Botticelli - Sept. 2024

Thread Games
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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. A protagonist, but not the main viewpoint character.
  9. From genre fiction.
  10. Created after 1900.
  11. Appeared once in media.
  12. Part of a group of companions.

Note change to response to question #8 above, from “not a protagonist”.

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DQ: From a series of stories?

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  1. was Offenbach. Correct on the other two.

DQ: from printed media?

IQs:

  1. Did you conduct a vicious scientific feud with your fellow paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope?
  2. Were you a bicycle maker from Ohio, who decided to diversify?
  3. Were you a superhero who took your name from a Shelley poem?
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IQs:

  1. Were you part of a TV show in Chicago in the late forties?
  2. Are you one of Snoopy’s siblings?
  3. Does your image appear in the food section of supermarket shelves?
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Stopping for a moment just to admire the cleverness of this question.

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I was going to say that Oedipus was correct: once Queen Jocasta learned of his true identity, she killed herself and Oedipus blinded himself, and was hounded by Furies for his crime.

167

I am not… the other guy in the Dinosaur Bone Wars whose name escapes me. Take a DQ.
I am not Orville Wright.
I am not Ozymandias from Watchmen.

I am not Oprah Winfrey, 'cause it seems like she’s been on TV forever. Oh, take a DQ.
I am not… oh, I was thinking of Spike. Take another DQ.
I am not Orville Redenbacher.

Yes, that was brilliant. Would make a great crossword clue!

168

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. A protagonist, but not the main viewpoint character.
  9. From genre fiction.
  10. Created after 1900.
  11. Appeared once in media.
  12. Part of a group of companions.
  13. From a series of stories connected by author and genre(s), but otherwise unrelated.
  14. From printed media. (See question 5, is there a distinction between the two being made here?)
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Previous IQs:

Did you and John Delaney just have a kid? - Yes, Olivia Munn
Are you a friendly little girl pig in a series of children’s books? - Yes, Olivia
Have you played both a real-life mother and her daughter in a movie and a TV show, respectively? - British actress Olivia Colman played the future Queen Mum in Hyde Park on Hudson and her daughter, Queen Elizabeth II, on The Crown

Olivia x3!

DQ:

European character?

IQs:

Did two of your early hits feature a very deep bass backup singer?
Did you refuse to obey segregation laws in your native New Orleans (maybe the only good thing you ever did)?
Did you boss around your tailors, the Fanucci brothers?

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  1. Ollie, of Kukla, Fran & Ollie fame
  2. Olaf (heavyset, wears a winter hat with flaps upturned)
  3. I was thinking of King Oscar II of Sweden, and King Oscar Sardines, but you’ve answered my question correctly, so I’ll leave it at that.

2 DQs reserved

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IQs:

  1. Did you inspire a rebellion of pigs at Manor Farm?
  2. Did you pretend to be part of the resistance in 1984?
  3. Were you one of Christopher Robin’s stuffed toys?
172

I am not Olivia Newton-John.
Take 2 DQs.

I am not Old Major.
I am not O’Brien.
I am not Owl.

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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. A protagonist, but not the main viewpoint character.
  9. From genre fiction.
  10. Created after 1900.
  11. Appeared once in media.
  12. Part of a group of companions.
  13. From a series of stories connected by author and genre(s), but otherwise unrelated.
  14. From printed media. (See question 5, is there a distinction between the two being made here?)
  15. Not European.

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle , was there a distinction between 5 & 14, above?

We’re getting close to our DQ limit, but there’s still time for more IQs.

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Othniel Charles Marsh. Correct on the other two.

My DQ about print media referred to comic books; I was guessing that maybe the correct answer was Watchman’s Ozymandias. So I stand by it.

DQ: Surname begins N - Z?

IQs:

  1. Was your partner always getting you into fine messes?
  2. Were you assassinated in 1928, before you could begin your second term as President of Mexico?
  3. Are you the current President of Mexico?
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DQs:

  1. Are you human?
  2. Appear in movie/s?
176

Never heard of her.

Nitpick: Wednesday is the day of the week named for Woden – Wodensday.

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And Woden is one of many variants that includes Odin. Odin is also Wednesday in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

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If he actually calls him “Wednesday”, I’m glad I haven’t read it.

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“You can call me Mr. Wednesday.”

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I am not Oliver Hardy.
Take a DQ.
I am not Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

TIL that Mexico’s Presidency hasn’t always been term-limited to a single six-year term.