Botticelli - Sept 2026

Thread Games
101

DQs

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with T
  3. Male
  4. Non-American creator(s)
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Created before 1985
  7. Did not first appear in prose
  8. First appeared in movies or TV
  9. First appeared in a movie
  10. Created by Europeans
  11. First appeared after 1967
  12. Human
  13. From a live action film
  14. From a sci-fi or fantasy movie
  15. First appeared before 1976
  16. Created by British people
102
  1. I am not Lionel Twain.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Mr. Tupper.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Quentin Tarentino.
  2. I am not the Terminator.
  3. I am not Thomas Jefferson.
103

We now have 20 or more DQs, so no more IQs, please.
Please ask all remaining DQs by 8 pm EDT tomorrow.

104

1 was Tracey Ullman; 3 was Tad Strange.

DQ: from a sci-fi film?

1 DQ reserved.

105
  1. Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson; The Shining)
  2. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson; Zombieland)
  3. Correct

4 DQs reserved

106

DQs:

First appeared before 1970?
Appeared as star or leading man?

2 DQs reserved

107

Correct on all three, swept me

2DQs reserved

108

DQ1: Name begins with Ta-Th?

109

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DQs

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with T
  3. Male
  4. Non-American creator(s)
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Created before 1985
  7. Did not first appear in prose
  8. First appeared in movies or TV
  9. First appeared in a movie
  10. Created by Europeans
  11. First appeared after 1967
  12. Human
  13. From a live action film
  14. From a sci-fi or fantasy movie
  15. First appeared before 1976
  16. Created by British people
  17. Not from a sci-fi film
  18. First appeared after 1970
  19. Supporting character, small role
  20. Name begins with Ti - Tz
110

DQ: Are you a wizard?

111

DQs

  1. Fictional
  2. Only name begins with T
  3. Male
  4. Non-American creator(s)
  5. Created after 1950
  6. Created before 1985
  7. Did not first appear in prose
  8. First appeared in movies or TV
  9. First appeared in a movie
  10. Created by Europeans
  11. First appeared after 1967
  12. Human
  13. From a live action film
  14. From a sci-fi or fantasy movie
  15. First appeared before 1976
  16. Created by British people
  17. Not from a sci-fi film
  18. First appeared after 1970
  19. Supporting character, small role
  20. Name begins with Ti - Tz
  21. A wizard
112

DQ: Were you portrayed by John Cleese?

113

Yes, knoodler,

Well done, you who are wise in the ways of the Python!

For anyone who can’t see the picture, it’s Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

114

LOL, Thanks, Prof! I would say I am as big a Python fan as you are to The Goon Show.

115

Let’s get this going!

I am

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116

Tim, I have heard of this Tim. I think I know the quote much better than I do the source material.

New questions:

  1. Did you portray one of the major characters in Lawrence of Arabia?
  2. Were you the title character in a Dickens novel (Also musical)?
  3. Are you a character in Hamlet?
117

Take a DQ
I am not Oliver Twist
I am not Ophelia

118

Some Call Me Tim used to play Botticelli with us, but apparently we lost him during the switch to Discourse. I figured he was probably quoting something, but had no idea what. (Yes, I’ve seen the movie. Once. In 1993.)

119
  1. Omar Sharif
  2. Oliver Twist, correct
  3. Ophelia. Correct

DQ: Real?

New IQs

  1. Are you the leader of the Transformers?
  2. Did you marry your mother and kill your father?
  3. Did a movie about your life star Sandra Bullock?
120

IQs

  1. Have you been an elf, a swordmaker, and Katy Perry’s boyfriend?
  2. Have you been portrayed by both Jeff Goldblum and Richard Pryor?
  3. Did Robin Williams play you in Branagh’s Hamlet?