Botticelli - September 2017

Thread Games
101

Sorry. Didn’t show up in my queue.

Dunno x2.

Also dunno.

Dunno, not St. Stephen (my Episcopal home parish was St. Stephen’s!), and not the Saint.

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with S
  4. not created by an American author or authors
  5. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  6. not created after 1900
  7. created after 1800
  8. not from a song or poem
  9. from a work by a European creator
  10. from a work written originally in English
  11. not the protagonist
  12. British character
  13. from a play or opera
102

#1 was St. Swithin.

DQs:

  1. From a play?
  2. Antagonist?

1 DQ reserved.

103

Sergius Saranoff (Arms and the Man).
Strephon (Iolanthe).

Wilfred Shadbolt (The Yeoman of the Guard).
Three DQs reserved.

104

I once knew a man named Swithin, as it happens.

S.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. last name starts with S
  4. not created by an American author or authors
  5. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  6. not created after 1900
  7. created after 1800
  8. not from a song or poem
  9. from a work by a European creator
  10. from a work written originally in English
  11. not the protagonist
  12. British character
  13. from a play or opera
  14. not from a play
  15. not antagonist
105

IQ: Could you hum a fugue of which you’d heard the music’s din afore,?

106

Why, SCA! That is the very model of a modern Botticelli question!

107

Dingdingding! Yes, I am the very model of a modern major-general,

Major-General Stanley

of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance (I don’t think we’re ever told his first name): The Pirates of Penzance - Wikipedia

Well done, SCAdian!

108

For he is the Botticelli King! He is the Botticelli King!

109

And it is, it is a glorious thing to be a Botticelli King!
I am T.

110

IQs:

  1. Did you write the hymn Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me?
  2. Did you hang around with Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog?
  3. Did you write Penrod and Sam?
111

IQs:

Did your several nicknames include “Old Slow-Trot”?
Were you a senior Starfleet officer who said not a word in your only on-screen appearance?
Did you put together your own Bible that mostly focused on Jesus’s words of wisdom?

112

IQ1: Did your confederacy of tribes ally with the British during the War of 1812?
IQ2: Are you a Native American chief who fought against Hernando do Soto and for whom a city in Alabama is named?
IQ3: Did you play Hiro Nakamura’s father in Heroes?

113

DQ.
DQ.
Not … Mark Twain?

Not Gen George Thomas.
DQ.
Not … William Tyndale?

Not Tecumseh.
Not … Tuscaloosa?
DQ.

114

#1 was Augustus Toplady.
#2 was Tom Terrific.
#3 was Booth Tarkington.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with T?
115

IQs:

  1. Are you Alvin and Simon’s brother?
  2. Did you write Fathers and Sons?
  3. Did you often use the phrase “bless your pea-pickin’ heart”?
116

Not Theodore.
DQ.
DQ.

T

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Last name does not start with T
117

Correct on Alvin.
#2 was Ivan Turgenev.
#3 was Tennessee Ernie Ford.

DQs:

  1. Alive?
  2. American?
118

IQs:

  1. Were you assassinated with an axe in Mexico?
  2. Did the Disney Studios make a movie about your three lives?
  3. Did the old hootie-owl hootie-hoo to the dove about your love-life?
119

George Takei

holding a DQ

120

IQ1: Did you write the Discworld books?
IQ2: Are you a former Steelers QB who now takes part in FOX NFL Sunday?
IQ3: Did you play Jadzia Dax in ST: Deep Space 9?