly backup band?
Did you make your big screen debut in Forbidden Planet?
Were you the highest-paid actress in 2023?

86

IQs:

  1. Are you the hero of The H.M.S. Pinafore?
  2. Are you the title character of another Gilbert & Sullivan operetta?
  3. Did you paint The Sleeping Gypsy?
87

IQs:
1. Were you Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012?
2. Did you star as Tess in Ocean’s Eleven, with George Clooney?
3. Are you the comedian punningly referenced here in the MGM short “Who Killed Who?”

88

DQs:

First part of name begins with A-M?
Created before 1925?

89

R.

  1. Fictional
  2. Last part of name begins with R
  3. Male
  4. Literary character
  5. Main character
  6. Created before 1950
  7. American creator(s)
  8. Not created before 1900
  9. Name appears in book title
  10. Work adapted into film
  11. Character is American
  12. Not from genre fiction (scifi, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, etc.)?
  13. From children’s literature
  14. First part of name begins with A-M
  15. Not created before 1925
90

DQ
Not – Robby the Robot?
DQ (quite possibly someone I’ve never heard of)

Been a long time since I last read that – DQ
Not … Ruddigore?
DQ

DQ
DQ
Not Red Skelton


Which brings us up to over twenty DQs, so no more IQs, please.

91

1 was Paul Ryan; 2 was Julia Roberts.

2 DQs reserved.

92

Robbie Robertson
correct
Margot Robbie (ring any bells?)

Robbie/Robby x3!

3 DQs reserved

93

DQ: Author or creator known for other works?

2 DQs reserved

94

R.

  1. Fictional
  2. Last part of name begins with R
  3. Male
  4. Literary character
  5. Main character
  6. Created before 1950
  7. American creator(s)
  8. Not created before 1900
  9. Name appears in book title
  10. Work adapted into film
  11. Character is American
  12. Not from genre fiction (scifi, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, etc.)?
  13. From children’s literature
  14. First part of name begins with A-M
  15. Not created before 1925
  16. Author or creator known for other works
95

One very, very important DQ has not been asked yet.

96

DQ: character is human?

1 DQ reserved.

97

R.

  1. Fictional
  2. Last part of name begins with R
  3. Male
  4. Literary character
  5. Main character
  6. Created before 1950
  7. American creator(s)
  8. Not created before 1900
  9. Name appears in book title
  10. Work adapted into film
  11. Character is American
  12. Not from genre fiction (scifi, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, etc.)?
  13. From children’s literature
  14. First part of name begins with A-M
  15. Not created before 1925
  16. Author or creator known for other works
  17. Not human
98

Ah, thanks.

Previous IQs:

Were you Dracula’s mentally-disturbed, bug-eating familiar? - Yes, Renfield
Have you played two different British Prime Ministers in two different shows? - Rory Kinnear, on Black Mirror and The Diplomat
Did you write The Plot Against America? - Philip Roth

DQs:

Is “the” part of your full name?
Considered a “good guy,” although not human?
An Earth animal?

99

1 was Ralph Rackstraw.
2 is correct.
3 was Henri Rousseau.

2 Dqs reserved.

100

R.

  1. Fictional
  2. Last part of name begins with R
  3. Male
  4. Literary character
  5. Main character
  6. Created before 1950
  7. American creator(s)
  8. Not created before 1900
  9. Name appears in book title
  10. Work adapted into film
  11. Character is American
  12. Not from genre fiction (scifi, fantasy, horror, mystery, western, etc.)?
  13. From children’s literature
  14. First part of name begins with A-M
  15. Not created before 1925
  16. Author or creator known for other works
  17. Not human
  18. “The” is not part of my full name
  19. Considered a “good guy,” although not human
  20. An Earth animal


I show knoodler and the Prof with two remaining DQs each, and DLR with one. Please ask them by noon EDT tomorrow, Friday 10 October.