Botticelli, September 2025

Thread Games
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DQ: Corporate HQ in Pacific Time zone?

2 DQs reserved.

142

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with J
  4. American
  5. Born before 1950
  6. Dead
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for politics
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Known for business or industry
  11. Known in connection with a company
  12. Born before 1900
  13. Company bears my name
  14. Company still in existence
  15. Last name begins with N-Z
  16. Born after 1850
  17. Best known as retail stores, but many of their items are manufactured specifically for them
  18. On the Fortune 500 list
  19. Corporate HQ west of the Mississippi River
  20. Corporate HQ south of the Mason-Dixon Line
  21. Corporate HQ not in Pacific Time zone
143

DQ: Corporate HQ in Central Time zone?

1 DQ reserved.

144

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with J
  4. American
  5. Born before 1950
  6. Dead
  7. Not known for the Arts
  8. Not known for politics
  9. Died before 2000
  10. Known for business or industry
  11. Known in connection with a company
  12. Born before 1900
  13. Company bears my name
  14. Company still in existence
  15. Last name begins with N-Z
  16. Born after 1850
  17. Best known as retail stores, but many of their items are manufactured specifically for them
  18. On the Fortune 500 list
  19. Corporate HQ west of the Mississippi River
  20. Corporate HQ south of the Mason-Dixon Line
  21. Corporate HQ not in Pacific Time zone
  22. Corporate HQ in Central Time Zone
145

Okay. No more DQs, and please ask all final “Are you FirstName LastName?” questions by 8pm EDT tomorrow.

146

Are you James Cash Penney?

147

Excellent work, knoodler!

Yes, I am the perpetually dour-faced

J. C. Penney.

148

Thanks Prof! I worked in the Boys Clothing department at JC Penney while in high school.

Our next letter:

H

149

IQs:

  1. Were you frequently found to be in the company of the delightful Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed, teeth-gnashing, underwater racing, electrothermal 1950’s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
  2. Did Erik Weisz swipe his stage performer name from you?
  3. Were you “a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor, who grew up to be a hero and a scholar?”
150

DQ
I am not Harry Houdini
DQ (Although I have heard that epithet, I can’t match the source.)

151

IQ1: Are you now known as Shōwa?
IQ2: Did a Des Moines columnist say that you would be tried by a jury of your peers (well, your financial inferiors and intellectual superiors – it would all balance out)?
ID3: Were you accidentally killed in a fall whilst attempting to escape from a small Scottish town?

152

#1 was Henry Crum.
#2 was not Harry Houdini (who was Erik), but magician Jean-Eugene Houdin, whose name Erik swiped.
#3 is the first line from the musical Hamilton. Alexander, that is.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with H?
153

Take 3 DQs

154

Hamilton! /slaps head

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with H
155

Hirohito
Patty Hearst
Harry Beaton, in Brigadoon


DQ1: Living
DQ2: Known for the Arts?
One DQ reserved.

156

H

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name begins with H
  4. Dead
  5. Not known for the Arts
157

Congrats, Knoodler!

IQs:
1. Do you play one of the titular group in The Thursday Murder Club?
2. Were you very close to Clyde Tolson?
3. Did you also write Go Set a Watchman?

158

Penney! Excellent get!

IQs:

  1. Have you played a burnout DJ, a high school teacher, and a small-time Chicago pimp?
  2. Are you an aerospace engineer who always hangs out at his friends’ apartment?
  3. Were you known as “The Christian General” during the Civil War?
159

Take 3 DQs

DQ
I am not Howard Wololwitz (sp?)
DQ

160

1 was Helen Mirren; 2 was J. Edgar Hoover; 3 was Harper Lee.

DQs:
1. American?
2. died after 1980?
3. last name begins from A-M?