Botticelli - Sept. 2024

Thread Games
141

#1 is correct.
#2 was Oliver Reed.
#3 is Orpheus.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with O?
142

O

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name starts with O.
143

Congrats!

  1. Are you the rightful ruler of Oz?
  2. Are you her cousin, the Rose Princess?
  3. Are you the subject of Margot Mifflin’s book The Blue Tattoo?
144

Yes, Patton Oswalt, yes

DQ: Created after 1950?

145

IQs:

  1. Did you take in your best friend after his wife threw him out?
  2. Did Stephen King write about your unique shortcut?
  3. Are you known for sleeping in filth?
146

IQs:

  1. Did Robin William play you in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet?
  2. According to Isaac Asimov’s Familiar Poems, Annotated, were you another name for Xerxes I of Persia?
  3. Did you write the poem Custard the Dragon?
147

I am not Princess Ozma.
Take 2 DQs.

I am not Oscar Madison.
Take a DQ.
I am not Oscar the Grouch.

I am not… Ophelia? (boy that would be an interesting artistic choice)
Take 2 DQs.

148

O

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name starts with O.
  3. Created before 1950.
149

Yes, Ophelia Todd (“Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut”), yes

1 DQ reserved

150

IQs:

  1. Are you the source of animosity between two brawling seamen?
  2. Are you sometimes known as Rongo or Lono?
  3. Is your codename Cottonmouth?
151

#1 was Osric, a courtier. A very small role.
#2 was Ozymandias, King of Kings.
#3 was Ogden Nash.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Originally from prose fiction (does not include plays)?
  3. Created after 1800?
152

Previous IQs:

Did you (fictionally) serve as South African minister of justice? - Otto (Kevin Kline) in A Fish Called Wanda
Did you allegedly remark, “Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never see either made”? - Yes, Otto von Bismarck
Were the prop guys in a movie able to make your head spin around, although they weren’t originally asked to? - Otto the Autopilot, in Airplane!

Otto x3!

DQs:

American?
Protagonist?

IQs:

Did you ask for more gruel?
Was Fawn Hall your secretary?
Are you shown in a large painting in the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse?

153

I am not Olive Oyl.
Take 2 DQs.

I am not Oliver Twist.
I am not Oliver North.
I am not… Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.?

154

O

DQs:

  1. Fictional.
  2. First name starts with O.
  3. Created before 1950.
  4. Male.
  5. Originally from prose fiction.
  6. Created after 1800.
  7. Not American.
  8. Not a protagonist.
155

Correct, Ozga, Olive Oatman.

2 DQs reserved

156

Previous IQs:

Did you ask for more gruel? - Yes, Oliver Twist
Was Fawn Hall your secretary? - Yes, Lt. Col. Oliver North, USMC
Are you shown in a large painting in the atrium of the Ohio Statehouse? - This is Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, USN, victor of the Battle of Lake Erie

Oliver x3!

DQ:

From genre fiction (sf, fantasy, detective, Western, etc.)?

IQs:

Did you and John Delaney just have a kid?
Are you a friendly little girl pig in a series of children’s books?
Have you played both a real-life mother and her daughter in a movie and a TV show, respectively?

157
  1. Correct
  2. Ono, Hawiian god of regeneration and abundance
  3. O-Ren Ishi, Kill Bill

DQs:

  1. Created after 1900?
  2. Appeared once in media (not part of a series)?
  3. Known for having an assistant or companion?
158

IQs:

  1. Are you Spider-Man’s most armed foe?
  2. Did you run for president on the National Radical Meadow Party ticket?
  3. Were you hounded to death by the Furies for killing your mother?
159

I am not Olivia Munn.
I am not Olivia.
I am not… Olivia de Haviland?

I am not Doctor Octopus.
I am not Opus the penguin.
I am not… I was going to say Oedipus, but that’s wrong. Take a DQ.

160

Correct, correct, and Orestes, who slew Clytemnestra for killing his father Agamemnon on his return from the Trojan War. Granted, she’d been more than peeved at Agamemnon since he killed her first husband in front of her, then claimed her as a prize of another war.

1 DQ reserved.