Botticelli, September 2025

Thread Games
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Well, darn.

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One of SCA’s DQs: Last name stars with Mj-Mo?

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M

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First and last name begin with M
  4. Living
  5. Known for the arts
  6. Born after Jan. 1, 1950
  7. Best known for the perfoming arts
  8. American
  9. Born before 1975
  10. Born before 1962
  11. Not known for acting
  12. Musician
  13. Caucasian
  14. Not known for dance
  15. Best known as part of a band
  16. Best known as a vocalist
  17. Has not won a Grammy
  18. Known for some variety of rock music
  19. Best known since 1980
  20. Band did not have a Billboard #1 hit
  21. Band not best known with a 4-person lineup
  22. Band has changed some members since 1980
  23. First name starts from Ma-Mi
  24. Last name starts from Mj-Mz
  25. Did not sing about a horse called Wildfire, as near as I can tell
  26. Last name starts from Mj-Mo

ETA: And that’s it for the DQs. Talk amongst yourselves and I’ll take “Are you firstname lastname?” questions until 6 p.m. EDT tomorrow, 9/23.

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No idea who this is.

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Are you Mark Mothersbaugh?

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Now, that is an inspired guess!

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Dingdingding! We have a winner!

Yes, I am

Mark Mothersbaugh

TV and movie theme composer, front man of Dove (the band of love) and also a little side project called DEVO, one of the foremost bands of American New Wave and the subject of a recent Netflix documentary that I watched last week.

Take it away, knoodler!

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Never heard of him.

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I watched the Netflix doc, learned a lot about DEVO. I missed seeing them perform live but enjoyed some of their music (and some I didn’t enjoy).

This segment is brought to you by the letter:

P

As in pirogi, pizza, and pumpkin pie.

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I’ve heard of him. Good one.

On to P!

IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863?
Did Andre Braugher play you on Homicide?
Did an angel presume you were going to die in a bike accident?

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Congrats, Knoodler!

IQs:
1. Was your husband Fang, and your mother-in-law Moby Dick?
2. Speaking of comedy, did Nate Bargatze play you in a skit at, appropriately, the most recent Emmys?
3. Were you married to Madonna?

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Take 2 DQs
I am not… Nic Cage from City of Angels?

Take 2 DQs
I am not Sean Penn

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1 was Phyllis Diller; 2 was inventor and television pioneer Philo Farnsworth.

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

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Previous IQs:

Did you surrender Vicksburg on July 4, 1863? - Gen. Pemberton
Did Andre Braugher play you on Homicide? - Det. Pembleton
Did an angel presume you were going to die in a bike accident? - Not Nic Cage (not a P), but Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) in Heaven Can Wait

Pem/n-ton x3!

DQs:

American?
Male?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Did your last name at birth remain unknown throughout the entire run of a very popular recent sitcom?
Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation?
John Hancock of Massachusetts is better known, but were you the first President of the Continental Congress?

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I am not Penny Hofstedter [sp?]
Take 2 DQs

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P

  1. Real
  2. First name begins with P
  3. American
  4. Male
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IQs:

  1. Were you a Dodgers outfielder whose promising career was cut short due to multiple injuries?
  2. Are you, sixty years since the start of your collegiate career, still the top scorer in NCAA basketball history?
  3. Did your former bandmates put some tracks that included you on their compilation album that helped make your retirement more comfortable?
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IQs:
1. Did you star in The Simple Life?
2. Was there a gentleman’s agreement that no building in the city (of brotherly love) could be taller than the statue of you atop City Hall?
3. Did Mark Mothersbaugh voice himself as part of a future sewer mutant version of Devo in “The Mutants are Revolting”, the 100th episode of the TV show of which you are a character?

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IQs

  1. Did you possibly do it in the Conservatory with a lead pipe?
  2. Were you the voice of Bluebottle in the grease-encrusted, zeppelin-lined, slightly volcanic 1950s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
  3. Did you have a nasty habit of nailing people’s heads to the furniture?
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Previous IQs:

Did your last name at birth remain unknown throughout the entire run of a very popular recent sitcom? - Yes, Penny from Big Bang Theory
Were you First Speaker of the Second Foundation? - Preem Palver, in the Foundation books of Isaac Asimov
John Hancock of Massachusetts is better known, but were you the first President of the Continental Congress? - Peyton Randolph of Virginia

DQs:

Living?
Best known for the Arts?

IQs:

Were you the best-known person born on Corfu?
Were you “trainer to the gods” in Disney’s Hercules?
A Harvard Law grad, were you named to the US District Court for the Northern District of Ohio five years ago?