Last month’s thread: Botticelli - August 2024
Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #126 by Elendil_s_Heir
Our first letter for this month is
IQ:
- Do you and your friends hail from Sodor?
- Did you shelter Lucy Pevensie?
- Did you die on Mt St Helens?
IQs:
- Were you the only woman on Country Music Televisions list of “Top Ten Outlaw Singers”?
- Are you a somewhat unusual sexual assault survivor and activist for the MeToo movement?
- Just because it’s been a minute since his name’s come up, did you have the most awkward name in Middle Earth? (That one’s just for you, EH
)
IQs:
- Are you a Chaucerean scholar who has also written histories of barbarian tribes?
- Did Arte Johnson play you regularly on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In?
- Did you have a hit with Un-Break My Heart?
IQ1: Did you steal a pig and run away?
IQ2: Were you a thieving Welshman who stole food?
IQ3: Did you live in the forest with Hashberry?
IQs:
- Were you a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia?
- Were you a corps commander in the Army of the Cumberland?
- Were you Lummox’s pet?
- Is your show narrated by Ringo Star?
- Did you sing a dreadful rendition “I’ve got you babe” in duet with Bob Dylan?
- Were you a Swiss freedom fighter known for your skill with a crossbow?
Not Thomas the Tank Engine, not Mr. Tumnus, and not Harry Truman (the quotable ol’ coot, not the POTUS).
Not Tanya Tucker, dunno, and not (thanks for that, SMV) Teleporno AKA Celeborn!
Not JRR Tolkien, dunno, and not Tennille.
Not Tom Tom, dunno, and not Tom Bomberdill in Bored of the Rings.
Not Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, not George H. Thomas (huzzah!) and not Thomas in Heinlein’s Star Beast.
Also not Thomas the Tank Engine, not Tom Petty and not William Tell.
#1 was Monty Python’s own Terry Jones.
#2 was Tyrone F. Horneigh.
#3 is Toni Braxton.
DQs:
- Real?
- Male?
- Last name starts with T?
IQs:
- Did you write the 12-volume A Study of History?
- Were you the Herd Godfather of a musk ox farm in Alaska?
- Did your celebrity husband pass away within the last month?
IQs:
- Did you and your husband record a song written by John Fogarty?
- Did you fight zombies with Little Rock?
- Were you a backup to Jalen Hurts in college?
Ah, swept me. The last was John Thomas Stuart XI.
Thomas x3!
IQs:
- Were you a New York Giant first baseman who was the last National Leaguer to hit .400 in a season?
- Did you organize the Credit Mobilier, thus being at the center of one of the biggest political corruption scandals in U.S. history?
- Are you a Trollop who hangs around with a Klahd and a Pervect?
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Also not Thomas the Tank Engine, not Tom Petty and not William Tell.
Yes on Thomas the tank Engine and Tell, but unless you can produce evidence to the contrary, no on Petty.
Should be Tiny Tim got you babe
(Note: I will not be held responsible for any brain damaged caused by clicking on the blurred link. You have been warned!)
1DQ reserved
IQs:
- Are you the main character in Gail Carriger’s Finishing School quartet?
- Are you a writer known for, among other books, The “Good” War?
- Are you a scary doll who famously said “You better be nice to me”?
correct
Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief. / Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef.
Tim Benzedrine (though you’re right about the source)
Two DQs reserved.
Not Tacitus, dunno and dunno.
Dunno, not Tallahassee in Zombieland and dunno.
Dunno and dunno (although I’m sure I’ll recognize the names when I read 'em), and not Toni Trollope.
Dunno, not Studs Terkel and not Tammy.
T.
- fictional
- male
- first name starts with T
IQ1: Originally from prose fiction?
IQ2: American creator(s)?
T.
- fictional
- male
- first name starts with T
- originally from prose fiction
- American creator(s)
Sophronia Temminick, correct and Talky Tina.
IQs:
- Did you famously fall in love with a ghost named Marion Kerby?
- Were you trying to Escape to Witch Mountain?
- Were you #2’s sibling, who was also trying to Escape?
Dunno x3.