Botticelli, September 2025

Thread Games
81

Previous IQs:

Did you write the screenplay for Spielberg’s movie Lincoln? - Yes, Tony Kushner
Did you advise that person to take the job? - Yes, Doris Kearns Goodwin, who told him, “Whether this project is a success or a failure, you will be glad to have spent a few years with Lincoln.”
Did you apologize for spitting on the carpet of your posh future father-in-law’s carpet? - Shabby, Ken Shabby, in a Monty Python sketch

DQ:

Lead character?

IQs:

Were you, perhaps unfairly, the bad guy in the movie Breaker Morant?
Did you end up marrying the title character in Jane Austen’s Emma?
Have you played, among other roles, a duchess, a codebreaker, an intelligence analyst, a governor’s daughter and a bounty hunter?

82

1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Ed Koch.
3. Take a DQ.

Respectively:
I am not Lord Kitchener.
I am not Mr. Knightley.
I am not Keira Knightley.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. not from a novel
3. female
4. American creators
5. first appeared after 1945
6. side character

83

IQs:

  1. Did you play the lead female character in Animal House?
  2. Were you a regular on Will & Grace?
  3. Did you appear in the music video “Happy Idiot” by TV On the Radio?
84

Keesha, Kaliko and Kristy McNichol.

DQs:

  1. Caucasian?
  2. From a movie?
  3. From a genre?
85

#1 was Jill Kinmont.
Correct on #2.
#3 was Karla Devito.

DQs:

  1. First name begins with K?
  2. First appeared after 1985?
86

1. I am not Karen Allen.
2. I am not Karen.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. not from a novel
3. female
4. American creators
5. first appeared after 1945
6. side character
7. Caucasian, sort of
8. not from a movie
9. from a genre
10. last name begins with K
11. first appeared after 1985

87

#1 was Kennedy.
#2 is correct.
#3 was Kratos.

DQs:

  1. Cartoon or comic book character?
  2. First appeared after 2010?
88

Correct
Correct (Karen Walker)
Karen Gillan (Amy Pond, Dr Who)

Karen x3!

1 DQ reserved

89

Swept me!

IQs:

Are you the Ohio Senate minority leader?
Did you illustrate Melville’s Moby-Dick with black and white woodblock prints?
Did you, for one, welcome our new insect overlords?

90

IQs:

  1. Did you, along with H. G. Wells and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sign a declaration accusing Germany of brutally invading Belgium during WWI?
  2. Was your father the first African-American to be granted tenure at Stanford University’s economics department?
  3. Was your burial kept secret, as per ancient customs of your people, even from your royal successors?
91

Respectively:
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.
I am not Kent Brockman.

1. I am not Rudyard Kipling.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Gengis Khan?

DQs:
1. fictional
2. not from a novel
4. female
5. American creators
6. first appeared after 1945
7. side character
8. Caucasian, sort of
9. not from a movie
10. from a genre
11. last name begins with K
12. first appeared after 1985
13. cartoon or comic book character
14. first appeared before 2010

92

Correct
Kamela Harris (hopefully no one has used this name)
King Kamehameha I (Your answer of Genghis Khan is appropriate, but insofar as I know Khan personally requested his site be kept secret, while Kamehameha’s burial followed early Hawaiian customs)

3 DQs reserved (pending)

93

Nitpick: it’s “Kamala.”

Previous IQs:

Are you the Ohio Senate minority leader? - Kent Smith
Did you illustrate Melville’s Moby-Dick with black and white woodblock prints? - Rockwell Kent (and they were amazing)
Did you, for one, welcome our new insect overlords? - Yes, Kent Brockman, on The Simpsons

Kent x3!

DQs:

American character?
Married or has a steady boyfriend?

IQs:

Did you play Ted Baxter?
Did Prof. Josiah Thompson of Haverford U. write an acclaimed bio of you?
Were you a top US Navy admiral in WWII?

94

IQs:

  1. Did you create Dennis the Menace?
  2. Were you the Elegant Elephant of Oz?
  3. Were you Premier of the Soviet Union in the 1970’s?
95

Respectively:
I am not Ted Knight.
Take a DQ.
Take a DQ.

1. I am not Hank Ketcham.
2. I am not Kabumpo.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. not from a novel
4. female
5. American creators
6. first appeared after 1945
7. side character
8. Caucasian, sort of
9. not from a movie
10. from a genre
11. last name begins with K
12. first appeared after 1985
13. cartoon or comic book character
14. first appeared before 2010
15. American character
16. has been married, has had a steady boyfriend

96

IQs:

  1. Were you the head cheerleader at Bayside High?
  2. Did you sing a massive hit in 1985 (and don’t it feel good?)
  3. Were you a former secretary and new wife on Dynasty?
97

Correct, Correct, and Alexei Kosygin.

lDQ: From comic books?

98

1. I am not Kelly Kapowski.
2. Take a DQ.
3. Take a DQ.

DQs:
1. fictional
2. not from a novel
4. female
5. American creators
6. first appeared after 1945
7. side character
8. Caucasian, sort of
9. not from a movie
10. from a genre
11. last name begins with K
12. first appeared after 1985
13. cartoon or comic book character
14. first appeared before 2010
15. American character
16. has been married, has had a steady boyfriend
17. not originally from comic books/comic strips

99

Previous IQs:

Did you play Ted Baxter? - Yes, Ted Knight
Did Prof. Josiah Thompson of Haverford U. write an acclaimed bio of you? - Soren Kierkegaard
Were you a top US Navy admiral in WWII? - Ernest J. King

DQs:

Considered a beauty?
From sf or fantasy?

100

Correct on #1.
#2 was Katrina Leskanich, lead singer of Katrina and the Waves.
#3 was Krystle Carrington.

2 DQs reserved.