Botticellii -- Dec 2025

Thread Games
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2 was Rose Walker, in the Sandman storyline “The Doll’s House”; 3 was Shelley Winters. This is the version of the Winters audition anecdote Wings Hauser told, when accepting the Psychotronic Award for best performance.

Two DQs reserved.

also, a correction; the actress who appropriately enough appeared in Back to the Future was CLAUDIA Wells, not Jennifer. We regret the error.

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Previous IQs:

Were you Batman’s dad? - Yes, Thomas Wayne
Were you the sometimes-annoying son of a doctor on TV? - Wesley Crusher, on ST:TNG
Did you play him? - Wil Wheaton

I think I know who this is, so I’ll burn a DQ.

DQ:

Are you Wimpy, Popeye’s hamburger-loving pal?

Three DQs reserved.

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I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

Take it away, EH!

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Wilt Chamberlain
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Correct

And congrats to E_H!

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Thanks! That was a good one, Prof. P. I vaguely remember those old cartoons. There’s even a restaurant chain: Wimpy (restaurant) - Wikipedia

Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #138 by Elendil_s_Heir

Our next letter is

X

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X it is!

IQs:

  1. Were you a central character in the play The Persians by Greek writer Aeschylus?
  2. Are you listed as one of the top ten most intelligent fictional characters in American comics by BusinessWeek?
  3. In 1985 did you spend several nights in a modest house in Muscatine, IA, as part of an international agricultural delegation?
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IQs:
1. Fittingly, does your first name mean “lover of the strange”?
2. Do you get an ironic mention in Tom Lehrer’s intro to “National Brotherhood Week”?
3. Does the book’s title refer to your disposition and occupation?

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On to X!

IQs:

  1. Were you the wife of Socrates?
  2. Were you the author of The Anabasis?
  3. Did you license the Cabbage Patch Kids to Coleco?
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IQs

  1. Are you the leader of China?
  2. Were you a major silent movie star?
  3. Did you write The Happy Hooker?
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Not Xerxes, Prof. Charles Xavier or Deng Xiaoping.

Not Xenophilius (sp?) Lovegood, dunno and dunno.

Not the supposedly-shrewish Xanthippe, dunno and dunno.

Not Xi, dunno and not Xaviera Hollander (sp?).

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Correct
Correct
Xi Jinping

1 DQ reserved

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2 was Malcolm X; 3 was Xaviera Hollander.

DQs:
1. real?
2. first name starts with X?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a forward for the Seattle Supersonics?
  2. Are you a receiver for the Kansas City Chiefs?
  3. Are you a receiver for the Carolina Panthers?
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Not Xiao, not Xiao, and not Xiao.

X.

  1. real
  2. only name starts with X
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Correct on #1.
Xenophon.
Xavier Roberts.

DQs:

Male?
Living?

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IQs:
1. Did you wield a chakram?
2. Were you a character in the Schoolhouse Rock song about pronouns?
3. As quoted on the back of my Bartlett’s, “Yellow cat, black cat–as long as it catches mice, it is a good cat”?

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Dunno, not Xavier and still not Deng Xiaoping.

X.

  1. real
  2. only name starts with X
  3. male
  4. dead
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Respectively:
1 (chakram) was Xena, warrior princess; close enough on Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla; 3 was correct.

DQ: died before 1800?

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Correct, Francis X. Bushman, correct.

DQ: Known for military/politics?

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X.

  1. real
  2. only name starts with X
  3. male
  4. dead
  5. died after 1800
  6. known for military/politics