Botticellii -- Dec 2025

Thread Games
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1 & 2. Take 2 DQs.
3. I am not Steve Wozniak.

22

1 was Meg White; 2 was Wheeler.

DQs:
1. created after 1980?
2. from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)?

23

DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with W
  4. Created after 1930
  5. Supporting character
  6. Created before 1980
  7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since
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Wally Walker
Whisper (Live and Let Die)
Wilma Flintstone

DQs:

Created after 1960?
Has appeared in animation?

1 DQ reserved

25
  1. Were you a classmate of Sophronia Temminick’s?
  2. Were you the subject of the book The Redeemed Captive?
  3. Were you the subject of the book The Unredeemed Captive?
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IQs:
1. Appropriately enough, were you Jennifer in Back to the Future?
2. Did you invent a rotary engine?
3. According to Loki in Dogma, do you represent the Eastern religions, with your girth invoking Buddha and your tusks like those of Ganesha (i.e. Hinduism)?

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DQ: Originally from a work of prose fiction?

28

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with W
  4. Created after 1930
  5. Supporting character
  6. Created before 1980
  7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since
  8. Created before 1960
  9. Has appeared in animation
  10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
29

kitap and De_La_Rue, both of you take 3 DQs each.

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1 was Jennifer Wells; 2 was Felix Wankel; 3 was the Walrus. (The Carpenter, of course, represents the Western religions.)

DQs:
1. originally from comic strips/books?
2. created after 1945?
3. created by American(s)

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Previous IQs:

Were you supposedly introduced by your Scottish nanny to your namesake on a Manhattan street? - Washington Irving, when he was still a wee babe in arms, to George Washington
Were you, after 1950, one of the first elected mayors of a national capital? - Walter Washington of (you guessed it) Washington, D.C.
Did you win the mayor’s post in a major American city despite racist campaign buttons appearing against you? - Harold Washington (he was the first Chicago mayor of color, and some racist idjits circulated buttons showing a watermelon with the international “No” circle around it)

Washington x3!

Three DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you Harry Mudd’s alias when he first met Capt. James T. Kirk?
Were you Haviland Tuf’s alias when he returned to Suthlam?
Did you run against FDR in 1940?

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IQs:
1. Did you write the Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia?
2. Did Edward VIII abdicate for you?
3. “Follow the rainbow over the stream,
Follow the fellow who follows a dream,
Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow the [redacted]”

Weeeeeeeee’re…mentioning you, the person to be visited, in the next verse? (That is, your job/title, not your actual name.)

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Agatha Woosmoss, Reverend John Williams, his daughter Eunice Williams.

3 DQs reserved

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with W
  4. Created after 1930
  5. Supporting character
  6. Created before 1980
  7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since
  8. Created before 1960
  9. Has appeared in animation
  10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
  11. Originally from comic strips/books
  12. Created before 1945
  13. Created by an American
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  1. I am not Wendell L. Willkie.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. I am not Wallis Simpson.
  3. I am not the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Previous IQs:

Were you Harry Mudd’s alias when he first met Capt. James T. Kirk? - Leo Walsh
Were you Haviland Tuf’s alias when he returned to Suthlam? - Weemowet (he dressed in the costume of a lion-worshipping humanoid culture, too, in Tuf Voyaging by George R.R. Martin)
Did you run against FDR in 1940? - Yes, Wendell Willkie

DQs:

American character?
From superhero comics?
A sidekick?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you Batman’s dad?
Were you the sometimes-annoying son of a doctor on TV?
Did you play him?

37

IQs:

  1. Did you score 100 points in a professional basketball game?
  2. Were you also known as “Heisenberg”?
  3. Were you Clark Kent’s boss?
38

1 (trivia encyclopedia) was Fred Worth.

DQ: originally from comic strip?

IQs:
1. Was Curtis LeMay your running mate?
2. Did you tell Gilbert that some of these cereal nuts were kind of cute? (Had you known what the “cereal convention” actually was, you likely would’ve taken this back.)
3. (allegedly) Asked to audition for a role later in your career, did you arrive with an enormous carpet bag, and rummage in it looking for your headshot…then take out your Golden Globe…then rummage around some more…then take out your Emmy…then do some more rummaging…then, finally, take out your Oscar, and tell the producers “And you want me to audition”?

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DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Male
  3. First name does not begin with W
  4. Created after 1930
  5. Supporting character
  6. Created before 1980
  7. Not originally from a filmed work, but has appeared in movies and TV since
  8. Created before 1960
  9. Has appeared in animation
  10. Not originally from a work of prose fiction
  11. Originally from comic strips/books
  12. Created before 1945
  13. Created by an American
    14/ American character
  14. Not from superhero comics
  15. Not so much a sidekick as a hanger-on
  16. Originally from a comic strip
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  1. I am not Thomas Wayne.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not Perry White.
    Take 2 DQs.
  1. I am not George Wallace.
    Take 2 DQs.

And that puts us at over 20 DQs.
No more IQs please.
Please ask all outstanding DQs by 10pm EST tomorrow.