Botticelli, April 2014

Thread Games
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IQ1: Have you portrayed a Knight of the Round Table, a Roman prefect, and a passenger aboard the Titanic?
IQ2: Are you a fictional character who was named “Mortimer” until your creator’s wife convinced you to change the name?
IQ3: Are you a musician whose mother invented a type of correction fluid?

142

#1 was Martin Landau. Correct on #2. #3 was Mr. Moose, not Mr. Greenjeans.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
143

IQs:

  1. Did you observe that “they also serve who only stand and wait”?
  2. Did you compose Night on Bald Mountain?
  3. Were you a 12th Century Sephardic philosopher?
144

IQ1: Did you change your name because your guru said you’d do better if it started with an ‘R’?
IQ2: Were you and #1 just a-catchin’ fire?
IQ3: Did your parents mention #1 and #2 in a song?

145

Been away for a few days–looks like I’ve missed a lot. Anyway, we’re on to M?

IQ1: Did you try to assassinate Gerald Ford in 1975?
IQ2: Did you play Whitey Marsh in “Boys Town”?
IQ3: Did you play Teri Garr’s boss in “Mr. Mom”?

146

IQ1: Are You Weasel?
IQ2: Do you famously have a problem with making a decision between two options, having originally chosen from three?
IQ3: Have you ever written a feature film known for prominent depictions of raccoon scrotums?

147

Not Michael Palin or Prof. Moriarty; dunno the third.

Dunno the first; not Mussogorsky (sp?) or Maimonides (sp?).

Take three DQs.

I remember Squeaky Fromme but not the other lady; dunno the second either; not Michael Keaton.

Take three DQs.

M.

  1. fictional
  2. male
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Squeaky Fromme did try to assassinate President Ford, but the other wannabe-Ford-assassin was Sara Jane Moore.

Mickey Rooney played Whitey Marsh in “Boys Town.”

Michael Keaton did play Teri Garr’s husband in “Mr. Mom,” but her boss was played by Martin Mull.

DQ: Last name start with M?
DQ: From a work of literature?

One DQ reserved.

149

IQ1 answer: Michael Dorn, voice of I.M. Weasel on “I Am Weasel”
IQ2 answer: Monty Hall
IQ3 answer: Hiyao Miyakazi, screenwriter of Pom Poko (a.k.a. “the raccoon nuts movie”)

DQ1: Are you alive as of the end of your canon?
DQ2: Could you conceivably have existed in the real world? (That is, you don’t have magical powers, or exist on a planet that isn’t Earth, etc.)
DQ3: (Crap, original question ninja’d.) Is the fictional work that you come from of American origin?

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Roger (formerly Jim) McGuinn, of the Byrds.
Barry McGuire, of the New Christy Minstrels.
Mackenzie Phillips’s parents, John and Michelle, mentioned the two of them in “Creeque Alley.”
McGuinn and McGuire just a-catchin’ fire in LA, you know where that’s at…
DQs reserved pending answers to those already asked.

151

Correct on Modest Mussorgsky and Moses Maimonides. #1 was John Milton in his sonnet On His Blindness.

DQ reserved.

152

M.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with M
  4. from a work of literature
  5. alive as of the end of his canon
  6. could conceivably (and easily) have existed in the real world
  7. from a work of American origin
153

DQ: Created after 1900?

IQs:

  1. Did you check in on a little girl at the end of the story to see if she survived the bump on her head?
  2. Were you a possibly epileptic founding father?
  3. Was your brother a singer/songwriter for the group The Scaffold?
154

Not Scarecrow (I forget his Kansan farmhand counterpart’s name), James Madison, dunno the third.

M.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with M
  4. from a work of literature
  5. alive as of the end of his canon
  6. could conceivably (and easily) have existed in the real world
  7. from a work of American origin
  8. created after 1900
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Correct on Michael Palin.
I can neither confirm nor disprove Moriaty, so I’ll rephrase.
#3 was Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, whose mother invented Liquid Paper.

DQ: Has any literary work in which you’ve appeared been adapted for the screen, either television or cinema?

IQ1: Are you an animated character who was named “Mortimer” until your creator’s wife convinced you to change the name?
IQ2: Were you a travel companion of Casper and Balthazar?
IQ3: Have you been portrayed by Humphrey Bogart, Elliot Gould and Robert Mitchum?

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  1. Not the Scarecrow: Prof. Marvel was the counterpart to the Wizard, both acted by Frank Morgan.
  2. Madison’s correct.
  3. Mike McGrew changed his name to McGrew so he couldn’t be accused of riding on his famous brother’s coattails, namely Paul McCartney.

Thinking of good DQs…

157

DQs:

  1. Protagonist?
  2. Created after 1960?
158

IQs:

  1. Were you the Beatles’ producer for most of their albums?
  2. Did you star in The Last Remake of Beau Geste?
  3. Were you a noted British art pottery designer?
159

DQ: From a genre, rather than from general fiction?
Two DQs reserved.
IQ1: Is your code name Eric?
IQ2: Were you the head of the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)?
IQ3: Did your friend Lothar wear a fez and a leopard skin?

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Dunno the first; not Melchior or Philip Marlowe.

Not George Martin or Marty Feldman; dunno the third.

Dunno any of these (although I have a hunch the second one pertains to the A-bombing B-29s at the end of WWII).

M.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. first name starts with M
  4. from a work of literature
  5. alive as of the end of his canon
  6. could conceivably (and easily) have existed in the real world
  7. from a work of American origin
  8. created after 1900
  9. literary work in which he appeared has been adapted for the screen, either television or cinema
  10. protagonist (but not the only one)
  11. created after 1960
  12. from a genre, rather than from general fiction

As to the last, definitions vary and it’s kind of a close call, but I think this is the most accurate answer.