Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
81

IQs:
1. Did you co-found Apple?
2. Did you illustrate the Oz books?
3. Currently, are you running a magic shop in Lotkill, NY, that has the Last Door–open to anyone in need?

82
  1. I am not Steve Wozniak.
  2. I am not W. W. Denslow (though John R. Neill illustrated more than W. W.).
  3. I am not Wanda Maximov, the Scarlet Witch.
83

Good job, Prof. P.! I had no idea Scrooge McDuck had dual citizenship. (And that’s a sentence I never expected to write!)

IQs:

Did your much shorter wife call you “Old Man”?
Were you that wife?
Were you allegedly introduced to that “Old Man” by your Scottish nanny when you were a wee lad?

84

A clean sweep!

IQs:
1. Are you an African-American artist known for your silhouettes and giant sugar sculpture, “A Subtlety”?
2. A space explorer with an unusual relationship to time, were you sent to a mysterious farm with the other superheroes after the battle with Anti-God in Black Hammer?
3. Are you Archie and Lillibet’s uncle?

85

IQs:

  1. Were you the avatar of a Native American trickster god in American Gods?
  2. Were you the patriarch of a famous Flying family?
  3. Were you a controversial former U.N. Secretary General?
86
  1. I am not George Washington (??).
  2. I am not Martha Washington (??).
  3. Take a DQ.

Take 2 DQs.

  1. I am not Prince William.
  1. I am not Mr. Walenda.
    Take 2 DQs.
87

1 was Kara Walker; 2 was Colonel Weird.

DQs:
1. elected to position involving law?
2. in the news lately?

88

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
  11. Elected to position involving law
  12. In the news recently
89

Previous IQs:

Did your much shorter wife call you “Old Man”? - Yes, George Washington
Were you that wife? - Yes, Martha Washington
Were you allegedly introduced to that “Old Man” by your Scottish nanny when you were a wee lad? - Washington Irving, on a Manhattan street

Washington x3!

DQ:

Holds Federal office?

IQs:

Are you the Governor of Michigan?
Did you play Josh Lyman?
Did you decline a social call because your would-be hostess’s house was on fire?

90

IQs:
1. Did you advise us to stand by our men?
2. Were you Mabel’s pig in Gravity Falls?
3. Were you Secretary of the Interior under Ronald Reagan?

91

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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
  11. Elected to position involving law
  12. In the news recently
  13. Does not hold federal office
92
  1. I am not Gretchen Whitmer.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Tammy Wynette.
    Take 2 DQs.
93

Previous IQs:

Are you the Governor of Michigan? - Yes, Gretchen Whitmer
Did you play Josh Lyman? - Bradley Whitford, on The West Wing
Did you decline a social call because your would-be hostess’s house was on fire? - President Woodrow Wilson, while once driving through rural Alabama, noticed a house was on fire on an upper floor. He and a Secret Service guard knocked on the door, and the lady of the house invited them in. Wilson said, “Thank you, ma’am, but we must decline. Your house is on fire!” They helped her carry things out until the fire department arrived.

DQ:

Holds statewide office?

IQs:

Were you Elizabeth I’s spymaster?
Were you once DA of Alameda County, Cal.?
Were you “Scoop” Jackson’s U.S. Senate colleague from Washington State?

94

2 was Waddles; 3 was James G. Watt.

DQ: African-American?

1 DQ reserved.

95

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
  11. Elected to position involving law
  12. In the news recently
  13. Does not hold federal office
  14. Holds statewide office
  15. African-American

EH, we’ve already had Woodrow Wilson in a previous IQ, so your 2nd DQ is remitted.

96
  1. I am not Sir Walter Raleigh (??)
    Take 2 DQs.
97

1 was Whiskey Jack. Correct on 2, although it’s spelled “Wallenda”. 3 was Kurt Waldheim.

DQs:

  1. Are you an officer of the court?
  2. Are you from Georgia?

IQs:

  1. Were you a segregationist governor of Alabama?
  2. Where you a Supreme Court justice nicknamed “Whizzer”?
  3. Are you the District Attorney of Fulton County?
98

Understood, and thanks, Prof. P.

Previous IQs:

Were you Elizabeth I’s spymaster? - Not Raleigh, but Sir Francis Walsingham
Were you once DA of Alameda County, Cal.? - Earl Warren
Were you “Scoop” Jackson’s U.S. Senate colleague from Washington State? - Warren G. Magnuson

Three DQs reserved.

99
  1. I am not George Wallace.
  2. I am not Byron White.

But, YES, I am

Fani Willis!

Good job, SMV!

100

Okay, new round!

I am M