Boticelli March 2022

Thread Games
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Dingdingding! Yes, I am

Paul Reuter

Quite the media baron and entrepreneur in his day: Paul Reuter - Wikipedia

Well done, CFOHG.

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Great job! I know the agency but didn’t know the man or when it originated.

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Great!

Some catch up:

Charles Rolls, of Rolls-Royce fame. Another of his aviation firsts was first British pilot to die in a plane crash.
Reginald Perrin, from the 70s Britcom that bears his name.

Next up.
I am M

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IQs:

Did you win a victory at the Battle of Anzio after your predecessor stumbled?
Are you the Episcopal Bishop of Ohio?
Did you costar in Corvette Summer?

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IQs:

  1. Are you Hercules Gritpipe-Thynne’s maladjusted henchmen on the astonishing 1950’s BBC all-leather radio series The Good Show?
  2. On the same show, are you Henry Crum’s girlfriend?
  3. Did you write the scripts for the aforesaid classic radio series?
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IQs:
1. Are your notebooks radioactive?
2. Did you revamp the Doom Patrol and Animal Man?
3. In A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum are you a braggart soldier–literally, it’s what your name means in Latin?

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2 DQs
Not Mark Hamill, who was also in some other movie around that time.

2 DQs
Not Spike Mulligan

Not Marie Curie
Not Grant Morrison? just guessing a comics guy with an ‘M’
Take a DQ

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#1 was Count Jim “Slippery Knees” Moriarty.
#2 was the ever-naughty Minnie Bannister.
Correct on Spike!

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Last name starts with M?
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IQs:

  1. In Of Thee I Sing did you win the President’s love with your corn muffins?
  2. Were you Jack Benny’s wife?
  3. Did you recently receive a replacement Oscar for one that was stolen decades ago?
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2 was indeed Morrison; 3 was Miles Gloriosus.

IQs:
1. Did you send Sacheen Littlefeather in your place?
2. Yo! Is a kids’ book about memorizing a certain list named after you?
3. Are you the protagonist of Sue Grafton’s Alphabet Mysteries?

DQ: male?

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M
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Male
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Take 2 DQs
Not Hayley Mills

Not Marlon Brando
DQ
Not Kinsey Milhoune

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#1. Mary Turner.
#2. Mary Livingstone.
Correct on Hayley Mills.

DQs:

  1. Created by an American or Americans?
  2. Originally from a work of prose?
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M
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Male
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Not originally from a work of prose
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Previous IQs:

Did you win a victory at the Battle of Anzio after your predecessor stumbled? - Gen. Mark Clark
Are you the Episcopal Bishop of Ohio? - Mark Hollingsworth
Did you costar in Corvette Summer? - Yes, Mark Hamill (you didn’t want me to make it too easy for you, did you?)

Mark x3!

DQs:

Would be alive today, if real?
American character?

IQs:

Were you AKA Tharkun and Olorin?
Were you 007’s boss?
Were you Keiko’s husband and Molly’s papa?

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M
DQs:

  1. Fictional
  2. Last name starts with M
  3. Male
  4. Not created by an American or Americans
  5. Not originally from a work of prose
  6. Could be alive today, if real
  7. Not an American character
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Not Mithrandir AKA Gandalf
Not M
Not Miles O’Brian

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2 was Millard Fillmore.

DQ: from a filmed dramatic work (i.e. movie, TV, etc.)?

IQs:
1. Did you write H is for Hawk (not a Kinsey Millhone-Spenser crossover, but a memoir about grief and falconry)?
2. Were you pen pals with T.S. Eliot for some time, and the two of you even got to meet in person?
3. Did you “say hey”?

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IQs:

  1. Did you lose your wife to Frank Sinatra?
  2. Were you the female lead singer for The Fifth Dimension?
  3. Were you Tom Terrific’s wonder dog sidekick?
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Swept me (although it’s “O’Brien”).

IQs:

Did you lead the good-hearted aliens of Galaxy Quest?
Did you own a creepy old house overlooking 'Salem’s Lot, Maine?
Are you Jerry and Beth Smith’s son?