Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
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DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. American and other nationality
4. is a living character in-story/stories
5. not from prose literature
6. first name starts with S
7. has appeared in movies, but not best known for them
8. other nationality is European
9. first appeared before 1950
10. first appeared after 1900
11. originally a side character, also went on to appear as main character in own stories
12. from stories sometimes with fantastical and sci-fi elements (or arguably always with a fantastical element)
13. other nationality is from the British Isles
14. more or less “good”
15. originally from a cartoon/comic book/comic strip/animation
16. created by an American
17. last name starts A - M
18. not originally from but has appeared in multiple TV cartoons
19. did not originate in newspaper comics
20. not human (but considered as human, in nonhuman form, by creator)
21. not from Marvel comics
22. not from superhero comics

62

DQ:

Comic was set in the present day when it first came out?

63

DQs:
1. fictional
2. male
3. American and other nationality (immigrated to US)
4. is a living character in-story/stories
5. not from prose literature
6. first name starts with S
7. has appeared in movies, but not best known for them
8. other nationality is European
9. first appeared before 1950
10. first appeared after 1900
11. originally a side character, also went on to appear as main character in own stories
12. from stories sometimes with fantastical and sci-fi elements (or arguably always with a fantastical element)
13. other nationality is from the British Isles
14. more or less “good”, with one major negative personality trait
15. originally from a cartoon/comic book/comic strip/animation
16. created by an American
17. last name starts A - M
18. not originally from but has appeared in multiple TV cartoons
19. did not originate in newspaper comics
20. not human (but considered as human, in nonhuman form, by creator)
21. not from Marvel comics
22. not from superhero comics
23. appeared (and appears) in stories contemporary to when they came out, has also appeared in flashback period stories

(Note clarifications to answers 3 and 14.)

Well, we are long past the deadline, so that wraps it up for DQs. Please get in all your final questions (in the form of “Are you First-name Last-name”) by 1:37AM EDT Monday.

64

Hmm. I have no idea who this is.

65

Final Q: Are you Scrooge McDuck?

66

Yes, I am indeed the Terror of the Transvaal…the Birdman of Wall Street…the one and only Uncle $crooge McDuck!

Next game goes to the Prof.

67

I figured there couldn’t be too many funny animal anthropomorphs from the British Isles before 1950.

Next round:

W!

68

Congratulations, @Prof.Pepperwinkle! I’d have never gotten that.

IQs:

  1. Were you seven feet tall, and could shoot lightning bolts out of your arse. Allegedly?
  2. Did Abraham Lincoln’s campaign manager hire a man, locally famous for his loud voice, to shout down your delegates at the 1860 Republican Convention?
  3. Did you coach a perennially bad football team whose quarterback guaranteed, and subsequently delivered, a win in Super Bowl III?
69

IQs:
1. Are you an anthropomorphic animal from the British Isles before 1950?
2. Are you another anthropomorphic animal from the British Isles before 1950?
3. Did Edward abdicate for you?

70
  1. I am not William Wallace.
    Take 2 DQs.

I really oughta know those. Take 2 DQs.
3. I am not Wallis Simpson.

71

1 was Winnie the Pooh; 2 was the White Rabbit.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name begins with W?

72

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name begins with W
73

Correct on Wallace. 2 was William Seward, the Republican frontrunner in the 1860 presidential campaign, who later served as Lincoln’s Secretary of State. 3 was Wilbur “Weeb” Ewbank, coach of the 1970 New York Jets.

DQs:

  1. Female?
  2. Living?

IQs:

  1. Were you an American president who as a child met and shook hands with Robert E. Lee?
  2. Were you No. 1’s successor?
  3. Were you a left-handed pitcher for the Braves, the subject of a rhyme about the team’s pitching strategy: “[You] and Sain and pray for rain?”
74

IQs:
1. Were you a bearded 19th-century cricketer?
2. Were you in the shitty Adam Sandler remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town?
3. Did you direct Small Time Crooks?

75

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Female
  4. Living
76

So, one and two are either William S. Taft and Woodrow Wilson, or Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding. Hmmmm.

1.- 2. I am not Taft and Wilson.
Take a DQ for 3.

Take 3 DQs.

77

1 was W.G. Grace; 2 was Winona Ryder; 3 was Woody Allen.

DQs:
1. American?
2. born after 1960?
3. known from the arts?

78

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Female
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Born after 1960
  7. Not known for the Arts
79

You were close! A very young Woodrow Wilson encountered Robert E. Lee at a procession in Augusta, Georgia. So 2 was of course Warren G. Harding. 3 was Warren Spahn.

DQs:

  1. Known for politics/military?
  2. Athlete?
  3. First name starts A - M?
80

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Last name starts with W
  3. Female
  4. Living
  5. American
  6. Born after 1960
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Known for elected office
  9. Not an athlete
  10. First name starts with A-M