Boticelli March 2022

Thread Games
101

Not Robby Coltrane, Randy Newman or Ronald Reagan.

102

#1. I’ll rephrase.
#2 is Jean Rouault.
#3 is Ring Lardner.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Living?

IQs:

  1. Are you a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet whose last name starts with R?
  2. Did you have a band with Hamilton & Joe Frank?
  3. Are you the main character in Crime and Punishment?
103
  1. Did you play the hero in Ladyhawke?
  2. Were you the Masterharper of Pern?
  3. Are you Talia’s Companion in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar books?
104

Dunno, dunno and not Raskhalnokov (sp?)

105

Not Rutger Hauer, dunno and dunno.

R.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
106

#1 is Theodore Roethke.
#2 is Reynolds. They had a big hit with “Don’t Pull Your Love” in the early 1970’s.
#3 is, indeed, Raskolnikov.

DQs:

  1. Last name starts with R?
  2. Died before 1900?
107

Rowdy Roddy Piper, in John Carpenter’s They Live
Correct
Correct

DQ: American?

108

Correct, Robinton, Rolan.

Two DQs reserved.

109

IQs:

  1. Did Snoopy curse you?
  2. Did you despise the play Abie’s Irish Rose and write harsh critical reviews of it throughout its long run?
  3. Did you have a hit with The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face?
110

Not the Red Baron, Roger Ebert or Roberta Flack.

R.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with R
  5. died before 1900
  6. not American
111

Correct, Robert Benchley and Correct.

DQ: European?

112

R.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with R
  5. died before 1900
  6. not American
  7. European
113

IQs:

  1. Did you marry Pocahontas?
  2. Were you one of the stars of the TV series Emergency?
  3. Did you co-write Blazing Saddles with Mel Brooks?
114

IQ1: Were you nicknamed “the incorruptible” during the French Revolution?
IQ2: Did you throw a stomping tantrum when someone guessed your name?
IQ3: Did you take an unexpectedly long nap in the Catskills?

115

Not John Rolfe, not Randolph Mantooth and not Rob Reiner.

Not Robespierre,* Rumpelstiltskin or Rip Van Winkle.

*Recently discussed here: French Revolution: Was Robespierre a tragic figure? A misunderstood figure? A tyrant? Something else?

116

Correct, Correct, and Richard Pryor.
He was supposed to play Bart, but the studios found him too controversial.

DQ: Died before 1700?

117

R.

  1. real
  2. male
  3. dead
  4. last name starts with R
  5. died before 1900
  6. not American
  7. European
  8. died after 1700
118

Swept me
IQ1: Did your cartoonishly voluptuous wife marry you because you made her laugh?
IQ2: Did you compose the Scheherazade suite?
IQ3: Were you the subject of an urban legend regarding stomach pumping and body fluids?

119

IQs:

  1. Were you a pro football player, an actor, and Robert Kennedy’s bodyguard for awhile?
  2. Are you Albert’s secretary and girlfriend in Bye Bye Birdie?
  3. Did you play Capt. Apollo on the original Battlestar Galactica?
120

Not Roger Rabbit, Rossini or either Richard Simmons/Gere.

Not Rosey Grier, Rosie or Richard Hatch.