Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
101

IQs:

  1. Did you play Prof. Sprout in the Harry Potter movies?
  2. Did you play a surly waiter in The Muppet Movie?
  3. Did you paint The Scream?

[In The Scream the person on the bridge is not screaming. He is reacting to hearing the scream of the entire world.]

102
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Edvard Munch
103

Good job, SMV!

I will note, however, that Fani Willis does not hold “statewide office,” but countywide office (DQ 14).

On to M.

IQs:

Did you lead The Citadel after WWII?
Were you jokingly nicknamed “Hamlet on the Hudson”?
Were you the Red Priestess?

104

#1 was

105
  1. I am not…Mark Clark?
  2. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Melisandre.

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.

I caught that, too. And she probably never will hold state-wide office in Georgia, either, unfortunately. Got a big fan club in the Atlanta area, though.

106

I stand corrected.

DQs:

  1. Were you arguably the most famous mime of the 20th Century?
  2. Are you married to Big Barda?
  3. Did you pen the play The Misanthrope?
107

Previous IQs:

Did you lead The Citadel after WWII? - Yes, Gen. Mark Clark
Were you jokingly nicknamed “Hamlet on the Hudson”? - Mario Cuomo, when he agonized over running for President and then, later, accepting a SCOTUS appointment from Bill Clinton
Were you the Red Priestess? - Yes, Melisandre

DQ:

The real person is alive today?

IQs:

Did you insist on cooking even when ordered not to?
Did you mistake your fatal tumor for a pregnancy?
Were you Duchess of York for a time?

108
  1. I am not Marcel Marceau (sp?).
  2. Take a DQ. I think it’s the villainous innkeeper from Les Miserables, but I can’t think of his name.
  3. I am not … Molière?
  1. I am not “Typhoid Mary” Mallon.
  2. I am not “Bloody Mary” I of England
  3. I am not … Mary, Queen of Scots? (Guessing it’s another Mary, but the only Duchess of York I can think of is Sarah Ferguson).

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
109

Correct on 1 and 3.
#2 is Mr. Miracle in DC comics. (Major Molineux is the character you’re probably thinking of.)

DQ: Male?

110

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
111

Previous IQs:

Did you insist on cooking even when ordered not to? - Yes, “Typhoid Mary”
Did you mistake your fatal tumor for a pregnancy? - Yes, Mary I of England
Were you Duchess of York for a time? - Mary of Teck, the future wife of King George V

Mary x3!

DQ:

American?

IQs:

Are you Bart Simpson’s best friend?
Are you AKA Gandalf and Tharkun?
Did you lead the Thermians?

112

DQs:

  1. In Catch-22, are you the mess officer of Yassarian’s squadron?
  2. Are you the hero of a series of books by Lois McMaster Bujold?
  3. Did Julie Andrews play you in a musical about a 1920’s girl out to marry her boss?
113
  1. Oh, hell this is frustrating. I can see him. Blue hair, glasses. Not “Milquetoast”, but something that evokes it. Myron? Melvin? Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Mithrandir.
  3. Just like 1. Played by the guy who was the photographer on Just Shoot Me. Enrico Colasanti. But I can’t think of the character’s name, dammit.
  1. I am not Milo Minderbinder.
  2. I am not Lord Auditor Count Miles Vorkosigan of Barrayar (as of Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen).
  3. No clue. Take a DQ.
114

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
115

Previous IQs:

Are you Bart Simpson’s best friend? - Milhouse
Are you AKA Gandalf and Tharkun? - Yes, Mithrandir, the “Grey Pilgrim”
Did you lead the Thermians? - Mathezar (sp?), in Galaxy Quest

DQs:

European?
First appeared in or since 1900?

IQs:

Are you mentioned once, and only once, in Amadeus?
Is Al Pacino’s character named after you in a movie with Charlize Theron?
Did Gary Jennings write a book about your travels?

116

Take 3 DQs.

117

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
118

Correct, Correct, and Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie.

DQ: Appeared before 1500?

119

DQs:

  1. Fictionalized version of a real person.
  2. Last name begins with “M”.
  3. The real person is dead.
  4. Male.
  5. Not American.
  6. European from an American point of view; the real man probably would not have described himself as such.
  7. Appeared before 1900.
  8. Fictional character appeared after 1500; historic original born before then.
120

Previous IQs:

Are you mentioned once, and only once, in Amadeus? - Marie Antoinette (sister of the Emperor)
Is Al Pacino’s character named after you in a movie with Charlize Theron? - John Milton, in Devil’s Advocate
Did Gary Jennings write a book about your travels? - Marco Polo

DQs:

Historic original dead by 1600?
First appeared in print?
Considered a “good guy”?

IQs:

Were you a prominent financier of the American Revolution?
Were you shot to death in San Francisco city hall?
Were you, too?