Botticelli - October 2025

Thread Games
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Yay me! (Also: Irving x3!)

Our next letter:

B

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We B jammin’!

IQs:

  1. Are you a film critic with special emphasis on drive-in-theater movies?
  2. Were you the wife of “the Pathfinder of the West”?
  3. Were you his father-in-law (and #2’s father)?
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IQs:
1. Did you play Zelda on Sabrina the Teenage Witch?
2. Did you produce the 80s version of The Fly?
3. Were you a diplomat who vanished in 1809?

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IQs:

  1. Did you write The Death of the Messiah and The Birth of the Messiah?
  2. Were you one of the opposing party sent to a concentration camp in Anno Dracula?
  3. Are you a little cardboard boy scout doomed to weekly demises in the all-mercurial, sensationally bombastic, bagpipe-driven 1950s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
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  1. I am not Joe Bob Briggs

Take 2 DQs.

Take 3 DQs

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Take 3 DQs

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Correct on #1.
#2 was Jessie Benton Fremont, wife of John Charles Fremont.
#3 was Thomas Hart Benton, Missouri senator.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
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B

  1. Real
  2. Male
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1 was Beth Broderick; 2 was Mel Brooks; 3 was Benjamin Bathurst.

DQs:
1. living?
2. first name starts with B?
3. American?

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IQ1: Did your parent run the Shady Rest?
IQ3: Were you that parent?
IQ2: Did you play #2?

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IQs:
1. Did you spend “ten days in a mad-house” undercover to report on its conditions, and go around the world in 72 days?
2. Back in the 90s, were you the Horse in Horsin’ Around?
3. From the Presidential Monsters toyline, is this wolf-you?

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Take 3 DQs (my memory is movin’ kinda slow these days)

  1. I am not Nelly Bly
  2. Take a DQ
  3. I am not… Bill Clinton?
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B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not living
  4. First name (as best known by) begins with B
  5. American
  6. Died after 1970
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2 was BoJack Horseman, on Netflix’s BoJack Horseman; correct on Bly and Wolf Bill (aah-oooo!).

DQ: died after 1970?

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Take your pick: Billie Jo, Bobbie Jo, or Betty Jo Bradley
Kate Bradley
Bea Benederet


DQ: Known for the Arts?
Two DQs reserved.


IQ1: Were you the fifteenth pelican?
IQ2: Were you a Banana Split?
IQ3: Was your Medal of Honor revoked in 1917, but then restored in the 1980s?

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Excellent play there, knoodler – answering the question five minutes before it was asked!

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  1. DQ
  2. I am not Bingo
  3. DQ
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Only by the magic of the interwebs.

B

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Not living
  4. First name (as best known by) begins with B
  5. American
  6. Died after 1970
  7. Not known for the arts
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Sister Bertrille
correct
“Buffalo Bill” Cody


DQ: Known for military/political reasons?

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IQs:

  1. Did you command the Red River campaign?
  2. Did you command the Mud March?
  3. Did you command the Bermuda Hundred campaign?